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Telefonica and China Unicom to expand IoT offering

Under the new deal, enterprise customers of Telefonica and China Unicom will be able to offer IoT services in China, Europe and Latin America Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica and China Unicom have signed an agreement in the field of internet of things (IoT). Under the...

Telefónica and SEAT demo Industry 4.0 concept with 5G and blockchain

Furthering the Industry 4.0 movement, Telefónica has teamed up with car maker SEAT and car-parts maker Ficosa to showcase an IoT-based supply-chain and manufacturing concept for the automotive industry. The demo, one of many industrial IoT concepts from telecoms operators and vendors at Mobile...

Huawei, Telefonica complete testbed for 5G-V2X technology

 Huawei highlighted the testbed is a step forward towards the commercialization of 5G services Spanish telecommunications group Telefónica and vendor Huawei have completed what the companies claim to be the world’s first proof-of-concept (PoC) testbed for 5G based vehicle communication networks (5G-V2X) in their joint...

Nokia, Telefonica Germany to develop 5G innovation cluster in Munich

Nokia said key technologies including Massive MIMO and URLLC will be tested at the new center Nokia and Telefónica Germany have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a joint 5G innovation cluster. The two partners said this initiative will allow them to test...

Telefonica launches 5G project in Spain

The telco will deploy 5G capabilities in two Spanish cities in cooperation with Nokia and Ericsson Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica has unveiled its 5G technological cities project, which will pave the way for the future deployment of 5G technology in Spain. Under this initiative, Telefonica has...

Huawei, Telefónica complete T-SDN tests for photonic mesh

Huawei and Telefónica finish T-SDN tests Spain-based telecom provider Telefónica and Chinese smartphone maker Huawei announced they have successfully finished laboratory tests on the T-SDN (Transport Software-Defined Network) solution. The aim of the test was to demonstrate that the controller can incorporate improvements for the...

Intel announces commercial 5G modem

After launching its 5G modem chip early this year, Intel has announced plans to commercialize the technology in 2019. The company said its XMMTM 8060 modem is already making 5G calls using spectrum in the 28 GHz band. The XMMTM 8060 will support both sub-6GHz...

Ericsson expands millimeter wave 5G testing

In Argentina Movistar tests 5G in 28 GHz band Continuing to work with global operators to test 5G networking technologies, Ericsson is working with Argentinian operator Movistar to understand 5G propagation characteristics in the 28 GHz millimeter wave frequency band. Based on a test conducted in...

Telefonica targets automotive, smart manufacturing

Deal with Spanish car maker Seat will focus on 5G for enablement of smart manufacturing processes for automotive Spanish telco Telefonica has signed an agreement with compatriot car maker SEAT to develop innovative initiatives in the automotive industry. The agreement reached, which makes Telefónica a...

Telefonica Chile preps for 5G with Ericsson virtualization deal

Telefonica Chile chooses Ericsson to complete virtualization of core network Telefonica, the biggest mobile network operator and internet service provider in Chile, announced it has chosen Ericsson to finish the virtualization of the operator’s core network. Telefonica said completely virtualizing its core network will help the...

Telefonica unveils open initiative to promote IoT ecosystem

Under the 'Thinx’ program, the Spanish telco plans to open IoT labs in Europe and Latin America Spanish telecom operator Telefonica has launched what it calls "The Thinx," an initiative to promote an open ecosystem for the development of internet of things (IoT) through experimentation...

ZTE, Telefonica complete 5G transport test in Madrid

The two companies said they will also focus on the verification of end-to-end 5G solutions Chinese vendor ZTE and Spanish telecoms groupTelefonica announced the successful completion of the first phase of a 5G transport test at the Spanish operator's Future Networks Lab in Madrid. In the test,...

Nokia to create a 5G pilot zone in Russia

Project will test 5G for verticals Nokia and Russian telecommunications operator Rostelecom have signed an agreement to set up a 5G pilot zone in Russia The 5G pilot zone will be located within the Skolkovo Innovation Center, which is a high tech business area that is...

Alphabet’s Project Loon to restore some service in Puerto Rico

Mobile network operators will assist Alphabet Project Loon, the ambitious project launched by Google parent Alphabet to use balloons to deliver internet service, will get a real-life test in Puerto Rico. The Federal Communications Commission has given Alphabet the green light to use the balloons...

Telefonica builds plataform for IoT, moves to LTE-Advanced

SÃO PAULO –“While we are celebrating 20 years in Brazil, we should prepare for the next 20 years, in a scenario where data traffic doubles annually. Therefore, we need to reinvent ourselves to become a digital telco, looking at digitalization, big data, cloud computing,...

Arrow Electronics partners with IBM to grow IoT business in APAC

The firm has integrated IBM's Watson IoT platform and IBM Cloud services into its service offering Arrow Electronics has integrated IBM's Watson internet of things (IoT) platform and IBM Cloud services into Arrow's ideation-to-production services. With this new offering, Arrow's customers in Asia Pacific will...

Telefonica sees smart city, e-health as drivers for IoT growth

Telefonica CTO talks NB-IoT, LTE-M, smart city deployments, and notes, "5G will be triggered by IoT SHANGHAI--Spanish telecoms group Telefonica is seeing growing opportunities in a number of specific IoT uses cases in the domestic market including smart cities and e-health, among others, the operator’s...

CTO: Telefonica plans to launch 5G in the U.K. by 2020, 2021

The Spanish telco said initial 5G launch in the United Kingdom will be followed by deployments in Spain and Germany SHANGHAI--The U.K. will likely be the first market to see 5G services from Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica, the operator’s global CTO Enrique Blanco told reporters...

ZTE targets 300 commercial/POC virtualized networks this year

ZTE  sees growing opportunities in the virtualization space in emerging markets SHANGHAI- Chinese vendor ZTE expects to end 2017 with approximately 300 commercial/POC virtualized networks globally, the company’s Principal Scientists of NFV/SDN solutions, told reporters during a press conference at Mobile World Congress Shanghai. The executives...

C-RAN: Cloud RAN vs. centralized RAN

Cloud RAN is 'ultimate end-game' of centralized RAN Deciphering the alphabet soup of acronyms used to described telecom networks is a daunting task made no less difficult by the introduction of the term C-RAN, used to described both a cloud-based radio access network and a...

Telefonica targets U.S, European IoT markets with NetComm

Under the deal, the NetComm will supply a range of 3G/4G M2M/IoT devices to Telefonica Australian company NetComm Wireless and Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica have signed an IoT device supply agreement. The deal will allow NetComm to further strengthen its presence in the U.S. and...

ZTE expects 5G boost starting from 2019

The vendor said that it expects 5G compatible handsets to be commercially available in two years TOKYO--Chinese vendor ZTE expects to see revenues from the sale of standardized 5G equipment in 2019, the company’s managing director for 5G solutions, Alex Wang, told reporters during a...

Orbcomm targets key verticals in the Middle East with new IoT partnership

The IoT agreement targets verticals including transportation, oil and gas, maritime, mining and government Global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions Orbcomm has signed a strategic distribution agreement with machinestalk, a provider of IoT solutions based in Saudi Arabia, to provide Orbcomm’s...

Telecom Tweets of the Week: Telefónica hit by major ransomware attack

Ransomware has taken over an internal network at Spanish operator Telefónica and other companies throughout Europe, with Reuters reporting that the ransomware attack "involved a window appearing on employees' computer screens that demanded payment with the virtual currency bitcoin in order to gain access to...