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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Telefonica has opened three new service operations center to trial intelligent network management
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica has deployed three dedicated Service Operations Centers (SOCs) in Argentina, Chile and Germany to test AI-based intelligent network management.
The European telco launched the new centers using Chinese vendor...
A key element in Teléfonica Deutschland Digital Transformation Journey
Executive Summary
Teléfonica has made customer experience a brand differentiator, with an ambition to grow the Teléfonica and O2 brands by delivering superior customer experiences that subscribers will not find elsewhere. However, despite spending millions on probing...
The small cell and Wi-Fi deployment will be carried out by CTIL in partnership with O2.
The City of London Corporation awarded a 15-year contract to Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd. for the construction of a citywide mobile network set to include small cells...
The deal stipulates cooperation in IoT and smart cities fields
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica has signed an agreement with compatriot infrastructure company Ferrovial for the provision of a range of communications services.
Under the terms of the five-year agreement, Telefonica will provide fixed and mobile technology,...
The agreement will allow the U.K.-based carrier to have access to Telefónica’s fiber infrastructure.
Telefónica and Vodafone reached a commercial five-year agreement for wholesale access to Telefónica's fiber optic network in Spain.
The deal provides Vodafone access to the fiber infrastructure in certain municipalities that...
The deal is said to build on a previous 3G and LTE network enhancement agreement between Nokia and TIM Brazil.
Nokia said it extended an infrastructure deal with TIM in Brazil to use 700 MHz spectrum in support of the carrier’s LTE network....
Buildings on 2016 strategic agreement between BT and Deutsche Telekom.
BARCELONA, Spain – U.K. telecommunications operator BT and Deutsche Telekom signed a partnership to offer global network services to business customers.
BT said the partnership would enable DT’s business unit T-Systems to offer its...
Tapping into what is termed LTE nano technology, Quortus and Telefónica said small form-factor platform targets private cellular deployments.
Quortus gained carrier support for its EdgeCentrix Enhanced Packet Core “network-in-a-box” concept, scoring a deal with Telefónica on the platform’s private cellular capabilities...
ETSI Open Source MANO initiative swells to 60 organizations with arrival of Verizon, Atos and CableLabs as new members.
Verizon Communications is one of the latest telecommunication operators to join the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Open Source MANO project, which is focused...
Telefónica and Sigfox said to be already speaking with customers in the asset-tracking, smart-metering industries.
Sigfox, a French-based provider of connectivity for the internet of things, and Telefónica inked a global deal to integrate Sigfox’s low-powered connectivity into the operator’s managed connectivity platform.
The...
Global investment firm KKR Group will pay $1.35 billion to Telefónica for a stake in Telxius.
Telefónica reached an agreement with global investment firm KKR Group to sell up to 40% of Telxius Telecom, Telefónica’s telecommunications infrastructure division, for 1.28 billion euros...
The Spanish telco reportedly aims to sell 49% of the infrastructure firm for $1.56 billion
Spanish telecommunications operator Telefonica has received several offers to acquire a stake in its infrastructure subsidiary Telxius, according to a statement filed with Spanish market regulator CNMV.
The telco said...
Vendors and key mobile operators across Europe are already carrying out trials of 5G technology ahead of the expected standardization and commercial launch, which is expected to occur at a very limited scale in 2018.
In France, local telecommunications provider Orange and Ericsson recently said they...
The two companies will develop services for industries and consumers to take advantage of 5G technologies
Finnish vendor Nokia and French telecommunications group Orange have signed a partnership to collaborate on 5G, specifically developing services that will allow industries and consumers to take advantage of efficiencies...
O2 enterprise customers will have access to BAE’s Managed Security Services and Cyber Technical Service capabilities.
U.K. telecommunications company O2 signed an agreement with security solutions provider BAE Systems to provide cybersecurity solutions for enterprise customers. The partnership will provide O2 customers with access...
Deutsche Telekom invested $3.1 million in U.S.-based IoT firm.
Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customer arm T-Systems announced a global "internet of things" partnership with asset tracking specialist Roambee to offer a real-time visibility solution for assets in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.
Under...
