The partnership with Movius is set to support plans for Sprint to offer a cloud-based second line for enterprise customers beginning this year.
Sprint continued its push into the lucrative enterprise market scoring a deal with Movius to offer a cloud-based second...
The two firms plan to launch joint NB-IoT solutions in Europe and Latin America in 2017.
Huawei and Telefónica signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to jointly develop narrowband "internet of things" solutions for markets in Europe and Latin America.
Under terms of...
Solution set to cover seven Telefónica markets in Latin America.
ZTE announced an agreement with Telefónica to jointly build a large scale virtual IP multimedia subsytem network in Latin America. The network is expected to cover seven countries – Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,...
A conversation about C-RAN with Adrian Di Meo, CTIO, Telefónica Argentina
The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and be the complete in depth report “C-RAN and 5G take transport to new capacity and latency levels. Trends in backhaul, fronthaul, xhaul and...
Ericsson said it was on track to slash a portion of total jobs cuts as part of massive reorganization, with associated costs pulled into 2016 results.
Ericsson has moved on eliminating more than half of the 3,000 jobs it said was necessary...
The trial completed the first phase of a 5G MoU between the two firms covering 5G components like massive MIMO and UCNC.
ZTE and Telefónica said they completed a pre-"5G" massive multiple-input/multiple-output antenna test in Madrid. ZTE said it was Telefónica's first...
Telefónica and Nokia claim symmetrical 10 Gbps speeds from latest PON FTTH platform with expected support for 5G mobile backhaul and traffic aggregation.
Telefónica said it completed a successful trial for its planned “5G” network using Nokia’s XGS passive optical network fiber-to-the-home technology.
The...
Nestlé will use Telefonica IoT platform in more than 50 countries
Telefónica Business Solutions signed an agreement with Nestlé to provide "internet of things" communications in more than 50 countries for the the company's coffee-related businesses.
With Telefonica’s IoT solutions, Nestle is looking to monitor the coffee...
Astellia claims its Nova RAN platform can help Telefonica geolocate high ARPU customers in move to optimize network investment and performance.
Telefonica continued its push to modernize network operations, signing a three-year pact with Astellia, which provides network and subscriber intelligence platforms for mobile...
Orange’s Easy Go Network uses SDN to power VNFs as part of its network-as-a-service model focused on the enterprise market.
Virtualized platforms targeting the enterprise space continue to pop up all over the world, with the latest effort coming from France’s Orange, which through its...
Telefonica Business Solutions deployed Nokia Virtualized Service Router in a provider edge application looking to boost performance, trim costs
Telefonica bolstered its move into the virtualized network space through a partnership with Nokia to deploy the vendor’s virtualized router technology in a live network to...
Called Luca, the big data unit offers three lines of business
Spanish telecommunications firm Telefonica launched a new big data services unit as part of the telco’s strategy to become a data-driven company.
The new unit, dubbed Luca, will enable companies, public institutions and all kinds or...
SÃO PAULO – According to Vivo CEO Amos Genish, "5G" won't happen in Brazil before 2022, and is not a priority for the Brazilian telecom operator – and Telefonica subsidiary – at the moment.
“Globally, 5G is still under standard definition and it won’t be...
Telefónica used equipment from Nokia and a chipset provided by Qualcomm
Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica, together with Finnish vendor Nokia and U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies, demonstrated download speeds of up to 800 megabits per second through a number of technical updates to the telco’s 4G network.
Telefónica...
Telefónica planned to raise up to $1.68 billion with the IPO
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica has abandoned plans to launch an initial public offering of its infrastructure unit Telxius.
"Telefónica and the joint global coordinators have decided to abandon the offering, considering inadequate the valuation of the...
In its fifth SDN platform release, the Linux Foundation’s OpenDaylight Project cites increased member participation from the likes of AT&T, Telefónica and Intel
The Linux Foundation’s OpenDaylight Project unveiled its fifth platform release under the Boron tag, touting enhancements to cloud and network functions virtualization...
The factory of the future, artificial intelligence and security in industrial cloud hosting among key IoTS World Congress topics
The new edition of the Internet of Things Solutions World Congress (IoTSWC) will gather once again the world’s leading industrial internet experts in Fira de Barcelona...
Telefonica said that it will initially use the 5G technology to offer IoT services
MADRID – Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica expects to launch commercial trials of 5G technology in 2019 or 2020, the company’s global CTO, Enrique Blanco, told reporters.
The executive said massive deployments of 5G...
Telefónica also plans to expand 4G coverage in Spain and Latin American markets
MADRID – Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica expects its fiber-to-the-home network to reach 2.4 million new homes in the Spanish market this year, the company’s global CTO Enrique Blanco told RCR Wireless News in...
Huawei wants to play a leading role as industry cloud enabler, the Chinese ICT vendor revealed at Huawei Connect 2016.
Best known as a telecommunications equipment vendor and handset manufacturer, Huawei revealed a new strategy that places the cloud, or more specifically the industry cloud, at...
Network infrastructure partner ZTE said business with Telefonica generated revenue of $446 million in 2015
MADRID – Chinese telecommunications services provider ZTE Corporation expects 5G technical trial with Spanish telecommunications operator Telefonica to start within the next few months, ZTE General Director for the Telefonica Global...
The ONOS Project’s CORD initiative continues to gain momentum with the release of its first open reference and addition of new members
The Open Network Operating System’s central office re-architected as a data center project said it delivered its first open CORD reference implementation targeted...
Telefónica ended June with 50M LTE subscribers
Telefónica reported 12.7 billion euro ($14.07 billion) in revenue for the second quarter of 2016, down 7.7% compared to the same period last year. The telco’s net profit for Q2 reached 693 million euro, down 54.5% year-over-year.
“The performance of the...
RIO DE JANEIRO--Two years after Brazil hosted the 2014 Fifa World Cup, the city of Rio de Janeiro will host the first Olympic and Paralympic Games to take place in South America. The Olympic Village will house around 17,000 participating athletes, and the Brazilian federal government...
