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Argentine carriers urge government to change terms of 5G auction

Earlier this week, Enacom’s board approved the terms of the auction for the provision of 5G services Argentine mobile operators issued a joint statement opposing to the terms recently approved by the government to auction 5G spectrum. In a release, mobile carriers Personal, owned by Telecom...

Virgin Media O2 intros Nokia-made private 5G box-solution for UK SMEs

The business arm of UK-based operator Virgin Media O2, owned by Liberty Global and Telefónica, is offering a Nokia-made private standalone 5G (5G SA) network-and-compute system in a portable hold-all for “businesses of all sizes”. The logic is to make private cellular accessible to...

Sateliot, Telefónica claim first 5G roaming connection in space

Sateliot noted that this achievement paves the way for massive access to connectivity everywhere in the planet Satellite-based 5G narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) wholesaler Sateliot, which operates a Low-Earth orbit (LEO) 5G IoT satellite constellation, and Spanish operator Telefónica said they have successfully extended the reach...

O2 Telefonica’s 5G network reaches 90% of German population

O2 Telefonica aims to achieve nationwide coverage with 5G by the end of 2025 German telecom operator O2 Telefonica, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said its 5G network currently reaches 90% of Germany’s population. In its earnings statement, the telco said that it is on course...

Cellular IoT revenues jump 24% – to 2% of total cellular revenues (but boom-time still beckons)

Global revenues from cellular IoT networks increased 24 percent to reach €10.8 billion in 2022, calculates analyst firm Berg Insight. However they account for just two percent of total mobile revenues among the largest operator groups, it said, and are in general decline, with...

O-RAN to comprise 15-20% of global RAN by 2027: Dell’Oro

Dell'Oro said the O-RAN segment already comprises a mid-single digit share of the broader RAN market Open RAN (O-RAN) revenues are forecasted to account for more than 15% of the global RAN market by 2027, as the market is experiencing a slower growth than initially...

Vodafone wins €25m deal to supply 315,000 NB-IoT water meters in Spain

Vodafone Spain has said it has won a €25 million deal to supply 315,000 water meters over five years to Canal de Isabel II, the local government-owned water utility in the Madrid region. Vodafone was one of four winners in the tender; it is...

Movistar launches 5G SA technology in Spain

Movistar initially launched 5G SA in 11 cities across the country Spanish operator Movistar, which is part of telecom group Telefonica, has launched 5G Standalone (SA) coverage in Spain. Movistar currently covers a total of 11 cities with 5G SA technology: Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Seville, Palma...

Capgemini, Telefonica run 5G SA network slicing trial

Capgemini said that other partners including Juniper, Intel, Casa Systems, Microsoft and Blue Planet participated in the trial French IT services company Capgemini and Spanish telecom group Telefónica designed and implemented a proof-of-concept for an end-to-end 5G Standalone (SA) network slicing solution entirely provisioned and...

Colombia to award 5G spectrum in December

The ministry will publish the planned mechanism for the 5G auction process in August Colombia is expected to auction 5G frequencies in December, according to the country’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (MinTIC). The ministry reported that the 5G auction is expected to begin on...

Movistar Spain completes IPv6 deployment across its network

Movistar said it currently has a total of 4 million accesses over IPv6 Spanish mobile operator Movistar, owned by telecom group Telefonica, has completed the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in its entire mobile network, claiming to be the first Spanish telco to...

Telcel plans to participate in Mexico’s 5G spectrum auction: Report

Telcel already owns 100 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band Mexican mobile operator Telcel, owned by telecommunications group America Movil, is considering whether to participate in the upcoming auction process through which the Mexican government expects to award 5G frequencies, local newspaper El...

Spanish government aims to extend current spectrum licenses

The Spanish government said the consultation period on the move will remain open until June 12 Spain’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation has launched a public consultation on potentially extending the length of time that current spectrum license holders have access to radio...

Claro, Movistar secure 5G spectrum in Uruguay

Uruguay confirmed that a block of 5G spectrum had been reserved for state-run telco Antel Uruguayan operators Claro, owned by Mexican telecom group America Movil, and Movistar, owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, secured 5G frequencies in the country’s first auction of 5G spectrum. The operators,...

Telefonica, NEC and partners launch 6G initiative in Spain

Telefonica said that this 6G project is funded by the European Union and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation of Spain The IMDEA Networks Institute, in collaboration with Spanish operator Telefónica, NEC Corporation and BluSpecs, announced the launch of the ENABLE-6G project. In a...

“But I ordered a McCrispy…” – searching for 5G in the home of Industry 4.0

First impressions count – and the trains are late, the stairs are broken, and the food is wrong. This is not the fabled German efficiency we came here to discuss – and see projected into the digital age across 17 cavernous halls of the...

Virgin Media O2 selects Mavenir as its O-RAN vendor

Virgin Media O2 said the Mavenir’s O-RAN system will consist of fully virtualized L1, L2 vRAN SW and will operate on Intel Xeon scalable processors U.K. telecom operator Virgin Media O2 has selected U.S. company Mavenir as its Open RAN (O-RAN) vendor. In a release, the...

European carriers unveil technical priorities for O-RAN

The telcos had previously inked a MoU to boost the adoption of O-RAN across Europe European operators Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone have published further documents on technical priorities for Open RAN (O-RAN). In a release, the carriers said that the Open RAN Technical...

O2 Telefonica’s 5G infra reaches 82% of Germany’s population

O2 Telefonica said it had deployed a total of 1,000 5G sites in the first quarter of the year German telecom operator O2 Telefonica, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said its 5G network currently reaches 82% of Germany’s population. In a release, the carrier said...

EU to launch in-depth review of Orange-MasMovil merger

In July last year, Orange and Masmovil had signed a binding agreement to combine their operations in Spain The competition authorities of the European Commission will make an in-depth review of the proposed merger between Spanish operators Orange and MásMóvil, according to a Reuters report. According...

Telefónica demos edge-5G, digital twins, and blockchain for smart factories, farms

MWC, Barcelona: Spanish telco Telefónica has unveiled a 5G-connected digital twin designed to optimize quality in the production of industrial parts. The digital twin also has the the capacity to make decisions in real time, it said. Telefónica’s digital twin features a KR4 robotic arm,...

Telefónica combines open APIs with AWS MEC zone – to demo live volleyball stream

The pilot comes out of the new GSMA Open Gateway framework for universal APIs – to open cellular network access for developers MWC, BARCELONA: Telefónica has integrated its network application programmable interfaces (APIs) with a pilot AWS Wavelength Zone at a Telefónica multi-access edge (MEC)...

AWS pushes private 5G with carrier quintet (DT, KDDI, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefónica)

AWS has opened a new shopfront and for operator partners to hawk their private LTE (4G) and 5G solutions to enterprises, to be combined with its own cloud-to-edge compute services and applications, including sundry IoT and AI/ML based solutions. AWS has deals with Deutsche...

Telefonica, Ericsson, Qualcomm to activate 5G mmWave network

Telefonica noted that the new 5G network will allow compatible user devices to access the 5G mmWave network during MWC 2023 Telefónica, Ericsson and Qualcomm aim to launch what they say is the first commercial mobile 5G mmWave network in Spain during Mobile World Congress...