How do you judge the best-in-show? By the bright eyes and bushy tails? Probably not if it is a tech fair. So how should one rate the stands at IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona? Is it a size thing? Is it a...
Masmovil said that 74% of the overall population in Spain was already covered by its 5G network
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is currently offering 5G service in 1,660 towns and cities in 51 provinces across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the carrier...
Nokia said that the test showed that 25G PON can co-exist with Telefonica’s existing GPON solution
Nokia announced that Spanish operator Telefonica has successfully trialed 25G PON technology.
The Finnish vendor said in a release that the trial, the first in Spain to demonstrate symmetric speeds...
Orange already deployed 5G services in 1,529 towns and cities in 52 provinces across Spain
Spanish telcos have accelerated 5G deployments during 2022 and a further expansion of this technology is expected for 2023 with the new spectrum in the 26 GHz band recently awarded...
Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone have obtained a total of 1,800 megahertz for 5G
Spanish operators Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone have secured additional spectrum to expand 5G services after the government completed a tender to award frequencies in the 26 GHz band.
Telefónica secured 1 gigahertz of...
Telefónica said its 5G network provides coverage in 1,719 towns and cities across Spain
Spanish telecom operator Telefónica’s 5G network currently covers 83% of the Spanish population, the telco said in a release.
The operator said its 5G network provides coverage in 1,719 towns and cities...
Movistar is using AT&T’s network infrastructure for the provision of 5G in Mexico
Mexican operator Movistar, owned by Spanish telecom group Telefonica, announced the launch of 5G services in the country.
In a release, Movistar Mexico said that its 5G service was activated in Ciudad de...
Earlier this year, Transforma Insights undertook a survey of 1,100+ enterprises in the US and Europe, asking about their buying behaviour and vendor preferences cellular IoT connectivity. As part of that survey, we asked respondents which connectivity providers they were aware of, which they...
The government of Spain aims to award a total of 12 national concessions in the 25.10-27.50 GHz band, and 38 regional concessions in the 24.70-25.10 GHz band
The Spanish government announced details of a spectrum auction next month, through which it expects to award local...
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is to release a “blueprint”, it says, for how to deploy “cost-effective and scalable” cloud-native private 5G networks, based on an initial trial of a 5G-connected computer vision application led by Telefonica. Rakuten Symphony, Tech Mahindra, and NTT Data...
Masmovil said that it had reached 505 new towns and cities in its latest 5G expansion
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is currently offering 5G service in almost 1,400 towns and cities in 51 provinces across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the carrier...
Qualcomm and Telefónica will leverage Snapdragon Spaces and the carrier's network infrastructure
In a new collaboration, Telefónica and Qualcomm Technologies will work to expand the XR ecosystem in preparation for the metaverse. The pair will leverage the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform and Telefónica’s fixed...
The government of Spain said that national 5G concessions will have a starting price of 7.5 million euros each
The Spanish government has kicked off the process to auction more spectrum for 5G mobile services in the country.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital...
The study revealed that 5G coverage will only reach 3% of the country's territory next year
5G technology will cover 53% of the Spanish population in 2023, but only 3% of the country’s territory, according to a report published by Spain’s EAE Business School.
The data...
NEC's Patrick Lopez, global vice president of product management, lays out the four elements of Open RAN
Editor’s note: This Q&A is adapted from an interview conducted at the Open RAN European Forum. It has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: Could we start with...
Open RAN investment grows from less than 1 percent of total RAN spend in 2019 to 3-5 percent in 2022
While there are distinctions between Open RAN, open virtualized RAN, cloud RAN and further sub-combinations of those architectures, these new approaches to building the radio...
In June last year, American Tower had closed the first tranche of the acquisition of Telxius Towers, comprised of nearly 20,000 communications sites in Germany and Spain
American Tower Corporation (ATC) ended June with nearly 30,000 telecommunications sites across its European footprint, the company’s President...
Sunderland City Council and the University of Sunderland in the UK have appointed BAI Communications (BAI), already engaged on a 20-year deal with the city council to build and operate a 5G network to support municipal services and the local manufacturing sector, to also...
AT&T expects its 5G network infrastructure to reach 25 new cities across Mexico before the end of 2022
AT&T Mexico launched 5G services in five new cities across the country, the telco said in a release.
The carrier now offers its 5G technology in parts of...
Note, this article is not about remote 5G surgery! A couple of press notes across the desk at Enterprise IoT Insights this week make a play of 5G security in hospital settings. Firstly (in no order), Spain-based network operator Telefónica is working with US...
The top ten mobile operators reported a combined active base of 1.8 billion cellular IoT subscribers at the end of 2021
The global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased by 22% during 2021 to reach 2.1 billion, according to a new report from European IoT...
Telefónica is looking to offer a 5G-based dual-mode terrestrial-and-satellite service for NB-IoT connectivity. Its digital services business, Telefónica Tech, and managed services division, Telefónica Global Solutions (TGS), are working with Barcelona-based satellite telco operator Sateliot to run Release 17-level IoT data over both ground-based...
The lab test was carried out at 5TONIC, a Madrid-based open research and innovation laboratory founded by Telefónica and IMDEA Networks
Spanish operator Telefónica and Ericsson have demonstrated end-to-end, automated network slicing in 5G Standalone, the telco said in a release.
Telefonica said that the proof-of-concept...
Telefonica provides 5G coverage to 38 million people in 1,431 towns and cities across Spain
Spanish telecom operator Telefonica’s 5G network currently covers 82% of the Spanish population, the telco said in a release.
The operator said its 5G network provides coverage to 38 million people...
