Spanish IoT provider Libelium has acquired local firm HOP UBIQUITOUS (HOPU), which produces IoT solutions for environmental and meteorological monitoring. The deal follows Libelium’s capital injection from venture capital fund Axon Innovation Growth IV, part of Spain-based Axon Partners Group, a year ago, which...
Time to set the record straight on cellular 5G and Wi-Fi 6/7, a panel of Industry 4.0 luminaries suggested at Private Networks Forum (PNF) a couple of weeks back; these technologies are not, and never will be, mutually exclusive, it implied. They will not...
Masmovil currently has 80 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band for the provision of 5G
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is currently offering 5G service in almost 900 towns and cities in 40 provinces across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the...
AT&T launched limited 5G services in Mexico in December last year
AT&T Mexico announced its 5G network has been launched in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
The telco said it expects its 5G network infrastructure to reach 25 new cities across Mexico before the end of...
Movistar Mexico is currently evaluating 5G plans and the technological infrastructure necessary
Mexican operator Movistar, owned by Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica, is considering a launch of 5G in Mexico via a network sharing agreement with AT&T, according to recent press reports.
“The infrastructure sharing model that...
Ofcom said the proposed changes would allow these telcos to deploy new technologies, including 5G
U.K. telecommunications services regulator Ofcom has proposed an update of some licenses held by mobile operators Vodafone and O2 (Telefonica) with the aim of enabling the deployment of 5G using...
Telefonica currently offers 5G coverage to over 80% of the Spanish population
German telecommunications infrastructure provider Vantage Towers has signed an agreement with Spanish operator Telefonica to upgrade its 5G infrastructure in the country, the former said in its earnings statement.
Vantage Towers said that the...
According to Omdia, Vodafone Spain currently offers 5G in 190 municipalities across the country
Spain is forecast to end 2022 with a total of 8.6 million subscribers in the 5G segment, local paper OK Diario reported, citing information from consulting firm Omdia.
According to the report,...
Telefónica said it has already deployed over 5,000 5G antennas in the 3.6 GHz frequency
German operator Telefónica Deutschland/O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said its 5G network already operates around 10,000 antennas in the country.
The telco said that this network infrastructure is enabling the...
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone has inked a MoU to boost O-RAN development across Europe
A group comprising some of Europe’s largest telecommunications operators updated a list of priority technical requirements for the development of O-RAN systems.
In a statement, the telcos noted that...
Telefónica is working with La Marina de València, the maritime district in the southeastern port city of Valencia in Spain, to ‘digitise’ electricity and water supply for boats, including with various IoT, 5G, cloud computing, analytics and blockchain solutions, it has said. The firm’s...
Telefonica highlighted that the smart building platform aims to centralize, automate, collect and present data more efficiently
Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica, in collaboration with Siemens, Bookker and BIM6D, has unveiled its smart building platform in a demonstration area at Mobile World Congress (MWC), being held...
Telefonica said its new 5G offering will be initially offered in 700 towns and cities across Spain
Spanish telco Telefonica has announced the activation of 5G services using spectrum in the 700MHz band. The telco said it expects to reach 1,400 localities in Spain with...
Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica and partner Unmanned Life have designed a new solution for managing autonomous drone fleets from a single centralized platform to carry out security, surveillance, event verification and critical infrastructure maintenance tasks.
Telefonica said that this innovation will be presented during this...
Heads of some of the biggest European telecommunications operators have published an open letter in the Financial Times claiming Europe’s telecoms market risks falling behind rivals, and that big tech firms needs to help fund network infrastructure deployments.
The letter is jointly signed by José...
U.K. operator Virgin Media O2 announced that its 5G network infrastructure in the city of London has reached 64% of the population.
In a release, the telco said that the expansion in its 5G footprint in London and other cities across the U.K. was chiefly...
Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica announced the successful validation of its new Open RAN 5G Standalone small cell.
In a release, the European carrier said that the demonstration was carried out by Node-H and Askey in Telefonica’s Technology & Automation Lab.
Telefonica noted that this demo is...
We are a little late with this, but it is a sizeable deal, which might also be construed as significant because it is for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in Spain, in Sigfox’s (other) backyard, and its comes to us in the days after Sigfox’s...
Lord knows what Red Hat does, exactly, if you’ll excuse the language, but Christ knows it is good to talk to. And clearly, on the interplay between cellular networking and cloud computing at the enterprise edge, it should be listened to – as the...
Telefónica Tech, the digital services arm of Telefónica, has signed a deal with Spanish engineering services company Grupo Álava, to launch a predictive analytics solution for the Industry 4.0 market that also leverages private 5G, cloud and edge computing, and big-data ‘AI’ analytics from...
German operator O2/Telefónica Deutschland has activated the first mini-radio cells with Open RAN technology (O-RAN) in the city of Munich, the telco said in a statement.
The telco said that these mini-radio cells will provide O2 customers with even more capacity and higher bandwidth at...
