Telefonica and Liberty Global announced the aim to offer 5G services in 100 towns and cities across the U.K. by the end of 2021, following the proposed merger of Telefonica’s O2 and Virgin Media, U.K. newspaper The Times reported.
According to the report, Telefonica’s CEO...
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Telefonica Germany, which operates under the O2 brand, will activate its 5G network in five German cities on October 3, the company said in a release.
The telco, owned by Spanish telecommunications group Telefonica, will initially offer commercial 5G services in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt...
Xilinx previously tapped by Telefónica in its push for massive Open RAN deployments
This week San Jose-based Xilinx announced it's shipping a T1 Telco Accelerator Card designed for 5G Open RAN networks with a specific focus on simplifying Open RAN fronthaul termination at an open...
Partnership includes Open RAN and a drive toward advanced network automation
As it continues to pursue integration of Open RAN technologies into its multi-national network footprint, Telefónica Global CTIO Enrique Blanco and Rakuten Mobile CTO and CAO Tareq Amin discussed a newly announced partnership that...
Spanish carrier Telefonica announced that it will deploy 5G at the Abanca-Riazor stadium in A Coru?a, Spain.
The venue, home of the Real Club Deportivo football team, will become the stadium ?with the "most complete" deployment of 5G coverage and use cases in Europe, Telefonica...
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is now offering 5G service in 15 cities across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the company said in a release.
The carrier said that the 5G service is being offered via a combination of own infrastructure and an...
Spanish operator Orange has launched commercial 5G services in Spain using equipment provided by Ericsson, the latter said in a release.
The carrier initially launched 5G technology in Madrid and Barcelona with the deployment of Ericsson’s 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) and core products and...
Telefónica has commercially launched 5G services in Spain, the telco said in a release.
The European operator said that 75% of the Spanish population will have access to 5G by the end of the year.
“The launch of our 5G network constitutes a leap forward towards...
Masmovil uses Orange's network infrastructure; planning it's own SA 5G network
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil expects to launch its 5G network in parts of Spain next month, Spanish newspaper Expansion reported.
The launch will be carried out though an agreement with rival operator Orange.
Initially, Masmovil will...
A closer look at some more recent advances in blockchain adoption made by CSPs
Blockchain, a technology that establishes a shared, immutable record of transactions within a network, has been on the radar of communication service providers (CSPs) for some time now, and according to...
Nokia expects “full suite” of O-RAN interfaces available in 2021
Adding on to a recent refresh of its virtualized, cloud-based RAN solutions, Nokia today, after weeks of building up to it, made clear its position on open RAN and its role as a global, incumbent...
Liberty Global and Telefonica have reached an agreement to merge their U.K. operations in a 50-50 joint venture.
This move brings together the country's largest mobile operator, O2, with cable operator Virgin Media and its MVNO Virgin Mobile.
The combined subscriber base of the two companies,...
HAPS Alliance includes Ericsson, Nokia, SoftBank, DT, Telefonica, China Telecom, Bharti Airtel and Loon, among others
A coalition of companies are aiming for the stratosphere as a "multi-billion dollar market opportunity" in telecommunications, planetary observation and weather prediction and modeling—including five traditionally terrestrial cellular network...
Altiostar, Intel, Xilinx among Telefónica Open RAN providers
Ahead of planned Open RAN trials later this year in Brazil, Germany, Spain and the U.K., telecoms giant Telefónica is collaborating with several ecosystem vendors to develop disaggregated radio access network solutions. The group is working off...
Oi "sounding out the market" for potential sale of mobile business
Brazilian telecommunications operators Telefonica Brasil and TIM Participações have expressed interest in negotiating a joint offer to buy the mobile business of bankrupt Brazilian telco Oi the two companies said in securities filings.
Telefonica Brazil...
Telefónica, KT, China Unicom and Telstra have all signed an edge Muti-Operator Multiaccess Edge Computing agreement
Telecom giants Telefónica, KT, China Unicom and Telstra have entered an agreement to collaborate on the Muti-Operator Multiaccess Edge Computing (MEC) Experience. The collaboration is part of the GSMA...
Tesco Mobile has officially launched its 5G network in 24 towns and cities across the U.K., using infrastructure from mobile operator O2.
Some of the cities in which the company is already offering its 5G service includes Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool,...
A consortium of technologists, industrialists, and academics have joined a new European working group to develop and demonstrate a new ‘beyond-5G’ system for private networks, integrating 5G, Wi-Fi, and LiFi technologies, and managed through AI based autonomic networking.
The 30-month project, called 5G-CLARITY, has been...
Telefonica will deploy nodes of its Hyperledger-enabled blockchain at APTE’s 52 locations
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica has revealed plans to work with Spain’s Association of Science and Technology Parks (APTE) to bring its blockchain-based platform to around 8,000 local companies in form of Hyperledger-based blockchain...
U.K. telco O2 says it is providing 5G service in 20 cities across the country as of the end of 2019.
O2, which is part of Telefonica, initially launched its 5G service in October, in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast, Leeds and Slough. It subsequently switched...
EE, BT and O2 all have commercial 5G services
The main cities across the U.K started to receive 5G coverage during the second half of 2019 as local carriers rapidly launched the technology for both residential and corporate customers.
EE, owned by telecommunications group BT, recently...
The 400 largest cellular IoT deployments at a global level together account for 279 million units, according to a recent study by Swedish consultancy firm Berg Insight.
The study includes various types of projects deployed across all types of vertical markets, including aftermarket automotive, fleet...
Alejandro Cadenas, IoT strategy manager, Telefónica:
“Deployment of private networks is giving way to a radical change in industries, especially suited for campus-type industrial deployments like mines, ports, airports or manufacturing plants. Thanks to this connectivity technology, companies will work faster, safer and in a...
