David Joosten, director of the Americas and partner markets at Vodafone Business, identifies key trends that will shape the digital enterprise market in 2024, as follows...
1 | 5G and IoT will benefit society more than AI
The convergence of 5G and IoT will create more...
Vodafone has equipped an Industry 4.0 demonstrator project at the University of Sheffield in the UK with a range of IoT technologies so manufacturers can understand how digital tech can support their net zero and energy efficiency objectives. Vodafone is one of a number...
Pairpoint, Vodafone’s ‘economy-of-things’ joint-venture (JV) business with Japanese trading and electric services company Sumitomo Corporation, has teamed up with professional services company Deloitte and IoT tracking firm Nexxiot to verify the provenance of IoT data in the international logistics market. The group is offering...
Vodafone Business, the global enterprise division of UK-based mobile operator Vodafone, is pushing its state-side IoT credentials with a new reseller deal with tech advisory firm Bridgepointe Technologies in the US. The California-headquartered tech consultancy will resell Vodafone’s mobility, fixed, and IoT solutions to...
Vodafone aims to use fully use renewable sources to power its networks by 2025
U.K. telco Vodafone is implementing a number of actions in order to be in a position to fulfill with its sustainability goals, according to Erik Kling, president and head of IoT...
Vodafone indicated that across renewables, wind power generation gains the greatest benefit from 5G Standalone technology
Transforming wind farms with 5G technology could help generate enough additional clean energy to heat 2.4 million homes across the U.K. by 2035, according to a recent research by...
Vodafone noted that 5G SA coverage in all populated areas across the U.K. by 2030 is a core ambition of the government
The difference between slow and accelerated 5G rollout could represent an additional £7.4 billion ($9.27 billion) to the U.K. economy, according to a...
Ericsson said the RedCap demo took place in Ciudad Real, Spain, using Vodafone Spain’s live testing 5G network
Ericsson, Vodafone and Qualcomm Technologies have demonstrated what they claimed to be the first RAN Reduced Capability (RedCap) data sessions on a European network.
The RedCap demo took...
Vodafone noted that WRC-23 will decide the future use of the 6 GHz spectrum band
U.K. carrier Vodafone said it has achieved 1 Gbps speeds in its ongoing network tests in the upper 6 GHz frequency band, ahead of a meeting of national regulators and...
Italian gas and water distributor Italgas is working with Infovista to bring visibility and control to eight million cellular-connected smart meters, connected via the country’s three mobile network operators. Infovista said it has supplied the Italian utility with its Ativa assurance solution to help...
Market research firm Kaleido Intelligence has reviewed a bunch of cellular IoT providers for the supply of connectivity management platforms (CMP), eSIM connectivity, and eSIM subscription management – and ranked Vodafone, Eseye, G+D, and Thales as the best in the business. Vodafone was rated...
It seems strange for a telco to lean on its telco roots to sell digital services to enterprises – but that's what Orange has done, as OBS becomes Orange Business.
The main news from the Orange Business strategy update in London last week (November 8)...
Vodafone noted that the new unit will utilize Accenture’s technology and transformation services such as its digital solutions and platforms, as well as its expertise in the AI field
U.K.-based Vodafone Group announced its intention to create a strategic partnership with Accenture with the main...
Ofcom said that each lot will comprise a block of 200 megahertz
U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom has confirmed the details of the country’s first millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum auction.
In September, Ofcom announced that it will open the 26 GHz and 40 GHz spectrum bands to mobile...
Germany-based IoT company Dryad Networks, offering a planet-saving wildfire protection solution, and talked about in these pages a year ago as a “superstar on the LoRaWAN circuit”, continues to pick up useful-sounding contracts with government agencies, municipal authorities, forestry trusts, and private landowners variously...
Israeli edge-cloud and private cellular software company ASOCS is working with Lufthansa Industry Solutions (LHIND), the system integrator (SI) division of German aviation firm Lufthansa Group, and an early pioneer of private 5G in Europe, to test and develop its own industrial 5G positioning...
Virgin Media O2 will retain a 33.33% stake in Cornerstone upon completion of the transaction
U.K. telco Virgin Media O2 has reached an agreement to sell a 16.67% minority stake in its mobile tower joint venture, Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited, to the U.K.-based infrastructure fund,...
Vodafone CEO describes sale as part of "right-sizing" effort
Vodafone is existing the highly-competitive Spanish market with the sale of its business there to Zegona Communications. According to Vodafone, it's receiving €4.1 billion in cash and €900,000,000 in "redeemable preference shares...for an amount comprising the...
Major multinational European carriers have publicly and repeatedly expressed intent to deploy Open RAN at scale. This is driven by a number of factors chief among them the need to comply with national-level regulations concerning the replacement of equipment from Chinese vendors, as well...
Vodafone explained that 6GHz equipment was installed on an existing 5G site in Madrid covering the carrier’s campus and the surrounding area
U.K. telecom operator Vodafone announced it has successfully tested future mobile spectrum in the upper 6 GHz frequency band in Spain.
In a release,...
If the Vodafone-Three merger is approved, the new entity will reach 99% of the U.K. population with 5G Standalone (SA) networks
Executives from U.K. telcos Vodafone and Three UK unit said their $18 billion merger would benefit Britain's consumers, infrastructure and jobs, according to a...
If the Vodafone-Three transaction is approved, the new entity will reach 99% of the U.K. population with 5G Standalone (SA) networks
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it is providing an early opportunity for interested third parties to comment on the potential impacts...
Note: this the second part of an introduction to a forthcoming editorial report on smart meters, covering how ‘IoT has changed up a gear in the utilities market’. The report will be available next month. RCR Wireless will host a webinar on the same...
While Open RAN vendors are focused on hardware/software disaggregation and interoperability, operators also need RAN reaggregation
As commercial Open RAN deployments, particularly in brownfield network environments, begin to ramp, the longstanding focus on ensuring interoperability between disaggregated radio hardware and software could stand to move...
