Standards bodies call for combined 5G and Wi-Fi network resources to address new opportunities and use cases.

Dublin-based Cubic Telecom has been selected as the connectivity provider for electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer e.GO Mobile AG.

Qualcomm’s European VP of Technology challenged operators, infrastructure vendors and device makers to showcase 5G in commercial networks at specific speeds and latency.

The Belgian 5G auction scheduled for this year has been postponed untll 2020 or maybe later, according to the Minister for Telecommunications, Philippe De Backer.

Telecom Italia (TIM) is acting as the primary IT partner as the ancient city of Matera begins its year-long reign as European Capital of Culture.

The company’s plight could impact the continent’s telecoms infrastructure, which Strand Consults reckons to be two years behind Asia and the US in the rollout of 5G.

Telefónica is evolving its UK NOC (network operations centre) into a SOC (service operations centre) using automation to improve customer experience.

IBM and Vodafone Business say it will speed adoption of cloud technologies and business applications enabled by 5G, edge computing and software-defined networking (SDN).

Company says platform offers first new capability from $3bn satellite replacement programme.