Ericsson has announced the acquisition of Cradlepoint, a US-based company specialising in wireless edge wide area network (WAN) 4G and 5G enterprise solutions, for $1.1 billion.

The European Commission has urged member states to work together on accelerating the roll-out of fibre and 5G to help drive economic recovery from COVID-19.

BT has entered into a strategic partnership with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to supply a new communications service and technologies which support the charity's drowning prevention work.

Telefónica Deutschland has chosen software from Blue Planet, a division of Ciena, to upgrade its network in Germany to support growing data traffic and bandwidth demand from users.

Rakuten Mobile and Telefónica have struck an agreement to collaborate on the development of open radio access networks (OpenRAN) as well as 5G core and operations support systems (OSS).

Vodafone Business is partnering with Swiss company Landis+Gyr to deliver cellular Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities for energy management.

Deutsche Telekom is using a new NIMS (Next Generation IP Multimedia Subsystem) platform to cloudify IP-based voice services.

Italian wholesale infrastructure operator Open Fiber has selected Nokia to supply optical transport technology for the expansion of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) Ultra-BroadBand (UBB) network nationwide.

Telefónica's cybersecurity company ElevenPaths has acquired specialist training company iHackLabs.