Vendors concerned about ailing bottom lines are guilty of overhyping 5G, Vodafone's Group CTO has warned, as he predicted smartphones rather than enterprises that will drive the first flush of the market.

The unstoppable force of technology optimism met the immovable object of financial reality at Mobile World Congress today, as debate raged about the investment case for 5G.

5G activity in Europe will be dwarfed by that of the United States and Asia, the CEO of Nokia has said, as the Finnish vendor announced new Wi-Fi products, 5G trials and further work with Facebook.

MTS is just one of Russia's operators gearing up for the summer's football World Cup in the country and CTO Andrei Ushatsky is banking on distributed antenna systems to connect the tens of thousands of fans set to attend.

The 20 years since Bluetooth’s launch have seen a dramatic evolution in the wireless landscape, with phones evolving from plastic “bricks” to the sleek smartphones widely used today.

London's O2 arena was the venue for annual music industry shindig The Brit awards last night and Telefónica UK is hoping the arena hits the right note as a 5G testbed.

In an industry fond of unusual metaphors – having a throat to choke, chasing the dragon spacecraft and the like - Elisa has found a new one to back the launch of its SON solution; namely eating your own dog food.

Ericsson is moving early with its Mobile World Congress product launches and is banking on operators following suit with their 5G plans. First, however, the vendor has to convince its customers that the benefits are worth investing in today, a problem it shares with its rivals.

Network transformation will lead to a "necessary" change in skills across telecoms, according to the Group CTO of TIM, who warns those with legacy competencies could be under threat.

At first glance, a visitor arriving at Telecom Italia’s TIMLab in Turin could be forgiven for thinking it focuses on the history of telecoms rather than its future.

At the start of a crucial year for telecoms, which will see trends such as virtual reality and the IoT gathering pace and the first trials of next generation technologies such as 5G, Mobile Europe rounds up some of the industry’s big predictions for 2018.

A highly advanced 4G network and competition from market leader Proximus was behind Orange Belgium’s decision to go all-cellular for its IoT offering, according to its CTO.

BT is hoping the UK’s first public 5G testbed will help clarify the architecture of next generation networks and how consumers and businesses might use the technology.

Europe will continue to lag behind North East Asia and North America into the 5G era, holding only 16 percent of connections by 2023 and consuming an average of 28GB per month.