Deutsche Telekom is planning to build a public and private LTE network as part of its membership of an organisation exploring innovations in the manufacturing sector.

TIM has opened its first 5G Innovation Hub to coincide with holding what it claimed was Europe's first 5G NR video call on mmWave.

Orange has pushed back the launch of its Djingo smart speaker to spring 2019, as it announced it will provide access to Amazon's Alexa digital assistant.

Taking the right approach to spectrum could lead to a $565 billion boost to global GDP and $152 billion in extra tax revenue from 2020 to 2034, claimed the GSMA in its latest plea for a common sense approach to frequency distribution.

Vodafone will place small antennas underground as it looks to improve LTE coverage in busy UK cities.

T-Mobile Polska has switched on four 5G New Radio base stations in Warsaw, in the first steps of its next generation technology rollout.

Elisa has deployed the first liquid-cooled base station in Helsinki, which it said could reduce the environmental impact of infrastructure deployment.

Huawei has denied it presents a security threat to European networks, after the EU's technology commissioner said the continent should be concerned about its operations.

Swisscom is seeking to monitor and optimise its LTE network after deploying new analytics software from Ericsson.

Ericsson is blaming software for outages that left more than 30 million O2 UK customers without data services for most of yesterday.

Huawei has got some good news during a troubled week after signing a deal to develop and rollout 5G services for Altice Portugal.

UK telco EE has announced it will be the first operator to launch OnePlus's forthcoming 5G smartphone next year.

Telia Company and Ericsson have opened Sweden's first 5G network using standardised radio and core products and serving as a testbed for enterprises and academics.

Europe's penchant for hands-on regulation could damage 5G's deployment before it properly starts, writes Dimitris Mavrakis, ABI Research