Shareholders’ resistance obliges the Swiss mobile operator to drop the cable company deal, which remains on the table.

The operator is to deploy Red Hat’s Ceph Storage, Ansible Automation Platform and Enterprise Linux.

Telefónica will become a full member of Altiostar’s new Technology Advisory Committee and joined the latest funding round.

Gartner predicts that in the longer term, connected cars will be the single biggest 5G-enabled, IoT market for network operators.

It is launching an exclusive partnership by which all Ehang drones in Germany, then Europe, will have a Vodafone SIM card.

As commercial 5G networks roll out, vendors are exploring three key areas in base station antenna (BSA) design to improve performance and reduce costs.

The new open source projects are intended to speed deployment of microservices in the cloud or at the edge.

Many applications, including critical infrastructure, still rely on 2G so switch-off and migration need to be carefully planned and new models should be explored.

The German authorities reiterated they want to create "a level playing field" for 5G suppliers.

Telefónica has launched new data and artificial-intelligence-based products and services for the corporate sector at its latest LUCA Innovation Day.

Consumers in the US and UK have a high awareness of and interest in 5G but services and benefits need to be better positioned if the technology is to take off rapidly. 


They will fund, develop and operate xScale data centres in Europe to support hyperscale customers, including cloud service providers.

CityFibre plans an industry-wide consultation on the role of alternative fibre infrastructure builders (such as itself) in switching customers from legacy copper networks.

Telenor is launching the world’s northern-most 5G pilot on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, where it will test the technology against the rigours of the Arctic climate.