German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested that Europe sets up a dedicated agency to certify components for 5G networks.

Telefonica UK (O2) and Sophos announced an agreement to offer Sophos products and services to the operator’s business customers in the UK.

Orange has extended a contract with Ericsson to provide a managed end-to-end operations service in Belgium, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia and Spain.

Finland’s Elisa claims to have demonstrated a first – a virtual reality broadcast that matched the quality of a human eye's vision.

The company claims its new strategy will generate an additional €2 billion in revenue and increase operating cash flow by 2% by 2022.

Nokia has announced that it will abolish the Chief Operating Officer (COO) role within the company.

Rakuten Mobile will use Netrounds’ programmable automated active service assurance software in its cloud-native network.

5G will cover up to 65% of the world's population by the end of 2025 and handle 45% of global mobile data traffic by then the report says.

Huawei, Samsung and OPPO increased market share in the third quarter of 2019 at the expense of Apple and Xiaomi, whose market shares declined.

Bosch has applied for 5G operating licences for selected German locations, saying it believes local area networks are “the way forward”.

Swisscom is partnering with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland for research relating to 5G and network functions virtualisation (NFV).

After the successful launch of its bank in France, Spain is the telco’s second market to launch Orange Bank.

Delegates at the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) have identified additional globally harmonised mmWave frequency bands for 5G.

Michaël Trabbia, CEO of Orange Belgium, and Sandrine Dufour, acting CEO of Proximus, signed the final agreement for the sharing arrangement they proposed in July.