KPN and offshore telecommunication supplier Tampnet have entered into a partnership to expand 4G coverage in the North Sea for business customers.

After months of speculation and fierce debate, France’s telecom regulator Arcep published its decision on the procedure and conditions for awarding licences.

Cobham Wireless’s idDAS (intelligent digital distributed antenna system) is now providing 4G coverage in Berlin’s U-Bahn for subscribers of all three of Germany’s major mobile operators.

Mobile analytics company Opensignal says 5G adoption is moving too slowly to overtake 3G in just one year, anywhere in the world.

The two are to create Vodafone Neuron, a real-time data analytics platform to pull data from more than 600 servers in 11 countries into a single repository.

A Reuters' reports suggests the rescheduling is due to a disagreement between the French finance ministry and the telecoms authority, Arcep.

T-Mobile US’ CEO John Legere, who is widely credited with the operator’s dramatic turnaround since he took office in 2012, will step down next year.

The platform is being developed by the Technical Committee Smart Card Platform, which standardised previous generations of SIM cards.

They say the proof of concept lays the foundation for “a leap in efficiency in post-trade services”.

An announcement by the American Commerce Department gave permission to US companies for “specific, limited engagements” with Huawei for the next 90 days.

The number of consumers using connected devices and applications has increased 66% in two years, according to Telefónica’s second report on the Internet of Things (IoT).

The company has deployed private wireless networks for more than 120 customers, including 32 public sector organisations and smart cities.

The German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung quoted the German Secretary of State, Steffen Bilger at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

The acquisition of Bonnier Broadcasting includes MTV Finland, Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 and streaming service C More.