Telia Company completed the divestment of its 47.1% stake in Turkcell Holding to the state-owned Turkey Wealth Fund.

Telefónica Tech Ventures is supported by ElevenPaths, Telefónica Tech’s cybersecurity arm, and Telefónica Innovation Ventures (TIV).


The motivation for doing so is a largely untapped market potentially worth €12.65- €21.08 billion globally to network operators by 2025.

Coming soon to a mast near you: ABI Research reckons it will have 75% of market by 2030; Rethink Research says 58% by 2026.

The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) board has launched a 6G project, while continuing its 5G efforts.

The Swedish regulator cited spying from Beijing and technology theft, having taken advice from the country's security services and armed forces.

The operator has signed “an exclusive 5G alliance” for Nordics and Baltics with Nokia – except Ericsson is supplying 5G infra in Sweden and Estonia, as well as Norway.

As Europe's operators scramble after enterprise network business beyond connecitivty, Verizon Business launches its international private 5G platform in partnership with Nokia.

The operator completed the upgrade to its the cable-fibre network in 13 federal states – the largest gigabit expansion project in Germany.

The story surfaced in Spain’s Expansion newspaper saying that the two are exploring a 50/50 joint venture.

Working with Altiostar, the two say they made the first Open RAN voice call on Vodafone’s network in the Netherlands.



With partner Stratospheric Platforms, the German incumbent ran 4G voice and data on flying platform (pictured).

The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ecta) condemns any ban of Chinese 5G suppliers for geopolitical reasons.

Billed income expected to hit $357 billion (€304.6 billion) by then as Juniper Research finds that 5G “highly resilient” to the pandemic.