Dominique Leroy (pictured), CEO of Proximus, will leave at the start of December to take up the reins at KPN.

The companies signed a contract with Minera Las Bambas, the ninth-largest copper mine, to digitise and automate projects at Apurimac in Peru.

Margrethe Vestager is the European Commission's new Executive Vice President for Digital and continues competition duties.

The industry body called on governments to help identify spectrum for mobile at World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19).

Telefónica has teamed up with SEAT and Spain’s Directorate General for Traffic (DGT) to deploy IoT and reduce accidents on Spanish roads.

T-Labs, Deutsche Telekom’s innovation unit, has launched a new blockchain-based e-mobility pilot named Xride.

Green bonds are to set to be increasingly used in the telecoms sector to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency.

Working with Ericsson, the operator switched on the country’s first live urban 5G test network.

The 6G Flagship research programme has published what it claims is the world’s first 6G white paper, saying this “opens the floor for defining the 2030 wireless era”.

The operator group says it is speeding up plans to monetise its tower portfolio, after the strategy was presented at a board meeting this week.

Telefónica UK has been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) new Network Services 2 framework (RM3808).

Telefónica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) says it has completed network automation globally for all networking services.

The European Commission has launched a pilot project to test quantum communication infrastructure in several European countries.

New research from Openet suggests mobile operators are making progress in transforming from being traditional communications service providers to become digital service providers.