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.

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.