The UK regulator says its proposed new framework will improve the business case for fibre investment and protect customers from high prices.

There will be around 400 million unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connections by 2025, according to new analysis from Strategy Analytics.

Over 20 countries globally have auctioned or allocated C-Band spectrum for mobile broadband, and Italian operators have paid the most per MHz per head of population.

Mobile voice revenue will drop to $208 billion (€186 billion) by 2024 from $381 billion (€340 billion) in 2019, as users continue to prefer more flexible, free over-the-top (OTT) services.

OMTEL is the country’s biggest telecoms infrastructure operator with 3,000 sites and plans for 400 more by 2024.

The CEO of Swiss operator Sunrise Communications, Olaf Swantee, has resigned after almost four years with the company. Several other senior figures will also depart.

Deutsche Telekom will restructure and standardise its IT architecture using SAP’s S/4HANA real-time enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.

Despite the Trump Administration’s efforts to keep its equipment out of Western networks and upset its supply chain, last year Huawei’s sales rose to $122 billion.

By the end of the year, Telefónica UK connected 13 more cities to its 5G network.

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In addition to a gruelling auction for 5G spectrum and starting the 5G build-out, Gerhard Mack is responsible for integrating the Liberty Global cable assets that his company acquired this year. He still made time to talk to Annie Turner.

O2, Ericsson and Northumbrian Water are trialling 5G to help manage 1.1 billion litres of water and sewerage services across the UK’s North East region.

The move helps Germany's fourth 5G network get off the ground, in line with the regulatory framework put in place to ensure national 5G coverage.

The French government has launched a procedure for assigning 5G spectrum licences after approving specifications proposed by the telecoms regulator, Arcep.

Despite reports that the Sino-US trade war is coming to an end, fighting talk continues on all sides.

International Data Corporation (IDC) projects the number of 5G connections to grow from 10 million in 2019 to 1.01 billion in 2023.

It is just over a year since the world’s first commercial 5G service went live, so this feels like as good a time as any to take stock and assess progress over the past 12 months, says Kester Mann, Director, Consumer and Connectivity, with CCS Insight.

Telenor has completed the vendor selection process for its 5G network in Norway, plumping for Ericsson over existing provider Huawei.

Russian operator MTS hosted a two-way, long-distance holographic video call between its 5G pilot zones in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

A new report claims that London’s local authorities lack the budget and strategy to support the roll-out of 5G.