French mobile operator IIiad Group is expanding its partnership with Nokia to roll out 5G networks across France and Italy.

Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile US, Telefonica and Orange are jointly testing a “production-ready” blockchain solution for the automated management of inter-operator roaming discount agreements.

To best serve the needs of Industry 4.0 customers, the partners will first analyse market needs, test equipment interoperability and investigate spectrum planning.

Two years after the deal was mooted, and having overcoming many hurdles, Deutsche Telekom reportedly wants to pay less.

After recently catching up with Dave Dyson, CEO of Three UK, CCS Insight's Kester Mann reflects on the operator's 5G announcement.

Romania is a successful and pioneering market for Orange Group as its CTO, Emmanuel Chautard, explained to Annie Turner.

Slovakian operator Orange Slovensko has chosen Nokia to upgrade its Radio Access Network (RAN) to pave the way for 5G.

When BT launched 5G plans in November, they were only available for customers of Halo, a premium broadband service. Now they’re available to all.

The US Attorney-General, William Barr, has suggested the US and its allies should consider taking a “controlling stake” in the firms to build stronger alternatives to Huawei.

Proximus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop a private 5G network for the Port of Antwerp.

The Chinese giant, which has itself often been accused of the industrial espionage, is filing lawsuits across the state of Texas.

Group CEO Nick Read (pictured) said it will take five year and cost €200 million – meanwhile growth remains incremental and India hangs in the balance.

Telekom Albania has selected Ericsson as the sole supplier to modernise its radio and core networks in a five-year deal.

Working with Ericsson, Huawei and Qualcomm, Vodafone says it demonstrated the world’s first 5G dynamic spectrum-sharing on a combination of two low spectrum bands.

Belgian telecoms regulator, BIPT, plans to issue temporary spectrum licences to allow the introduction of 5G this summer.

The move is intended to offer operators cloud-native service assurance via software as a service (Saas), using artificial intelligence, automation and analytics.

5G promises a world of unprecedented speed and differentiated quality of service with the potential to unleash a wide array of use cases, new services and business models. Network slicing is the cornerstone of the 5G architecture that supports this. By Oren Marmur, VP, Head of NFV, Amdocs

Orange made the decision after issuing a request for proposals in early 2019 followed by several months of testing.

The delayed advice, which was due by the end of December, follows the UK’s decision regarding Huawei in 5G and full-fibre infrastructure.

VodafoneZiggo and Ericsson, along with Brainport Development and High Tech Campus Eindhoven, have launched a new “5G co-creation environment” in Eindhoven, Netherlands.