The consulting firm specialises in multi-cloud services and is a Google Cloud Premier Partner for Southern Europe.

The unit is drawing on experience in the NTT group, which is running some Open RAN sites in its 5G network in Japan.

As competiton in telecoms cloud intensifies, the Financial Times reports the 2015 truce between Microsoft and Google is at an end*.

The deployment is at the Schneider Electric plant at Le Vaudreuil, France.

The software-defined (SD) Core supports Connectivity-as-a-Service, optimised for private 5G nets and Industry 4.0.

The test will take place in London, Manchester and Cardiff, building on a trial with Coventry University. 

The new AirScale 5G products are based on Nokia's ReefShark system on a chip (SoC).

The new radios will be available next year and are designed for global markets.

The operator has launched a new brand, SIMon, to compete against ‘the under €10 discounters’.

The new entity, comprising the country's second and third largest mobile operators, will have revenue of about $3 billion (€2.52 billion) pa.

The vendor also announced its private 5G network trial with Lufthansa Technik has progressed to permanent deployment.

The £1 bn programmme will also boost connectivity across London, from fixed broadband in homes to outdoor 5G coverage and emergency services.

The US President has continued along the path taken by his predecessor.

The launch follows Vodafone trials with firms from sports tech to autonomous transport, biometric security, remote virtual reality and factory automation.

The US’ fledgling fourth national operator has again chosen an American supplier.

Telenor and Telia's joint network (TTN) build will speed up with the addition of 3.5 GHz spectrum.

The gap between Ericsson and Nokia closes, but Huawei holds onto the top spot.

Nokia and Türk Telekom will implement the first commercial private 4.9G/LTE network in Turkey for manufacturer Arçelik.

Research house Canalys finds the growth is despite component shortages, which look set to worsen, and 5G is a big driver.

Samsung Electronics' big European break: the operator group named the Korean firm alongside Dell, NEC, Wind River, Capgemini Engineering and Keysight Technologies.