A progress report on the adoption of European Commission’s (EC) delayed 5G measures highlights the continent’s fragmented digital market.

The company has 68,000 towers across nine markets, and is the leading or second largest towerco in most.

The operator was collaborating with Casa Systems and HPE, in a demo controlling a robot, carried out in France.

Reuters reports French operators cannot renew licences to use the Chinese vendors’ kit once they expire in a maximum of eight years’ time.

The operator is the first in the country to deploy 5G nationally using existing base stations and the 4G 2600MHz frequency.

The alliance of innovation units from Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Singtel and Telefónica issue open call to 5G innovators to participate.

BT is working with the government-backed Worcestershire 5G Testbed (W5G) as its lead technology partner – production up 2% so far.

The Finnish vendor says the 5G standalone (SA) solutions are available now for “the most demanding industrial and manufacturing use cases”.

The Chairman of Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani, said it would be ready for trials as soon as spectrum is available.

When UK Digital Minister Oliver Dowden made the announcement after much dithering, policy reversals and rumours, no-one was surprised. The only questions were about timing.

The network will be used by Groupe ADP, Hub One and Air France at Paris-Charles de Gaulle (pictured), Paris-Orly and Paris-Le Bourget airports.

Jan Hruška has worked at O2 Czech Republic for 16 years and as CTO for the last two and a half.

Vodafone and BT say effects of ban would be worse than previously stated; Samsung claims Huawei's low prices are due to state subsidies.

Portfolio aimed at webscale cloud companies, service providers and enterprises with Apple as one of the first customers.

At the end of April 2020, Dutch operator VodafoneZiggo became the latest to offer a commercial 5G service. The launch stands out as the Netherlands has not formally awarded licences for 5G spectrum writes Kester Mann, Director, Consumer and Connectivity at CCS Insight.

The organisations issued a statement saying the European telecoms industry wants to work with EU institutions, national governments and stakeholders to speed economic recovery after the pandemic.

Do you know your Kubernetes from Kafka? Your data pipelines from Elastic Search? If there's anything NFV has taught us, it’s don’t create a bespoke, sector-specific solution when a proven, general-purpose one exists. Steve Legge, COO, NetNumber, talks to Annie Turner.

UK looks ready to ban the Chinese operator, and a free analysis highlights the lack of transparency regarding the use of Huawei equipment in European networks.

Understanding how much 5G improves mobile experience is critical to consumers who are considering upgrading to 5G and for the mobile industry to plan how quickly to invest in it, explains Ian Fogg, VP Analysis at Opensignal.

The European Commission has adopted regulation for small antennas designed to accelerate roll-out across the European Union.