MegaFon has appointed an insider as its new CTO, nearly a month after the sudden departure of Alexander Bashmakov.

Hi3G Scandinavia has hired a Tele2 veteran as its CTO as it seeks to prepare its network for 5G.

LTE's functionality will stretch into the middle of next decade, some of Europe’s leading CTOs have said, as operators juggle new functionality with the advent of 5G.

MegaFon CTO Alexander Bashmakov has left the company "to pursue other opportunities", it has emerged.

Operators need to embrace software, transformational leadership strategies and financial skillsets to respond to the changing telecoms landscape, VEON's Chief Technology Officer has said.

Operators need help from governments and regulators to build a truly supportive climate to back the spending required for 5G networks, the CTO of Proximus has claimed.

A spectrum cap would enable a "truly competitive" market in the UK, the CTO of Three UK has claimed.

Orange will be focused on getting 5G right, not getting out first with 5G, its SVP for Orange Labs Networks has said.

Operators will fail to take advantage of 5G's promise if they treat it like an incremental progression of cellular technology, the Group CTO of Deutsche Telekom has claimed.

Amid the myriad challenges and opportunities facing the mobile industry, Mobile Europe asked CTOs from Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Proximus, Three UK and VEON about the issues they consider are not being talked about enough.

Mobile Europe was left in an enjoyably difficult situation at the roundtable during its fourth CTO of the Year awards this week: how to set the telecoms industry to rights between 12 CTOs and with only 90 minutes to do so?

VEON's Yogesh Malik and Proximus's Geert Standaert scooped the awards at Mobile Europe's CTO of the Year event on Wednesday evening.

Europe has not lost the race to deploy the first 5G network to the United States and Asia, the CTO of T-Mobile Poland has claimed.

Telefónica has completed its first trial of massive MIMO in Europe, working with ZTE on its pre-5G research.

Development of 5G is reaching a "critical phase", Deutsche Telekom's Group CTO has said, as the operator said the initial results from its 5G Lab are bearing fruit in its products and services.

Deutsche Telekom and Huawei have completed a trial to show for the first time how 5G network slices can be created automatically and in an optimised way, on shared radio access, core and transport networks.

Finland's Sonera has become the latest operator to trial NB-IoT technology on its network in a demonstration of how it can enable the tracking of mobile assets.

EE will lose the technological credibility it has built up over LTE if it fails to be first and best with 5G in the UK, its senior technical team has said.

Embarking on a virtualisation project? Move slowly, embrace uncertainty, battle to attract the right staff (and expect to lose) and don't assume major savings, delegates at SDN World Congress have been told.

Deutsche Telekom has appointed the Chief Technology Officer of its Hungarian subsidiary to handle its German operations, with former home market CTO Bruno Jacobfeuerborn now set to focus on his Group responsibilities.