Vivo, Telefónica Group’s Brazilian subsidiary, has extended its contract for the Netcracker Revenue Management and Service Activation platforms.

O2 continues "for the national good messaging", offering the suite which is designed to enable fast, safe and secure access in partnership with Bell Integration.

To build "the energy company of the future", Italy’s Snam natural gas utility and the software house will develop solutions that leverage cloud and AI.

A 5G-ready, that is an LTE, mobile private network, is to be installed at the plant in Easington in the northeast of England (pictured) – an industry first according to the partners.

After five years’ contraction, the market grew slightly in 2019, offsetting reduced demand for managed services.

José Antonio López-Jamar talks to Annie Turner about the opportunity to bring wholesale close to retail and why it’s so important.

The operator is partnership the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Forest Research to explore monitoring technology and trees' role in fighting climate change.

The business unit has added new services to help reactivate public spaces and better understand new patterns of behavior and mobility.

The operator group also claims IoT will help business customers save 350 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by 2030 – equalling the UK's carbon emissions in 2019.

AWS has honed the service for its own use before making it available generally – as it did with AWS itself. IoT is facing a mighty disruptor.

The Swiss operator has chosen Comarch's 'out of the box' IoT Connect Platform to store, sell, connect, monitor and manage IoT devices.

The wholesale carrier joined forces with tech provider Avnet Silica, which will embed 2G, 3G, 4G,  NB-IoT and LTE-M/Cat-M1 connectivity via BICS’ global SIM for Things IoT solution.

In the last year, 5G has emerged from the fog of hype into the comparative normality of the marketplace, but respondents feel there are still a number of serious concerns about the technology, writes Graeme Neill.

Ford and its consortium partners have received UK government backing for 5G to speed up electric vehicle manufacturing.



John Grant, Chairman of ISG NIN, ETSI, explains why we need to be less reliant on IP in future and alternatives to the venerable protocol suite that served us so well for so long.

The operator says it will be the world's first open platform for IoT and will come into being as a separate entity 1 July, and launched commercially in the second half of 2020.

It uses the LoRaWAN, long range, low power tech in peer-to-peer network with cryptocurrency.

Orange Business Services has signed an agreement to use the Italian broadband company's infrastructure to provide value added services.

Orange International Carriers and Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier are carrying out proofs of concept (PoC) on key performance indicators and IPX HUB breakouts.

Deutsche Telekom’s ‘traffic light’ system, placed at store entrances, counts customers entering and leaving shops and restaurants.