The Johnson Administration is reported to be drawing up plans to have all Huawei equipment removed from UK networks within three years.

Telefónica UK (O2) is moving its legacy Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) infrastructure to an Adaptive IP network provided by Ciena.

The trial was undertaken in Dallas, Texas, using 800MHz commercial millimetre wave (mmWave), and reached speeds up to 4.7Gbps.

The government decided economic pressures are too great to go ahead with the bidding for 3.5GHz band – could it be a model for Europe?

Ericsson and Orange Belgium are working with the manufacturer to support intelligent manufacturing via 4G and 5G in future.

Telia in Norway has switched on its 5G commercial network in Lillestrøm and parts of Groruddalen in the greater Oslo (pictured) region.

The optical solution will double fibre capacity and support unpredictable bandwidth demands from US customers.

The UK operator will not pay a dividend this financial year and warns shareholders future dividends will half the most recent level at 7.7p a share.

The Italian international service provider is adding a fibre pair to the new cable connecting US and Chile directly.

As part of the three-year RUNE project, 233,000 households in 165 Slovenian municipalities and 130,000 households in 45 Croatian ones will gain fibre broadband.

Telcos must shift their enterprise 5G strategies or risk losing out on billions of dollars they have pinned their hopes on, a new report suggests.

Update – contrary to earlier reports, CityFibre will provide Three UK's 5G backhaul, not Virgin Media.

TIM’s international services arm, Sparkle, has opened a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Casablanca (pictured), Morocco.



TXO, which supplies refurbished telecoms equipment, has seen a global 25% increase in demand in February, March and April.

According to Huawei-commissioned research, Gigabit Britain could add £51.4 billion (€58.90 billion) gross value to the economy in five years, and £68.8 billion in 2030.

The US regulator has granted access to an additional 1200MHz of the unlicensed 6GHz band while Europe dithers.

France, Italy and Spain have the biggest increase in the number of homes passed since the last Council Panorma figures were published.

Deutsche Telekom is testing new technology which it says will enable the expansion of 5G to half the German population before the end of 2020.

The operator is looking ‘to do a Jio’ in Japan and to expand into other markets, starting with the US.

The UK operator and Computacenter are in exclusive talks regarding the sale of BT’s domestic operations in France.