Tata Consultancy Services will help the British operator configure and maintain 5G infrastructure.

Both contracts build on long-standing relationships with Deutsche Telekom's American subsidiary.

Orange Business Services says the joint design and deployment is to ensure business continuity during deployment.

Security is an issue often cited as an obstacle to the wider adoption of cloud-native technologies, including scaling applications.

The proposed ‘merger’ was announced some 20 months ago, but the parties disagree about whether the necessary regulatory approvals were not obtained in time.

Plan is to accelerate the operator’s digitalisation with a more reliable, efficient and faster network.

Revenue growth for telcos, webscale and carrier-neutral sector will average 1, 10 and 7% respectively, through to 2025.

PTS is to progress the spectrum auction although Huawei could still appeal the court’s ruling.

US analyst group reckons Open RAN sales in 2020 to be 50% higher than previously predicted, but advises against making longer term assumptions.

Kester Mann, Director, Consumer and Connectivity at CCS Insight, says new solutions are accelerating the Swedish vendor’s move toward open architectures.

They cover the access ecosystem, from fixed mobile convergence, to the access gateway function and customer premises equipment.

The operator said the new services are more flexible and optimise networks for cloud services. Separately, it announced investment in AI.

Nokia’s 7750 Service Router portfolio will replace and upgrade IP edge and core networks, starting in Greece and Hungary.


Nuremburg-based MYNXG will use a Nokia 5G network to develop new secure solutions for industrial IoT (IIoT).

It has repackaged services into a more comprehensive portfolio, but the real story is the platform and vendor ecosystem it supports.

Russia’s largest mobile operator has partnered with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, to build a digital ecosystem based on open source.

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Since June, five published specifications cover new areas, while the rest are updates to existing standards.

We held a virtual roundtable with the nine CTOs and CTIOs from operators shortlisted for our CTO of the Year Awards 2020, from diverse markets. The discussion was lively, illuminating and wide ranging.

As one of the biggest providers of highly integrated systems, the Swedish giant has been slow to support the move to divide software from dedicated hardware.