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

 Will OpenRAN's mainstream adoption spell the end of an era for incumbent vendors or is the technology too immature to meet customers’ demands? Graeme Neill reports.

The Finnish equipment vendor improved cash generation, and said these were “clear indications of a return to strength in mobile radio”.

 The call apparently took place within 25 days of Nokia’s software being deployed.

It plans to bring coverage to two-thirds of the people in Germany by the end of the year.

Helmut Reisinger, CEO of Orange Business Services, recently talked to Annie Turner the division’s evolution and progress over the last highly eventful year.

The network will be rolled out in the Central African Republic as part of Orange's Ideal programme which stands for Include Digital in Every African Life.

In a white paper, the South Korean giant predicts 6G deployments as soon as 2028 and commercialisation by 2030.

The network will be the first of its kind in the US, according to the parties, as DISH strives to become the fourth national mobile provider.

UK operator says Government policy is needed to speed up 5G deployment in the next decade citing research published today.

 In a virtual meeting, the two agreed to jointly focus on areas including security, 5G, Open vRAN, B2B expansion and distributed cloud.

Deutsche Telekom’s American subsidiary will be subject to investigation by the FCC after an outage that lasted 13 hours earlier in the week.

The Swedish operator said it now operates nearly 400 5G sites on existing spectrum, half of which are in the capital.

Google Cloud’s latest operator deal is with Telefónica in a partnership to advance 5G mobile edge computing and boost digitalisation in Spain.

Open source software is beginning to challenge the dominance of proprietary solutions in telecoms, according to ABI Research.

Switzerland is positioned third in Omdia’s first 5G Market Progress Assessment report, behind South Korea and Kuwait.

Vodafone Idea partners Nokia to complete the first phase of a dynamic spectrum refarming (DSR) deployment in India.

Rakuten Mobile is partnering NEC Corporation to develop the core for its virtualised cloud-native 5G network.

This latest initiative is intended to accelerate concensus about the adoption of open, interoperable interfaces and virtualisation of the RAN.

Melis joins from Wind Tre in Italy and will be responsible for the ongoing transformation of Three’s 4G and 5G networks.