Resolving spectrum is the critical priority on the road to 5G, EE has claimed, as BT said education remains key for the nascent virtualisation market.

Ericsson and América Móvil are bringing 5G and the Internet of Things to Latin America for the first time through new trials with Brazilian universities.

Security within virtualised technology is one of the biggest challenges facing operators and vendors next year, standards agency ETSI has warned.

ETSI’s NFV Industry Specification Group (ISG) has published three new specifications for virtualisation, one of which provides guidelines on lawful interception in an NFV environment. 

NEC and NetCracker Technologies have launched a new vIMS, as a new report commissioned by Amdocs highlighted the bounty awaiting early adopters of vCPE.

Operators should move steadily towards virtualisation in order to overcome the technical, operational and commercial hurdles facing them, a new report has claimed.

Telefónica has completed a wireless area network (WAN) proof of concept with NEC and NetCracker, aimed at providing SDN/NFV-based VPN services for enterprises.

Huawei and Red Hat have completed the initial phase of work on a multi-vendor integration platform for NFV-based mobile broadband technologies.

Adtran has launched a suite of virtual network functions (VNFs) to help telco and cable operators switch to virtualised customer premises equipment (vCPE).

SK Telecom and Ericsson are to explore how network slicing can improve operational efficiency and time to market in their latest 5G collaboration.

The value of the network functions virtualisation market will increase fivefold by 2019, as operators look to shift from hardware to software, new research has claimed.

NEC and HP have teamed up to explore and accelerate the adoption of network functions virtualisation (NFV).

Ericsson has set up a new cloud lab in Germany and launched its latest 5G project, collaborating with Turkish operator Turkcell.

Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile have held the first field trial of a virtualised radio access network based on NFV technology.

Only eight percent of operators worldwide are running IP multimedia subsystems in an network functions virtualisation environment, new research has found.

Alcatel-Lucent and Telefónica are to explore how virtualisation fits into the Internet of Things, as part of an expansion of their existing partnership testing NFV technology.

Telekom Austria has suspended a trial of virtualised core network functions at VIP mobile, its Serbian operating company, as it restructures its operations in southeast Europe.

Huawei has released a new software-defined networking (SDN) algorithm that it claims can boost the resource efficiency of IP and optical networks by 40 percent.

LTE World Summit, the industry's annual examination of 4G and where the market is heading, generally looks to the future. However, this year's conference has been dominated by the past.

Cisco has launched new products for its software defined networking (SDN) portfolio, including new capabilities for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) architecture and additions to its Nexus series data centre switches.