Profitable telecoms businesses are starting to cringe, as traditional services are being replaced by other online – conditionally free – communication services. Now, network operators are forced to look for answers to difficult questions. How do we create new revenue streams? How do we work with cli

Telia is working together with Ericsson and Intel to deploy the first public 5G live network use cases in Europe.The activity includes a high-speed 5G connection to a commercial passenger cruise ship delivering internet connectivity to its passengers while in port, and an industrial use case featuri

China Unicom has signed a deal with several of the country’s major technology brands, including Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba, with overall investment of $11.7 billion (£9.1bn) coming into the operator.A total of 10 private and state investors will purchase just over 35% of the shares of China United N

Deutsche Telekom has partnered with Huawei to launch Europe’s first commercial network heavily-based on what the final 5G standard is set to be.While 5G is yet to be officially standardised, the 3GPP standards body announced it will bring forward its plans by six months and lock down the first stand

Ron Kline, Principal Analyst, Network Infrastructure, OvumScientists at advanced optical research organizations are racing to improve WDM transmission capacity far beyond the capabilities of today’s systems. Increasing capacity can be achieved by manipulating technology in three separate domains: ra

Emeka Obiodu, Principal Analyst, Industry, Communications, and BroadbandVodafone and Orange have announced plans to jointly build a nationwide FTTH network in Spain in an effort to strengthen their positions in the converged services space and compete with Telefonica in the Spanish FTTH market. The