Telefónica has announced it will increase, at no extra cost, the broadband allowance avaialble to its Fusion and Movistar mobile customers with an additional 30 GB every month, for two months. In order to facilitate home entertainment whilst schools are closed in the country to combat the coronavirus outbreak, the telco will also increase their […]
Ministers and heads of UK mobile network operators are signing a £1 billion deal to make poor and patchy rural phone coverage a thing of the past. The world-first deal is intended to be a huge boost for people across the country in rural areas and will deliver strong 4G coverage irrespective of what network […]
Shared Access, an independent owner and operator of shared wireless infrastructure, and The Aviva Stadium have successfully partnered with mobile operator Vodafone Ireland to launch 5G at the stadium. The news follows the previous investment of Shared Access to ensure all Mobile Network Operators benefit from state-of-the-art 2G / 3G / 4G connectivity at the […]
Allison Kirkby will assume the position of President and CEO of Telia Company, Swedish-Finnish multinational telco, in May. Telia Company’s Board of Directors appointed Kirkby as the next President and CEO of Telia Company on October 24th 2019, with the expectancy that she would start the role in Q2 2020. “I remain super excited about […]
French telcos Bouygues Telecom, Free Mobile, Orange and SFR have all submitted a tender package to comms regulator Arcep for the award of licences to use frequencies in the 3.4 – 3.8 GHz band in Metropolitan France All four candidates have stipulated their desire to obtain one of the four blocks of 50 MHz that […]
FTTH reached 10 million lines in Spain at the end of November 2019, according to telecommunications market data published by competition and markets watchdog the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). Movistar accounted for 42.8 per cent of the total FTTH lines, with a total of 4.3 million lines. Eighty-six per cent […]
Spanish MVNO MobilFree has launched its first convergent package with broadband, mobile and pay-TV from €39.99 a month. The offer, available over Masmóvil-Yoigo and Orange networks, is available in two packages: Pack One at €39.99 a month includes 100 Mbps fibre optic connection, fixed telephony, one mobile line and TV channels such as TNT, AXN, […]
TIM claims it is the first mobile operator in Europe to implement quantum computing algorithms planning next generation mobile networks. The computational potential of quantum computers means they can perform at around ten times the speed of established optimisation methods. TIM has optimised planning of radio cells, framing the problem within a QUBO (quadratic unconstrained […]
Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile US, Telefonica and Orange are jointly testing a blockchain solution for the automated management of inter-operator roaming discount agreements. The trial, carried out through the GSMA, is of a solution initially designed by Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) and Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier, the operator’s international wholesale unit. The partners say the solution […]
UK phone, broadband and pay-TV customers must be warned when their current contract is ending, and what they could save by signing up to a new deal, under sector regulator Ofcom rules coming into force tomorrow (February 15th). Around 20 million customers are already out of contract – including 8.8 million broadband customers – and […]