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Telecoms networks and broadband communications

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  US Department of Justice orders Ericsson to pay $1bn fine to settle bribery case

  Swedish comms tech giant admitted what US attorney described as “years-long campaign of corruption in five countries to solidify its grip on telecommunications business”

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  China, Japan, India to drive APAC networking spend to 2023

  Asia-Pacific enterprises are continuing to strengthen their network agility and service delivery capabilities with a view to offering converged service offerings, says GlobalData study

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  European Investment Bank offers financial support for Orange fibre network

  Orange aims to accelerate French fibre momentum following €700m loan from European Investment Bank to develop non-metro French high-speed broadband

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Telefónica set to announce second core tech supplier as it takes broadcasting to the Edge

  Spanish incumbent telco announces plans to add another supplier to join Huawei on its official supplier list for 5G-enabling technologies

• December 08, 2019 08 Dec'19

  Top APAC telecoms predictions for 2020

  The 5G bandwagon is the talk of town, but 4G will remain the priority for much of Asia-Pacific, among other key trends that will shape telecoms markets across the region

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  German government and connectivity tech firms lead project to boost optical capacity

  Government-industry consortium will explore technologies to expand the capacity of optical metro and core networks

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Motorola enhances mobile policing workflows with next-gen Pronto

  Body-worn video and vehicle licensing data integration software designed to accelerate decision-making and evidence management for front-line officers

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Mettis Aerospace completes world’s first phase-one Wi-Fi 6 4.0 trials

  Next-gen Wi-Fi is successfully put through its paces streaming critical engineering information in “hostile” engineering environment

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Wells to become UK’s next gigabit city

  Medieval Somerset city hopes to encourage business growth and attract new employers by going gigabit

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Huawei mounts legal challenge to US subsidy programme ban

  Chinese tech giant fights back against FCC ban on carriers in the rural US from using the Universal Service Fund to buy its equipment and designation as threat to US national security

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Hackers primed to exploit 5G to Wi-Fi handover flaws

  Warning that attackers will find new vulnerabilities to access voice and data on 5G mobile phones as carriers hand off calls and data to Wi-Fi networks to save bandwidth

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  European first for Vodafone as global telcos tune into AWS Wavelength

  In an endorsement of the cloud giant’s push towards the edge, leading global telcos pile in on AWS Wavelength, eyeing up large low-latency gains in key 5G use cases

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Traditional telco approach risks hampering 5G development in manufacturing

  Adoption of enterprise business models could see operators’ 5G break-even reduced from 14 to 10 years, with especially large gains in manufacturing, says ABI Research

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  5G to reshape global telecoms sector in 2020

  Study says next-gen technologies and the pressures of digital transformation are likely to continue to reshape what it means to be a telecoms operator next year

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Scots urge councils to embrace smart city technologies

  Survey of Scottish citizens indicates a number of benefits that local communities can gain from IoT and other connected technologies