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• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Swisscom takes step towards nationwide 5G coverage

  Telco deploys spectrum-sharing technology to help realise its goal of reaching 90% 5G coverage of Switzerland by end of this year

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Zain taps Ericsson for 5G network

  Zain commissions Ericsson for 5G technology to meet growing data traffic demands and deliver high-quality mobile broadband and fixed wireless experiences, encompassing new business in the automotive, health and energy sectors

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  5G to be first mobile generation to have bigger impact on enterprises than consumers

  GSMA Intelligence report says 5G could see private enterprise networks explode and become a competition battleground between telcos and cloud companies within five years

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Qualcomm eyes up slice of $13.2tn 5G sales enablement market

  At the end of its financial year, mobile chip giant Qualcomm sets its sights firmly on profiting from a 5G economy which it believes will generate more than $10tn in sales enablement by 2035

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Orange begins 5G services with roll-out in Romania

  Orange Group joins the 5G service provider roster, with offer in Romania said to be capable of delivering internet download speeds of up to 1.2Gbps and average download speeds of 600Mbps

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Community Fibre lights up south London gigabit broadband

  Fibre-to-the-home provider Community Fibre has teamed with cloud and IT services provider Glemnet to bring unprecedented gigabit speed broadband to customers in south London

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  O2 5G gears up to power driverless cars in London

  UK telco reveals 5G network support for trials of driverless vehicles and smart transport systems on the streets of London

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Nokia and Microsoft announce tech partnership

  IT behemoth Microsoft and comms technology provider Nokia forge first joint solutions, to enable communications service providers and enterprises to accelerate digital transformation

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Gigabit broadband to transform working lives across Europe

  Report from economist Oxera predicts that many social and economic benefits will result from the widespread roll-out of gigabit broadband, as increased connectivity changes the way people interact with each other

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Huawei ‘in Europe, for Europe’ to unplug bottlenecks towards the intelligent world

  Chinese comms infrastructure giant dismisses external “pressures” and sets out its strategy to make breakthroughs and deliver the all-connected intelligent world based on 5G, IoT and AI

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  General Election sees UK government defer ‘high-risk’ 5G tech supplier review

  Decision on allowing so-called high-risk suppliers access to the UK’s market for 5G infrastructure delayed due to 12 December poll

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Big three make big switch on for 5G in China

  The largest 5G roll out to date takes place as China gives official authorisation to deploy services as China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom switch on offers at the same time

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  5G core tech leadership race a close-run thing

  What is said to be the first competitive landscape assessment of the 5G Mobile Core arena shows the market is still very much up for grabs

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  UK government demands Ofcom boosts broadband development

  In a UK legal and regulatory first, UK government constructs priorities for telecoms regulator Ofcom, principally regarding the roll-out nationwide of gigabit-speed broadband

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  BT network investments dig into half-year profits

  The need for speed, and the need to lay down and connect high-speed broadband and fibre, has put a break on the financial performance of BT over the first six months of its fiscal year