AT&T, Rakuten Symphony extend open RAN work

AT&T extended a partnership with Rakuten Symphony to spur the development of its open RAN network by simplifying operations across legacy systems to support cell site functions. The operator is using Rakuten Site Management to streamline operations and replace the legacy systems, allowing AT&T to optimise productivity for its open RAN build. After announcing a … Leer más

Nokia bags Elisa, O2 Czech Republic 5G deals

Nokia scored a pair of 5G operator deals spanning a trio of European nations, each of which it tipped to boost customer experience through increases in data rates and reliability. Finnish operator Elisa added another four years to an existing contract with Nokia, tasking the vendor with readying its networks in Finland and Estonia for … Leer más

China, India, LatAm drive cellular IoT gains

Counterpoint Research reported a 16 per cent year-on-year rise in cellular IoT module shipments during Q1, citing increased adoption for point-of-sale systems, smart metering and asset tracking applications. The company stated gains were driven by strong demand in China, Latin America and India, with the latter clocking the highest growth rate at 32 per cent … Leer más

Brother alcanza un nuevo hito medioambiental con la recogida de más de 100.000 cartuchos de tinta y tóner en España

  Descargar recursos   La compañía cumple con éxito su objetivo anual gracias al apoyo del canal de distribución y sus clientes   Consolida su posición como líder europeo en recogida y reciclaje local de consumibles   Brother, experto en soluciones de impresión, identificación y digitalización, ha logrado superar la cifra de 100.000 cartuchos de … Leer más

Operator giants call for seamless shift to 6G

An alliance of leading mobile operators including Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Orange, MTN and Telefonica called on standards body 3GPP to put the necessary frameworks in place to ensure 6G technology is an operational and societal success, while avoiding mistakes from the 5G era. The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN), on behalf of the operators, … Leer más

Nvidia boss makes Europe AI pitch at Paris summit

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang forecast a tenfold increase in Europe’s AI compute power in 2027 with 20 data centres currently in the works, as he argued that the continent is transitioning from being an AI adopter to an AI developer. During his keynote at Nvidia’s GTC event in Paris, which is running alongside the VivaTech … Leer más

Operators push to keep AI services close to home

LIVE FROM VIVATECH PARIS, FRANCE: Orange Business, Telefonica, Telenor, Fastweb and Swisscom were held up by Nvidia as making fresh moves with the vendor to increase availability of local and secure AI infrastructure for enterprises in Europe.   The projects were detailed in one of a staggering number of announcements made today (11 June) by … Leer más

Recuperación en los núcleos industriales históricos: cómo Amazon ha invertido 320.000 millones de euros en Europa

Las inversiones de Amazon están revitalizando comunidades que temían un declive económico irreversible. «Tras sufrir la desindustrialización y la desaparición de las industrias mineras, siderúrgicas, tintoreras y laneras, el departamento Norte de Francia necesitaba nuevas oportunidades laborales», explica Christian Poiret, presidente del departamento Norte. «Amazon respondió a esta necesidad con contrataciones masivas en el centro … Leer más

AT&T tops 30M fibre locations ahead of schedule

AT&T achieved its goal of passing more than 30 million consumer and business locations across the US with its fibre broadband network six months ahead of schedule as it now targets 60 million by 2030. AT&T claims the 30 million fibre passings leads the mobile industry, but rivals Verizon and T-Mobile US have been on … Leer más

Orca, Vodafone try quantum in network design

Vodafone Group tapped quantum specialist Orca Computing to jointly research ways to optimise mobile and fixed network architectures, a potentially big challenge for the technology given the scale of the operator’s footprint and variety of equipment. The companies plan to first assess the ability of Orca Computing’s quantum technology to overcome what Vodafone describes as … Leer más