Vodafone
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MasOrange, Telefónica, and Vodafone Group have teamed up with the i2CAT research centre to launch a multi-operator Open Gateway API lab in Europe. -
Engineers at Vodafone are working with AMD to design mobile base stations capable of supporting AI workloads in addition to traditional network operations while using less power.
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Swisscom’s proposed acquisition of Vodafone Italia took yet another step closer to fruition after Italy's communication regulator gave the deal the go-ahead.
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Vodafone Business has partnered with Oracle to bring Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to Oracle’s Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP).
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Vodafone Romania has entered talks to potentially acquire parts of former state-controlled telecom company Telekom Romania (TKRM).
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Vodafone, in partnership with Qualcomm and Ericsson, has successfully completed two trials in the UK, showcasing the transformative potential of millimetre wave (mmWave) technology for high-speed and high-capacity connectivity.
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Netherlands operator KPN says it will use Huawei for its 5G radio access network (RAN) but “a Western vendor” for the 5G core network.
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Vodafone and Orange have signed a new mobile and fixed network sharing agreement in Spain, expanding their existing partnership.
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The UK appears to be following Germany’s lead in deciding mobile operators can use Huawei kit in parts of their networks.
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Telecom Egypt’s WE and Orange Egypt came joint first in Opensignal’s first examination of the mobile market across the country.
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Vodafone is expanding its fibre infrastructure for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in Germany.
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Operators believe that cloud gaming could represent 25% to 50% of 5G data traffic by 2022, based on the rapid progression of cloud gaming services in recent months.
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Netherlands operator VodafoneZiggo has bowed to the power of the regulator and published its wholesale access rates.
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BT’s Openreach last-mile subsidiary says it doesn’t want to re-install copper connections to premises once it’s installed fibre.
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Wholesale carrier CityFibre has upgraded the target of its UK fibre roll-out with Vodafone to one million homes.
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German mobile operators have bid €288 million in the first morning of bidding for 5G spectrum.
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Excluding Huawei from the UK’s 5G infrastructure would be “massively disruptive” to Vodafone UK’s plans to move on to the next generation of mobile technology.
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Kenya’s Safaricom is to upgrade its 100Gbps fibre backbone to 400Gbps, to cater for the increasing amount of video being transmitted over the network.
