Vodafone
-
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.
-
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.
-
Vodafone Business has partnered with Oracle to bring Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to Oracle’s Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP).
-
Vodafone Romania has entered talks to potentially acquire parts of former state-controlled telecom company Telekom Romania (TKRM).
-
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.
Forthcoming events
-
Europe’s main telecoms standards body has started a group to work with private blockchain systems and provide the foundations of new services.
-
Germany’s federal IT security agency has rejected calls to exclude Huawei and ZTE kit from the country’s networks, saying there is a lack of evidence.
-
The European Commission has launched an antitrust inquiry into Vodafone’s $21.8 billion deal to buy Liberty Global’s assets in Germany and eastern Europe.
-
Vodafone has identified digital transformation and artificial intelligence, as well as a taking a customer-centric approach, as key concerns for businesses as it unveiled its new enterprise division, Vodafone Business.
-
Vodafone has unveiled a new trial that used SDN to demonstrate automated control and network programmability of microwave backhaul in a live commercial network.
-
BT has appointed former cable TV executive Philip Jansen as its new CEO, and at the same time it has appointed the former chairman and CEO of Telefónica UK to its board.
-
Italy’s four mobile operators – TIM, Vodafone, Wind Tre and French newcomer Iliad – are to pay €6.55 billion between them for 5G spectrum.
-
Vodafone Deutschland has announced the launch of its gigabit cable broadband service to approximately 400,000 homes in Bavaria, Germany.
-
Vodafone has partnered with Juniper Networks in a deal that will see the vendor’s s0ftware-defined wide area network offering added to Vodafone’s enterprise-focused SDN portfolio.
-
Trafalgar Square in London is to be the site of a trial of small cells by the local authority, which plans to roll the service out across all of its territory.
-
Vodafone has launched its own converged core network across the UK, with 4,000 access nodes and 1,800 points of presence (PoPs).
-
Vodafone’s new CEO says he is thinking of selling the group’s mobile masts, while Veon’s deal to sell its masts in Pakistan to Axiata for $940 million has unravelled.
