11 Jun 2020

Swedish equipment vendor Ericsson has been selected to deploy O2 UK’s 5G radio access network (RAN) even farther across the UK, upgrading existing 2G/3G/4G sites as part of a substantial... more

Taiwan’s Far EasTone has received the country’s second 5G licence from the National Communications Commission (NCC), Focus Taiwan reports. Following on from reports last week that Chunghwa Telecom had been... more

Chinese full-service provider China Unicom claimed a total of 130,000 5G base stations in operation at the end of May, Xinhua writes. Of that figure, 115,000 were deployed jointly with... more

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission is seeking feedback on its draft review findings that the Mobile Termination Access Service (MTAS) should remain regulated. ‘While early indications show that there may be... more

Romania-based Digi Communications has renewed its partnership with Chinese technology supplier Huawei, reports local publication Hotnews.ro citing a joint statement issued by the two companies. The agreement is said to... more

Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (Ministerio de Tecnologias de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones, MinTIC) has announced that President Ivan Duque signed Decree 825 into law on 8... more

O2 UK has announced that its LTE-M IoT network has been expanded to 10,000 sites, spanning the east of the country and covering 57% of UK premises and 58% of... more

Verizon has extended its fixed-wireless ‘5G Home’ service to a sixth city, Detroit. The telco notes that the platform is capable of delivering peak speeds of up to 1Gbps, although... more

Telus has announced ‘a new benchmark for home and business internet speeds in Western Canada’ with the launch of its new 1.5Gbps download/940Mbps upload ‘PureFibre 1.5 Gigabit’ broadband service, available... more

Telecom Italia (TIM) is reportedly close to securing a deal to sell just under half of its 33.2% stake in tower firm Inwit to a consortium involving private equity firms... more