Backhaul

5G

CityFibre chosen as a preferred provider of backhaul for Three’s 5G rollout nationwide

Backhaul

Orange and Telxius are teaming up on Dunant submarine cable, a Google project, to provide each other with terrestrial backhaul extensions in France and in the US

MWC

The GSMA finally yielded to the inevitable and cancelled MWC late on Wednesday

Network Services

Samsung buys network services provider to better penetrate US 4G/5G market

via Flickr © Victor Camilo (CC BY-ND 2.0)

5G

There’s an awful lot of 5G investment required in Brazil

5G

ZTE, China Telecom and China Unicom take the lead in completing 5G co-build co-share verification

Contractors laying fibre in Milton Keynes, UK

FTTx

Vodafone cuts a fibre deal with Openreach

Cloud Native

Mavenir Launches Fully Virtualized 4G/5G OpenRAN Solution

5G

ZTE and China Telecom help Bluetron adopt China’s first end-to-end 5G slicing and intelligent manufacturing solution

5G

Nokia completes world’s first single-carrier terabit-per-second field trial over Etisalat’s fibre network in UAE

Backhaul

India Bharti and Huawei complete 5G microwave enhanced MIMO joint innovation

via Flickr © Alan Kotok (CC BY 2.0)

5G

US cities seek a slice of 5G revenue

5G

ZTE and China Mobile jointly develop MTN standards for 5G transport at ITU-T

via Flickr © Gary Lerude (CC BY-ND 2.0)

5G

Vodafone and O2 to share masts for 5G but go ‘autonomous’ on 25%

Mobile

Delivering for Britain with a Shared Rural Network

Optical

Europe’s Most Connected Telco Chooses ECI to Bring Future-ready Networking to the Channel Islands

Ofcom HQ, London - via Flickr © Matt Biddulph (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Spectrum

Ofcom identifies spectrum deserving release

Backhaul

Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson top 100Gbps over microwave link

5G

KPN's update on mobile network modernization towards 5G

5G

PLDT, Cisco team up for 5G-ready IP transport network

Optical

Iliad Launches 5G Ready IP Network Architecture with Segment Routing IPv6 in Italy

5G

Huawei Launches Industry's First Intelligent Metro Router for the 5G and Cloud Era: the NetEngine 8000 Series

5G

NEC and Ceragon collaborate to expand 5G wireless backhaul business globally

White Boxes & Merchant Silicon

AT&T Demoing White Box Cell Site Gateway Router at Open Networking Summit 2019