Japan and Finland align for 6G development
Reports suggest that industry groups from both countries will conduct 6G research and development together, aiming to build an early lead in setting 6G standards
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Author: Harry Baldock
KPN’s new fibre JV Glaspoort is targeting 750,000 homes
The owners said that Glaspoort will invest over €1 billion in fibre over the next five years
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Newly formed Altice UK grabs £2bn stake in BT
The 12.1% stake comes at a time when BT is seeking investment to help fund its widespread rollout of fibre and 5G
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SoftBank reaching new heights with range of Non-Terrestrial Network solutions
The Japanese conglomerate is seeking to provide broadband communications from High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) flying in the stratosphere, as well as Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO) satellites
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Vodafone switches on two new Open RAN sites
These new sites, based in Cornwall, will be only the second and third of their kind to go live in the UK
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UScellular, Nokia, and Qualcomm boost mmWave to record distance
The trio managed to extend the range of a 1Gpbs mmWave signal to 10km in their latest tests
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New US lawsuit seeks to classify Google as public utility
Such a classification would subject the tech giant to new regulations
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TIM doubles down on Open RAN with new dedicated lab
The Italian operator’s new facility in Turin will focus on testing Open RAN equipment and services, and has been approved by the O-RAN Alliance
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Europe developing its 6G vision
A new white paper from the 5G Infrastructure Association (5GIA) called 6G “one of the basic foundations of human societies of the future”
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Two-day underwater avalanche severed West African submarine cables
The event, which saw around a cubic kilometre of sand and mud flow across the floor of the Atlantic, occurred in January 2020, breaking the South Atlantic 3/West Africa (SAT-3/WASC) cable and the West Africa Cable System (WACS)
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Lack of digital skills costs UK £2bn a year
A taskforce including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services is calling on the government to develop the education system to address the growing need for digital skills
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MWC 2021: Who’s in and who’s out?
The GSMA are doing all they can to ensure that the world’s largest telecoms event takes place safely in-person this summer, but is this enough to convince industry players to attend?
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European Open RAN MoU bears fruit with Technical Priority Document
The ‘Open RAN Technical Priorities Document’ contains a list of technical requirements and main scenarios that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signatories deem a priority for the tech’s development
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Can the Spanish public fill the void at MWC 2021?
With Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom some of the latest players to cancel their attendance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this year, the GSMA is hoping to draw in locals from various vertical industries
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Anacom draws ire from Portuguese operators over 5G auction changes
The auction has now lasted over 100 days, with regulator Anacom changing the rules in an attempt to speed up the process
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US operator trio must soon provide vertical location information for 911 calls
The information will allow emergency service members to know exactly which floor of a multi-story building an emergency call is coming from
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Vodafone touts ‘vehicle-to-everything’ cloud platform
Developed alongside Nokia and Chordant, with support from the UK government, Vodafone says the platform will serve as “a new type of information superhighway”
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Vodafone Idea ‘adding-on’ Huawei gear before govt restrictions take effect
Sources suggest that the Indian telco signed a roughly $54.7 million deal with Huawei just before government restrictions banning such transactions came into effect
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Biden executive order bans investment in Huawei and 58 other Chinese firms
The move is a continuation and tidying of policies first implemented by President Donald Trump last year
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Aviva and Darwin partner for autonomous vehicles using O2 5G
The five-year partnership will make use of O2 and Darwin Innovation Groups’ 5G and satellite communications commercial laboratory
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