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The connected home market is a confusion of products, proprietary interfaces and connectivity, so why would a network operator want to get involved? With every Tom, Dick and Harry from

There’s been a lot written and said about the new services that 5G will enable, but one which could go a long way to filling those emptying operator coffers is

Analysts have been warning for some time now that if telcos are to make the most of 5G, and in particular crack the enterprise market, they will need to co-operate

The battle to be the first U.S. operator to roll out a 5G network has certainly been hotting up of late, says Peter Dykes, with claims and counter claims being

We’ve seen it with NFV, SDN, IoT and now the hype spotlight has switched to network slicing, with a plethora of reports, tests, trials and indeed, even a new working

If ever there was any doubt that IoT is going mainstream, look no further than Deutsche Telekom’s latest IoT jamboree. Called ‘IoT Week’, the German giant is hosting a number

Do you remember the promise that we would be able to pay for everything just using our smartphones? Well, now you can. OK, some of us have been able to

As we move into another new year, analyst and blog predictions abound however, rather than list them here ad nauseam, I thought it might be interesting, says Peter Dykes, to find

Fifty years ago in 1968, I began my apprenticeship with what in those days was called General Post Office Telephones, which was later privatised and became BT. Things were relatively

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning are already impacting the network operator community. Apart from driving efficiencies internally and customer interaction, AI is also allowing operators to extend their reach