Mikael Grill, CEO of Polystar, is our latest executive snapshot

What was your first job? Designing cable-TV networks and making sure they provided the quality that subscribers expected.

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Vodafone UK is first to join the coverage dots inside and outside with its new 4G service

The days of dropping a mobile call or an internet connection when in a lift or moving between buildings and the outdoors could soon be over thanks to a new

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MTN Swaziland offers mobile financial services with Ericsson

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) announced that MTN Swaziland has deployed Ericsson Converged Wallet, enabling the operator to quickly introduce relevant, new and differentiated mobile financial services. The rollout impacts more than 275,000 existing

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BT Sport selects Ericsson to launch UK’s first UHDTV channel

Ericsson has signed a multi-year broadcast and media services deal with BT Sport to help it launch three new television channels and an interactive red button service in the UK.

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Ericsson adds CENX service orchestration to Managed Services offering

CENX, a provider of service orchestration solutions for software-defined and virtualised networks, has partnered with Ericsson to integrate CENX’s Cortx Service Orchestrator as a key element of Ericsson’s global Managed

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Ericsson unveils Adaptive Inventory 9.3

Ericsson has launched Adaptive Inventory 9.3 to bring the full visibility and control that communications service providers need. This includes autonomy to build new technologies, capabilities, web-based GUIs and applications.

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The need to profit from scale drives the deal as Nokia Board agrees €15.6bn bid for Alcatel-Lucent

ANALYSIS: The merger 10 years ago of France-based Alcatel and the USA’s Lucent has been cited in the past as a shotgun marriage of ill-matched business cultures, and for a

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NFV webinar: Mitigating Deployment Risks – on-demand version now available

VanillaPlus NFV Roundtable Part 2: Mitigating Deployment Risks

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Orange Polska awards six-year OSS deal to Ericsson

Orange Polska has selected Ericsson as its OSS transformation partner, signing a six-year deal under which Ericsson will carry out the transformation and optimisation of processes and information systems.

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FCC ‘naive’ to cite consumer savings as it drops Neustar for Telcordia in US Number Portability deal

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously by five votes to nil, on Thursday to drop Neustar Inc in favour of Telcordia Technologies as the contractor to help telecom

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