What private blockchain means to telcos

While the telecoms sector is yet to fully embrace blockchain technology, Jonas Lundqvist, CEO at Haidrun, says that the arrival of private blockchain may change that and unlock a massive

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Proximus buys out MTN and Swisscom to take full ownership of BICS

International communications enabler BICS announced that Proximus has acquired MTN and Swisscom’s shares in the company (20% and 22.4% of issued shares respectively). This makes Proximus the sole shareholder in BICS and TeleSign, for a total

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BICS board and Kurgan agree his departure, Gatta appointed new CEO and Burton to lead TeleSign

The board of directors of BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services) and CEO, Daniel Kurgan have come to the mutual conclusion to end their collaboration. The board of directors has approved

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Swisscom and Ericsson double down on 5G with successful standalone voice and data calls

Swisscom, in partnership with Ericsson and handset maker OPPO, has opened the next chapter of Europe’s 5G story by successfully carrying out 5G voice and data calls over a commercial 5G standalone network.

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Killed off by NTT DoCoMo: NB-IoT still kicking globally, but for how long?

Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched, Jeremy Cowan editorial director of VanillaPlus turned to industry watchers for their

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5G tipping point: Industry and consumers lured with cheaper, smarter services

Ericsson landed on its corporate feet when it parachuted out of the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress last Friday. For the last few years, the network solutions provider has (like Huawei and a few others) hosted Pre-MWC

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FutureNet World 2020: Network automation and AI are core to the industry’s growth in a 5G era

FutureNet World (www.futurenetworld.net) returns for the 2nd edition in London on March 24-25th. The event brings together a global audience of senior telco executives, says Giles Cummings, founder & CEO of

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Roaming of people and things: How operators can get value from 5G

Is 5G worthy of the hype? We’ve seen commercial deployments (in trial and in reality) this year, says Mikaël Schachne, chief marketing officer and vice president of mobility and IoT

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Swisscom: 5G in research, for public safety and for business customers

The School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg (HTA-FR), a member of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, and Swisscom will in future work together with the

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Ericsson, Swisscom and Qualcomm make huge step towards nationwide 5G coverage in Switzerland

An industry progressive step in 5G has taken place in Switzerland on October 31 when the first over-the-air, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) 5G data call was successfully carried out by

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