BT Group appoints Allison Kirkby as new chief executive

BT Group plc announces the appointment of Allison Kirkby as chief executive. She will take over from Philip Jansen as chief executive around the end of January 2024.

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Ericsson appoints Jenny Lindqvist as SVP-Europe and Latin America

Ericsson has appointed Jenny Lindqvist as senior vice president and head of market area Europe & Latin America, as of February 1, 2023. Effective the same date she will become

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Telia Company appoints Ola Rembe as a SVP, head of communications, brands and sustainability

Telia Company has announced changes to its group executive management team through the merger of the communications, brand and sustainability functions, appointing Ola Rembe as senior vice president, head of

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Mobile phone eco rating scheme expands to 35 countries

EE, NOS, and Proximus have joined the Eco Rating labelling scheme that was initially launched by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica (operating under the O2, Movistar and Vivo brands), Telia Company

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Ericsson, Telia and partners test driverless 5G-enabled electric minibus in Stockholm

Ericsson is partnering with Swedish and international companies to test a 5G-enabled self-driving electric minibus in the heart of Stockholm.

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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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Nokia and Telia bring 5G Fixed Wireless Access to Finland

Nokia announced it is teaming up with Telia Company, a telephone and mobile network operator in the Nordics and Baltics, to bring its 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) solution to customers across Finland.

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VMware delivers next-generation NFV platform for 5G and multi-cloud telco networks

VMware, Inc. has announced VMware vCloud NFV-OpenStack Edition 3.0, the next generation of the company’s production-proven Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) platform for communications service providers (CSPs).

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Japan’s mobile operators launch RCS services based on GSMA specifications

The GSMA announced that Japanese mobile operators KDDI Corporation, NTT Docomo Inc and SoftBank Corp. have launched Rich Communications Services (RCS) based on the GSMA’s specifications.

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Telia claims ‘world’s first’ commercial 4G mobile access for carrier ethernet services enabled by OneAccess Networks

Telecom network access and virtualisation provider, OneAccess Networks, has supported Telia Company to deliver the world’s first commercial 4G mobile access for Carrier Ethernet services, significantly enhancing the operator’s digital

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