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Seeing the light – and the big picture across generations of tech

5G & Beyond
Professor Harald Haas famously coined the term LiFi and takes a reassuringly long view of comms tech and all the pieces that need to come together around it to reach its full potential
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Italy’s regulator halts TIM’s proposed tower sharing with Fastweb+Vodafone

5G & Beyond
The two signed an agreement in March and clearly expected a regulatory nod, but the watchdog has a list of concerns and says it will reach a decision before the end of April 2027
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Nokia offloads FWA to US’ wireless solutions firm Inseego

5G & Beyond
Acquisition expected to roughly double Inseego’s revenue and further its ambitions to be a global leader in wireless broadband – fixed and mobile with focus on 5G – as Nokia takes a stake
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Understanding the P5G ecosystem – and why the economics often don’t add up

5G & Beyond
The ecosystem of companies providing private wireless networks is vast – “It’s a lot of Legos to put together for every unique market,” according to Mobile Experts’ Joe Madden
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5G advances to network quality, mature architecture, service differentiation

5G & Beyond
GSA's findings include 97 operators are investing in D2D satellite technology, 35 in 5G-Advanced and 95 operators have launched 5G Standalone service – up 42% since Q1 2025
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Proximus first to launch 5G SA in Belgium

5G & Beyond
Only 2.8% of all European 5G connections use a 5G SA network, compared with 32% in North America and 80% in China
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Update: Ericsson, Nokia share VMO2’s 5G upgrade

5G & Beyond
Swedish vendor will bag "several hundred million" euros over the five-year period of its extended contract: VMO2 has committed to investing £700m in its network this year
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Solving the economic puzzle of private 5G

5G & Beyond
A 2019 study suggested there were 14.58m places where private 4G/5G networks could be deployed – at the end of 2025, there were fewer than 2,000. What progress are we making?
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Turkcell secures €1bn to roll out 5G

Financial/Regulation
The Murabaha financing agreement is with 14 banks as Türkiye's three major mobile operators – Turkcell, Turk Telekom, and Vodafone – prepare to launch 5G on 1 April
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Fastweb + Vodafone, TIM sign tower pact to speed 5G rollout in Italy

5G & Beyond
Swisscom, owner of Fastweb + Vodafone, says it has entered into a non-binding strategic agreement with Italy's incumbent operator to build up to 6,000 news basestation sites
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Robotic AI Radio – running with NVIDIA’s vision for physical AI in the RAN

RAN
NVIDIA and T-Mobile are working with Nokia and an ecosystem of developers to embed GPUs in the RAN, for connectivity, inference and interacting with the physical world
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Orange Spain, Madrid Council test public 5G SA for critical comms

5G & Beyond
The test successfully prioritised emergency services on the city's public network – the first such trial at-scale in a real-life environment
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Ericsson leads 6G consortium in 3-year, €5.4m project to boost sovereignty

5G & Beyond
Partners in this public-private research are investigating 6G for industrial applications and to develop close integration of network and IT with the applications
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Private 5G is just getting started but telcos’ business model needs fixing

Digital Platforms & APIs
This new report from Mobile Europe includes insights from China Mobile International, Proximus Global, Telefónica Tech, Verizon Business and Vodafone Business, plus Deutsche Bahn
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MWC2026: Telefónica sets itself up as benchmark for military 5G in NATO

Security
Operator announces first 5G Cyber Defense Center in Europe, says experience from more than 15 military field trials including tactical bubbles – make it a leading reference within NATO
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