How and where can vRAN play constructively with Open RAN, asks Nick Booth, and is vRAN holding 5G back?

Richard Webb Director, Network Infrastructure, CSS Insight, comments on Vodafone chosing Samsung for its commercial Open Ran.

Phil Skipper, Head of Strategy and Business Development at Vodafone Business IoT, looks forward to greener, more easily mobile urban living.

This third decade of the 21st century looks be the last for many telcos as we’ve known them, writes Annie Turner – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

CCS Insight finds worldwide connections to 5G networks will triple in 2021 to 670 million, and reach 3.6 billion in 2025.

As the pandemic forced so many changes on businesses, some network operators are questioning the value of a call centre, writes Nick Booth.

Deutsche Telecom rises to third after T-Mobile/Sprint merger, while Jio is judged to be the world’s strongest and fastest-growing telecoms sector brand.

Yogen Patel, Head of Product & Solution Marketing at Amdocs, explains how to improve responsiveness, keep pace with customer expectations and hold off the threat of the new entrants.

Our annual Mobile Europe & European Communications reader survey shines the spotlight on digital transformation in the pandemic era.

Store closures have also cost them contact with customers, writes Kester Mann, who suggests some possible remedies, including fighting fraud more efficiently.

Jamie Hayes, Mobile Network Operators Director, BT Wholesale (pictured), says the future of small cells is disaggregated and virtualised.

Network operators lose billions of euros a year to SIM-card fraud but ignore offers to stem the bleeding. Why? Let’s call it artificial intransigence, writes Nick Booth.

Point Topic comments on Ofcom’s wholesale fixed broadband market reviews since 2018 and how they have changed the landscape.

Strand Consult argues enforced network sharing can be a short-term gain and a long-term loss.