Vodafone will place small antennas underground as it looks to improve LTE coverage in busy UK cities.

Elisa has deployed the first liquid-cooled base station in Helsinki, which it said could reduce the environmental impact of infrastructure deployment.

Nokia is bringing together its mobile and fixed network businesses under one umbrella, but at the cost of its current President of Mobile Networks.

Infrastructure vendor Commscope has acquired UK rival Arris in a deal worth $7.4 billion, which it said would help it take advantage of trends such a convergence, fibre, 5G and fixed wireless.

A siloed approach to artificial intelligence is causing operators to be followers and not influencers of the technology, a new report has claimed.

Edge computing, orchestration, self-organising networks and interoperability will be the main items on the 2019 agenda for the Small Cells Forum.

Nokia is launching new fixed wireless products to increase the bandwidth of networks and speed up deployment of the technology.

Huawei has launched a new series of AI chips that it said could power future network infrastructure and devices, as well as announced new energy efficient hardware.

Three UK and O2 have found a rich source of fibre in London's sewer system, thanks to a deal with SSE Enterprise Telecoms.

Slovenia has called for expressions of interest (EOI) in partnering with the government to deploy a nationwide, wholesale broadband network.

Germany's mobile operators face a spike in demand on their mobile networks in Munich this week as beer lovers descend on the city for its annual beer festival and two of them, Vodafone and O2, have been vocal about their plans to provide additional mobile coverage for the event.

Vodafone on Friday announced that it has installed a 5G node in Madrid's La Nave innovation centre to coincide with an ongoing networking and innovation event.

Vodafone UK has announced plans to switch on 1,000 5G sites by 2020, as the operator seeks to position itself as leading the country towards the next generation of mobile technology.

Eltrona has switched on its DOCSIS 3.1 network, becoming the first operator in Luxembourg to launch a gigabit residential broadband service.

Deutsche Telekom and engineering firm Aricent have taken the wraps off an open source mobile edge compute platform designed to help operators rapidly develop and launch 5G applications and services.

Tele2 has made temporary upgrades to its mobile network in two major cities in Lithuania in preparation for the visit of Pope Francis this weekend.

Telefonica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) has switched on its first 200 Gigabit Ethernet redundant data roaming interconnection in response to what it calls 'significant growth' in mobile roaming traffic.

Wind Tre has extended fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connectivity to the city of Matera in the Basilicata region of Italy thanks to its partnership with wholesale network Open Fiber.

Spain's Pepephone has extended the availability of its 200Mbps fibre broadband service via a wholesale agreement with Telefonica's Movistar, it announced late last week.

SIRO will spend €60 million on the rollout of fibre infrastructure in the city of Cork, in the south of Ireland, and certain smaller towns in the wider county, it announced on Monday.