The network will be the first of its kind in the US, according to the parties, as DISH strives to become the fourth national mobile provider.

UK operator says Government policy is needed to speed up 5G deployment in the next decade citing research published today.

 In a virtual meeting, the two agreed to jointly focus on areas including security, 5G, Open vRAN, B2B expansion and distributed cloud.

Deutsche Telekom’s American subsidiary will be subject to investigation by the FCC after an outage that lasted 13 hours earlier in the week.

The Swedish operator said it now operates nearly 400 5G sites on existing spectrum, half of which are in the capital.

Google Cloud’s latest operator deal is with Telefónica in a partnership to advance 5G mobile edge computing and boost digitalisation in Spain.

Open source software is beginning to challenge the dominance of proprietary solutions in telecoms, according to ABI Research.

Switzerland is positioned third in Omdia’s first 5G Market Progress Assessment report, behind South Korea and Kuwait.

Vodafone Idea partners Nokia to complete the first phase of a dynamic spectrum refarming (DSR) deployment in India.

Rakuten Mobile is partnering NEC Corporation to develop the core for its virtualised cloud-native 5G network.

This latest initiative is intended to accelerate concensus about the adoption of open, interoperable interfaces and virtualisation of the RAN.

Melis joins from Wind Tre in Italy and will be responsible for the ongoing transformation of Three’s 4G and 5G networks.

Openreach, the access division of BT, is aiming pass 20 million homes with fibre by the mid to late 2020s.

Telefónica UK (O2) is moving its legacy Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) infrastructure to an Adaptive IP network provided by Ciena.

Microsoft has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Metaswitch Networks for an undisclosed amount.

The 5G-Industry Campus Europe, billed as Europe’s largest 5G research network, has gone live in Aachen, Germany.

Rakuten Mobile has announced plans to acquire one of its suppliers, US-based OSS specialist Innoeye.



Telia in Norway has switched on its 5G commercial network in Lillestrøm and parts of Groruddalen in the greater Oslo (pictured) region.

Colt Technology Services’ new features are available now, designed to address the shift in network demand being experienced by enterprises globally.

The Equinix Cloud Exchange (ECX) is available in seven new markets to enable operators and other digital businesses to access its Platform Equinix.