Vodafone offers TV cloud access in Portugal
April 24, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
Operator group Vodafone has launched a cloud hosting service in Portugal that users can access via their TV screens.
Europe
Poland’s Netia upgrades to 100G
April 25, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
Polish fixed line operator Netia has deployed 100G fibre across its network as it looks to benefit from a 40-fold increase in bandwidth. The operator has called on the Optical Networks business unit of Nokia Siemens Networks, a unit that the vendor agreed to sell to Marlin Equity Partners in December 2012.
EE reaches 318,000 LTE subscribers
April 25, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
EE, the first UK player to market with LTE, has announced that it has reached 318,000 LTE subscribers five months after launching the service.
Alcatel-Lucent passes 1 mil. shipments of VDSL vectoring tech
April 22, 2013 Written by Jamie Beach
Paris-based telecoms equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent has passed the milestone of one million line shipments of its VDSL2 vectoring technology, which boosts broadband speeds to near-fibre levels by eliminating line noise between multiple copper lines.
Immediate mobile payments come to Europe, M-Pesa to India
April 18, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
Payment processing firm Visa Europe has introduced a service allowing consumers to make mobile payments across the region immediately and using any European currency. Meanwhile in India, popular money transfer and payment service M-Pesa has now been fully launched.
Tags; Visa, Asia Pacific, Content & Applications, Europe, Money, News & Analysis, Operator, Vodafone
Telefónica trials 100Gbps, 200Gbps and 400Gbps data transmissions over Spanish network
April 16, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
Spanish operator group Telefónica has completed a field trial of “flexible optical networking” technology, that it hopes could more than double its existing fibre capacity.
O2 separates handset cost from service
April 12, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
The UK arm of Spanish operator Telefónica O2, has introduced a tariff that allows customers to buy a new handset while tied in to a contract, without having to pay additional costs.
CTO, UK Broadband: “We need to move away from the technology ‘wars’”
April 11, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even
Philip Marnick, CTO of UK Broadband is speaking on Day Two of the inaugural TD-LTE Summit taking place on the 23rd-24th April 2013 at the Fairmont Singapore Hotel, Singapore. Ahead of the show we speak to him about how TD-LTE will develop and where voice fits in.
Google accused of anti-competitive Android practices in Europe
April 10, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
A pressure group with members including Microsoft, Oracle and Nokia has filed a complaint with the European Commission claiming that Google has used anti-competitive practices to dominate the mobile space. Fairsearch claimed that Google has unfairly cemented its control over consumers’ mobile internet experience and in online advertising for mobile.
EE defends Apple’s LTE policy, urges more to do the same
April 10, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
UK operator EE has defended Apple’s policy of preventing mobile operators from offering the iPhone 5 as an LTE device until it has tested the performance of their LTE networks. The operator launched its 4G network in September 2012, with the iPhone available at launch as an LTE device.
Tags; EE, Apple, Europe, Everything Everywhere, Handsets & Devices, LTE, Networks, News & Analysis, Operator
BT boss blasts ‘copper luddites’
April 9, 2013 Written by Jamie Beach
BT’s CEO Ian Livingston has blasted critics of his company’s fibre broadband roll-out, such as TalkTalk chairman Sir Charles Dunstone, describing them as “copper luddites” with a vested interest in preventing UK homes from getting access to fibre through BT Openreach.
EE doubles 4G speeds
April 9, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
UK operator group EE announced Tuesday that it is doubling network speeds for all of its 4G LTE subscribers.
Telecom Italia and Hutchison in talks to merge in Italy
April 8, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
Operator group Telecom Italia has confirmed it is in talks over a potential takeover of Hong Kong based Hutchison Whampoa’s Italian operation.
Bouygues Telecom to launch LTE in the “next few weeks”
April 4, 2013 Written by Dawinderpal Sahota
French operator Bouygues Telecom has revealed it will switch on its LTE network in the next few weeks. The firm will use its 2.6GHz spectrum to deploy the service across eight cities CEO Olivier Roussat told local press.
Chief strategy, innovation & technology officer, KPN Group: “LTE will finally allow the internet to go mobile”
April 3, 2013 Written by Benny Har-Even
Erik Hoving, chief strategy, innovation & technology officer for KPN Group in The Netherlands, is opening the conference on Day One of the LTE World Summit, the premier 4G event for the telecoms industry, taking place on the 24th-26th June 2013, at the Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands. In an interview ahead of the show we spoke to him about KPN’s LTE launch and the effect that 4G services will have on consumers and the internet in general.
Tags; Hoving, Kpn, LTE, LTE World Summit 2013, Netherlands, Europe, Interviews, LTE, Networks, Operator
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