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Orange Business Services launched network tools employing AI to help enterprise IT personnel proactivity monitor their interconnected network services and applications. Service Manage-Watch works across Orange- and third-party services. It also interfaces with customers’ current monitoring tools. It gathers information across key network areas to ensure services and applications are performing at optimal levels to […]

T-Mobile US launched a suite of managed services across its 5G network for enterprises and government agencies as it looks to expand its presence in the business sector. The mobile operator claimed its 5G Advanced Network Solutions (ANS) could reduce network latency by up to 50 per cent compared with Wi-Fi and CBRS spectrum. T-Mobile

Canada’s government outlined plans to outlaw use of equipment supplied by Huawei and ZTE from the country’s 5G networks, with operators given until 28 June 2024 to strip out existing assets and terminate related managed service contracts. The proposal, which is not yet law, will also ban procurement of new 4G or 5G equipment from

Orange unveiled plans to extend a scheme promoting smartphone repair, reuse and recycling across its European footprint by the end of the year, the group’s latest move to promote a circular economy. Ahead of environmental conference ChangeNOW, which starts in Paris later this week, the operator group detailed plans to extend its Re initiative to

LIVE FROM QUALCOMM 5G SUMMIT, SAN DIEGO: Azita Arvani, GM Americas with Rakuten Mobile (pictured, second from right), argued operators must begin shifting their 5G focus from use cases to business disruption during a panel exploring how the market could develop over the next three years. Arvani noted operators traditionally focused on ARPU as a

SK Telecom (SKT) partnered with Deutsche Telekom to bring the South Korean operator’s ifland metaverse platform to Europe, while a wider joint venture around expanding the service is also on the cards. SKT stated it would work with Deutsche Telekom to introduce ifland to Germany by the end of the year, before expanding to other

Ofcom outlined an ambition to make mmWave spectrum available to the UK’s mobile industry by 2024, as it launched a consultation on opening access to the 26GHz and 40GHz bands. In a statement, the regulator pointed to the advantage of deploying 5G in the bands for faster speeds and greater capacity in crowded areas, citing

Vodafone Group sought to add further media and technology experience to its board with former Arm chief Simon Segars along with one-time Orange executive and broadcast-industry big-wig Delphine Ernotte Cunci proposed as new non-executive directors. Segars is set to join Vodafone months after his departure from chip design company Arm following the collapse of a

Cisco unveiled predictive analytics technology designed to boost enterprise network reliability and performance, as the vendor moves to tap demand for services which can prevent outages and downtime. The vendor stated development of the predictive analytics service had been ongoing for two years. It plans to offer the technology under a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Cisco

Bell Canada claimed to have launched the nation’s first multi-access edge computing (MEC) service on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Wavelength platform, detailing plans to provision low-latency applications for 5G customers. The operator deployed the platform in Toronto, with additional locations to follow. AWS Wavelength is tethered to the US company’s cloud regions, which is where