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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

Operators including Orange, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone Group agreed to reduce wholesale roaming charges with Ukrainian carriers for three months to help an estimated 4.2 million refugees keep in contact with the nation. The companies are among a total of 27 which committed to deliver connectivity to people escaping a war in Ukraine in a

Operator SoftBank Corp detailed a plan to borrow JPY35 billion ($282.6 million) for the construction of 5G base stations in its home market of Japan, infrastructure it claimed would aid government-set social initiatives. The so-called Social Loan facility being tapped will be provided by a number of investment banks, with the sum to be paid

T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert didn’t hold back Friday (1 April) when proclaiming his company’s achievements on the two-year anniversary of its $26 billion deal to buy Sprint. In a blog post, Sievert highlighted the progress the “uncarrier” has made since the merger, including shares that are up by 50 per cent since the deal