O2 UK finally joins the VoLTE and wifi calling club
Years after many of its competitors had already done so, O2 UK has finally switched on VoLTE (naming it 4G calling) and wifi calling. The accompanying propaganda is pretty standard: VoLTE provides...
View ArticleVerizon has 4G LTE Cat M1 US IoT acronym-gasm
Verizon has announced it will launch what it claims is the first nationwide commercial 4G LTE Category M1 network in the US. The new network will span 2.4 million square miles, built on a virtualized...
View ArticleStart chopping the limes, Huawei and Nokia are throwing a party in Mexico
Huawei and Nokia have been named as technology partners to design, build and operate a new nationwide LTE and 5G-ready wholesale network in Mexico. Red Compartida is one of the more ambitious telco...
View ArticleEricsson takes small steps towards 5G in Sweden and Indonesia
Ericsson has taken further small steps towards the promised land of 5G with a couple of successful tests in Sweden and Indonesia. On Telia’s network in Sweden, the pair demonstrated speeds of 757Mbit/s...
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4G sucks on the south coast – Which
UK consumer top-tips group Which has teamed up with OpenSignal to look at 4G performance across the country and found it’s worst on the south coast of England. The study looked at 4G signal...
View ArticleJio challenge causing damage for Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel has reported its annual figures, and while there is nominal growth across the twelve months, a notable decline in Q4 indicates the Jio pressure might be starting to weight heavy. While...
View ArticleReality gives Vodafone a massive €6.1 billion slap
Vodafone has reported its results for the year and it’s not a pretty sight; the UK and India weighed down the group as losses total €6.1 billion. After 12 months of tough times in the UK and a Jio...
View ArticleTo consolidate or not – when will Europe stop messing it up?
The question that has pitched the European Commission (hereafter known as the Gaggle of Red-tapers) against the industry for years is: will consolidation hinder or aid the telco market? From a...
View ArticleMicrosoft seeks former glories with ‘Always Connected PCs’
Microsoft is going to be having a crack at reinventing personal computing with the introduction of constant connectivity. The move itself seems to be an attempt to recapture some of the fortunes...
View ArticleEE claims 429Mbps 4G+ speeds in Wales – yup, that isn’t a typo
EE has opened the doors of the super-fast internet age in Wales, switching on its 4G+ network in the Welsh capital. The new network was given the green light in both Cardiff and the Tech City area of...
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Ofcom gives thumbs up to mobile in the UK, not everyone agrees
Ofcom has released a report which summarises the initial results from the its latest mobile research, and it paints a fairly healthy picture of UK wireless connectivity. In terms of data service...
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French regulator says SFR and Bouygues can use 2.1 GHz band for 4G
The two French operators want to repurpose spectrum currently being used for 3G and the regulator Arcep has got no problem with that. SFR and Bouygues specifically asked permission to use the 2.1 GHz...
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Vodafone mulls Massive MIMO and Mini Macro
With the UK sauntering towards the connected era, Vodafone took the opportunity to debrief us at its Newbury headquarters on its two latest 4G developments; Massive MIMO and Mini Macro. The first bit...
View ArticleSprint suggests some serious speed with Massive MIMO
Vodafone might want to lead the charge for Massive MIMO in Europe, but Sprint is making a claim for the title on the other side of the pond. The team has put forward some big claims after successful...
View ArticleVirgin Mobile USA has a go at bedlam with $1 unlimited data offer
Richard Branson has decided he wants to emulate T-Mobile US CEO John Legere in creating chaos in the US telco space with the launch of a new offer. If Legere has shown the world anything it’s that you...
View ArticleSFR gets in on the Huawei MIMO party
Huawei and SFR have jointly announced they have completed France’s first pre-commercial field verification of 4X4 MIMO achieving a downlink throughput of 628.31 Mbps. The 4X4 MIMO technology itself has...
View ArticleNokia talks-up continuity-of-service at MWC Shanghai
At MWC Shanghai Nokia has gone beyond idle and slightly irrelevant claims of 4.XG technologies and actually attempted to build a narrative around the PR fluff. As everyone in the industry is now...
View ArticleBharti Airtel offers copycat data freebie in latest skirmish with Jio
Bharti Airtel has begun to rub salt into Jio’s wounds by launching its own summer offer, only a short while after Indian regulators banned Jio’s from continuing for another three months. Since the...
View ArticleThree says no to conversation and yes to obsession behaviour
Three is about to unleash a wave of binging across the UK, the likes of which have not been seen since the London Tube started operating 24 hour services on the weekend. The operator will now provide a...
View ArticleTelefónica Spain raises the convergence stakes
Telefónica has expanded its presence in the Spanish convergence game with a couple of new offerings which incorporate its original content productions. Movistar Fusion # 0 and Movistar Fusion Series...
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