Leaders of Hong Kong-baed Hutchison Whampoa and France’s Orange each indicated that their companies will be looking for mergers and acquisitions in Europe in the near future. The South China Morning Post reported that Hutchison Whampoa managing director Canning Fok Kin-ning said there were more …
Portuguese authorities said they conducted a search of Portugal Telecom’s offices as part of a fraud investigation. Newspaper Diaro Economico reported that the PT shareholder assembly to approve the sale of PT assets to France’s Altice could be delayed because an …
Smart solutions are being used for a range of projects in Europe, from the fantastical—like Van Gogh-inspired bike path in the Netherlands (above) to the very practical—smart meters, smoke detectors and trash cans. And it’s not just single, separate projects, but broad, complex …
When I was a kid, Saturday morning meant watching cartoons on the television. For my kids, it means Kindle time. They play games and flip through e-books while we sleep in. I don’t see too much difference in our childhood experiences. …
Widely hailed as the next digital revolution, the “Internet of Things” means that many objects are now being wirelessly connected to the Internet and to each other. You can tell when a trend really starts to take off when it …
Mobile operators in Africa are using the power of their medium to combat the spread of Ebola. Their efforts include launching continentwide text-messaging donation campaigns, expanding help lines and analyzing mobile data to better target aid to affected areas. Many major operators …
This past year showed signs that LTE is ready to take off in Europe. The region started the year with LTE making up less than 5% of connections, and is poised to begin 2015 with nearly 10%, according to the …
Reports indicate pair of moves by German telecom giant Germany’s largest phone company, Deutsche Telekom, is looking to sell the country’s most popular Internet portal, T-Online, according to newspaper reports. Company sources told Wirtschafts Woche that the giant telco is in talks …
After looking into buying Telefonica’s O2, BT announced it has entered into exclusive talks to buy mobile operator EE for $19.6 billion. If successful, the deal would combine the U.K.’s largest fixed-line provider with its largest mobile network operator. Part of the proposed purchase includes …
In the ongoing battle against cyber attacks and espionage, Deutsche Telekom’s business customer unit, T-Systems, is joining with the Silicon Valley firm FireEye to offer security-as-a-service to European organizations. According to a FireEye study, many European firms are not able to quickly respond …
TeliaSonera and Telenor today announced they will merge their operations in Denmark. The two Nordic operators will each own 50% of the joint venture, and the combined company will command 40% of the Danish mobile market with 3.5 million subscribers and …
Following the BT Group’s announcement that it was interested in buying Telefónica’s O2, the company is now also in talks with Deutsche Telekom and Orange about acquiring their jointly owned mobile operator EE. Deutsche Telekom and Orange confirmed on Nov. 26 that they were …
The European Union is considering a more relaxed approach to net neutrality – even though the European Commission passed a fairly strict interpretation of the concept in April that would ban operators from prioritizing data traffic on the Internet. The newly elected …
Some of Europe’s biggest carriers, including Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Orange and Telecom Italia, reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations, leading to renewed optimism about a market recovery in Europe. “You have further weight to the theme that European wireless is recovering,” Guy …
The number of cyberattacks on Deutsche Telekom networks has risen from 300,000 to 1 million per day, according to DT Group CEO Timotheus Höttges. Speaking at the third annual Cyber Security Summit in Bonn on Nov. 3, Höttges said that the security threat …
Machine-to-machine technology will soon be available around the globe, according to market research firm Berg Insight. The spread of M2M, which allows devices to communicate without human intervention, is being driven – quite literally – by connected cars. M2M has been a long-term …
Much of the discussion around big data in Europe has centered on protecting data rather than using it. Revelations connected to the U.S. National Security Administration spying scandal has had a huge impact on Europe, driving a heavy focus on data security at …
The mobile phone became a sign of protest this week as tens of thousands of Hungarians raised their lit-up smartphones in the air as they marched against the world’s first Internet tax. The Hungarian government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban …
Even as LTE becomes more prevalent in the U.S. and Asia, LTE is far from the mainstream in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Observers often cite cost as one of the primary reasons for its slow growth — both …
Nokia Networks recently completed its fastest implementation of voice over LTE technology, completing a roll-out for United Arab Emirates-based Du in under 80 days. If the push for VoLTE continues, the telecom equipment-maker might have to keep moving quickly. Nokia Networks …
When more than 1,300 global industry experts converged on Düsseldorf, Germany, last week for the SDN and OpenFlow World Congress, one of the hottest topics was network function virtualization. (Although it’s only three years old, NFV has become so important …
U.K. mobile operator EE plans to make some structural changes, including cutting 350 administrative jobs and adding other employees in sales and customer support. The company told Bloomberg that the structural changes are part of their strategy “to expand U.K.-based customer …
After Hungary’s long-awaited spectrum auction, Hungary’s Magyar Telekom wasted little time in boosting its LTE covering, turning on 450 new LTE base stations the day after receiving new spectrum licenses following the country’s highly anticipated spectrum auction. The carrier, which …
Despite economic troubles and the impact of conflicts in neighboring Iraq and Syria, Jordan has one of the most competitive mobile markets in the Middle East. And this competition has led to a great deal of innovation. Jordan’s mobile market is the …
The European Union trade chief Karel De Gucht believes he’s found a solution to a trade dispute with China over telecom equipment subsidies. The EU has been at loggerheads with China, its second-largest trade partner behind the U.S., over what the …
