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The new platform, dubbed Orange Fab, was launched in partnership with a group of investors and companies   French telecommunication group Orange has launched Orange Fab, a Silicon Valley acceleration program designed to identify and support early-stage startups with focus …

Amazon’s ground-breaking deal for Premier League football rights has compounded a difficult period for BT chief executive Gavin Patterson, which has included massive job cuts, accounting scandals, record fines, and slower revenues. BT has had its grip loosened on Premier …

French president Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to invest €1.5bn ($1.85bn) in new education and business initiatives around artificial intelligence (AI) was applauded by the telecoms industry, but only as the latest promise in an intensifying political arms race. Macron said last …

Unlicensed networks, mostly based on LoRa and Sigfox, make up two-thirds of low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks today, according to a study of 100 LPWA networks by IoT research firm ON World. A third of the total network deployments are geared …

European network operators are prioritizing connected cars over other sectors and assets when it comes to internet of things (IoT) technologies, they have said. Both Orange and Telefónica said the opportunity and focus for them is on cars, ahead of …

Siemens extends contract with Orange Siemens AG has extended its contract with Orange Business Services to help it migrate to a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that will connect 1,500 sites in 94 countries. Orange has previously worked with Siemens …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial sub-text in the evolution of LTE and IoT networks. The deployment of AI-driven applications among the carrier community is limited so far. “We are at the beginning,” says Luc Bretones, executive vice president of …

The categorization of artificial intelligence (AI) in telecoms can be cut any number of ways. Spanish telecoms group Telefónica identifies four business needs: in business optimization, market insights, customer engagement, and business innovation. Francisco José Montalvo, director of its ‘fourth …

European LoRaWAN roaming will be completed by the end of the year, said the LoRa Alliance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. European network operators Orange and KPN, in France and the Netherlands respectively, completed the first field tests …

Orange brings Radisys’ vMRF to ONAP Amsterdam Orange Labs Networks has integrated Radisys Corporation’s virtualized Media Resource Function (vMRF) into the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Amsterdam release. Orange is a founding member of ONAP, which is a combination of …

Orange and Cisco team up on SD-WAN Orange Business Services announced it performed the first on-boarding of a Cisco SD-WAN virtual network function (VNF) on the Cisco Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS). The platform includes a fully functional virtualized solution …

AT&T launched LTE-M technology in the U.S. market in May 2017 AT&T has completed the necessary network software upgrades to support the deployment of its LTE-M network in Mexico. This new launch follows commercial LTE-M trials in the Mexican cities …

AT&T and Verizon have jointly agreed to build hundreds of new cell towers with Tillman Infrastructure, a company founded last year by Sanjiv Ahuja’s Tillman Global Holdings. Ahuja is the former CEO of Orange and also the founder of Lightsquared, …

Orange pushes NFV deployment with Red Hat deal Red Hat announced Wednesday it is partnering with Orange, a major multinational telecom operator, to help the company virtualize its networks. In particular, Orange said it will use Red Hat’s OpenStack Platform …

Nokia working with Jordanian operator on fiber network build In Jordan, a country of more than 9 million people covering some 34,000 square miles, the vast majority of internet users depend on a wireless, rather than a wired connection. And …

The new deal will allow the two companies to serve enterprise IoT customers in Asia, Europe and Africa SHANGHAI–China Telecom and Orange Business Services announced they have expanded their strategic partnership in the enterprise IoT space. Under the terms of …

The new deal will allow the two companies to serve enterprise IoT customers in Asia, Europe and Africa SHANGHAI–China Telecom and Orange Business Services announced they have expanded their strategic partnership in the enterprise IoT space. Under the terms of …

The French telco currently provides LoRa technology in nearly 4,000 towns across the country French telecommunications group Orange confirmed that it aims to test the interconnection of its LoRa network with that of another European operator by December in the …