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Mircea Anghel, director of service operations at O2 Telefonica, said the model is intended to bring more automation into network operations In sum – what to know: O2 Telefonica develops …

O2 Telefonica said it had deployed a total of 1,000 5G sites in the first quarter of the year German telecom operator O2 Telefonica, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said …

The carrier aggregation trial was supported by Nokia and MediaTek At O2 Telefónica’s Innovation Cluster near Berlin, the carrier has successfully aggregated sub-6 GHz spectrum frequencies in a two-component carrier uplink Carrier …

Telefonica Germany said it has been testing Nokia’s cloud RAN tech in Potsdam German carrier O2 Telefónica, which is controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said it is currently using cloud …

Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries said that a merger of its Virgin Media UK brand with Telefonica’s local mobile operator O2 was on track to be completed this year, citing …

The U.K. is one of the most developed markets in Europe in terms of 5G deployments. The country’s four mobile operators have already launched 5G technologies in the U.K.’s main …

Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 45 cities across the country, the telco said in a blog post. Some of the cities covered by Orange’s non-standalone (NSA) …

O2 expects the commercial deployment of OpenRAN to accelerate over the next 18-24 months O2, the U.K. operator owned by Telefonica, will work with Mavenir, DenseAir and WaveMobile to deploy …

UK telco O2 has signed an agreement to provide 5G connectivity for the testing of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in the Smart Mobility Living Lab (SMLL) in London, the …

The carrier is currently working to deploy the trials in the cities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and Manchester Vodafone has announced plans to carry out 5G trials …

HetNet densification requires robust fiber infrastructure LONDON – At the Small Cells World Summit, Telefonica O2 CTO Brendan O’Reilly risked offending delegates when he claimed the technology “isn’t that important.” …

Vasona Networks has announced that it is teaming up with Telefónica UK for a pilot deployment of its platforms for mobile network capacity, resource management and intelligence. The deployment follows successful …

Sky set to add mobile to platform beginning in 2016 U.K.-based satellite television provider Sky said it plans to add mobile services to its portfolio through a mobile virtual network …

World Economic Forum: Vodafone CEO questions if spectrum should be free Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao raised questions surrounding spectrum at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Thursday. Colao reportedly compared …

Hutchison Whampoa in talks to acquire Telefónica’s O2 Hutchison Whampoa is reportedly weighing the purchase of Telfónica SA’s United Kingdom unit, O2. Hutchison is reportedly considering paying as much as $13.6 billion for O2. …

•NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with China Mobile to offer customers traveling to China outbound roaming on the TD-LTE China Mobile network. DoCoMo customers will see speeds up to 150 …

Popular topics seem to always include LTE news, government oversight concerns (see the view in Germany) and customer service complaints. So we’ll go with these for today’s commentary. LTE Although …

Spirent Communications studied more than 47,000 calls and 170,000 data tests on iPhone 5C devices across wireless operators in the United Kingdom and found that the main differences among operators came …