The first 5G network has been active for a year already (Etisalat in the UAE) and the technology still raises many questions. Operators around the world are making radically ...
The GSMA issued recently a position paper on spectrum auctions. The mobile industry group makes a few obvious conclusions and a few less questionable recommendations. ...
More and more pilots and projects in the smart city sphere are being announced each day, but broader smart city implementations are still struggling to get off the ground. At ...
Preparations for rolling out 5G networks have not been the easiest for Chinese manufacturer ZTE, but the company is still working hard outside the spotlight. Despite American ...
5G has become a reality over the past few months. Network activations have turned 5G into an established technology, albeit still in an early phase. The number of devices and ...
The opportunities for MVNOs to take a slice of the IoT market were a prominent topic at the recent MVNO World Congress in Amsterdam. Many see great chances for MVNOs to find ...
The no-frills providers are characterised by simple offers without any extras. Although they focus on offering good prices, they aren't necessarily the cheapest in the ...
The first 5G launches have taken place, in South Korea, the US, Switzerland and other countries. For the moment, the applications are not much different than 4G. Mobility, ...
The recent launches of the first 5G services in the US and Korea suggest the next generation of mobile networks is finally becoming reality. However, full 5G networks and ...
The new year will bring a number of important spectrum auctions in Europe, opening up new frequency ranges for the first 5G services, as well as renewing expiring licences in ...
Poland and the Czech Republic are the top countries for MVNOs in Eastern Europe. In the past five years, both countries have shown net growth in the number of MVNOs, while ...
More and more manufacturers are adding IoT connectivity to their products, allowing products to be monitored for the first time, such as garage doors, shutters, windows and ...
Oppo has become the latest Chinese smartphone maker, after Huawei, Xiaomi and OnePlus, to launch an offensive on the European smartphone market. Oppo started in June in ...
The Polish MVNO market remains crowded, but has grown its share of the mobile market little in the past five years, according to research by Telecompaper. While new players ...
Dutch start-up and sensors developer Nowi, based in Delft, has developed a system that can convert radiation from, for example, GSM masts, into electricity, using just a tiny ...
The IoT market is slowly maturing. The talk is no longer about what is IoT, but what is the business case of IoT. The 2018 Tele2 IoT Talks, recently held in Rotterdam, ...
Spain's fourth mobile network operator Masmovil was the only provider to show revenue growth in the second quarter of 2018 and increased its market share to almost 10 percent ...
Six years after launching on the mobile market in France, Free's rapid ascent may have reached its peak, as for the first time the company lost customers in Q2 2018. ...
The number of mobile Sims at Austrian operators increased by 9.2 percent year-on-year to 15.3 million at the end of June 2018. The growth was led by T-Mobile Austria, which ...
Total service revenues in Belgium declined by 2.8 percent year-on-year in Q2, according to the latest quarterly update from Telecompaper. The prepaid revenues were over a ...
In May 2018, BT launched its new strategy for delivering converged products, bringing together broadband, mobile and Wi-Fi. As part of this, BT's mobile brand EE enhanced its ...
Nevertheless, Telefonica is still the largest operator in the prepaid market, with a 41.2 percent share of Sims at the end of Q2 2018. Telekom Deutschland came second with ...
Alphabet managed to maintain growth of over 20 percent in Q2 2018. While the gross margin fell and the EU fine put a dent in the operating margin, the result was still over ...
Almost half of Dutch consumers say they use mobile data less when Wi-Fi is available. However, this share declined for the first time in 2018, suggesting the growing size of ...
The German mobile market is losing revenues as well as Sims. The revenue decrease is mainly caused by Telekom Deutschland implementing new accounting rules. In the first ...