- May 3, 2023
Vodafone and ITN partner to enable the first UK broadcast using a public 5G Standalone (5G SA) network for the Coronation of King Charles III, showcasing the future of cellular connectivity.
- May 1, 2023
Vodafone introduces the UK’s first 5G standalone (SA) mobile private networking (MPN) service, offering customizable network solutions and paving the way for specialized services.
- April 14, 2023
Vodafone Idea plans to launch 5G services soon, as it faces subscriber losses and increased competition from Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel.
- April 11, 2023
Indian telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea, are struggling to raise tariffs amid the 5G rollout, with average revenue per user (ARPU) increasing only 1-3% sequentially in the December quarter. Significant capital expenditures and a competitive landscape contribute to the delay in tariff hikes, which impacts investors’ concerns. Revenue growth is expected to moderate, while limited 5G use-cases and monetization opportunities also hinder ARPU growth.
- April 11, 2023
Lynk Global has signed its second commercial contract with Telecel Group in Africa to provide 100% coverage for Vodafone Ghana’s 31 million subscribers using Lynk’s innovative “space-based cell towers” technology. The partnership will extend rural coverage, ensure service resiliency, and support IoT devices, among other benefits.
- March 11, 2023
A temporary connected play experience for children has been set up by Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) at a playground located in King’s Square Gardens in London. The children’s interactions with the equipment will be transmitted through 5G and broadband, which will then modify the lights and music.
- March 3, 2023
The 5G Future Forum (5GFF) will lead a first-in-the-world demonstration that is expected to change the evolution of music collaboration. Using the 5GFF Edge Discovery Service (EDS) API, which enables devices to identify and connect to the Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) site providing the lowest latency closest to them, the performance will showcase the value of the interoperability of the EDS API, leveraging Open Sesame’s audio platform to sync guitar players across New York, USA (Verizon), Toronto, Canada (Rogers), and London, England (Vodafone).
- March 1, 2023
Margherita Della Valle, CFO and Interim CEO at Vodafone Group, called for European operators to pool their energy resources across every market to support larger renewable projects by acting as anchor tenants with energy providers.
- February 27, 2023
The GSMA announced a new industry-wide initiative called GSMA Open Gateway, a framework of universal network Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs), designed to provide universal access to operator networks for developers. Launched with the support of 21 mobile network operators, the move is aimed at changing the way the telecoms industry designs and delivers services in an API economy world.
- February 5, 2023
To unlock a world of possibilities, including new business models and jobs for the future, 100 labs will be established in India’s engineering institutions to create applications using 5G services.
- December 21, 2022
Neutral host operators, Freshwave and Cellnex, are becoming more integral to telco service rollout plans across Europe. In the UK, for instance, Freshwave is rolling out London’s first-ever shared infrastructural 5G small cells. Moreover, multiple 5G deals in Spain and France have been handed to Cellnex along ‘cross-border corridors.’
- December 14, 2022
Vodafone Business and Porsche announced they constructed Europe’s first hybrid private 5G network. The coverage stretches over 700 hectares and allows secure LTE and 5G connectivity from both public and private networks on one site. Porsche 5G network is deployed at the Nardo Technical Center (NTC), situated in southern Italy’s Apulian region.
- October 27, 2022
Qualcomm and Vodafone are collaborating to develop, test, and integrate next-generation 5G distributed units (DUs) and Radio Units (RU) with Massive MIMO capabilities to deliver the commercial deployment of Open RAN in Europe.
- August 16, 2022
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) plans to auction 5,500 MHz of 5G spectrum in the millimeter wave (37.0–42.5 GHz) band, valued at over Rs 35,000 crore. The spectrum can potentially be used for private networks in addition to mobile and satellite services.
- August 14, 2022
Vodafone and Bayer deployed private 5G network in a greenhouse in Germany to gain new knowledge about plant health quickly and make industry and agriculture even more sustainable with automated processes and real-time processing of large amounts of data.
- August 9, 2022
Vodafone Germany has activated 5G at 1,400 waterway locations in Germany and another 700 expansion projects planned in the next twelve months.
- August 2, 2022
Ericsson and Vodafone have launched a new preemptive support service for private 5G networks using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to ensure efficient operations at the Foxconn factory in Komárom, Hungary.
- August 2, 2022
Vodafone Idea (Vi) is conducting a trial on the use of street furniture for 5G Small Cells and Aerial Fibre deployment in Bhopal and Bengaluru Smart Cities for 5G small cells.
- August 1, 2022
Vodafone Idea has acquired spectrum in 3300MHz and 26GHz 5G bands to roll out 5G services to its customers and strengthen its enterprise offerings.
- July 12, 2022
The Scotland 5G Centre and Vodafone have delivered two new 5G Mobile Private Networks (MPNs) to develop new use cases and accelerate the adoption of 5G technology across the industry in Scotland. The 5G MPNs are in The Scotland 5G Centre’s Aberdeen and HALO Kilmarnock innovation hubs. The hubs will help organizations to deliver new applications and services using Vodafone 5G connectivity. Specialist staff will help companies to develop, prototype, and test real-world, 5G-powered applications and use cases.
- July 6, 2022
Where are we in the Open RAN Journey? Is Open RAN still hype, or is it ready for large-scale deployment? Get perspective from Industry Leaders
- July 2, 2022
An interview with Francisco (Paco) Martín, Head of Open RAN for Vodafone Group focusing on Vodafone’s system integration model for Open RAN adoption. What happens if traditional model is applied to OPEN RAN system integration? How system integration can be done in lab? What is the proposed lab model? What are the benefits? How to do remote system integration? How to manage network operations?
- June 28, 2022
› ŠKODA AUTO launches private 5G test network at company’s headquarters in Mladá Boleslav
› Another step towards Smart Factory: technology increases efficiency and flexibility in production
› 5G data transmission used in pilot phase for autonomous transportation of vehicles
› Company also using new the wireless standard in predictive maintenance and ŠKODA FabLab
› Another step towards Smart Factory: technology increases efficiency and flexibility in production
› 5G data transmission used in pilot phase for autonomous transportation of vehicles
› Company also using new the wireless standard in predictive maintenance and ŠKODA FabLab
- April 19, 2022
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