China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued commercial 5G licenses to China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, and China Broadcasting Network.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Multi-core fiber testbed established in L’Aquila, Italy
The University of L’Aquila, Sumitomo Electric Industries, and Optoscribe have deployed a testbed for multi-core fiber communications in the city of L’Aquila, in Italy.
The multi-core fiber (MCF) testbed, which uses space-division multiplexed (SDM) technology, is part of INCIPICT project.
An MCF is an optical fiber with multiple cores in a glass cladding.
For INCIPICT, Sumitomo Electric fabricated two types of uncoupled MCFs and one type of coupled...
Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud to interconnect
Microsoft and Oracle announced a cloud interoperability partnership.
The arrangement enables customers to migrate and run enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. The companies promise seamlessly connections between Azure services, like Analytics and AI, to Oracle Cloud services, like Autonomous Database.
The new set of capabilities:
Connect Azure and Oracle Cloud seamlessly, allowing customers to extend their on-premises...
Carriers activate LTE-M roaming across North America and Europe
AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom activated LTE-M roaming across their respective IoT networks, providing coverage across North America and Europe.
AT&T's LTE-M network is deployed across the U.S. and Mexico.
KPN operates an LTE-M across the Netherlands.
Orange’s LTE-M network is available in France and Romania with Belgium, Slovakia, Spain and Poland coming this year.
Swisscom has deployed LTE-M across Switzerland.
The carriers expect...
Celllnex acquires BT high towers across UK
Celllnex has acquired the marketing and operation rights for 220 high towers from BT for the next 20 years. The deal was valued at £100 million.
Cellnex operates 45,000 wireless communications towers and sites in Spain, Italy, Netherlands, France, Switzerland and now the UK. The company closed the 2018 financial year with revenues of € 901 million (up 14%) and EBITDA of € 591 million (up 18%). Cellnex is based in Barcelona.
“For Cellnex, this deal...
Rakuten selects NEC to build Open vRAN Architecture
Rakuten Mobile has selected NEC to build its 5G open vRAN infrastructure in Japan.
Through the partnership, Rakuten and NEC will jointly develop a 3.7 GHz massive MIMO 5G antenna radio unit (RU), which will be manufactured by NEC at its facilities in Japan. Rakuten and NEC/Netcracker are already working together on an end-to-end BSS/OSS solution to support the mobile network launch and subsequent operations.
Rakuten Mobile is building a fully virtualized,...
Sweden's EcoDataCenter and Fortalax to merge
Two Swedish data center companies have agreed to merge.
EcoDataCenter, which is based in Falun, will acquire shares in Fortlax, which operates data centers in Piteå. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The companies said their ambition is to create a Nordic giant in carbon-positive data centers.
https://blog.ecodatacenter.se/uk/ecodatacenter-and-fortla...
BT to consolidate 300 offices to 30
BT Group will consolidate its footprint of more than 300 locations across the UK to around 30. The first eight of these locations are
Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Ipswich (Adastral Park), London and Manchester.
BT previously announced plans to exit its St Paul’s headquarters in London and is currently identifying a new home for the business in the capital.
“The Better Workplace Programme is about bringing our people together...
