4G LTE

Deutsche Telekom delivered broadband LTE data rates during a trial assessing the potential of aircraft to deliver cost-effective connectivity in areas which are hard-to-reach with traditional infrastructure.

Telecom Italia took out a loan of €350 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to help fund enhancements to its existing 4G network and deployment of 5G, adding to its debt of over €24 billion.

Proposed changes to plans to deploy 4G technology on the London Underground threatened to derail the project, with operators facing higher costs than anticipated, The Sunday Telegraph reported.

Ethiopian incumbent Ethio Telecom placed LTE at the heart of a strategy to fend off the pending launch of rival services by non-domestic companies, with plans to deploy the technology in major cities by mid-2020.

Ericsson held its hands up and admitted it was responsible for network outages which affected O2 UK, SoftBank (Japan) and several other operators today (6 December).

LIVE FROM HUAWEI GLOBAL MBB FORUM 2018, LONDON: For all the focus on 5G at Huawei’s event, operators were also keen to stress the importance of the evolution of LTE networks, in order to support new services and business models…

Alphabet’s balloon connectivity business Loon agreed its first commercial deal in Africa, forging a partnership with Telekom Kenya to deploy a pilot LTE network in suburban and rural areas.