Poland’s government is cooperating with three of the country’s mobile operators on 5G development in order to speed up the rollout of the technology.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) will allow the Azerbaijani mobile operator Bakcell to pursue its bid to acquire Vodafone Ukraine from Russia’s MTS.
The Czech Telecommunication Office (CTU) has changed the dates for the country’s forthcoming 5G spectrum auction.
News reports from the Czech Republic press indicate that underuse of the country’s phone booths means that they will be dismantled or repurposed by 2020.
A report in today's Financial Times suggests that two private equity bidders are vying to buy Bulgaria’s largest telecoms company (and former monopoly), Vivacom, which was put on sale in July.
It’s a rare day when Huawei isn’t in the news, as recent events – or possibly non-events – in Poland and Brazil make clear.
South African data-only operator Rain has launched what is being called the African continent's first commercial 5G network.
Orange Polska and Ericsson have launched a 5G test network in Warsaw offering download speeds close to 900Mbps.
Russian operator MegaFon has chosen Ericsson to develop a new nationwide transport network.
US component maker Qualcomm is cooperating with various players across Russia’s mobile sector with a view to trialling a 5G mmWave network in Moscow that will go live later in the year.
State-owned Russian vendor Rostec has begun developing 5G equipment and is seeking to commence production domestically via international partnerships.
Shareholders in the Bulgarian operator Vivacom have confirmed that the unit is to be put up for sale.
Huawei is reportedly prepared to invest as much as PLN3 billion ($789 million) into Poland across the next five years if it is able to provide 5G equipment without restrictions.
Liudvikas Andriulis, Chief Marketing Officer at Effortel, explains how his company has helped to launch MVNOs around the world.
OTE Group is looking to conclude deals to sell off three separate units of Telekom Romania within the next four months.
An agreement signed by MTS CEO Alexey Kornya and Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin will focus on developing communication services and information-telecommunication technologies in the city.
Tele2 is selling its Croatian business to United Group for €220 million, with the deal expected to complete before the end of the year.
Polish operator Vectra has signed a frame agreement to acquire more than 1000 of Teleste’s E8 1.2 GHz optical nodes, which will be delivered to Vectra by the end of Q1 2020.
Czech search engine Seznam has demanded greater detail on Google’s plans to introduce greater competition across the Android device ecosystem.
Russian telecom services provider ER-Telecom Holding has selected Netcracker’s Digital BSS as part of its digital transformation.
Tele2 Russia has launched SunTech’s SunVizion Network Inventory and Planning solution to store and manage information about logical and physical network elements and optimise the processes related to network management.
The Warsaw Metropolitan Police (KSP Warsaw) are expanding their DMR Simulcast system using the OmniBAS platform from Intracom Telecom.
The CEO of Russian bank VTB has confirmed that it intends to sell its interest in Tele2 Russia to state-run operator Rostelecom.
Orange Polska is deploying Matrixx Digital Commerce as a foundation for its digital transformation.
Huawei has pledged to work with authorities in Poland to alleviate security concerns over its equipment as it faces being frozen out of the market.
Serbian market leader Telekom Srbija is implementing an advanced Traffic Management Solution (TMS) from NEC Corporation.
Russian operators Beeline, Megafon and MTS have all expressed opposition to the creation of a 5G consortium even though it would in theory save them money.
Hot on the heels of reaching a deal to sell its Albanian operations, OTE Group is reportedly now discussing a sale of its majority stake in Telekom Romania to a consortium of investors.
A Huawei employee arrested by Polish security services - together with a Polish security official - over allegations of spying has been fired by the Chinese vendor.
Telekom Srbija is unlikely to be privatised in 2019 despite investors registering their interest, according to Serbia’s minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications.
Colt Technology Services is expanding the Colt IQ Network in Central and Eastern Europe, enabling digital transformation in the region through agile, on-demand and high bandwidth services.
Russian technology firm Yandex has unveiled its first smartphone.
Czech telecommunications company České Radiokomunikace (CRA) has deployed a nationwide LoRaWAN-based network.
The government of Russia has proposed a substantial increase to the amount that it would be able to fine any international tech firms that breach domestic laws.
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