Author: James

Valmont Industries Inc. and T-Mobile have recently announced the completion of an industry-first long-distance BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight) drone inspection flight enabled by 5G. This marks a significant milestone in infrastructure monitoring, as traditional methods generally involve significant safety risks, longer timeframes, and higher costs due to extensive manpower, manned aircraft operations, or…

Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have recently instantiated a secure network slice that connects automatically to private cloud services. This innovative proof of concept aims to simplify enterprise use by offering automated configuration, provisioning, and end-to-end orchestration of enterprise slicing services without requiring any additional configuration on user devices. The concept was implemented on a 5G…

The Belgian division of telco group Orange has completed its acquisition of regional quad-play services operator VOO, after a thorough competition investigation. This deal grants Orange Belgium a 75% stake minus one share in VOO, while Nethys retains the remaining 25% plus one share. With a transaction value of €1.8 billion for 100% of the…