Following a network-wide outage at Orange for several hours, France has tasked its cybersecurity watchdog to conduct an audit of the network. In a statement, Orange’s CEO Stephane Richard said, he was launching an internal inquiry into the disruption the results of which would be ready within seven days. In a letter to the head…
Frances’s 5G spectrum is slated to be sold with a base price of $2.4 billion (2.17 billion euros) – an amount that is significantly more than the figure that was previously recommended by the country’s telecoms regulator Arcep. Earlier last week, wary of heavy investments that will be required for deploying 5G technology, Arcep’s president…
Huawei equipment has a price advantage: sourcing from non-Chinese sources is likely to drive up costs. Security comes at a price. In a significant development, China’s Huawei is facing fresh headwinds in Europe following an announcement by Deutsche Telekom that it would review its vendor strategy; Orange has also stated it would not use its…
The timing for deploying 5G technology is set to top the agenda at the Mobile World Congress, set to take place in Barcelona next week. The telecom industry is counting on the new technology to trigger growth in equipment sales and mobile services.
Although 5G services will have faster throughputs, it will nevertheless cost billions of euros for each national market compared with a few million for Sigfox’s IoT networks. The smart thing would be to mix and match to get the best mileage out of both technologies. SigFox, a French start-up which builds networks to make everyday…
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