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Movistar, Telefónica’s mobile carrier in Mexico and decentralised wireless communications provider Helium have begun to roll out the Helium Network, activating the service for 2.3 million Movistar subscribers across Mexico.

Wayra, the corporate venture capital arm of Spanish telco Telefónica, has invested in Perplexity, a US-based startup that has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered answer engine.

The GSMA has launched a Responsible AI (RAI) Maturity Roadmap to provide telecoms operators with the tools and guidance to test and assess their responsible use of the technology.

Telecom operators including América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Reliance Jio, Singtel, Telefonica, Telstra, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone, together with Ericsson will form a new venture to combine and sell network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on a scale to spur innovation in digital services.

COMPANY NEWS: Amelia, the world's largest privately held AI software company and a global leader in Enterprise Conversational AI, has announced that the company has been recognised as a top AI provider in the inaugural edition of the Everest Group Artificial Intelligence Top 50 (AI Top 50), a global list of the largest AI-first providers that have reached significant scale. In an industry where more than 5,000 AI providers have emerged in the last ten years, Everest Group selected honourees based upon objective parameters including cumulative funding, share of funding received in the past two years and valuation for the time period of 1 January 2022 through 30 September 2023. 

Telxius, a subsidiary of Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica, is extending its capacity subsea cable Tikal to connect to Mexico.

Over 600 million roaming IoT connections will be established by 2028, rising from 145 million in 2023, which will necessitate the implementation of new roaming standards to detect and monetise IoT roaming, according to a new study by Juniper Research.

Nokia has announced that Telefonica Spain has successfully trialed 25G PON technology,.

Inflation has hit the mobile telecommunications industry in Spain with a vengeance, forcing the country's three largest operators to declare substantial rate increases from January 2023.

Ericsson together with Telefónica and Samsung have achieved a proof-of-concept (PoC) project for 5G interactive calling, built on the IMS data channel standard and using Ericsson Cloud IMS network capabilities. Telefónica led the definition of services with Samsung implementing the technology natively in its Galaxy S21 series.

Telefónica and NEC Corporation announced that they have entered an agreement to conduct Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) pre-commercial trials in Telefonica’s four core global markets: Spain, Germany, the UK and Brazil.

COMPANY NEWS by NEC/Telefonica: Telecommunications service provider Telefonica and NEC Corporation have entered an agreement to conduct Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) pre-commercial trials in Telefonica's four core global markets of Spain, Germany, the UK and Brazil.

Nozomi Networks announced its MSSP (managed security service provider) Elite Program – a complete program for OT and IoT managed security services. The program fully equips MSSPs with Nozomi Networks’ OT and IoT cybersecurity solutions, expertise and selling resources.

A British parliamentary committee has found that the process of selecting vendors to supply 5G gear for the country's networks has delayed the rollout and made it more expensive due to the ban on equipment from Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.

The management of Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies have requested a meeting with an aide to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as news emerges that the company's gear will be removed from the UK's 5G networks by the end of 2025.

The British Government will reportedly set a deadline of 2025 for the removal of gear made by Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from its 5G networks, a newspaper claims as reported by Reuters.

The roster of disreputable organisations and individuals that have been associated with Chinese telecommunications equipment provider Huawei Technologies by Western sources to blacken its name never ceases to surprise. But the latest connection takes the cake: there are claims that former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, of Donald Trump fame, helped craft a report that accused Huawei and China's government of trying to manipulate British peers and MPs.

China's ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, has indicated that any change in the existing UK stance on telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies would send a bad message to the Chinese business community.

British telco O2 has decided to expand its use of equipment from Swedish firm Ericsson to upgrade its 5G network.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has secured a deal with German telco Telefónica SA, one of the three major operators in the country, to build part of its 5G network.