All China Unicom articles
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People
Ex-Telefónica chair César Alierta passes away
Operator reflects on former Chairman’s impact, having helped the operator to expand geographically and initiating its digital transformation strategy.
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Deutsche Telekom eyes mmWave for high-capacity cases
mmWave frequencies ideal for boosting 5G capacity and low-latency apps.
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Public Affairs
Deutsche Telekom: reports of China 5G scheme are nonsense
Group dismisses claims of a plan to scale up its Chinese presence off back of geopolitical manoeuvres. Government’s decision on 5G network suppliers could be imminent.
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BT teams with telco heavyweights for MEC standardisation
BT Group teamed up with heavyweight counterparts from Asia and Europe to develop standardised multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks.
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Team player Telefónica urges edge compute expansion
Group joins Telco Edge Cloud alliance to promote “federation of interconnected operators”. Work with China Unicom, KT, and Telstra on improving multi-operator MEC experience. Goal is to better expose network edge capabilities to third parties. Telefónica throws hat into ring of another alliance to speed up 5G MEC commercialisation. ...
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Innovation (R&D)
TM Forum champions APIs as telcos battle web giants
More big hitters are joining TMF’s Open API programme, although numbers remain lower than anticipated. Ongoing focus on standardisation and consistency saw a pause in API development to ensure strong foundations. Adoption of SDN and virtualisation is blurring the remit of traditional standards bodies.
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JD.com: second Chinese partner to join Smart Steps JV
Telefónica is giving up a share of its data analytics venture, but bringing in another Chinese partner with potential to accelerate adoption of the insights technology in a substantial market outside the operator’s footprint.