Europe Wireless News
Europe has traditionally been the heartland of the mobile industry, especially when the GSM standard became dominant worldwide. This propelled European vendors like Ericsson, Nokia and Alcatel into the front line and they continue to be hugely influential, despite the challenges from Chinese vendors in infrastructure, and American ones in handsets. With the acquisitions of Lucent, Motorola Networks and most of Nortel by European suppliers, the region’s importance on the infrastructure side remains huge. Europe also boasts some of the biggest global operators, including the largest by revenues, Vodafone, and other influential players like Telefonica, Orange and T-Mobile. However, as their markets saturate, these carriers are expanding into emerging economies and into new web and content services, as well as consolidating many of their operations to save cost.
Vodafone suffers first ever annual revenue decline
Vodafone reported its first ever full-year drop in revenues, dragged down by the continuing economic crisis in southern Europe, an important market to the UK-based giant. As it reportedly considers se ...
- Europe's crisis continues to weigh on Vodafone
- Vodafone falls into red on south Europe writedowns
- Vodafone's year dragged down by eurozone crisis
SFR's profits slump in face of French price war
15 May, 2013
As Iliad's Free Mobile unit enters its second year of disrupting the mobile sector, Vivendi unit feels the heat
UK could relax planning laws to speed LTE
9 May, 2013
New proposals support small cells and shared RAN, but also make it easier to add 4G kit to existing sites
Positive signs from European majors
9 May, 2013
Deutsche Telekom rides on German and US upturns, while Telefonica improves profits despite continuing pressures
European operators step up M2M activity
7 May, 2013
Telenor, DT and Telefonica all announce new partnerships to drive additional revenues via embedded services
Telcos could halve Europe workforce in a decade
30 April, 2013
Upgrades to more modern networks, outsourcing and mergers could all lead to massive job cuts
UK could get commercial white spaces apps in 2014
29 April, 2013
Regulator Ofcom announces significant trials using the unlicensed spectrum, which should pave way to commercial offerings
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