United Group B.V., the leading telecommunications and media provider in Southeastern Europe, majority owned by BC Partners, announces that it has reached an agreement to sell SBB doo Belgrade, a leading alternative pay TV, broadband internet and fixed telephone services provider in Serbia, to e& PPF Telecom Group BV (“e& PPF Telecom”). The Group has also agreed to sell Eon TV International Ltd (the holding company of the NetTV Plus business) and its sports broadcasting rights forthe Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) to Telekom Srbija a.d. Beograd (“TS”).

IBM and Ericsson will deliver key elements of a fresh emergency services network (ESN) in the UK.

Japanese NTT Docomo announced the beginning of the stronger development of 6G standards and technology.

Nokia and e& UAE tested slicing solutions to create a dedicated end-to-end network slice capable of meeting the speed and latency demands of today’s gaming applications.

Nokia struck a deal with Italian Eolo to deploy Europe’s first standalone 5G mmWave network in Europe.

Mobile operators in China breached the one-billion 5G network subscriber milestone in November, Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology data shows.

Nokia will supply more than 3,000 Deutsche Telekom sites to support the operator’s multi-vendor Open RAN network scale-up in Germany.

Deutsche Telekom, Qualcomm, and Skylo have completed an end-to-end trial of SMS send and receipt over GEO satellite.

Hrvatski Telekom and Markoja inaugurated the wooden telecommunications tower Ecopol.

Hrvatski Telekom is continuing to shut down its 3G network in Croatia, accelerating the transition to more energy-efficient 4G and 5G technologies.

Deutsche Telekom announced it would switch off the 2G network in its home market by the end of June 2028.

Vodafone Germany finished deploying its standalone 5G network.

Deutsche Telekom announced that the project with Deutsche Bahn boosted mobile coverage along German rail routes.

Verizon signed a deal with the world football federation FIFA to provide connectivity across stadiums and other venues during the next World Cup tournament

Nvidia, Ericsson, Nokia, and T-Mobile US announced the first AI-RAN Innovation Center.

China Mobile confirmed the position of the largest mobile player in the world by connections.

China Unicom Beijing and Huawei have deployed an ultra-large-scale commercial 5.5G 3CC network in Beijing that covers more than 70% of the area within the city's 4th Ring Road.

Orange hosted select media outlets at the Paris Olympics 2024 this week to experience the event firsthand.

Nokia announced the launch of Broadband Easy Connect, a new subscription-based service that helps operators streamline, simplify, and accelerate the process of connecting homes to fiber.