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China Telecom has contracted Nokia to enhance the operator's 4G coverage and capacity to meet growing subscriber demand.

The companies have signed an agreement to expand the deployment of 4G in 19 provinces nationwide, which will include preparing China Telecom's network for the planned launch of VoLTE services next year.

Nokia will provide equipment including its Flexi…

SK Telecom has signed an agreement with US-based operator Verizon to collaborate on 5G standardization efforts.

The two incumbent operators will jointly develop 5G technical specifications and conduct joint research into potential innovative 5G use cases.

As part of the partnership, the operators have also agreed to strengthen their cooperation in the Open Compute Project, as…

LTE-Advanced deployments have reached the mainstream adoption phase, according to the latest GSA figures.

LTE-Advanced now accounts for 147 of the 521 commercial LTE networks that have been launched worldwide, while LTE-Advanced Pro is used in a further 9, according to the GSA's latest Evolution to LTE report.

The TD-LTE standard has seen 78 commercial deployments in 46…

Worldpay is expanding in Australia after securing a license to process payments in the country, and will target Australia's booming e-commerce market.

The company’s expansion in Australia comes at a time of sustained growth for Worldpay, which processed 13.1 billion transactions in 2015 with transaction value of £401.9 billion ($518.9 billion).

A number of global companies,…

Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) is rolling out enhanced two-way server and device PKI-based authentication for IoT devices.

The company has arranged to leverage Gemalto’s IDCore smart card platform and the SensorLogic Application Enablement Platform for the service.

The solution authenticates both the server and the communicating device, to provide secure connections for IoT…