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Vodafone Spain Launches 700mhz 5G in 109 Municipalities

Vodafone Spain has launched 700MHz 5G than 50,000 inhabitants. Notably, 17 of the Malaga, Zaragoza, Valladolid and Murcia.
connectivity in 109 municipalities across 25 cities already covered by 3.5GHz 5G net- As previously reported by CommsUpdate,
30 provinces. The initial 700MHz deploy- works will see their connectivity augment- Vodafone Spain paid EUR350 million for
ment includes 54 municipalities with more ed with 700MHz access, including the likes a 2×10MHz block of 700MHz spectrum in
than 50,000 inhabitants and 55 with less of: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, July 2021’s frequency auction.

Hutch Lanka Partnering edotco For Open RAN Trial

Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka
(Hutch) is teaming up with infrastructure
partner edotco Services Lanka on the
launch of an Open RAN trial in Sri Lanka.
The two firms ultimately aim to drive down
the per-GB cost of data on the island and to
that end have deployed their first trial Open
RAN site at Polatthapitya in Kurunegala
District. The trial will reportedly be carried
out using edotco’s ‘multi-purpose lamp
pole site, which is a small-cell antennae
enabled telecommunication infrastructure
known to facilitate seamless connectivity
at both urban and rural settings’. The
Malaysia-based vendor currently operates
a solid infrastructure network of 500 multi-
purpose lamp pole sites.

Zain Jordan Selects Infovista for End-To-End Autonomous Wireless Network
Testing and Benchmarking

Infovista, the global leader in Network Jordan’s live mobile networks. KPI data Kingdom,” said Faiq Khan, president
Lifecycle Automation (NLA), has announced gathered will include network quality, Global Networks Europe, Asia and Africa at
that Zain Jordan, the leading Jordanian efficiency and throughput, all of which Infovista. “Measuring end-user experience
mobile network operator and part of the will enable Zain to monitor the Quality is a crucial tool not only to verify network
Zain Group, has selected Infovista’s TEMS of Experience being delivered by each performance, but also for informing
Sense, TEMS Director and Planet products operator and assist in its own network decision-making around planning future
to provide next-generation mobile optimization. This data among other can network investments.” Infovista’s TEMS
network testing, benchmarking, planning be then combined with Planet, Infovista’s Network Testing Portfolio enables
and optimization solutions contributing market-leading RF planning software network optimization of quality and
to the modernization of Zain Jordan’s and optimization solution, to give Zain application performance by measuring
network. By collaborating with Infovista, powerful and accurate tools to plan, design and benchmarking end user experience.
Zain Jordan will be equipped with market and optimize its 3G and 4G networks. Zain For Network Operators and Regulators,
leading solutions to examine the service has partnered with Infovista to measure TEMS delivers the ability to walk test,
quality from an end-user perspective, and performance and examine service quality drive test, and dynamically analyze service
then use that data to inform and optimize from an end-user perspective, helping performance under real-life conditions—
both how its networks are managed today, inform decisions on how to manage and indoors, outdoors, and around the clock.
and how they will evolve tomorrow. TEMS improve its networks. “We are excited to Infovista’s Planet, market-leading RF
Sense provides powerful multi-mode be providing Zain Jordan with a state-of- planning software and optimization
network testing and measurement which the-art autonomous network testing and solution, gives operators powerful tools to
Zain can use to undertake active testing benchmarking solution which includes plan, design and optimize 3G, 4G, networks
statically, on foot, or in-vehicle of all of data collection and analysis across the easily and accurately.

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