And Ericsson has wasted no time in completing its $1.1 billion takeover of Cradlepoint, a deal that was only announced on September 18. Based in Idaho, Cradlepoint sells edge routers and related services to businesses, with the emergency services sector something of a specialty. Cradlepoint will operate as a standalone subsidiary within Ericsson.

BT has switched on what it claims is the UK's "first dedicated public 5G network for a connected campus," at the University of Warwick in England's Midlands region. The move, described as the first phase of a "strategic alliance" between BT and the university, brings "ultrafast" 5G mobile coverage to students, staff and visitors across the 720-acre site and to people in surrounding areas through the BT-owned EE mobile network. The network coverage will also be extended to the university's Creative and Digital Communities incubator in nearby Leamington Spa, home to the "Silicon Spa" games industry technology cluster.

Nokia has suffered a setback in its patents battle with Lenovo, with a German appeals court lifting the enforcement of an injunction won by the Finnish vendor against the PC giant. As Reuters reports, the case centers on Lenovo's use of Nokia's patented H.264 video-compression technology.

Enea, the Swedish data analytics company, has won a contract which sees it deploying its Policy Manager product on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud for an unidentified Tier 1 South American mobile operator. Earlier this month, Enea announced that it had acquired Aptilo, a provider of policy and access control solutions for carrier Wi-Fi and IoT, for 92 million Swedish kronor ($10.3 million).

Telecom Italia (TIM) has issued a statement scotching rumors that someone has been lined up for the position of CEO at FiberCop, a new entity being created by TIM and Open Fiber. TIM says the CEO won't be chosen until close to the time FiberCop becomes operational, which is expected to be in the first quarter of 2021.

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading