Eurobites: EE Preps for 5G With Spectrum Conversion

France-IX Services , the French Internet peering company, has joined forces with cybersecurity specialist Acorus Networks, offering members of the France-IX community access to Acorus's security offerings. Unlike some rival products, says Acorus, these offerings protect both the network and the application layer without the need for additional on-premises hardware.

UK pay-TV giant Sky has joined Fox, Turner and Discovery in a funding round for SDVI, a Silicon Valley startup that provides a cloud-based service for media companies wanting to better manage applications and resources across what it calls its content supply chain. Sky is investing $2 million into the company, which it sees as potentially improving the efficiency of a core part of its business.

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) is going to use this week's Mobile World Congress Americas show in Los Angeles to demonstrate, in partnership with Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S), a 5G New Radio connection over a dual mode-capable Massive MIMO radio -- the first time such a demo has been carried out in the US, say the two companies. The Nokia AirScale Massive MIMO Active Antenna is expected to deliver up to 3Gbit/s peak downlink throughput for a single sector over 5G and LTE simultaneously using Sprint's spectrum.

A researcher from cybersecurity firm RiskIQ claims to have found a malicious script inserted into the British Airways website, which was the subject of a significant data breach between August 21 and September 5 affecting around 380,000 transactions. According to the BBC, the researcher says he found evidence of a "skimming script" designed to steal data from online payment forms.

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading