Orange announces its 5G cities: Barcelona, Seville, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Malaga, Valencia and Bilbao

Within its commitment to the networks of last generation, Orange has announced its 5G cities.There will be seven municipalities in which it will carry out pioneer experiences of use with this new mobile technology until the end of 2019.The tests will be developed in areas such as robotization, tourism , virtual classrooms or connected cars, in: Barcelona, Seville, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Malaga, Valencia and Bilbao.

Related Orange will put March 35 scenarios of using the 5G network in these cities to verify, in real scenarios, the great advantages that this new technology brings that will transform the customer experience. 5G will mean a revolution in the use of the mobile networks that will go from connecting people to connecting any physical ecosystem in which people develop their activity.

The experiences of use in 5G cities will be developed within the framework of the aid program for pilot projects related to the new mobile technology, whose call has been launched by the Red.es entity within the 5G National Plan of the Ministry of Economy and Company.

5G cities and 4G coverage

In addition to the announcement of its 5G cities, Orange maintains leadership in 4G, with more than 9.6 million customers already enjoying this technology. At the end of the third quarter, it had 9 , 6 million fourth generation mobile customers, with an increase of 6.3% over the previous year. Its 4G coverage already reaches 97% of the Spanish population.

On the other hand, the company has finished the third quarter of the year with 2,721,000 fiber customers (30.6% more than in the same period of 2017), as well as 685,000 Orange TV customers (15.5% more than the previous year).

Orange announces its 5G cities: Barcelona, Seville, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Malaga, Valencia and Bilbao

a hyperconnected environment with 5G

As explained in Nobbot, Laurent Paillassot, CEO of Orange, this technology is a promise, both for citizens and businesses, of a new way of interacting with a hyperconnected environment, giving way to an 'environment connectivity'.

Orange announces its 5G cities: Barcelona, Seville, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Malaga, Valencia and Bilbao

Laurent Paillassot, CEO of Orange

This is an evolution and, at the same time, a revolution: an evolution because it means still faster Internet access, faster speed, better access since we are multiplying by 100 the speed.This will make possible the growth of virtual reality, augmented reality and cloud computing.

However, the revolution is more important because it will change the way people interact, live, enjoy and work, and the way in which companies manage their businesses.

5G will allow massive IoT (Internet of things or Internet of things) connectivity for smart cities, smart metering and wearables ; also an extremely low latency for services such as autonomous vehicle, industrial automation and critical emergency services; and very low energy needs. The transportation and automotive industry are two of the sectors where its consequences are most easily visible , although it is expected to see this impact also in many new industries and services: telesurgery, smart factories, logistics, energy, smart cities, robotics, environment, public safety.

orange grows in revenue

In addition to the announcement of its 5G cities, Orange has shared its results. The company's revenues reached 3,974 million euros during the first nine months of 2018, 2.9% more than in the same period of the previous year (2.2% including regulatory impacts), with an increase of 1.4% during the third quarter (0.5% including regulatory impacts), up to 1,340 million euros.shape, the company continues the positive trend registered during the past year.

In the accumulated year (January-September), Orange's converging services increased 3.6% in Spain, to 1,603 million euros, with a 0.8% reduction in services only mobile (918 million euros) and a 0.2% increase in fixed-only services (370 million euros).

Orange announces its 5G cities: Barcelona, Seville, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Malaga, Valencia and Bilbao

Meanwhile, between July and September 2018, Orange achieved a 0.8% growth in revenue from convergent services, up to 539 million euros , with less contribution from mobile-only services , which are reduced by 1.9%, up to 309 million euros, and a 0.9% decrease in revenue only fixed, up to 125 million euros.

Highlights the increase in its wholesale income that, during the first nine months of 2018 , experienced a growth of 3.8%, up to 582 million euros.This progress was even greater in the third quarter, with 6.4% more, up to 211 million euros.

On the other hand, revenues from equipment sales have increased 3% in the first nine months of the year, reaching 499 million euros, with a reduction of 2.1% in the third quarter, to 155 million of euros.

Orange has ended the quarter with a total of 20,263,000 customers, of which 16,127,000 are from mobile telephony and 4,136,000 from fixed broadband. More than 85% of customers of the latter segment-3,123,000-enjoy convergent services.

Comments

Internet of plants: a tomato knows as much about networks as you

The possibility of plant species communicating through complex networks, what some scientists have called the internet of plants , is an issue that has been discussed for a long time, at least 20 years.It was in 1997 when the scientist Suzanne Simard , from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada), published a study in the journal Nature on how Forest plants use complex systems where species exchange nutrients, send warning signals and relate to the environment. Although there is no scientific consensus, several investigations seem to support this hypothesis.If confirmed, as we read in a fascinating report by the Sinc Agency, the forests would act as huge structures that are articulated under the soil through a network in which factors invisible to the human eye interact and can determine the future of the climate.Understanding how it works is the challenge that even science faces. internet of plants and the wisdom of forests The premise of Suzanne Simard ...

New setbacks for conspiranoicos: radiofrequencies do not affect health

New evidence published by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Radio Frequency and Health (CCARS) in its 2016 Radio Frequency and Health Report indicates that there are no adverse health effects derived of exposure to radio frequencies emitted by mobile phone antennas or radio and television broadcasting.No evidence has been found on the danger in wireless systems (Wi-Fi) or airport scanners. The new 2016 Radio Frequency and Health Report collects, updates and analyzes the scientific evidence on the subject for the period between January 2013 and June 2016. radio frequencies are not dangerous According to the conclusions of the report " the critical analysis of the evidence supports that there are no technical or sanitary reasons that justify the arbitrary and discretionary imposition of more demanding exposure limits than those recommended by WHO-ICNIRP and the Union European ", while the application of more restrictive limits" would imply increasing the n...

GIF history: where they come from and where they are going

Funny, witty, curious... GIFs have already become a regular resource in social networks and messaging applications and have become part of our daily lives and jokes.It is an image format that has evolved significantly throughout its history and is experiencing a new awakening. In fact, to find its origins, we must go back more than twenty years ago .A moment in which they had little to do with what we know today and an evolution that we could not stop review.So let's find out where they come from and try to catch a glimpse of where they are going. What is a GIF The word GIF responds to the acronym of Graphics Interchange Format , or what is the same, graphic exchange format.A term for the graphic format used in the network for both static images and animations.In more concrete terms, it supports 8 bits per pixel and allows you to display images with up to 256 colors simultaneously-limited by a palette of 16 million-. This particularity makes it a perfect ally of infogr...

Amazon Prime Video arrives in Spain: this is all you need to know

That during the last years there has been a change in the way we enjoy audiovisual content is an obvious reality, as reflected by the huge popularity of streaming services like Netflix and the like.A context in which new competitors are constantly added and that, after the landing of this company in our country just over a year ago, is in full transformation. In fact, today we have learned of the incursion of a new protagonist in this area.Yes, because Amazon Prime Video has just arrived in Spain .A landing that takes place only two weeks away that of HBO, which culminates in a 2016 sown of changes.But, what exactly does it consist of? What advantages and disadvantages does it have compared to the "of its kind"? WHAT AMAZON PRIME VIDEO OFFERS The type, quality and quantity of movies and series offered by the service will be key when determining your success.A catalog a priori smaller than that of HBO and Netflix, but in which we find titles like Seinfield , Into...

What we know and what we suspect in the new Facebook algorithm change

"In my time, we read the newspaper in Facebook ".By 2020, nostalgia has taken over billions of people.In its memory, 2018, when Facebook stopped being Facebook to become Facebook again.Paraiso of engagement for brands and media, land paid for clickbaits and fake news, the social network of Mark Zuckerberg has given a rudder to his algorithm. He wants to return to his origins .And this is what will happen. Related If something goes well, to change it.40.653 million dollars entered in 2017.More than 2.100 million active users per month, a quarter of the world's population.But Zuckerberg is not one of those, of which they are.Want a Facebook with more social connections between people and less presence of brands and media .And what do your users want? Nearly two-thirds of American adults consume news on social networks.More than half do so on their Facebook walls.Pew Research Center data points to a clear trend: Facebook is becoming a media platform.54% of Facebook u...

No kidding: selfitis exists and can be a problem

Sometimes one thinks that social networks were created to share photos of faces putting on little bones and images of dishes overflowing with appetizing foods or, better, of faces putting little bones in front of plates overflowing with appetizing foods in the same shot.is to see faces, faces, faces...all of them smiling, as if looking at the smartphone mirror was the height of happiness.And it does not seem that there are so many beautiful and happy people, or maybe yes, that you go Namely.What envy. Well, what we're going to do: Janarthanan Balakrishnan psychologists from the Thiagarajar School of Management in India; and Mark D.Griffiths, of the Nottingham Trent University, in the United Kingdom, have published an article in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction entitled 'A study on' Selfitis', which names this mania of going around the world taking pictures of oneself, as if beyond our curls the world had been destroyed by that meteorite th...

Twitter shows the best of ourselves (it wasn't always going to be the worst)

In the era of social networks, accustomed to interact daily with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google or WhatsApp, we forget that these tools are phenomenal in the History of Humanity capable of mobilize hundreds of thousands of people in very different geographical locations in a matter of hours or even minutes. Already in the past, Twitter has asserted its more social dimension to mobilize people, companies or organizations and also, from a broader perspective, feelings of solidarity and support or also of rejection and repulses towards causes with an important mediatic impact.Recently, Twitter was once again the engine of solidarity after Dortmund's explosions as the Borussia Dortmund team bus passed on its way to the local stadium on the occasion of the Champions League match between the Borussia and the Monaco. These explosions did not have the devastating effect that they could have caused , so that everything remained in a major social commotion at international lev...

Most apps for children violate your privacy

Do you know if apps with which children enjoy their safety? A team of researchers from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) of the University of Berkeley has studied compliance with the Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in these mobile applications for the little ones, through a scalable dynamic analysis that allows the automatic evaluation of privacy behaviors of Android apps. After studying 5,855 applications aimed at children, the research concludes that most of these apps, 57%, violate the privacy of their users mainly due to the use of data by third parties. apps for children and privacy Although many apps offer options in their configuration to respect the federal law that protects minors in the United States, by disabling tracking, their results suggest that a majority of applications either do not use these options or propagate them in wrong way. In addition, researchers believe that 19% of apps for children send user IDs to third parties to show ...

Are social networks damaging democracy?

The revelations according to which Russian agents inserted ads on Facebook that tried to influence the 2016 US elections raise a disturbing question: is Facebook bad for democracy? As an expert in the social and political repercussions of technology, I think that the problem is not exclusively from Facebook, but that it is much broader: Social networks are weakening some of the conditions that have historically enabled the existence of national states democratic. I understand that it is a dramatic statement, and I do not expect anyone to believe it immediately, but considering that almost half of all potential voters received false news promoted by the Russians in Facebook is an argument that must be debated. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina-Charlotte How we create a shared reality Let's start with two concepts: the "imagined community" and the "bubble filter". ...

This is how visual challenges star in some of the most viral content

Constantly, we all receive in our mail, our WhatsApp or our Facebook account, games that try to test our ingenuity, imagination or visual skill.There are a thousand types, more fun or darker.But they have one thing in common: we cannot avoid trying them and see if we are able to solve them .This is how the visual challenges star in some of the most viral content of the network. Visual challenges, why are we crazy? The visual challenges are games.So, they attend to this playful and fun part that people have no choice but to feed from time to time.They are pure and hard entertainment, with no more pretensions, and that desire to Having fun represents one of the main features that are sought when surfing the Internet . Another of the qualities for which they succeed is because they challenge the mind directly.Human beings love that feeling of feeling a little troubled, somewhat lost, but convinced that there is a solution to that enigma to which, sooner or later, it will come.Rathe...

Network One Online

Search This Blog