Nokia’s Markus Borchert (pictured) urged Europe’s major players and regulators to learn from 4G mistakes, insisting this “cannot be repeated in the 5G era”.

China Telecom, the country’s third largest mobile operator, posted stable profit and revenue growth for the first three quarters of 2017 despite hikes in network-related spending and marketing expenses to expand its 4G subscriber base.

A strong performance in Asia and continued gains in mobile search helped push Alphabet’s revenue to its fastest growth in nearly five years during the third quarter.

BT Technology, Service and Operations CEO Howard Watson (pictured) talked-up 5G as being at the heart of group strategy, while pointing to the strong potential of the applications it will enable.

SK Telecom (SKT), the largest mobile operator in South Korea, is testing Wi-Fi technology based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard which delivered speeds of up to 4.8Gb/s at its R&D centre in Seoul.