India, June 20 -- Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Dixons Carphone hit by slump in demand for new handsets; new UK fiber contender; startups have faith in 5G.
Ericsson, Vodafone and electric car company e.GO Mobile have begun 5G-fueled car manufacturing at e.GO's facility in Aachen, Germany. A private Vodafone network using Ericsson gear and deploying 36 antennas in the 8,500sqm production facility will enable secure and "almost real-time" data networking across the production chain. Among the 5G technologies used will be mobile edge computing (MEC) and network slicing.
Dixons Carphone, the UK retailer of mobile phones and more, saw its share price slump by more than 20% in early Thursday trading on the news that it lost £259 mi...