September 2020

The telecommunications industry is facing a major workforce problem and it couldn’t come at a worse time. Just as operators are embarking on multi-year capex cycles to build out 5G, …

In yet another illumination of the extent to which technological capability is increasingly seen as tied to national security, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is starting up its first-ever federal …

Samsung’s 5G vRAN, virtual core, MEC, and management and analytics will be central to the collaboration Samsung will deliver 5G network solutions built on Red Hat’s hybrid cloud portfolio, including …

  The U.K. government announced that ex-BT CEO and former trade minister Ian Livingston is to chair a new task force to drive forward ongoing work to diversify the country’s …

  Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) has launched its new RDG200 thermostat range ?to improve room automation, which the company said is key for protecting and enhancing the occupants’ health as …

ip.access brings 2G, 3G support to Mavenir’s Open RAN offering Open RAN continues to gain momentum globally, although the primary proof points have been greenfield network builds like Rakuten Mobile’s …

  Chinese carriers China Unicom and China Telecom have jointly built and currently operate over 300,000 5G base stations across China, local press reported. Wang Xiaochu, chairman of China Unicom, …

The 5G trials explore two industrial use cases: augmented reality and a telepresence robot for remote visits Orange has teamed up with energy management and automation company Schneider Electric on …

Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) is a key feature existing 4G LTE cellular operators can utilize to augment their migration to 5G NR. Learn about the key concepts of DSS including …

While the benefits of Open RAN (advantageous network economics and deployment flexibility chief among them) are widely touted, there are also well-articulated issues associated with the technology. One question is …

Northern-burbs-of-Chicago greetings from a recovering sell-side analyst!   Jim is taking the Editor on a well-deserved beach break, but before leaving town he asked me to babysit his beloved Sunday …

Right before the passing of the deadline, as expected, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took another swing at Qualcomm by filing a request to reconsider the recent appellate court decision. …

Diversity of thought breeds innovation. For many tech companies, it may not be unheard of that they’re mostly composed of a male workforce. Carrie Goetz defies the statistics by being one of …

Test company Rohde & Schwarz and digitalization and software company Fieldforce are partnering to integrate test capabilities with Fieldforce’s digital workflow management. Basit Malik, founder and CEO of Fieldforce, said …

Let’s frame the Open RAN value proposition to better understand the benefits of disaggregating radio hardware and software, trading single-purpose equipment for general-purpose hardware and moving vital network functions into …

  Korean carrier SK Telecom said it expects to target clients in the corporate segment once it expands its 5G network later this year with standalone architecture, local newspaper Korea …

  Samsung Electronics unveiled a new integrated 5G mmWave small cell for indoor use as part of the company?s suite of 5G in-building products, Samsung Link. Samsung?s new 5G indoor …

  Singaporean operator M1 launched its 5G non-standalone (NSA) network in parts of Singapore, the telco said in a release. M1 claimed to be the first operator in Singapore to …

Hitachi has installed a dedicated 5G network at its Silicon Valley Research Center, part of the Hitachi America’s research and development division. The installation, done in partnership with Ericsson, will …

As telco operators around the world ramp up 5G networks, they’re increasingly faced with competitors that are making it difficult to successfully monetize those networks. Despite that operators have made …

Today, when we look at the pay TV leaders AT&T, Comcast, Charter and Altice, the future is heading in different directions. Let’s take a look at the differences, who will …

Wait and hope. That was the message from Huawei this week as it restated its master plan for supremacy of the digital change circuit in the shadow of stretching US …

The 4th edition of NI’s Wireless Research Handbook offers a selection of 2-page case studies from top researchers around the world.  Different applications from mmWave beam tracking to precoding for satellite …

The lack of an Apple iPhone that is 5G-capable has held back 5G adoption in the U.S. — but as Apple and Google join the 5G fray this fall, more …

  Australian operator Optus has selected Nokia’s IMPACT IoT platform to provide device management and data collection capabilities to customers in multiple industry segments in Australia, Nokia said in a …