October 2021

Indian operator Vodafone Idea Limited is partnering with engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro for a pilot project to test 5G-based smart city solutions, as part of its ongoing …

Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile and compatriot firm JTower have entered a capital alliance with the aim of sharing infrastructure in indoors and outdoors environments, the latter said in a …

  Schneider Electric said it has been chosen to implement a full building management system at Hyatt Centric Jumeirah Dubai. The solution, EcoStruxure Building Operation 3.0, will provide the hotel …

In an address to the Free State Foundation, Federal Communications Commissioner Nathan Simington continued a conversation that he says has “ruffled a few feathers”: Receiver standards. In his remarks, Simington …

Azure for Operators’ optimized network traffic orchestration and worldwide WAN make it ready for 5G low-latency use cases, says the CTO.

Sport complexes, concert halls and other enclosed venues are promising scenarios for a small cell deployment Small cells can be deployed indoors or outdoors and in licensed, shared or unlicensed …

T-2 bid 18.2 million EUR for 2.1 GHz and 2.3 GHz licenses at the Slovenia spectrum auction, which concluded in August Nokia announced that it will provide equipment from its …

During the 12th Global Mobile Broadband Forum in Dubai, David Wang delivered a keynote address called, Roads to Mobile 2030: 10 Wireless Industry Trends. Wang is Huawei Executive Director of the …

How do you confirm your gut feelings and logical reasoning? Well, you do a detailed techno-economic study and get a definitive answer. That’s exactly what the recently published report regarding …

Communications service providers (CSPs) have invested billions in their networks. Now it’s time to monetize those assets and reap the rewards. But what’s the best way to do that?

Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have claimed a “world-first” implementation of end-to-end 5G network slicing with on-demand quality-of-service (QoS) control for enterprise use cases. The tests ran in Deutsche Telekom’s innovation …

Open RAN in 2020 was all about communicating the value proposition and gaining validation from major global operators. In 2021, with that validation in hand, the Open RAN ecosystem is …

The impressive T-Mobile US download speed results are likely due to the progress of 5G mid-band spectrum deployments The latest Opensignal 5G experience report revealed that T-Mobile US has “an …

The majority of North American and European mobile network operators—88%—plan to move to 5G Standalone networks within the next two years, according to new joint research by test company EXFO …

The telecommunications industry needs to accelerate adoption of more energy-efficient network technologies as 5G networks expand globally, Ryan Ding, Huawei’s executive director and president of its Carrier Business Group, said …

CommScope director of engineering: ‘When densification [of small cells] increases […] so does the amount of power’ In the U.S., operators are expected to deploy five to 10 times more …

5G enables adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies that improve machine and process efficiency, system availability and reduce defects

  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $61 million in funding for 10 pilot projects that will deploy new technology to transform thousands of homes and workplaces into energy-efficient …

If there’s one thing operators need to rapidly roll out 5G services, it’s the ability to see and manage data seamlessly across data silos Mobile operators have found themselves in …

Nordic Semiconductor is now offering embedded machine learning (ML) software with its cellular-based IoT chipset portfolio. The move continues its partnership with US-based Edge Impulse, which makes miniaturised ML (‘TinyML’) …

Dell exec: ‘The telecommunications network opening up is absolutely inevitable’ In June, Dell Technologies revealed intentions to enhance its participation in the telecommunications industry by driving an open ecosystem with …

Google announces Virtual Machine (VM) support for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform and will offer an API to manage K8s on Azure and AWS.

German operator Deutsche Telekom and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced the launch of a software-defined RAN trial in Berlin. The partners noted that the Berlin trial is the first …

Nokia has been selected by Japanese mobile operators SoftBank and KDDI as one of the vendors to deploy Japan’s shared Radio Access Network. The Finnish vendor noted that this deployment …

This is the first in a series of four articles that dive into the concepts and technologies being researched for future 6G systems, as well as the possible capabilities and …