Yearly Archives: 2023

Orange Spain, Ericsson ink deal to deliver private 5G networks

Orange said the private networks offers benefits including real-time automation, improved productivity and enhanced worker safety Spanish operator Orange and Ericsson have signed an agreement...

Test and Measurement: SpaceX to test direct-to-cellular connections

SpaceX has been granted special temporary authority by the Federal Communications Commission for field testing of direct-to-cellular communications via its Starlink second generation satellites. The...

O2 Telefonica’s 5G network reaches 95% of German population

O2 Telefónica has added 5G technology to around 3,000 locations since the beginning of the year German telecom operator O2 Telefonica, controlled by Spanish telco...

Deutsche Telekom fulfills fiber deployment targets for 2023

Deutsche Telekom highlighted that its 5G network currently covers 96% of the German population German telco Deutsche Telekom said it has achieved its targets in...

Three Ireland launches 5G SA technology with Ericsson

Three Ireland has partnered with Technological University Shannon (TUS) to trial 5G SA technology Irish telco Three claimed to be the first operator in Ireland...

5G SALE Act signed; T-Mo can get its 2.5 GHz licenses

FCC's auction authority has yet to be reinstated by Congress It literally took an act of Congress, but T-Mobile US will get access to the...

Green energy is driving hybrid and open edge-cloud architectures (Reader Forum)

Power distribution systems are rapidly evolving across the world in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and meet bold climate goals. Today, governments at...

How Turkcell is reducing its network energy usage

What are some realistic ways that operators can increase the sustainability of their mobile networks, while reducing operational expenditures related to energy usage? At...

Spain to acquire stake in local carrier Telefonica

The Spanish government will acquire the stake in Telefonica via state holding SEPI The Spanish government approved the acquisition of up to 10% of the...

AWS launches second infrastructure region in Canada

With the new launch in Canada, AWS now has 105 availability zones across 33 geographic regions Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its second infrastructure region...

Colombian operators secure 5G spectrum

The country's communications ministry said the 5G spectrum auction had raised more than 1.5 billion pesos ($380 million) Colombian operators Claro, WOM, Tigo and Movistar...

Nokia to sell its device, service management unit to Lumine Group for $203m

Nokia has agreed to sell its Device Management (DM) and Service Management Platform (SMP) businesses to Canadian telecom and media software company Lumine Group...

Three hot tech trends in manufacturing in 2024 (Reader Forum)

Jeroen Coussement, chief executive at Belgium-based industrial IoT scale-up Factry, sheds light on three hot Industry 4.0 topics for next year: creating a ‘unified...

Private LTE/5G networks number 2,900 at the end of 2023

There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which...

#TBT: Speculation on Cingular’s future; AOL, NTT DoCoMo dissolve JV; Content, ringtones and wallpaper, oh my! … this week in 2003

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire...

5G connections up 71% YoY in Q3

5G gained about 537 million connections around the world during the third quarter of 2023, according to 5G Americas, based on data from Omdia....

Iliad gets financing from the EIB to expand its 5G footprint

Iliad said its 5G coverage rate in France currently reaches over 94.4% of the population The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted French operator Iliad...

5G networks cover 90% of Germany’s territory

Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland and Vodafone each covered an area of between 59% and 77% with 5G 5G networks covered 90% of Germany’s territory as...

SK Telecom, Thales collaborate on post-quantum cryptography

SK Telecom said the innovation consists in upgrading the cryptography used to anonymize the user digital identity on the 5G network SK Telecom (SKT), the...

Verizon, T-Mo are maintaining FWA performance as they bring on customers: Ookla

T-Mo, Verizon are gaining cable, DSL customers Fixed Wireless Access services offered by telecom carriers are succeeding in winning customers away from cable and DSL...

More on ambient battery-free IoT – Nordic duo strike deal, claim major advance

As 2023 closes, and 2024 closes in, it seems the movement around ambient energy-harvesting battery-free IoT is stepping up. Scandinavian duo ONiO and Epishine...

Sigfox compatibility extends to “whole LoRa / LoRaWAN chipset portfolio”

Semtech has enabled Sigfox ‘0G’ technology on its SX126x family of LoRa chipsets, for use with LoRaWAN or other LoRa-based networks. The SX126x series...

IoT safety labels and the ransomware epidemic (Reader Forum)

As we step into the new year, the shadow of ransomware continues to loom large over the digital landscape. Cyber attackers show no signs...

The Sunday Brief: Six key events of 2023 (Part 2)

Holiday greetings from the Midwest, where we recently finished up a very productive trip through St Louis and several other towns.  Pictured are a...

Kagan: Companies must punch their way onto the map to get noticed

Being found over noise and chaos at CES, MWC and the larger marketplace It is important that both large and small companies along with their...
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