Monthly Archives: May, 2023

Rakuten Mobile’s 4G infra reaches 98.4% of Japanese population

Rakuten Mobile reported that the total number of MNO subscriptions was 4.65 million at end-Q1 Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said its 4G network reached 98.4%...

Cisco announces plans to start manufacturing in India

Cisco said the move will drive over $1 billion in combined domestic production and exports in the coming years Cisco announced that it will start...

Generative AI for telcos: Is there value? (Reader Forum)

Communications service provider (CSP) leaders are likely looking at the myriad of headlines about generative AI, trying to understand what it means for their...

AT&T, AST SpaceMobile seek FCC approval for spectrum leasing deal

AT&T has agreed to lease spectrum in the 700 MHz and 850 MHz bands to AST SpaceMobile In an official filing, AT&T asked the US...

Kagan: Apple MacOS and iOS still causing user problems

Once again, it’s time to gripe about Apple. So why don’t we all, for no good reason, try to totally screw up our reliable...

Penn Entertainment rolls out indoor neutral-host 5G DAS infrastructure

Tillman Digital Cities (TDC), the US network infrastructure startup founded by telecoms magnate Sanjiv Ahuja, is to provide a neutral-host distributed antenna system (DAS)...

Rakuten Mobile, KDDI sign new roaming agreement

The deal includes high-traffic shopping districts in Tokyo’s 23 wards and the cities of Osaka and Nagoya Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile signed a new three-year...

Verizon inks deal with Vertical Bridge to expand 4G, 5G footprint

Vertical Bridge has agreed to construct these towers with Verizon as the anchor tenant U.S. carrier Verizon signed a deal with Vertical Bridge to build...

ThinkWiFi deploys first TIP OpenWiFi solution in Kenya

TIP OpenWiFi is an open source-based Wi-Fi architecture that enables multi-vendor, interoperable Wi-Fi networks Kenya now has its first Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenWiFi outdoor...

Telefonica Germany to boost 5G coverage nationwide

Telefonica activated nearly 1,000 new 5G sites nationwide during the first quarter of the year German carrier Telefonica Deutschland is on track to reach 90%...

Five best practices for mobile testing success (Reader Forum)

Do you remember your first mobile phone? It may have been an old-school flip phone or one of those that had the slide-out QWERTY...

MediaTek refreshes its flagship chip with the Dimensity 9200+

I recently had the pleasure of reviewing the Oppo Find N2 Flip phone, which features a MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ chip, and I have been...

Federated Wireless pushes CBRS neutral host model for US operators

US-based Federated Wireless, offering spectrum services in the CBRS band, has convened a new neutral host sales push, under the banner Neutral Host 2.0,...

#TBT: Dabbling in mobile data; Paging consolidation; A ‘new telecom era’ … this week in 1997

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...

Ericsson, Telia claim first 5G private network in the Baltics

The 5G private network was activated at a supply site owned by Ericsson in Tallinn, Estonia Ericsson and Telia said they have jointly launched what...

IIoT among top reasons for deploying 5G tech in APAC: IDC

IDC said that most telecom carriers saw manufacturing, smart cities with smart mobility and smart buildings as the most critical use cases for the...

Claro, Movistar secure 5G spectrum in Uruguay

Uruguay confirmed that a block of 5G spectrum had been reserved for state-run telco Antel Uruguayan operators Claro, owned by Mexican telecom group America...

Here comes the funding: Key takeaways from NTIA’s latest assessment of federal broadband spending

As the U.S. federal government pours billions of dollars into broadband deployment and adoption, it is also trying to get a better handle on...

BT shuffles Division X in BT Business rejig; private 5G chief Overton exits

UK telecoms group BT has folded its Division X business, founded early 2022, further into its BT Business division. The consolidation, which makes Division...

Telcos have lowest satisfaction with their AI deployments: Survey

Telecommunications providers are more likely than companies in other verticals to use artificial intelligence and they aim to offer sophisticated services using AI, according...

‘They have no choice’—Operators turn to multi-carrier small cell infrastructure

Operators are now saying they 'have no choice' but to share small cell infrastructure, according to Connect (X) panelists NEW ORLEANS - At Connect (X)...

Nokia deploys private 5G at Mines Nancy – first grande école to get ‘industrial 5G’

A bit late, but of some note; last month, Mines Nancy, a major grande école for engineering in France, opened a private 5G innovation...

How 5G sidelink benefits public safety and critical communications

Qualcomm’s 5G vision is to intelligently connect virtually everything around us, enabling new applications for a wide range of devices, services, and deployments. Sidelink, or device-to-device...

How operators can balance the cost of IoT with profitability (Reader Forum)

The hype is over. Now it's time to make money. This will be the mindset adopted by mobile operators far and wide when considering...

Airtel reaches 2 million 5G customers in Mumbai

Bharti Airtel said it has already reached full 5G coverage in Mumbai Indian operator Bharti Airtel has reached 2 million 5G customers in the city...
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