May 2024

Seemingly out of nowhere, the familiar concept of Wi-Fi offloading has become a megatrend in mobile telecom. Also known as mobile data offloading, it refers to the practice of shifting …

The rise of Open RAN, where multi-vendor radio systems comprising centralized, distributed and radio units are made interoperable, is now decidedly mainstream. Following early commercial deployments from greenfield operators, Open …

The number of active IoT devices will more than double to 40 billion by the end of 2033, according to IoT analyst house Transforma Insights. Short-range IoT technologies will account …

Just what would it take to actually get ubiquitous 5G in rural America? UScellular CEO Laurent Therivel walked through that scenario for just one county in rural Iowa at last …

Vodafone and Three should establish a national security committee within the joint entity under the terms approved by the government The U.K. Secretary of State has approved the proposed merger …

Just to add to the mess of forecasts about private 5G; annual spending on private 5G networks will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of about 42 percent between 2024 …

Airtel is training more than 300 experts on Google Cloud services at a managed services center in Pune Indian telco Bharti Airtel announced today a long-term partnership with Google Cloud …

The investment from Microsoft will go towards building infrastructure, workforce training and support for French start-ups Microsoft has pledged to inject $4.3 billion into its French cloud and artificial intelligence …

KT and Nokia agreed to collaborate on developing advanced Open RAN technology for 6G mobile communications Korean carrier KT has partnered with Finnish vendor Nokia to carry out research in …

1&1 said that around 700,000 customers were already using its O-RAN network as of the end of March German operator 1&1, which is owned by United Internet AG, had constructed …

Connectivity Expo or Connect (X) is a wireless conference soon coming to my hometown, Atlanta! This should be a powerful wireless industry event. It brings together top-level speakers from various …

Nokia has joined Verizon’s list of approved network equipment vendors with certified private network systems that can be deployed with its own licensed mid-band spectrum. The US operator has issued …

It seems quite evident that AI, both generative and more classical, is going to change the way all industries work. For mobile network operators, AI seems like the tool that …

T-Mobile US is rumored to be considering the purchase of UScellular spectrum licenses for more than $2 billion T-Mobile US is in discussions to purchase a piece of UScellular, a …

During the O-RAN demo, Nokia said that the data calls were successfully conducted using commercial user devices Nokia and Vodafone announced the successful completion of an Open RAN (O-RAN) trial …

LG Uplus said its overall mobile user base climbed 27.8% y-o-y to 26.26 million in Q1 Korean operator LG Uplus ended the first quarter of 2024 with 7.19 million 5G …

Rakuten Mobile started using JTower’s solutions in January 2020 Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile and compatriot telecom infrastructure company JTower announced that Rakuten Mobile has adopted JTower’s indoor infrastructure-sharing solutions for …

Keysight Technologies this week announced that it has added a software option that will enable pulse generation capabilities to its FieldFox handheld radio frequency analyzer, including the ability to generate …

UK tower company Cornerstone is to build an outdoor neutral host 5G and IoT platform across UK cities by deploying cellular-connected luminaries from Dutch lighting firm Signify in street lighting …

Nokia has announced another private-5G go-to-market deal, this time with the UK arm of Canada-based IT consulting giant CGI. It is unconfirmed whether the deal extends beyond than the UK …

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Spectrum, driving innovation and openness. From Samsung Networks’ view, these are the three things that the U.S. government should be focusing on to bolster the country’s global leadership in …

SoftBank and KDDI will aim to jointly build out a total of 100,000 base stations each by the fiscal year 2030 Japanese telecom operators SoftBank and KDDI Corporation said they …

Virgin Media O2 said that the first customer implementations in the U.K. will take place in the coming months U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 and Accenture have announced a new …

Apple has just shown its new lineup of iPads including Pro models with “outrageously powerful AI chips.” The company said the M4’s neural processing unit is more powerful than any …

AWS said this investment will be executed during the 2024-2028 period Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to invest an additional S$12 billion ($8.8 billion) into its existing cloud infrastructure …