Monthly Archives: May, 2024

Why Wi-Fi offloading needs a reboot in 2024 (Reader Forum)

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...

How to test timing and synchronization in an Open RAN network

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...

‘Not a hockey stick, and never was’ – but IoT market to more than double in 10 years

The number of active IoT devices will more than double to 40 billion by the end of 2033, according to IoT analyst house Transforma...

What does it take to cover rural America with 5G? UScellular’s CEO breaks it down

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

UK gives conditional security clearance for Vodafone-Three merger

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...

Five key private 5G deployments (and their impacts) – in discrete manufacturing

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

Airtel, Google Cloud partner on enterprise cloud and AI

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...

Microsoft pledges $4.3 billion cloud, AI investment in France

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...

KT, Nokia partner to research future 6G technologies

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...

1&1 reaches 1,334 antenna sites across Germany at end-Q1

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...

Kagan: Upcoming Connect (X) asks, what’s next in wireless?

Connectivity Expo or Connect (X) is a wireless conference soon coming to my hometown, Atlanta! This should be a powerful wireless industry event. It...

Verizon certifies Nokia as private 5G supplier in licensed bands

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...

Editorial Report: The telco AI opportunity—strategies, use cases and the big picture

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...

T-Mobile US reportedly considering the purchase of UScellular assets

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...

Nokia and Vodafone trial O-RAN tech with Arm and HPE

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...

Korean telco LG Uplus ends Q1 with 7.19 million 5G subscribers

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...

Rakuten Mobile, JTower expand collaboration on infra sharing

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...

Test and Measurement: Keysight adds pulse generation to FieldFox

Keysight Technologies this week announced that it has added a software option that will enable pulse generation capabilities to its FieldFox handheld radio frequency...

Cornerstone signs with Signify to setup as 5G-IoT neutral host on UK streetlights

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...

Nokia strikes private 5G deal with IT reseller CGI in the UK

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...

Spectrum, innovation and openness: Samsung on bolstering US wireless leadership

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...

SoftBank, KDDI expand collaboration to build 5G networks

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...

Virgin Media O2, Accenture partner to pursue private 5G

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...

AI capabilities we don’t need—or are unable to use fully, just yet, ahead of an upcoming third revolution in mobile communications?

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...

AWS to invest an additional $8.8 billion in Singapore by 2028

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)...
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