Monthly Archives: August, 2024

EchoStar’s profits fall as its debts loom

$2 billion of EchoStar's debt comes due in November, but does not have the funds to pay EchoStar lost customers across all of its business...

Rakuten Mobile raises funds though leasing of mobile assets

Rakuten Mobile said it will continue to manage and operate these mobile network assets in Japan Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group and Macquarie Asset...

China Tower inks IoT monitoring deals with two Chinese telcos

The deals aims to help China Tower handle demand for transmission of monitoring data and related data analysis services for mid and high-point IoT...

Telekom Malaysia deploys private 5G at Petronas oil and gas plant

Malaysian multinational oil and gas company Petronas has opened a private 5G network at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex in Bintulu, on the...

China Mobile’s H1 revenues grow 3%

China Mobile plans to launch 5G-Advanced (5G-A) technology in over 300 cities across China this year China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of...

For telco AI LLMs, is bigger necessarily better?

The pros and cons of building an LLM from scratch or tuning an existing LLM for telco AI use cases Whether for automated quality assurance...

The Sunday Brief: 2Q earnings review—when history rhymes (Part 1)

July and August greetings from Nashville, Boston, Cedar Rapids, St. Louis, and Kansas City.  Pictured is our wonderful view from the Cardinals-Royals game on...

Swiss drone rollout shows value of ‘brilliant’ public 5G to industry, says Nokia

As novel industrial technologies go, Nokia’s deal with Swisscom Broadcast, the Swiss operator’s enterprise-facing security and analytics arm, to deploy a network of 300...

AT&T told to come back to Earth with space coverage claims

NARB concurs with recommendation that AT&T 'discontinue or modify' claims about the availability of NTN coverage The National Advertising Review Board (NARB) has agreed with...

Spirent customers wait and see, amid acquisition by Keysight

Pending acquisition by Keysight slowed customer orders in the first half, Spirent says Spirent Communications saw a continued slide in its financial performance during the...

Airtel ends June with 90 million 5G customers

Airtel had ended the previous fiscal quarter with 72 million customers in the 5G field Indian telco Bharti Airtel ended its first fiscal quarter of...

Vodafone research shows UK companies are ready to adopt 5G SA

Vodafone initially launched 5G Standalone technology in the country in 2023 Some 39% of companies in the U.K are ready to invest in 5G Standalone...

Boldyn Networks expands in the Spanish market

Boldyn Networks noted that it has deployed a private network at the BASF facilities in Tarragona Network infrastructure company Boldyn Networks said it has deployed...

Test and Measurement: Rohde & Schwarz’s COO retires

After a decade of serving as chief operating officer and part of the executive board of Rohde & Schwarz, Peter Riedel (pictured below)...

AI’s role in revolutionizing submarine network connectivity (Reader Forum)

Anyone in networking understands that bandwidth growth is a constant. We’ve had to adapt to meet the increasing demand from consumers for data; from...

Mining company Newmont green-lights private 5G from Ericsson at all global sites

US gold mining company Newmont Corporation is to junk Wi-Fi in favour of 5G on its remote controlled and autonomous machinery at its major...

CommScope’s sales down, as it proceeds with sale of cellular infra units

Telecom infrastructure company CommScope reported year-over-year lower sales during the second quarter, with its connectivity and cabling business a bright spot and weak sales...

FCC proposes rules for AI-generated robocalls, texts

The Federal Communications Commission is asking for input on how it should define the types of robocalls and texts that would be considered "AI-generated",...

Deutsche Telekom boosts global IoT focus

Deutsche Telekom said it is the first European telecommunications company to join the Bridge Alliance German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it is focusing on growing...

Singtel to ‘fortify’ Singapore against quantum threats with quantum-safe network

In March, Singtel announced partnerships with Cisco, Fortinet and Nokia, to deliver enterprise quantum security solutions Singapore’s Singtel has launched a three-phase pilot program for...

Indian entities partner to develop ‘cell-free’ 6G network

Two Indian institutes signed the 6G collaboration agreement with the Center for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) Two Indian technology institutes are partnering with the...

Sale of ATC India gets approval, ending company’s 17-year presence

Brookfield Asset Management will acquire 100% of ATC India for $2.5 billion The Competition Commission of India has cleared the takeover of American Tower Corp (ATC)...

UK clears HPE, Juniper $14 billion acquisition deal

Earlier this month, the European Commission approved unconditionally the proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks by HPE The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) gave Hewlett...

Swisscom deploys Nokia drone fleet for public safety and industrial monitoring

Swisscom Broadcast is working with Nokia to deploy a nationwide drone network of 300 drones for the emergency services, public safety, and private industrial...

#TBT: Motorola chases the iPhone; FCC approves acquisition of Rural Cellular; Verizon rolls out Rev-A … this week in 2008

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...
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