Well, this is wild: In a scenario meant to mimic the lunar surface, four robots cooperatively built a five-meter communications tower, including antenna—and then disassembled it, simulating not only the …
EchoStar needs additional financing to pay debts coming due and plans to use its spectrum holdings as leverage The newly merged EchoStar needs to raise additional capital to pay debts …
T-Mobile US will finally turn up airwaves that it bought in 2022 T-Mobile US plans to turn up much of its long-awaited Auction 108 2.5 GHz spectrum in the next …
Airgain says that a North American Tier One MSO will start upgrading its customer premise equipment to Wi-Fi 7, with new units beginning to ship in the second half of …
Spirent’s CEO blames tough market conditions on impact to company’s finances Viavi Solutions has made a bid to acquire Spirent Communications for $1.3 billion, and pending approval by shareholders, the …
BARCELONA—Open radio access networks have been a major theme at this week’s Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024. Not only was an O-RAN Alliance meeting held in conjunction with MWC, but …
BARCELONA—As 5G continues to evolve, the telecom industry is setting its sights on a new frontier: achieving global service ubiquity through a combination of cellular terrestrial networks and space-based, non-terrestrial …
BARCELONA—Artificial intelligence is dominating conversations and sessions at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024, with telecom companies and their vendors all working to figure out—or support the exploration of—just what AI …
AT&T says this is the ‘next milestone’ in its Open RAN journey AT&T says that it has commercial traffic running on Ericsson Cloud RAN sites in its 5G network. The …
Setting the stage for standard-power use of the unlicensed 6 GHz band, the Federal Communications Commission has officially approved seven applicants for automated frequency coordination (AFC) systems. Systems from Qualcomm, …
AT&T users reported a widespread mobile network outage on Thursday morning, with tens of thousands of users reporting online that their phones showed no received signal and they were unable …
Regional operator is continuing a strategic review of its options UScellular reported operating revenues that were slightly down compared to last year’s fourth quarter, but narrowed its losses from $28 …
Projects in Vermont and New York include factory refurbishment The Biden administration has announced $1.5 billion in potential funding to support multiple semiconductor manufacturing projects in New York and Vermont. …
Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son wants to raise $100 billion for a new company focused on artificial intelligence microchips, according to Bloomberg. The venture, dubbed Project Izanagi, is aimed …
Keysight Technologies has unveiled a network emulation test platform for Wi-Fi 7 devices, describing its new E7515W UXM Wireless Connectivity Test Platform for Wi-Fi as a “turnkey solution” that provides …
In an extension of an existing partnership, Nokia will transition its Nokia Airframe server customers to Dell Technologies’ PowerEdge servers, while becoming the preferred enterprise private network provider for Dell. …
Vodafone, Samsung and AMD completed an end-to-end data call in Samsung’s research and development lab in Korea, utilizing AMD processors that supported Samsung’s virtualized RAN (vRAN) software, which is O-RAN …
The ‘next phase’ of the FirstNet network focuses on 5G and coverage expansion Having completed the initial deployment of the FirstNet network for first responders, AT&T and the First Responders …
“The best way to assess integration across the industry is to go big,” writes AT&T’s VP of RAN Technology AT&T and Verizon are heading up a federally funded, $42.3 million …
Sub-terahertz frequencies will be tested in an indoor-only environment for high-throughput data links Microsoft is going to test indoor sub-terahertz wireless links as a potential supplement to wired links in …
Opensignal this week debuted an assessment of the role of network reliability in customers’ choice of a mobile carrier, compared to other metrics including speeds. An Opensignal US household survey …
U.S. federal agencies warned this week that a state-sponsored Chinese hacking group is positioned in critical infrastructure IT networks, including communications IT systems, and that they believe the hackers have …
FCC, New Hampshire AG issue warning letters on AI-generated political calls In the wake of the 2023 deadline for implementing the anti-robocall STIR/SHAKEN call authentication framework, more U.S. calls than …
Three major infrastructure efforts are wrapping up, but an ‘aggressive’ C-Band and mmWave build continues Verizon has decentralized its national organizational structure into 18 regions and is heavily focusing on …
Verizon says it is laying the foundation for O-RAN Verizon says that it has already deployed more than 130,000 Open RAN-capable radios in its network as part of an ongoing …
