RCR Wireless News

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are hyperscaler apex predators, and offer both an existential threat and business opportunity for carriers.

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went offline for hours Monday after a routine internal network router update went wrong.

Belgian telco Proximus is partnered with HCL Technologies to transform its private data center business to a hybrid cloud model.

Telefonica and Oracle will convert database systems to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, to aid Telefonica’s transition to 5G services.

Open RAN isn’t the only place Vodafone sees the importance of disaggregation. It’s also fixed its sights on Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs)

Ericsson Cloud Connect enables secure IoT cellular connections using Amazon Web Services public cloud endpoints.

Kubernetes is cloud software container management that can help carriers with 5G Network Functions Virtualization

TeraGo said dozens of its 5G core network expansion projects are on track to be completed by years’ end, thanks to a private funding round.

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has returned to China after reaching agreement with U.S. prosecutors, concluding a three-year extradition battle.

Philippine carrier Globe Telecom has announced the launch of a trial 5G SA network in the city of Makati, following its 2020 5G NSA rollout.

Canadian rural broadband service provider Xplornet has announced the launch of its 5G standalone (SA) network, starting in New Brunswick.

Telefonica will lean on IBM’s expertise to build the 5G core network technology for its UNICA Next platform.

Iliad S.A.’s Play acquires UPC Poland in $1.8 billion deal that puts it behind Orange as Poland’s #2 telco.

The two companies will give vendors an opportunity to test and optimize performance as they develop Open RAN solutions IBM Global Business Services and Airspan Networks have announced plans to …

Wells Fargo has announced a new public cloud digital infrastructure plan that taps both Google and Microsoft. The banking firm will use Azure as its primary public cloud provider, while …

Apple anticipates double 5G global support by year end Apple this week introduced new iPhones, Apple Watch, iPad and iPad mini models. The iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro goes …

A Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) is an agile approach to RAN deployment and management that offers carriers the promise of improved operational efficiency and better flexibility to meet the …

The 5G Core is a Service Based Architecture, a cloud-native approach that enables services to operate and communicate independently.

Forging the 5G future Standalone 5G brings faster, more reliable, and vastly more capable telecommunications than ever before. But it also presents logistical, financial, and operational challenges for network operators …

Cloud-native 5G means advantage of scale The 5G Core standard defines a Service-Based Architecture (SBA) that is designed from the start for cloud-native 5G network deployment. This enables communication service …

With the introduction of 5G, networking equipment, storage and computing hardware, other valuable infrastructure will now be located closer to the end user, increasing the need for advanced, physical security. …

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and edge, plus other key technologies – …

Midband (or C-band) is considered the “waterfront property” of RF spectrum for 5G. It offers the best compromise between RF coverage and RF bandwidth, and with 100 MHz of bandwidth, …

Wireless connectivity has never been as crucial to as many people as it is today. In a new world shaped by social distancing, wireless capabilities have transcended convenience and become …

With the world going online and data doubling in volume every two years, applications that rely solely on the cloud for data storage and processing are straining to keep up—especially …