BROWSING: 4g

Nokia and Axiom Space to outfit lunar spacesuits with 4G

Nokia will adapt its Lunar Surface Communications System for use in the Axiom Space AxEMU spacesuit Nokia and Axiom Space have been tasked with enabling 4G cellular-network connectivity for data, video and voice transmission in the spacesuits destined for use during the National Aeronautics &...

Peru to offer spectrum in exchange for coverage commitments

The new spectrum will allow telcos in Peru to launch 5G services via 5G SA architecture The government of Peru approved a plan to assign spectrum directly to operators and allow them to commit to coverage investments instead of paying in cash, with the aim...

BSNL aims to officially launch 4G services in October: Report

BSNL has set up around 25,000 4G towers across the country Indian state-owned operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is set to launch its 4G services in October, as the telco has completed trials in all circles across India, local press reported, citing a company...

Airtel’s FWA service reaches over 1,300 cities across India

Airtel aims to launch FWA using 5G SA architecture in the short term Indian carrier Bharti Airtel said its fixed wireless access (FWA) offering has reached over 1,300 towns and cities across India, local press reported. The telco noted it is currently upgrading its networks to...

Three 5G network reaches 62% of UK population

Three currently has 10.9 million subscribers in the U.K U.K. operator Three announced that its 5G network covered 62% of the country’s population as of the end of June, an increase of 1 percentage point compared to the end of the first half of 2023. In...

DigitalBridge launches offer to acquire JTower in take-private deal

JTower said that the tender offer will be open until October 10 U.S. investment firm DigitalBridge Group is offering a 152% premium for Japanese tower company JTower in a deal that values the Asian telecom infrastructure company at around JPY93 billion ($630 million), according to...

Bharti Enterprises to acquire 24.5% stake in BT Group

Bharti said it will take a 10% stake immediately, while the remaining amount will have to be cleared by regulators Indian conglomerate Bharti Global signed an agreement with Altice to acquire its 24.5% in U.K.-based BT Group, international press reported. The reports noted that the full...

BSNL’s 5G network likely to go live by Q4 2025: Report

BSNL is targeting a 20% market share of the country’s overall mobile market by the end of 2024 Indian state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will launch its 5G services within six to eight months after completing the March 2025 pan-India 4G rollout deadline,...

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 Management announced that Rakuten Mobile will raise between JPY150-300 billion (around $1-2 billion) in funds for the sale and leaseback...

BSNL to deploy 80,000 base stations by end-October

BSNL will also deploy an additional 21,000 towers by end March 2025 India’s state-run operator BSNL is expected to install a total of 80,000 telecom towers across the country by the end of October for the provision of nationwide 4G services, local press reported. The country’s...

SK Telecom’s 5G subscriber base surges 10.6% y-o-y in Q2

SK Telecom reported its operating profit rose 16% to KRW537.5 billion ($390.5 million) in the second quarter SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the second quarter of the year with a total of 16.22 billion subscribers in the 5G segment, up 10.6% from...

Cellnex UK inks long-term deal with Vodafone, Virgin Media O2

New agreement provides Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 with access to Cellnex's UK towers Cellnex UK, Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 have reached a new long-term agreement under which Cellnex UK will provide the two mobile operators with tower infrastructure and associated services. In a release,...

India sets 25% market share target for BSNL by end-2025

BSNL is currently working to launch 4G services at a national level The government of India has set a new market share target of 25% by the end of 2025 for state-owned BSNL, as the telco is working to launch 4G services at a national...

Deutsche Telekom operates 12.150 5G antennas via 3.6 GHz band

Deutsche Telekom said its 5G network currently reaches 97% of the German population German telecom operator Deutsche Telekom said that a total of 12,150 of its 5G antennas in 920 cities are currently transmitting on the 3.6 GHz spectrum band. In a release, Deutsche Telekom said...

Indian government to track BSNL’s 4G deployment progress

BSNL is currently deploying its 4G network in partnership with TCS, Tejas Networks and the C-DOT The Government of India will soon set up a project management unit (PMU) for state-run telco BSNL, through which the carrier will be monitored on a daily basis with...

America Movil ends Q2 with 12.8 million 5G subscribers in Mexico

In April, America Movil had reached 125 cities across Mexico with its 5G network Mexican telecoms group America Movil ended the second quarter of the year with a total of 12.8 million subscribers in Mexico, according to the carrier’s earnings report. In Mexico, America Movil operates...

5G represents 16.9% of mobile data usage in India in Q1: TRAI

According to TRAI, 5G data usage was 8,891 PB in the first quarter of the year 5G data usage accounted for 16.89% of the total mobile data usage in India during the first quarter of 2024, according to the latest data released by the Telecom...

Huawei completes construction of its global R&D center

Huawei said its new facility is located in in Jinze, a town in Shanghai’s Qingpu district Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has completed the construction of its CNY10 billion ($1.4 billion) research and development (R&D) center in Shanghai, Chinese press reported. According to the report, the new...

Mobile core network market to decline in 2024-28: Dell’Oro

The reduction in the forecast is caused by severe economic headwinds and the slow adoption of 5G SA networks by mobile network operators The global mobile core network (MCN) market is expected to decline by 10% during the 2024-2028 period, according to a newly published...

Indian union requests the rollback of recent mobile tariff hike

The union also urged the Indian government to accelerate the deployment of BSNL's 4G and 5G mobile services Indian workers union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has demanded a rollback of the increase in mobile tariff recently implemented by local carriers Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel...

O2 Telefonica activates first energy-autonomous mobile mast

O2 Telefonica said that the new site has been deployed in Bavaria German operator O2 Telefónica has put into operation the first mobile site that operates completely independently of the general power supply. The site has been deployed in the small town of Sindlbach, in the...

Telefonica, Digi extend mobile network agreement in Spain

Telefonica noted that the new agreement with Digi has a duration of 16 years Spanish telco Telefónica and compatriot telco Digi have signed a new long-term mobile network agreement to extend their ongoing relationship, the former said in a release. Telefonica noted that the new agreement...

Orange to provide 4G PTT at Paris Olympics 2024

The Olympics PTT service will be prioritized over other voice traffic on the 4G network to ensure reliability, said the CTIO of Events at Orange Orange, which is an official partner and supplier of the Paris Olympics Games 2024, will use a Push-To-Talk (PTT) service...

Indosat to put main focus on 4G expansion: CEO

In an interview with RCR Wireless News, Indosat's President and CEO, Vikram Sinha said that the telco has alread launched 5G services in eight cities across Indonesia, including Jakarta, Makassar, and Bali Indonesian telco Indosat has the main priority of strengthening its 4G network to...