BROWSING: 5G

HPE tees-up $13bn deal for Juniper Networks, say reports

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is closing on a $13 billion deal for Juniper Networks, according to a report yesterday (Monday, January 8) in The Wall Street Journal, and widely covered elsewhere since. So far, neither company has commented on the story; the original cites...

Verizon gains ground on T-Mo’s 5G speed lead: Opensignal

Opensignal looks at 5G experience vs. overall network experience among the three largest U.S. MNOs T-Mobile US continues to maintain its lead in offering the fastest 5G speeds and availability, but Verizon and AT&T's C-Band deployments are helping those carriers to make some inroads. That's the...

Telco Sustainability Forum Key Findings Report

Sustainability is fast becoming a business imperative for the telecoms industry, driven by factors such as the UN's Race to Zero Campaign, rising energy costs, complex 5G deployments and heightened customer and shareholder expectations.RCR Wireless News' latest report, a companion piece to Telco Sustainability Forum, deep...

What’s next in 5G Advanced?

This month marked a significant milestone in the decade-long 5G technology evolution. After many months of intense discussions leading up to the final 3GPP RAN Plenary meeting of 2023, which took place in the historic city of Edinburgh, the scope of 5G Advanced Release...

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: Fundamentals of THz Technology for 6G

Download our white paper for an overview of the fundamentals and research areas of THz waves and the subsequent new possibilities in the area of 6G.

Vodafone deploys private 5G SA network at Ford’s plant in Valencia

Vodafone said the new private 5G SA network will allow Ford to optimize its production processes Vodafone Spain has deployed a private 5G Standalone (5G SA) network that will allow Ford to optimize production processes at its Almussafes factory in Valencia. In a release, Vodafone said...

Reliance Jio claims nationwide 5G coverage in India

Jio claimed it achieved the fastest 5G rollout globally Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm has completed the rollout of 5G technology in India last month, local press reported, citing the company’s chairman, Mukesh Ambani. During a presentation at the Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet 2024, the...

As 5G evolution continues, how can operators do more with less? 

Deploying massive MIMO for mid-band 5G presents the opportunity to massively reduce per site power consumption and system-level energy efficiency While there isn’t anything magical that happens when a new year starts, it does represent the opportunity to renew focus, refresh ambition and revisit priorities....

Verizon on enterprise 5G in 2024: ‘Everyone is interested’ 

Private 5G and network slicing set to drive enterprise adoption of 5G  In a wide-ranging conversation with RCR Wireless News, Verizon Business Chief Revenue Officer for Global Enterprise and Public Sector Massimo Peselli shared his outlook for 2024. With a growing private 5G business and...

India set to allow telcos to lease spectrum for private networks

This move by the government of India will allow domestic telcos to secure additional sources of revenue India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) will soon announce the rules around the leasing of mobile spectrum by local carriers to companies willing to deploy private networks, paving the...

Telecom Argentina expands 5G SA network

The telco claimed to be the first operator to launch 5G Standalone technology in Argentina Telecom Argentina said it has already activated 68 5G antennas using the 3.5 GHz band in different cities across the country. The telco claimed to be the first operator in the...

American Tower sells its tower business in India

American Tower has a portfolio of around 78,000 sites across India American Tower has signed a definitive agreement with Data Infrastructure Trust (DIT), an infrastructure investment trust associated with an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management, for DIT to acquire 100% of the equity interests in...

Zain Kuwait completes 5.5G test with Huawei

Zain Kuwait also tested Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) Zain Kuwaut said it has achieved speeds of 10 Gigabits per second after completing a 5.5G technology trial on its network in partnership with Chinese vendor Huawei. The Middle East telco said it was the first operator...

Thailand seeks to create four new MVNOs by 2026

The government of Thailand said the proposed MVNO regulations stipulate that the existing operators can hold a share of the new regional MVNOs The chairman of Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), Sarana Boonbaichaiyapruck, has outlined a plan to create more mobile virtual network...

Is automation the answer for the 5G labor shortage? (Reader Forum)

In the transition to 5G, communication service providers (CSPs) have invested billions of dollars in building their infrastructure and virtualizing key components. Funding from the recent Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in the United States will further infuse capital nationwide to expand mobile broadband services, particularly...

How does RAN modernization foster sustainability?

The sustainability North Star— “zero traffic, zero watt” The radio access network (RAN) is the biggest energy draw in a mobile network. Because of this, network infrastructure vendors and operators are primarily focused on reducing power consumption in the radio domain. Doing this successfully has...

France starts 2024 with 44,134 5G authorized sites

Mobile carriers in France are currently providing 5G services through spectrum in 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands France had a total of 44,134 authorized 5G sites as of January 1, 2024, of which 35,510 were declared technically operational by local carriers, according...

Lenders refuse to extend fresh funds to Vodafone Idea: Report

Vodafone Idea needs to obtain fresh financing in order to be in a position to launch its 5G network Indian carrier Vodafone Idea may face financial challenges as lenders are refusing to extend fresh loans to the telecom operator, according to Indian press reports. The reports...

Orange Spain ends 2023 with 2,463 cities covered by 5G

Orange reported its 5G network currently covers 83.2% of the country’s overall population Spanish telco Orange ended 2023 with a total of 2,463 towns and cities covered by its 5G network, according to the telco’s latest available data. Orange reported that its 5G network currently covers...

BT reportedly misses deadline to fully remove Huawei gear

BT said that all 4G and 5G data sessions and voice calls are now delivered by non-Huawei core equipment' U.K carrier BT Group missed the deadline previously imposed by the government to move data flows off core network equipment made by Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies,...

Rakuten Mobile ends 2023 with over 6 million mobile subscribers

Rakuten Mobile initially launched mobile services in Japan in April 2020 Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile has reached over 6 million subscribers as of the end of December, the carrier said in a release. “Since the full-scale launch of its mobile carrier service in April 2020, Rakuten...

The current state of 5G in Germany

During 2023, the largest operators in Germany have been focusing on the expansion of their 5G networks, with some operators already offering coverage to more than 90% of the country’s population. German telco Deutsche Telekom said that its 5G network currently covers 96% of the...

5G-ACIA signs MoU with Taiwan’s TAICS

The collaboration deal between 5G-ACIA and TAICS was facilitated by Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) The 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Taiwan Association of Information and Communication Standards (TAICS), with the aim of...

The current state of 5G deployments in India

Airtel said its 5G offering was available across all districts in India while rival telco Jio's 5G networl already reaches over 7,700 towns and cities The two largest operators in India, Reliance Jio Infocomm and Bharti Airtel, are rapidly expanding 5G networks after they initially...

Huawei expects revenues of over $98 billion in 2023

Huawei reported its revenues in 2023 would expand by nearly 9% year-on-year Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies expects to report revenue exceeding CNY 700 billion ($98.5 billion) for 2023, according to comments from the company’s rotating CEO Ken Hu in an internal new year message. The figure...