The use of 5G technologies can enhance the safety and security of the workers at the steel plant
The Steel Authority of India Limited's (SAIL) Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) with the...
Reliance Jio Infocomm has expanded its 5G infrastructure to 346 new cities in recent weeks
Indian telco Reliance Jio Infocomm has already deployed its 5G service in 2,691 cities across 35 states in India, according to the carrier’s website.
In recent weeks, the telco has expanded...
Operators in China recorded a net gain of 59.17 million 5G subscribers in March
China ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 2.64 million base stations nationwide, local press reported, citing Zhao Zhiguo, a spokesperson at the country’s Ministry of Industry...
Vodafone said that the 5G SA environment will offer extremely fast download speeds, near-real time latency capabilities and network slicing
U.K. carrier Vodafone and Coventry University have collaborated to open what they say is the U.K.’s first 5G Standalone (SA) media innovation lab in Coventry,...
The Alpine region now has 416 cell sites, says Vodafone
Vodafone say it completed its LTE and 5G expansion in the German Alpine region in only nine months, notably faster than anticipated. First announced in July 2022, the expansion included 121 construction projects in eight...
The first part of this Q and A with Vodafone’s Joanna Newman, senior director of technology partnerships, covers the operator’s dedicated vs. distributed MEC approach, the logic behind its various hyperscaler partnerships, and addresses how many MEC use cases involve common sets of building...
Whether its considering a private 5G network coupled with a dedicated mobile edge computing (MEC) solution for an enterprise, or a consumer-facing use case that taps into more widely distributed computing infrastructure, Vodafone has recognized that addressing this nascent space requires a strong focus on...
MEC is delivering low-latency, real-time enterprise applications
As has been pointed out by operators on recent earnings calls, the market for advanced 5G-enabled services—things like mobile edge computing (MEC) combined with public and private 5G, and private 5G itself—has been slower to create revenues than...
Crown Castle said its capital expenditures during the quarter were $341 million
Crown Castle reported revenues its site rental revenues reached $1.62 billion in the first quarter of the year, climbing 3% compared to the year-ago quarter, the company said in its earnings statement.
The company’s...
ZTE said its net profits amounted to CNY 2.64 billion in the quarter, climbing 19.2% year-on-year
Chinese vendor ZTE recorded revenues of CNY 29.14 billion ($4.23 billion) in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 4.3% year-on-year.
In a release, the vendor said that...
Chinese operators had deployed a total of 2.29 million 5G base stations nationwide as of the end of November
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 59.17 million 5G subscribers in March, according to the operators’ latest available statistics.
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in...
MEC applications, architectures and go-to-market strategies
Mobile edge computing (MEC), particularly when combined with cellular connectivity, is seen as a new revenue driver for both operators and hyperscalers. In fact, market dynamics are pushing the two increasingly closer together in terms of developing, packaging and...
In designing and delivering MEC (and private network) solutions, T-Mobile US touts a “just-right” approach to meet customers where they are
In addition to moving their own network and administrative workloads into private, public and hybrid cloud environments, operators are simultaneously partnering with hyperscalers to...
Northeastern said that the private 5G network follows the O-RAN architecture in a multi-vendor environment, with open interfaces and near real time RAN Intelligent Controller (RICs)
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University and its Open6G R&D Center announced...
Huawei and its partners have developed and released over 100 digital transformation standards for the smart city, finance, electric power, highway, aviation and healthcare industries
Chinese vendor Huawei will accelerate investments in the digitalization space, particularly in areas including connectivity, computing storage and cloud, the...
5G means more innovation and collaboration, which might offer increased opportunities for the female workforce
Maria Lema, the co-founder of Weaver Labs, spoke with RCR Wireless News during the latest Women in Telco Forum about working in a 5G world and how the accompanying technology...
The government expects this potential plan to boost competition in the domestic 5G market
The government of Malaysia plans to introduce a second 5G network from January next year, in a move which seeks to boost competition in the local telecom market, Reuters reported, citing...
A distributed network architecture requires distributed OSS/BSS functionality
As it considers the move from 5G Non-standalone to 5G Standalone, alongside deployment of mobile edge computing (MEC) infrastructure, Three UK is mindful of the concurrent need to evolve OSS/BSS functionality. Speaking at the recent Telco Cloud...
AT&T Mexico said its 5G Innovation Laboratory is a space designed to test and validate 5G use cases
AT&T Mexico has begun technological tests of private networks in its 5G Innovation Laboratory with partners including Qualcomm, Celona, Axity and Veea.
The Mexican carrier said that...
China Tower said its net profit in the first quarter climbed 15% year-on-year to CNY2.50 billion
China Tower ended the first quarter of this year with a total of 2.06 million towers under management, after a new addition of 7,000 sites during the period.
In...
G non-terrestrial networks (NTN) is a technology to enable 5G user terminals on, or close to the earth’s surface, to connect to non-terrestrial base stations located on satellites. There are two major market ecosystems driving and innovating both the technology and business use cases...
Deutsche Telekom currently operates more than thirty of these local mobile networks based on 5G or LTE across Germany and Austria
German operator Deutsche Telekom announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) under a new program which connects AWS services with Deutsche Telekom’s private...
Vodafone has installed 119 new LTE stations and 26 5G stations across the country since the beginning of the year
Vodafone Germany has already equipped 37,000 antennas with 5G technology, the German carrier said in a release.
These include 3,400 5G Standalone (SA) stations with around...
There are 2,497 cities with commercial 5G networks, across 92 countries
Viavi Solutions’ latest report looking at the global state of 5G revealed that 47 of the world’s 70 largest economies by GDP now have active 5G networks. Further, the company found that 5G Standalone...
Virgin Media O2 said the Mavenir’s O-RAN system will consist of fully virtualized L1, L2 vRAN SW and will operate on Intel Xeon scalable processors
U.K. telecom operator Virgin Media O2 has selected U.S. company Mavenir as its Open RAN (O-RAN) vendor.
In a release, the...
