China Tower said it added a total of 17,000 new towers last year
China Tower ended 2022 with a total of 2.05 million towers under management, after a new addition of 17,000 sites during the full year. In a release, the company said that total...
According to Bharti Airtel, its 5G offering is currently active in 140 cities in India
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has reached 10 million 5G subscribers across the country, the telco said in a release, with 1 million 5G subscribers in Mumbai alone. The Asian operator,...
Indonesian operator Telkomsel and ZTE Corporation announced a collaboration to boost the use of 5G services for the enterprise segment in Indonesia. This agreement was formalized through a memorandum of understanding during the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
Wong Soon Nam, chief planning...
MWC, Barcelona—ZTE has released a 5G-Advanced solution, dubbed Cluster DFS, in partnership with Chinese carrier China Telecom. According to ZTE, the new offering will facilitate the development of specific B2B and B2C services using a single 5G network.
China Telecom claims to have deployed the...
Rakuten Symphony said the agreement stipulates the deployment of private networks in six Asian markets
MWC, Barcelona—Axiata Enterprise, which is a business solutions company owned by Asian mobile telecommunications conglomerate Axiata, and Japanese company Rakuten Symphony have inked an agreement under which the latter will...
Orange said the new financing will enable the telco to boost 4G networks in rural parts of France
French operator Orange has secured financing for a total of 500 million euro ($530 million) from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to partly finance the deployment of...
Cisco and NTT announced a deal to collaborate on private 5G in the automotive, logistics, healthcare, retail, and public sectors. They said they will “co-innovate”, and combine to bring to market both “technology and managed services”. Specifically, they said they would combine NTT’s managed...
The telecom industry is entering a period of rapid growth and convergence, as technological advancements make it easier for people to communicate with each other on multiple different platforms. As companies like AT&T and Verizon continue to expand their offerings in order to meet...
IT services company Capgemini has opened a 5G solutions facility in San Francisco, in the US, to help enterprises boost their adoption of 5G and edge technologies. Located at Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE), the center claims to provide a co-creation environment for innovative...
Thai carriers Total Access Communication (Dtac) and True Corp have completed their merger. Nordic operator Telenor, which partially ownes Dtac, said in a statement that the transaction is the largest telco merger in Southeast Asia by combined enterprise value.
The new company will have a...
The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Mobile Work Congress 2023
MWC, BARCELONA - Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom and Ericsson have agreed to align their efforts around 5G Advanced and 6G, with a particular focus on bringing more energy-efficient networks to the private wireless...
Carrier services company BICS is providing private-to-public network roaming for enterprises installing private 5G networks from Microsoft. BICS said the pair have “collaborated to solve the challenges” of IoT roaming between private enterprise networks and public operator networks. The Belgium-based firm is providing roaming...
The CEO of Orange said that European operators considered that the huge investments in network infrastructure was being hard to monetize
MWC, BARCELONA: European telcos face intense pressure on two fronts, said Christel Heydemann, chief executive of French group Orange at MWC – to support...
Dell Technologies kicked off a private 5G charm offensive with the operator set last week, in time for MWC, offering pre-tested and validated edge compute and networking solutions, plus system integration and support, for operators to sell private 5G to enterprises. At the outset,...
The O-RAN cooperation will be performed by exchanging the respective expertise and technologies between the parties
MWC, Barcelona. Vodafone and NTT Docomo have said they will work together to simplify open RAN testing and integration for network equipment vendors, with a view to harmonize the...
MWC 2023, Barcelona. Cellular will now find your IoT sensor in “every warehouse, farmhouse, outhouse, and doghouse”, to (mis)quote Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard; Deutsche Telekom has said it is working with Intelsat and Skylo to offer a satellite extension to its terrestrial cellular IoT...
The two telcos said the new network APIs are integrated onto Microsoft Azure Programmable Connectivity
BARCELONA—Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US have developed a platform with joint Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - called T-DevEdge – with the aim of making easier for the global developer community...
Singtel said the new capability identifies and blocks cyber threats at the network level thus preventing them from reaching the network’s users
Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel unveiled its new 5G security-as-a-slice (SecaaS) offering, the telco said in a release.
The new capability identifies and blocks cyber...
Deutsche Telekom said that Nokia and Fujitsu have been selected as partners for an initial commercial O-RAN introduction in Germany
German carrier Deutsche Telekom announced a partnership with Nokia, Fujitsu and Mavenir for the initial phase of its commercial Open RAN (O-RAN) deployments across its...
Dell announced new partnerships with Nokia, Qualcomm, Amdocs and Juniper Networks
BARCELONA, SPAIN - Dell Technologies kicked off Mobile World Congress Barcelona in a big way, announcing a string of industry collaborations that all aim to bolster the open telecom ecosystem.
The first two new...
MWC 2023: Bosch has said it is working with Nokia to develop industrial IoT solutions based on incoming 6G cellular networks. It follows the same joint work, formalised by the pair in a partnership in 2017, on 5G networks, now coming to market, mostly...
ZTE said that this new solution, dubbed UniSite, aims to help carriers build a future-oriented 5G network offering capabilities for all spectrum bands
BARCELONA—Chinese vendor ZTE has released its new all-scenario 5G solution at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2023.
The vendor noted that the new...
MWC 2023: The GSMA has announced a framework of universal network application programmable interfaces (APIs) to provide universal access to operator networks for developers. At launch, at the annual MWC showcase in Barcelona, the so-called GSMA Open Gateway initiative has the support of 21...
China Mobile’s overall mobile subscriber base at the end of January amounted to 975.5 million, after a net addition of 503,000 subscribers during the month
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 16.53 million 5G subscribers in January, according to the operators’ latest available statistics.
China...
The wireless evolution to 5G, digital services, IoT, cloud-native and virtualized architectures is creating networks that are at once more powerful and sophisticated, and more complex to manage and optimize. To keep up with the new requirements and expectations, operators have to widen the...
