US system integrator Kyndryl has published a nice-looking blog post, complete with videos, on its headline work, announced at the start of the year, to deploy private LTE for Michigan-headquartered Dow Chemical Company, manufacturer of plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. The post puts focus...
Testing looks at "high C-Band" transmissions in the upper portion of the band
Concerns over potential interference between legacy radar altimeters in aircraft and new terrestrial 5G deployments in the C-Band spectrum sparked several federal testing and evaluation efforts. Amid the open question of whether...
Last month, Bharti Airtel had launched 5G services in eight Indian cities
Indian operator Bharti Airtel announced that it has already reached 1 million unique 5G subscribers in less than 30 days since it had commercially launched this technology in certain areas of the country.
Last...
Vodafone said that its 5G Standalone network is currently available to nearly 20 million people across Germany
Vodafone Germany said its 5G network is already providing coverage to 60 million people across the country.
In a release, the telco said it has already deployed a total...
Unlocking the path to autonomous networks
Rakuten Symphony offers a new yet proven approach to automated, end-to-end service assurance. It gives operators a way to reduce today’s operational costs, and also a future-proof solution able to support the journey from today’s 2G/3G/4G mobile and fixed...
According to JCMR, 5G FWA was valued at $296 million in 2021
In a new report, JCMR market research concluded that global 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) rеvеnuе will rеасh а vаluе оf UЅ$ 21,710 billion іn 2029. FWA, which is emerging as a primary...
Nedaa’s network already utilizes Nokia's infrastructure and can support many of the requirements for mission-critical networks
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nedaa, the security network provider of the Dubai government.
In a release, Nokia said that the...
Telefónica said it expects to cover the country’s overall population with 5G by the end of 2025
German telecom operator Telefónica Deutschland/O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said its 5G network is operating over 18,000 antennas in the country.
The telco said that this network infrastructure...
It has been a few years since I last discussed how 3GPP contribution counting is a flawed practice and why it should not be used to evaluate a company’s leadership in technology innovations.
The key point is that 3GPP specifications are not based on the direct acceptance...
New millimeter-wave 5G devices and chipsets have made significant progress in power use and compared to earlier iterations, according to new benchmark testing by Signals Research Group. SRG looked at the devices' electrical current drain in relationship to bandwidth consumption for both uplink and...
Huawei said that this technology will deliver home broadband speeds of 10 Gbit/s
What Huawei is calling "Ultra-Broadband 5.5G" is expected to radically transform areas like smart homes, smart campuses and industrial internet by 2030, according to David Wang, Huawei's executive director of the board...
AI, ML and cloud computing will be the focus of the new facility, which the federal government is helping to fund
Test and monitoring solutions maker EXFO announced Monday that it has received CAD$15.9 million from the federal government of Canada to advanced 5G telecommunications in the...
Bharti Airtel will deploy Aviat's all outdoor WTM 4800 E-Band and Multi-Band solutions
Indian carrier Bharti Airtel has inked a commercial contract with Austin-based company Aviat Networks under which the latter will supply its wireless multiband radios.
As part of the contract, Airtel will deploy...
Rogers said that it believed that litigation was both unnecessary and harmful to competition in the Canadian market
A mediation session between Canadian operators Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, Quebecor and the country’s competition bureau failed to reach a negotiated settlement in the proposed merger between...
ATC noted that this project is chiefly aimed at testing the performance of a private 5G wireless network inside a commercial mall in Las Vegas
U.S. tower firm American Tower is seeking a 180-day authorization from the Federal Communications Commission to allow the use of...
5G services will be available in Malaysia on some carrier networks as soon as tomorrow
After numerous 5G setbacks related to spectrum pricing and transparency, five of Malaysia’s major service providers—Telekom Malaysia, U Mobile, Celcom Axiata, YTL Communications and DiGi Telecommunications—have finalized the terms of...
Vodafone Germany has been busy with private networks for Industry 4.0. A new announcement, with Nokia, says the pair are testing high-accuracy indoor positioning (HAIP) services over a 5G ‘campus network’ (‘campus-netz’) at BMW’s factory in Leipzig, the car maker’s premier site for testing...
With rivals already deploying 5G networks, Telkom's CEO sees FWA as its key differentiator
South African wireless and wireline service provider Telkom has announced the launch of its 5G service for South Africa. What’s more, the company said it’s leaning on Huawei, the Chinese telecom equipment maker...
Huawei held their Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand, last week. One of many interesting ideas they shared in the future outlook of the telecom industry is moving from 5G to 5.5G. Let’s take a closer look at what that means to...
The 5G core presents Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with a ready platform for innovation. Changes in software design, cloud-native architecture, and scalability for 5G core services can help CSPs achieve hyperscaler-like agility and capabilities. Simultaneously achieving improved network performance and better reliability seems like a...
The role of operators and network disaggregation in enabling the metaverse vision takes center stage at FYUZ
MADRID–The three-day FYUZ event was, in some ways, three distinct but complementary things—on day one the main stage was billed as the Open RAN Summit and highlighting O-RAN...
EE noted that the first deployments of the new 5G equipment are in London
U.K. carrier EE, part of the BT Group, is deploying ultra-lightweight radio technology supplied by Ericsson with the aim of improving 5G energy efficiency and network performance across the telco’s footprint.
Ericsson...
Huawei generated $61.8 billion in revenue in the first three quarters of the year, down 2.2% y-o-y
Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE have reported their financial results for the first nine months of the year.
Huawei said it generated CNY445.8 billion ($61.8 billion) in revenue in...
LG Uplus noted that the new offering is part of its long-term strategy to transform into a digital platform service provider
LG Uplus, South Korea's third-largest wireless operator, recently unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI) services, local news agency Yonhap reported.
The new offering is part...
Networks have become key enablers for virtually all the important business processes throughout any organization, and as businesses grow to pursue new markets, networks are a crucial part of their success. Today, the needs of service providers in particular are evolving, and a new...
