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Bell expands 5G to 23 new markets in Canada

Canadian operator Bell Mobility announced the expansion of its 5G network to 23 new markets across Québec, Ontario and Manitoba. Bell 5G's reach has expanded in Manitoba (St. Andrews and Stonewall), Ontario (Barrie, Burlington, Clarington, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, McNab/Braeside, Moravian, Pickering and Waterloo)...

Dish selects Oracle to enable SBA for its 5G core

Dish has selected Oracle to enable a Service-Based Architecture (SBA) for its 5G core, the former said in a release. SBA, part of the 3GPP 5G standard, enables network services to be rapidly incorporated into new applications by Dish or Dish customers through automated, intelligent...

ATIS’ Next G Alliance launches work program for 6G technology

North American mobile industry standards group ATIS’ Next G Alliance announced the launch of its technical work program and the formation of the key working groups. The entity explained that the National 6G Roadmap Working Group acts as a coordination point across all other working...

Millicom selects Parallel Wireless for O-RAN network deployment in LatAm

Millicom has selected Parallel Wireless for the deployment of O-RAN-compliant Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) architecture in Latin America. The O-RAN network will be deployed by Millicom’s subsidiary Tigo Colombia, with the aim of delivering 4G service coverage in 362 rural sites across the...

Movistar selects Nokia for 5G deployment in Chile

Chilean mobile operator Movistar, owned by Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, has selected Nokia to provide its AirScale portfolio to launch the operator’s 5G network in Chile. In addition, Nokia will upgrade Movistar’s 4G and "4G+" networks to strengthen the critical network backbone across Chile’s key...

NYSE ratifies delisting of China’s three main mobile operators

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) rejected the appeals by the three main Chinese mobile carriers to a delisting related to a presidential order blocking U.S. investment in companies considered a national security threat. The Chinese operators said their delisting will be effective 10 days...

IDC: A rebound in the second half of 2020 led to a flat year for global telecom services

The global telecom and pay-TV markets saw flat revenues in 2020 and an overall "neutral" impact from the global pandemic after a rebound in the second half of the year, according to IDC. The analyst firm pegged global revenues for last year at $1.53...

American Tower to sell 30% of its European business to CDPQ

American Tower Corporation (ATC) and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, announced that the latter will acquire a 30% stake in ATC Europe. ATC said that the transaction is valued at over 1.6 billion euros ($1.92 billion), implying an...

ATC invests in different areas to be ready for continued 5G rollouts: CEO

American Tower Corporation (ATC) has been investing in more efficient and scalable power solutions at many of the company’s sites to be ready for the requirements of U.S. carriers extending their 5G networks nationwide, the company’s President and CEO, Tom Bartlett, said during a...

America Movil not expecting higher capex levels due to 5G: CEO

Mexican telecom giant América Móvil's expected launch of 5G in certain markets will not represent a boost in its planned capex for this year, CEO Daniel Hajj said during the telco's Q1 results call. The operator confirmed it will invest $8 billion this year, including...

VMware paves the way for virtualized RAN with new platform

VMware has announced the launch of its VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN, a platform that enables Communication service providers (CSPs) to virtualize radio access network (RAN) functions and implement an open RAN architecture. “A modern, open, and disaggregated RAN offers CSPs the single best opportunity...

Crown Castle ends Q1 with 40,000 towers: CEO

Crown Castle finished the first quarter of 2021 with 40,000 towers and approximately 80,000 small cells on-air or committed in backlog as well as 80,000 route miles of fiber concentrated in the top U.S. markets, the company’s CEO Jay Brown said during a conference...

Rogers’ 5G network reaches 173 towns and cities in Canada

Canadian operator Rogers Communications has expanded its 5G network to reach 173 towns and cities across the country, the carrier said in a release. The telco said that its 5G network currently reaches approximately half of the country’s population. In January 2020, Rogers Communications initially launched...

Huawei expects U.S restrictions to remain in place for a long time: chairman

Chinese vendor Huawei is not expecting the Biden administration to remove the company from the Entity List, the company’s rotating chairman, Eric Xu, said during a session with journalists at the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2021. “We believe that we will need to continue working...

Comcast to invest $4M to expand rural broadband reach in Washington

Comcast serves more than 1.6 million residential, business customers throughout Washington Comcast is investing $4.2 million over the next two years to expand its Xfinity and business services to 815 homes in the city of Sumas, a rural community of Whatcom County in Washington state. Congresswoman...

Brazilian regulator expects to publish terms of 5G auction in July or August

The president of Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Leonardo Euler, said that the publication of the 5G auction notice would probably occur in July or August, Brazilian IT site Teletime reported. The 5G auction's business plan was finished by Anatel on March 19, and now...

Ceragon Networks to take part in TIM Brazil’s O-RAN trials

Wireless backhaul provider Ceragon Networks says it has been selected by Brazilian carrier TIM to participate in the joint work being carried out with the Telecom Infra-Project (TIP) and the National Telecommunication Institute (INATEL) to test providers for 5G Open RAN (O-RAN). The open field...

Huawei reports small increase in 2020 sales, profits despite U.S. sanctions

Huawei reports it was up 3.8% year-over-year in 2020 with China accounting for 65% of revenues Chinese vendor Huawei reported its sales revenues reached CNY 891.4 billion (USD 136.7 billion) in 2020, up 3.8% year-on-year while its net profit rose 3.2% to CNY 64.6 billion,...

ZTE expects Q1 revenues to more than double year-on-year

Chinese vendor ZTE said it expects its first-quarter net profit to more than double year-on-year, to an estimated CNY 1.8-2.4 billion ($276.7-368.9 million), mainly driven by continued revenue growth and improving gross margins and profitability. In its 2020 earnings statement, the Asian vendor reported a...

Samsung secures new 5G contract in Canada with SaskTel

Canadian telecommunications services provider SaskTel has selected Samsung as the sole vendor to supply the company with its 4G/5G Radio Access Network (RAN) and Core, the South Korean vendor said in a release. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will supply all hardware, software...

Dish, American Tower ink lease agreement for up to 20,000 sites

American Tower and Dish Network Corporation have signed a master lease agreement through which the latter company may lease space on up to 20,000 American Tower communications sites. Through the deal, Dish will secure access to American Tower’s U.S. portfolio of communications sites as it...

Boingo Wireless to be acquired by Digital Colony

U.S. distributed antenna system (DAS) and Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless says it has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Digital Colony Management in a deal worth $854 million. The transaction will take Boingo from being a public company to being a privately held...

Nokia secures new 5G deal in Ecuador

Nokia has been selected by Ecuadorian mobile operator, Corporación Nacional de Telecommunicaciones (CNT) to bring the first 5G network to the country, the Finnish vendor said in a release. The deal includes Nokia support CNT's extensive network modernization of existing LTE infrastructure as well as...

Anatel approves rules for 5G tender in Brazil

Brazilian telecommunications services regulator Anatel has approved a set of rules that will pave the way for the government to award spectrum for the provision of 5G services. The regulator confirmed that mobile operators must not rely on dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) technology, which allows...