AT&T CEO John Stankey: 'When our first act is done, we’ll be a more focused, agile and capable domestic network leader'
At AT&T’s analyst and investor day, CEO John Stankey signaled a two-act reinvention for the operator, describing a company more focused on connectivity and...
Under the new agreement, Macquarie will extend cloud and SD-WAN services across 35 of Kelsian Group’s Australian public transport division locations
Australian operator Macquarie Telecom has kicked off a multi-million-dollar cloud services project with land and marine, tourism and public transport service provider Kelsian...
Greetings from Kansas City, Nebraska and Louisiana. Pictured is one of the stops on Jim’s broadband tour of the Cornhusker state, Buck’s Bar and Grill in Venice, Nebraska. Terrific food and amazing service (and, while not personally witnessed, the live music also has a pretty darn...
The IP transport network deployment is part of the Telefónica Vivo Fusion Network Project, which leverages automation to incorporate services into a single network infrastructure
Telefónica Vivo is deploying what it says is a simplified and automated, 5G-ready IP transport network for its converged...
Last year Qualcomm rolled out its vision of leveraging a unified technology roadmap to grow its end market well beyond smartphones and grow addressable market 7-fold over the next decade to $700 billion. Now the company is rapidly executing on that plan with across...
Verizon CFO Matt Ellis notes the intersectional importance of lower capital intensity and revenue/margin growth
Looking at the next few years, Verizon CFO Matt Ellis sees a clear path to grow revenue by 4% by 2024 while capital investment will peak this year and normalize...
T-Mobile is pacing to increase enterprise market share to 20% by end-2025
Speaking this week at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, T-Mobile US executives tied network differentiation to opportunities in rural and smaller markets, and among enterprises and governments.
According to Neville...
Zain will also market the HTC Vive's ecosystem and Viveport content platform across its e-sports division
As part of larger metaverse play, Zain Group will distribute HTC Vive's virtual reality (VR) system to the Middle East region. Zain will sell the VR devices to its...
Orange noted that the transaction is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2023
Spanish operators Orange and Masmovil have announced the start of exclusive negotiations to merger their operations in the country.
In a release, Orange said that each carrier will own 50%...
ZTE’s business in China accounted for 68.2% of its overall revenue last year
Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation has reported a full-year revenue of CNY 114.5 billion ($18.2 billion) in 2021, an increase of 12.9% compared to the previous year.
According to ZTE’s results, net profit attributable...
Competitors are focused on FWA and MEC as routes to 5G monetization
With operators spending billions to deploy, package and sell connectivity-backed solutions, 5G monetization has moved front-and-center in operator's messaging. Verizon, for instance, recently laid out its three-year service revenue outlook and sees fixed...
The leap to higher order modulation doesn’t require a 5G base station upgrade
Sustainability is top of mind for governments, corporations, investors and individuals. Against this backdrop, the global Information and Communications Technology sector is uniquely poised to not only make itself more efficient and...
A new survey from AT&T, Dubber and Incisiv shows that hybrid work, or a mix of in-person and remote work, is expected to become the "standard operating model across industries" within two years, rather than being viewed as an employee perk.
More than 80%...
C-Band to cover 175 PoPs by year-end, significant expanding reach of 5G fixed wireless access service
Verizon was first to market with a 5G-backed service in 2018 with the launch of its then-pre-standard mmWave 5G Home fixed wireless broadband service. Now, as it rapidly deploys...
FWA, MEC, and private networks are key to Verizon 5G monetization plan
As discussions among operators turn to monetizing massive investments in 5G networks, Verizon today held an investor event that laid out in detail how it sees its network creating new service revenue in...
Greetings from Kansas City and Nebraska. Pictured is our colleague, Bob O’Keefe, surveying the Omaha landscape during one of the coldest days of 2022. Trust us – under that grin is one nearly frozen individual. We had a terrific time in Nebraska this week...
Maximising the potential of artificial intelligence has proven to be a substantial challenge across industries. However, the benefits of overcoming these barriers are too great to ignore. Robotic process automation (RPA) can pave the way for AI integration and make businesses more competitive in...
The companies are currently testing Open RAN in the Türk Telekom Innovation Center in Turkey
Türk Telekom is teaming up with Parallel Wireless and Juniper Networks on a multivendor Open RAN initiative that will see the carrier deploy Open RAN technology utilizing the RAN Intelligent...
The merged entity would control more than half of the total market at about 95.3 million subscribers
A merger between Thailand’s True and Telenor-owned dtac, first proposed in November 2021, has officially been approved by the boards of both companies. The merged entity would control...
5G monetization hinges on partners, ecosystem, and delivering business outcomes
For a deep dive into 5G monetization strategies and considerations, access the 5G Monetization Forum on-demand.
Operators have invested billions in designing and deploying 5G networks but, to date, meaningful new service revenues have proved...
The government of South Korea has postponed an auction to award additional 5G spectrum as local mobile operators SK Telecom and KT have complained about the process, Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
In December, South Korea’s Science and ICT ministry said it would open bidding...
Keysight Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Samsung Research to advance research and development of 6G technology, the former company said in a release.
Keysight noted that future 6G systems are expected to be built on technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI),...
Verizon sees 5G fixed wireless access, mobile edge computing, and private networks all driving revenue growth
Verizon Business Group CEO and Executive Vice President Tami Erwin this week joined Arden Media's 5G Monetization Forum to discuss how the carrier is leveraging its network to...
Juniper Networks announced that it is working with Vodafone and Parallel Wireless, conducting a multi-vendor Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller (RIC) trial for tenant-aware admission control use cases.
The trial, initially running in Vodafone’s test labs in Turkey and with plans to move into its...
