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The Facebook, Reliance Jio collaboration will involve bringing together JioMart with WhatsApp Facebook is making a $5.7 billion investment in Reliance Jio, translating to a 9.99% stake in the Indian …

AT&T attributes approximately $600 million impact to COVID-19 pandemic AT&T this week withdrew all previous financial guidance based on uncertainty around the long-term impact the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will have …

US Cellular and Ericsson have added additional capacity to more than 200 sites In response to increased data usage as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, US Cellular, with …

  Chinese vendor Huawei reported revenues of CNY182.2 billion ($25.75 billion) in the first quarter of 2020, up only 1.4% year-on-year, the company said in a release. Huawei also said …

  China Mobile, the world’s largest operators in terms of subscribers, added 29.17 million 5G subscribers in the first quarter of 2020, the company said in its earnings release. The …

Alibaba operates 10 data centers in China and 11 more internationally In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has heightened demand for cloud computing services and technology, Chinese company …

  Korea’s main telecom operators expect to commercialize an ultrafast mmWave 5G network this year, The Korea Herald reported, citing industry sources. According to the report, the mmWave 5G service …

Research firm IDC predicts that telecommunications services spending will be about the same as it was last year, due to the mixed impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. IDC expects telecommunication …

Tech hub Shenzhen working toward blanket 5G coverage The municipal government of China’s Shenzhen city plans to deploy a total of 30,000 new 5G base stations during 2020, Chinese press …

The new 5G network in Hungary uses the spectrum in the 3.6 GHz frequency range Last week, Magyar Telekom and Ericsson officially brought 5G to Hungary, launching intial services in …

All eyes now on MWC Los Angeles Following its at-the-time unanticipated but retrospectively lauded decision to cancel Mobile World Congress Barcelona in February, as COVID-19 gained a foothold in Europe, …

Early Earth Day greetings from Lake Norman/ Charlotte, North Carolina.  Pictured are some peach iris in our front yard – nature is not missing a step in April, and reminds …

Connecticut-based Frontier Communications on April 14 announced it was voluntarily entering chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after missing an interest payment on unsecured debt in March. Despite this development, Frontier said …

Turkcell has already virtualized 60% of its mobile core services In March, Mavenir and Turkey’s largest mobile operator Turkcell partnered up to test and deploy OpenRAN vRAN, beginning with trials …

  Cisco has announced a number of initiatives to provide financing for customers in a move to try to mitigate the financial challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new …

Nex-Tech Wireless will also be implementing Ericsson Spectrum Sharing technology Kansas-based wireless carrier Nex-Tech Wireless will be deploying 5G using equipment from Ericsson. Specifically, the vendor will deliver its 5G …

  Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom aims to launch commercial 5G services in the third quarter of 2020 after Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) approved its information security plan, Taipei Times …

Easter greetings from Lake Norman and Charlotte, North Carolina, where buds are turning into leaves and everything is renewing.  But don’t eat outside at the Arby’s – take it home!  …

Korean telco KT Corporation announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Taiwan’s Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET)  to collaborate in 5G services and digital content development, the …

Medical experts say that India needs several thousand ventilators to address COVID-19 The Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and state-owned electronics product manufacturer Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) are in …

Rakuten’s virtual RAN and Elisa’s lights-out NOC The flexibility 5G enables requires a similar level of flexibility in the underlying network infrastructure. Proprietary, single-purpose hardware is giving way to general-purpose …

Verizon raised 2020 5G capex guidance as COVID-19 spread The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely to slow the pace of capital spending aimed at building out 5G wireless …

Greetings from Lake Norman and Charlotte, North Carolina, where the local media are complaining that 80 degree weather is driving too many folks outside in the parks, creating the potential for a …

MobiledgeX CEO: ‘Seamster is meant to help everybody in the world be successful when it comes to edge computing’ Seamster, the global edge computing initiative dedicated to enterprise use case …

Roughly 85 million people are now working from home due to COVID-19 As a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 57.7% of the U.S. began working from home, according to …