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MTN focused on 5G use cases relevant in South Africa Ericsson has been selected by South African operator MTN as a 5G network modernization vendor, the former said in a …

Korea’s largest telecom operator SK Telecom  signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Korea National Policy Agency (KNPA) and the Korea Road Traffic Authority (KoROAD) to cooperate in sharing …

  Spanish telecommunications operator Vodafone, a unit of U.K.-based Vodafone Group, announced plans to expand 5G services to five new cities in the coming months, Spanish press reported Vodafone Spain’s …

  ZTE, in partnership with China Telecom and China Unicom, has completed the network verification based on the “co-build co-share” mode in the commercial 5G environment, launching 5G Nonstandalone co-build/co-share …

Vodafone tender includes 14 countries, `100,000 wireless infrastructure sites Vodafone has tested open RAN technologies in parts of Turkey and South Africa and, in October, began testing the radio access …

SoftBank owns 80% of co-working provider WeWork The Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter”, reported on Nov. 11 that T-Mobile US CEO John Legere, who is also …

Veterans Day greetings from Mooresville, NC, where the community came together to remember all who serve and run an obstacle-based 5K race.  Pictured is the race logo.  Great seeing such …

  U.K. company Virgin Media has signed a five-year deal with Vodafone UK to provide mobile services,  including 5G, to more than three million mobile customers, the former said in …

Expecting Q1 boost on 5G licensing deal with Apple In a Q4 earnings presentation this week, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said the company has more than 230 5G “design wins …

Department of Commerce tallies 260 Huawei license requests U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed that the U.S. government would soon start to issue the first licenses for U.S firms looking …

  Korean carrier SK Telecom has reached 1.5 million subscribers in the 5G segment, representing a share of 44% in the local 5G market, the carrier’s CFO Poong-Young Yoon said …

Greetings from our nation’s capital (now home to the World Series champion Washington Nationals) and Lake Norman, NC.  This was a very busy week for earnings with Apple, AT&T and T-Mobile all announcing earnings.  We …

  American Tower expects the deployment of 5G in the U.S. will have different approaches considering specific topographic and population characteristics, the company’s President and CEO James Taiclet said during …

The FCC has finally voted to approve T-Mobile, Sprint merger T-Mobile had a lot to celebrate during its third-quarter earnings call. The carrier’s net income hit $870 million, up 9% …

ZTE reports net profits up more than 150% year-over-year ZTE Corporation posted revenues of CNY 64.2 billion ($9.1 billion) in the first three quarters of the year, an increase of …

Software, enterprise show growth; CEO calls out ‘challenges’ in mobile and fixed access Prior to reporting its third quarter earnings last week, Nokia had a market cap of a little …

  U.K. chip designer Arm, owned by Japan’s SoftBank, will continue to supply Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies after the firm’s legal team determined that its chip technology is of U.K. …

Greetings from the Mile-High City, the Queen City, and the City of Angels.  Attendees of the Mobile World Congress – Americas were greeted with multi-story advertisements on buildings touting original …

Verizon relaunches 5G NR-based fixed wireless service with Chicago activation Last week Verizon presented its third quarter earnings and reported a small year-over-year increase in total revenue of $32.9 billion, …

  VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Chinese vendor ZTE has surpassed by far the milestone of 60 agreements with operators worldwide in the field of 5G, James Zhang, a senior VP at …

T&W: Small cells are expected to be “a major building block” for 5G networks Mobile network operators are increasingly looking to small cell radio access nodes to densify capacity on …

  VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Austrian telecommunications operator Drei said that the expansion of the company’s current commercial 5G network will be mainly driven by market demand in the country,  the …

  ZTE is getting ready for security assessments of its 5G products and solutions in the vendor’s cybersecurity lab in Brussels, Belgium, ZTE’s Chief Security Officer Zhong Hong told RCR …

Greetings from Lake Norman, NC (picture of a recent sunrise is shown).  This week, we will discuss four questions that should be asked during earnings calls (which start this Thursday …

  Crown Castle expects 5G technology to represent a growth opportunity for the company next year, the company’s CEO Jay Brown said during a conference call with investors. “We expect …