5G spectrum licenses in Singapore are expected to be given out by the middle of 2020
Last week, Microsoft and Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) signed a Memorandum of Intent to provide a "development environment" to facilitate the creation of 5G applications, services and...
T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray to become president of technology; CFO Braxton Carter extends contract
No, John Legere is not leaving T-Mobile US to take on the role of CEO at WeWork as was widely reported last week. But the flamboyant CEO is leaving the operator...
Greetings from Chicago, Illinois (where the pre-winter winds were tame), and Davidson, North Carolina (where it really feels like winter even though it’s mid-November). This week’s TSB is less about the week’s events and more about strategy fundamentals. Next week’s edition will focus on...
Google has begun rolling out its own Rich Communications Services messaging service to U.S. users, just weeks after the four national U.S. carriers formed an RCS joint venture.
In a blog post, Sanaz Ahari, Google product management director, writes that the new capabilities are already...
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 statement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Ericsson will supply 5G products and solutions from its...
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 traffic signal information and T Map data and to jointly develop 5G technologies for...
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 CEO, Antonio Coimbra, as saying.
Coimbra declined to name the cities in which the carrier plans...
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 sites which support 1.8 GHz/2.1 GHz/3.5 GHz in Hangzhou, China, the vendor said in a...
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 network equipment in the United Kingdom. And, in a presentation this week at the Telecom...
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 tapped to run a combined T-Mo/Sprint, is "in discussion...to take over leadership" of WeWork.
A bit...
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 a large turnout!
This week, we will look at earnings announcements from Sprint, Altice, CenturyLink,...
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 a release.
Virgin Media’s current MVNO agreement with BT Enterprise, which has been in place since...
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 launched or in development," which is up from 150 in the third quarter. And, of...
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 to sell components and software to Chinese vendor Huawei, according Bloomberg.
Ross said that the U.S....
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 on a conference call with investors.
The executive said that the company expects to end this...
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 are going to start with AT&T given their 3-year guidance but will also devote...
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 a conference call with investors.
“In our view, 5G will likely have a number of layers...
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% from a year earlier, and earnings per share totaled $1.01, beating analysts' forecast of 96...
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 9.3% compared to the year-ago period, the Chinese vendor said in a statement.
During the period,...
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 more than $29 billion. After reporting its Q3 financials, including a reduction in forecasts for...
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. origin and would not breach U.S. restrictions previously imposed on Huawei, according to a report...
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 content, a reminder that investment in the TMT (telecom/ media/ technology) industry can take...
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, up from $32.6 billion in the same quarter last year and up from $32.1 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 the Chinese vendor, told RCR Wireless News.
“We had cooperation agreements with 60 operators globally in...
