Greetings from Davidson, North Carolina, and Virginia Beach, Virginia (sunrise pictured), where we are enjoying several days of R&R prior to two weeks of travel. This week’s TSB will contain an update on and a detailed analysis of the state attorneys general case against...
Huawei Technologies is already manufacturing 5G base stations without components provided by U.S. suppliers, international press reported the vendor’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying.
From October, Huawei expects to produce 5,000 5G base stations per month, and next year it plans to manufacture...
Wireless Broadband Alliance to focus on the convergence of Wi-Fi 6 and 5G and improving Wi-Fi roaming
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has appointed a new CEO: Tiago Rodrigues, who has been with the WBA since 2004. He takes over from former CEO and WBA...
Nokia opened a 5G lab at its global headquarters in Espoo, Finland, with the aim of enabling customers to experience the vendor’s portfolio of 5G equipment, software and services.
The 5G Future X Lab will enable communications service providers, enterprises and infrastructure providers to see...
South Korean mobile operator KT says it surpassed 1 million 5G subscribers as of September 21, according to Korean press reports.
The mobile network operator launched commercial 5G services in the country in early April. KT is the second largest carrier in the Asian country,...
Samsung Networks opened its 5G Innovation Zone this year
Samsung Networks may not be the most well-known business within the South Korean conglomerate’s entire organization, but it has been going strong for about 40 years, beginning in the Korean market before expanding. RCR Wireless News...
The smart building will have a DAS comprised of 317 multi-band antennas
With help from Connectivity Wireless Solutions, Coretrust Capital Partners is employing 5G to transform its downtown Los Angeles tower into a smart building. The transformation, which includes a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) comprised of...
The Huawei network security panel highlighted equipment verification, operation transparency and global standards
In what appeared to be a direct response to the U.S.’ continued suspicion of Huawei Technologies and its potential threat to U.S. network security, the Chinese equipment vendor sponsored a seminar at...
Greetings from the Queen City, where the IT scene is red hot even though cooler fall temperatures have finally arrived. I was pleased to be the guest of San Mateo-based Aryaka Networks at the 2019 Orbie (CIO of the Year) awards on Friday. It...
Chinese vendor Huawei has denied press reports suggesting that it may partner with China Mobile in a bid to acquire Brazilian telecom operator Oi.
"Huawei has no plans or interest to acquire Oi or any other Brazilian carrier. With more than 20 years in Brazil,...
Application-to-person messaging is driving RCS adoption globally
At the 2019 Competitive Carriers Association Convention, Josh Wigginton, VP of product management at Interop Technologies, spoke about the future of Rich Communication Services (RCS), which despite a slow adoption, is now picking up as business use cases...
To say carriers have had a tough time of it in recent years would be an understatement. Technology changes, the arrival of new digital players and the proliferation of more and more digital services have seen carriers invest heavily in transformation programs.
The good news...
Canadian telecom operators Bell, Telus and Rogers have struck roaming partnerships with AT&T to provide their business customers access to AT&T's LTE-M network across the United States.
Bell, which claims to be the first telco to launch LTE-M services in Canada, said that the reciprocal...
The 5G smart factory will be powered by solutions developed specifically for the industrial space
Ericsson announced yesterday that its first 5G smart factory in the U.S. will be located in Lewisville, Texas, not too far from its North American headquarters in Plano, Texas. The...
Video consumption trends informed AT&T network capacity planning
Speaking this week at the Goldman Sachs 28th Annual Communicopia Conference, AT&T Communications Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, in a wide-ranging discussion, highlighted the confluence of internal and external trends he sees as giving AT&T a differentiated,...
Nokia Bell Labs VP sees physical industries as a "great untapped opportunity"
The telecom industry, and the massive capex that has gone into building out wired and wireless networks, is in large part responsible for enabling a massive boom in digital industries, webscale companies like...
Seventeen state attorneys general have sued to block the T-Mobile/Sprint merger
The T-Mobile/Sprint merger, the subject of a great deal of push back before finally receiving the green light in July, is now being touted as a big “win” for rural America according to a...
And what’s the path to 5G profitability?
Looking back on the transition from 3G to 4G, Huawei’s Mohamed Madkour, VP of wireless and cloud core network marketing and solution sales, said operators followed a “cap and grow” strategy that just doesn’t apply to the 4G...
5G spectrum strategy is like a layer cake, T-Mobile CTO says
Although a growing number of state attorneys general are challenging the deal as anti-competitive, T-Mobile US executives, speaking this week at an event hosted by Goldman Sachs, remain bullish on the pending $26 billion...
FCC Chairman urged to review China Telecom and China Unicom domestic operations
Two U.S. senators asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and national security agencies to review whether Chinese state-run telecom operators China Telecom and China Unicom should be allowed to operate in the United States due...
For 5G profitability, telcos need to control capital spending
Early commercial 5G deployments are focused on pushing higher speeds to consumers with compatible devices. But, for the most part, operators have yet to delineate new service plans that reflect the massive spend that will go...
Qualcomm bringing 5G to its 7- and 6-series Snapdragon mobile platforms
On Monday, U.S. chip manufacturer Qualcomm announced that it is acquiring the remaining interest in RF360, bringing the total purchase price of the company to $3.1 billion. RF360 began as a joint venture between...
Verizon focused on execution as Sprint/T-Mo merger looms, DISH preps entry and Altice Mobile goes live
Cable companies entering the wireless market via mobile virtual network operator arrangements and the looming mega-merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US, along with implications that deal has for DISH's...
Greetings from the Windy City, where yours truly (and the Editor) spent some time sightseeing, working, and enjoying the architecture (the Trump Tower is “huge”). This week, we have space to cover two key events - the September 10 Apple product announcement and the...
