Carriers

In 2021, cloud gaming revenue is expected to be over $1 billion for the first time Bridge Alliance, which is made up of operators and their customers in the Asia Pacific, the …

Airspan Networks’ Open RAN-compatible vRAN hardware and software added to RCP’s cloud-native arsenal Hot on the heels of announcing it will go public in Q3 via a merger with SPAC …

IBM has teamed up with network vendor Samsung and mobile operator M1 in Singapore to open an ‘Industry 4.0 studio’, in its own name, to develop and test 5G and …

Siemens has said it will provide an entire industrial 5G ‘system’ for private cellular networks in industry, covering the radio access network, core network, and compatible end-devices. It said industrial …

American Tower and Dish Network Corporation have signed a master lease agreement through which the latter company may lease space on up to 20,000 American Tower communications sites. Through the …

The Japanese government assigned the three largest mobile operators in Japan — NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank, as well as new arrival Rakuten Mobile — 5G spectrum in April …

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is expected to ask the country’s telecoms regulator to lower the minimum price for the auction of 5G airwaves, Indian newspaper Mint reported, citing an …

AT&T executives emphasized the role of fiber, 5G and HBO Max as well as streamlining across its business, as it laid out its areas of strategic focus for the coming …

Orange exec: ‘The complexity of radio optimization is growing with 5G’ Orange will implement Nokia’s Self-Organizing Networks (SON) technology across all of its 5G markets, starting with France and Spain, …

Rogers will purchase Shaw for $16 billion Rogers Communications has announced that it will purchase Shaw Communications Inc. in a C$20 billion ($16 billion) deal. If the agreement is approved …

Belgian operator Telenet has selected Ericsson, Nokia and Google Cloud as the main partners for the rollout of its 5G network. The operator said that the process to select its …

The Paris Council approved a new telecom charter which will give the green light for 5G deployments in the French capital. The charter was approved with the support of right-wing …

Mid-March greetings from Charlotte/ Lake Norman/ Davidson, where we prematurely celebrated National Poires Belle Helene Day (which is March 15).  Like many of you, the COVID-19 pandemic has broadened our culinary skills.  …

German operator Deutsche Telekom said it has built up 5G capacities at 892 mobile sites across Germany in the past two months. The European carrier also said that the mobile …

T-Mobile’s enterprise goal is to be “top of mind for every CIO across America”  Verizon laid out its grand plan to deploy C Band spectrum at an investor event on …

Chinese operator China Unicom revealed its 5G user numbers for the first time since the telco launched the technology in October 2019, closing 2020 with 70.8 million package subscribers. In …

An additional $10 billion in capex over three years. Between 7,000 to 8,000 C Band sites installed and ready to go by the end of this year. Verizon made a …

Amid all the anticipation for Verizon’s C Band spectrum plans, Rootmetrics today released an early look at how the carrier is deploying the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum in its …

Telefónica is to deploy a 5G network for Netherlands-based port operating company APM Terminals at the Port of Barcelona. The network, in a pilot phase, will be used to connect …

The Danish Energy Authority has started the auction of spectrum in five frequency bands, namely the 1.5 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands. The agency …

Dish will acquire Republic’s 200,000 wireless customers Earlier this week, Dish Network revealed plans to acquire Wi-Fi-first mobile virtual network operator Republic Wireless, a move that will transfer about 200,000 wireless …

Samsung and Spark have been working together on 5G trials since 2019 Samsung announced its first network installation in New Zealand, where it has worked with Spark New Zealand to …

China Telecom expects to increase investments in 5G infrastructure this year with the aim of almost doubling the number of base stations in the country, the company said in its …

The U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom officially announced that the its 5G spectrum auction will start on March 12. “The auction will increase the total amount of spectrum available for mobile …

According to speed tests, U.K.’s 5G speeds are nearly four times faster than 4G The U.K.’s four largest mobile operators — EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2 — have launched …