Carriers

As part of this partnership, Airtel and SpaceX will consider making Starlink equipment available through Airtel’s retail stores Indian carrier Bharti Airtel announced that it has entered into an agreement …

Nokia indicated that it is on track to deliver more than 60,000 technology sites — including thousands of new 4G sites — to Vodafone Idea by the end of March …

AT&T network CTO Yigal Elbaz on AI, Open RAN and how MWC trends from past years are playing out RCR Wireless News caught up with Yigal Elbaz, AT&T’s SVP of …

Sunil Mittal, chairman of Indian telco Bharti Airtel, said during MWC 2025 that consolidation in the telecom sector is essential to enable operators to invest heavily in infrastructure and partner …

O2 Telefónica will also use a unified set of AWS services, including Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana, to monitor its entire 5G network German …

Huawei has developed intent-driven AI-centric 5.5G solutions, which include GigaGear, GreenPulse and GainLeap BARCELONA—Chinese vendor Huawei announced the introduction of AI-centric 5.5G, or 5G-Advanced solutions at the Huawei product and …

BARCELONA—Amid the flurry of sessions and briefings this week at Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, RCR Wireless News snagged a few minutes Karri Kuoppamaki, T-Mobile US’ SVP of technology …

Deutsche Telekom highlighted that its new AI Phone is chiefly designed to simplify everyday activities, with users having access to a virtual assistant that can handle several tasks BARCELONA—German carrier …

o2 Telefónica has implemented Ericsson Cloud RAN at the first of a what will eventually be eight mobile phone masts in the Offenbach area in Germany BARCELONA–During Mobile World Congress …

Telkomsel and ZTE will work on AI-powered network management tools, including the introduction of what it claims to be the industry’s first AI-native baseband BARCELONA—Indonesia’s largest telecommunications provider Telkomsel and …

The CEO of Telefónica said it is time to allow major European telecom companies to consolidate and grow to build technological capacity BARCELONA—Spanish telco Telefónica has urged European authorities to …

SatCo will exclusively distribute AST SpaceMobile’s satellite services to European MNOs under a single turnkey arrangement Vodafone and satellite company AST SpaceMobile have established a joint satellite service business called …

India’s Bharat 6G Alliance had signed several agreement with countries such as U.S., South Korea, Japan, Germany, Finland, Brazil and the U.K. to boost 6G research activities BARCELONA–India’s Minister of …

SK Telecom noted that the integration of AI with quantum computing is expected to enhance AI-driven solutions by reducing processing time and power consumption Korean carrier SK Telecom has announced …

Providers are using Wi-Fi 7 to ensure that their customers are getting the gigabit or multi-gigabit service they’re advertising Wi-Fi 7 is the most reliable version of the technology to …

Leveraging Ericsson’s joint API venture Aduna, the telcos will deliver network APIs related to end user security Aduna, an Application Programming Interface (API) joint venture launched in September by Ericsson, Google …

The Argentine government announced that it will investigate the acquisition of Telefónica by Telecom to determine whether it creates a monopoly Telecom Argentina (Telecom) has finalized the acquisition of rival …

Under the deal, Bell Canada will roll out Nokia’s Cloud RAN solution, which is designed to be compatible with both existing and future O-RAN systems Bell Canada and Nokia have …

Verizon is using Qualcomm’s RIC platform to support an AI-powered energy-saving app from Samsung Verizon, in a major Open RAN move, announced today it is using the Qualcomm RAN Intelligent …

Vodafone allocated two dedicated network slices at the Principality Stadium during the Wales vs. Ireland Men’s Guinness Six Nations match U.K.-based telco Vodafone said it has successfully trialed the use …

The 5G core deployment will support Airtel in gradually transitioning to a commercially operational, full-scale 5G SA network Indian carrier Bharti Airtel and Ericsson have expanded their partnership with a …

Airtel ended 2024 with a total of 120 million 5G subscribers Indian carrier Bharti Airtel ended last year with a 5G subscriber base of 120 million as it continued expanding …

The integration of Ericsson’s Dynamic Network Slicing and Chunghwa’s Paragon platform provides enterprises with greater control over their connectivity Swedish vendor Ericsson and Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom have advanced automation …

AST SpaceMobile supported live NTN video calls for Verizon, AT&T via its new Bluebird LEO satellites Verizon said that it has successfully completed its first Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) live video …

Ericsson explained that a key component of this transformation is the use of network APIs, which will facilitate collaboration with technology innovators Australian carrier Telstra is set to introduce what …