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Zain to market HTC Vive’s VR devices as part of larger metaverse play

Zain will also market the HTC Vive's ecosystem and Viveport content platform across its e-sports division As part of larger metaverse play, Zain Group will distribute HTC Vive's virtual reality (VR) system to the Middle East region. Zain will sell the VR devices to its...

How is “Anything As A Service” changing telecom consumption models?

"Anything as a Service" or XaaS fundamentally changes enterprise telecom consumption, and gives operators an opportunity to iterate.

#TBT: Patent issues plague 3G; Canadian consolidation; Ghosts of technologies past … this week in 1999

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Unresolved patent issues...

Orange Business Services adds Fortinet SASE

Orange is adding Fortinet's Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to provide "work from anywhere" security to its telco cloud.

Samsung confirms ransomware attack

Samsung is the latest high-tech business to be victimized by ransomware group Lapsus$, which recently hit Nvidia.

Nvidia acquires Excelero in bid to grow data center market share

Nvidia has acquired software-defined NVMe storage company Excelero to bolster its position in the burgeoning data center market.

Limelight acquires Yahoo’s Edgecast to become Edgio

Limelight has acquired Yahoo's Edgecast. Rebranded Edgio, the new business aims to offer an edge platform beyond just content delivery.

Most businesses don’t have a strategy for hybrid work, AT&T survey finds

A new survey from AT&T, Dubber and Incisiv shows that hybrid work, or a mix of in-person and remote work, is expected to become the "standard operating model across industries" within two years, rather than being viewed as an employee perk. More than 80%...

Ericsson announces new deals in the Middle East

In Saudi Arabia, Ericsson carried out a proof of concept which will allow local telco stc to accelerate the introduction of the 2.3 GHz 5G band Ericsson and Saudi Arabian operator stc have successfully completed a TDD-TDD 5G Carrier Aggregation proof-of-concept (PoC) to support stc’s...

UK and Japan ink deal to diversify tech used in telecoms networks

The two countries committed to share information on their respective policy approaches seeking to build a more competitive global market for telecoms equipment The governments of Japan and the U.K. have agreed several joint initiatives to support efforts to reduce the global overreliance on a...

Verizon hones its edge for the metaverse

Verizon said that it's working with Meta to make its mobile edge computing (MEC) infrastructure support metaverse applications.

5G broadband goes to the stratosphere

Stratospheric Systems demonstrated its 5G High Altitude Platform (HAP), yielding 90 Mbps download speeds from 45,000 feet.

#TBT: Palm Pilot wins product of the year award; Early days of wireless apps; Fixed wireless for home voice? … this week in 1997

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Towers, environmental impact...

Nokia announces Adaptive Cloud Networking

Nokia's Adaptive Cloud Networking solution comprises technology to seamlessly provide 5G services from the data center to the edge.

Arrcus Connected Edge platform adds VMware Telco Cloud support

Arrcus ACE 2.0, its cloud-to-edge platform, adds VMware Telco Cloud Platform support to help CSPs dynamically direct network traffic.

‘We need mid-band deployment at scale,’ Rosenworcel says; 2.5 GHz auction ahead in July

Rosenworcel says she will propose a new look at standards for receivers as well as transmitters The Federal Communications Commission will increase the available midband spectrum in the United States by auctioning 2.5 GHz spectrum this coming July, and follow that up with continued work...

Fastweb, Qualcomm collaborate on 5G SA mmWave FWA in Italy

Qualcomm said the platform will feature Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G Modem-RF Systems for Fixed Wireless Access Italian telco Fastweb and Qualcomm Technologies announced plans to commercialize 5G Standalone (SA) millimeter wave (mmWave) on Qualcomm's 5G Fixed Wireless Access Platform Gen 2. In a statement,...

NEC, Telefonica Germany claim first O-RAN small cells

Telefonica Germany had previously said it aimed to deploy pure 5G O-RAN mini-radio cells in Munich later in the year German telco O2/Telefónica Germany and Japanese tech company NEC announced the launch of what they claim to be the first open- and virtual-RAN-architecture-based small cells...

Bell Canada deploys core network on Google Distributed Cloud Edge

Bell Canada has deployed core network functions on Google Distributed Cloud Edge – a world first, the companies claim.

Dish to test 5G in Oklahoma City

Dish Network is continuing to move forward with its work on 5G, and has been granted permission by the Federal Communications Commission to test 5G at a site in Oklahoma City, Okla. Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen recently admitted that the company is about six months...

JMA adds multi-operator support for XRAN platform 

JMA promises that their XRAN-based MOON solution enables operators to treat networks independently using the same RAN infrastructure.

China expects deployments of 5G base stations to grow 42% in 2022

Local carriers expected to deploy nearly 600,000 5G base stations across China this year Chinese operators are expected to increase the number of base stations in the country by 42% this year, Chinese media outlet Yicai Global reported. The Chinese government has set a goal to...

MobiledgeX promises ‘write once, deploy anywhere’ telco edge computing

MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud 3.1 is aiming for a "write once, deploy everywhere" model of edge computing between GSMA-compliant edge clouds.

Microsoft introduces new Azure for Operators services

Azure Operator Distributed Services is "the next-generation hybrid cloud platform for operators," according to Microsoft.