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The NZ $1.7 billion deal between 2degrees and Orcon would make them New Zealand’s third-largest integrated telecommunications company New Zealand’s telecom provider 2degrees and internet provider Orcon have revealed plans …

France had a total of 31,650 authorized 5G sites as of January 1, of which 22,180 were declared technically operational by the local mobile carriers, according to the latest information …

On this episode, Marisa Viveros, vice president of Strategy & Offerings for the Telecom, Media and Entertainment Industry at IBM defines the IBM telco cloud network ecosystem, delves into the …

The FAA asked AT&T and Verizon to delay their C Band deployments for an additional period of “no more than two weeks” In December, AT&T and Verizon agreed to pause …

An epitaph for the Smartphone 1.0 era: BlackBerry Ltd announced that services support for its classic line of hardware devices ends Tuesday.

Global challenges in the 5G supply chain will continue during 2022, according to a new white paper published by research firm ABI Research. The white paper, dubbed “70 Technology Trends …

Spanish operators have been accelerating 5G deployments during 2021 and all carriers already offer 5G in the country’s main urban areas as well as in medium-sized cities. In this article, …

The Evolved Packet Core converges voice and data, but silos network functions (NFs). 5G’s cloud-native core makes NFs addressable services.

Network automation is essential to almost every use case for 5G, not only for telcos but also for enterprises.

Being able to locate 911 callers on wireless devices faster is a life-or-death use case for more precise indoor location—but it isn’t the only one. There are many potential commercial …

This year was supposed to mark a major milestone in the ability to locate wireless devices indoors when callers dial 911, so that first responders can reach them faster. It …

NTT has tapped HPE and Microsoft Azure to provide hybrid cloud services to Japanese businesses looking for on-prem and edge solutions.

Japanese tech company NEC said it has provided packet core and base stations for the 5G Standalone (SA) services that compatriot operator NTT Docomo launched commercially earlier this month. NEC …

Singapore operator Singtel and Ericsson have reached download speeds of 5.4 Gbps in 5G Standalone (SA) New Radio-Dual Connectivity (NR-DC), by aggregating Singtel’s spectrum holdings across mid-band spectrum in the …

Starlink sees a 10 Mbps dip in median speeds for US users, compared to the second quarter of this year New data from Ookla shows a slight decrease in Starlink’s …

Telco clouds were always private clouds. But a new generation of hyperscale-adjacent telecom services blur the lines.

Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 35.16 million 5G subscribers in November, according to the carriers’ latest available figures. China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, …

The European Commission said it has earmarked around EUR 240 million ($271 million) for its first large-scale “6G” research and innovation program, with the first calls for proposals due in …

The Federal Communications Commission has approved another wave of Emergency Connectivity Fund program funds. The $603 million will help to connect more than 1.4 million students in all 50 states, …

“Operators who have been rolling out 5G NR networks for some time have the coverage advantage,” SRG says For some time, Dish Network has been promising a beta launch of …

The scalable and agile cloud architecture that governs both telco cloud and IT cloud is the same, even though service requirements are not.

Red Hat’s Ansible, its hybrid cloud and edge computing automation platform, is now available as a preview on Microsoft Azure.

IEEE plans to publish the WI-Fi 7 amendment sometime in 2024 According to Wi-Fi Alliance’s VP of Marketing Kevin Robinson, the Alliance is already working on the definition of Wi-Fi …

The zero-touch network: a cloud optimizes and fixes itself without human intervention. Does it deliver the agility and scale operators need?

Keysight Technologies and Viavi Solutions touted their support of the most recent Open RAN Alliance global plugfest event, which was the third such event focused on testing the performance capabilities …