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Baicells, FreedomFi certify select CBRS base stations for crypto mining

Baicells Nova 430i will become the first outdoor base station plug-and-play certified with the FreedomFi Gateway LTE and 5G NR hardware provider Baicells Technologies is working with FreedomFi and CalChip Connect to certify its lineup of cellular base stations with the FreedomFi Gateway. The gateway utilizes...

Smart Communications selects Samsung for 5G SA deployment

Philippine mobile services provider Smart Communications has partnered with South Korean vendor Samsung for the deployment of the former’s 5G Standalone (5G SA) technology in the Philippines. This development follows Smart's recent activation of initial commercial 5G SA sites in Makati. Earlier, Samsung was able...

Vodafone reaches over 45 million people in Germany with its 5G network

Vodafone Germany's 5G network is currently available to more than 45 million people across the country, the telco said in a release. The company had previously said it aimed to service over 30 million people with 5G in Germany by the end of 2021. The...

#TBT: Challenges for the wireless web; Sprint flounders; WiMAX’s uncertain future … this week in 2008

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! What's the biggest...

Crown Castle aims to put on air 5,000 small cells this year: CFO

Crown Castle International expects to put 5,000 small cells on air in 2022, a similar level compared to the previous year, the company’s CFO Daniel Schlanger recently said at Citi's AppsEconomy Virtual Conference. The executive noted that the company expects the firm will be able...

CTIA debuts a 5G security testbed for commercial networks

As the security of current and future 5G network implementations continues to be a top-of-mind issue for the industry, CTIA is launching a new security testing and validation initiative for commercial 5G networks. The 5G Security Test Bed (STB) was born out of CTIA's...

Another $361 million in emergency broadband funding heads out the door

The Federal Communications Commission has made another $361 million in funding commitments, in a seventh wave of funding for the Emergency Connectivity Fund for schools and libraries. The program has committed funds for nearly $4.2 billion to date. This round will fund more than 313,000...

Cambium Networks launches software-defined Wi-Fi 6E solutions for the enterprise

The Wi-Fi 6E APs feature Qualcomm technology and make it "easy to take advantage of the 6 GHz spectrum” according to Cambium Networks CEO Cambium Networks has announced new Wi-Fi 6E solutions designed for enterprises. The two access points (APs) — the XE3-4 and XE5-8 —...

Indian operators urge government to reduce reserve price for 5G spectrum

Indian telecom operators have submitted comments to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) asking the government to cut the reserve price for 5G spectrum, according to local press reports. Operators are saying that the reserve price for the 5G spectrum needs to be cut...

AWS Local Zones in Atlanta, Phoenix and Seattle are now available

AWS Local Zones in Atlanta, Phoenix, and Seattle make edge compute and low latency resources available outside AWS' Region network.

What is Anything as a Service (XaaS)?

XaaS, or anything as a service, is a category of cloud computing and remote access services delivered over the Internet.

SRG tests T-Mo’s FDD-TDD CA: ‘You can have your cake and eat it too’

The aggregation of 600 MHz + 2.5 GHz uses low-band, FDD spectrum to improve performance The aggregation of low and mid-band carriers in both Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) and Time Division Duplex (TDD) spectrum improves cell edge performance in T-Mobile US' network, according to...

VMware accelerates app modernization with Tanzu Application Platform release

VMWare has announced the general availability of Tanzu Application Platform, its Kubernetes app modernization toolkit.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg glosses over C-Band delay in CES keynote

Buttigieg outlined six principles that will inform his department's support of transportation technology, but says nothing about C-Band tensions between the FAA and wireless carriers U.S. Secretary of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg popped into this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), albeit virtually, to discuss the criticality of technology in...

Vodafone to expand 5G coverage in Spain via 700 MHz spectrum

Vodafone Spain announced it will start to provide 5G coverage via the 700 MHz frequency in 109 municipalities in 30 provinces progressively from today, after the telco secured 2x10 megahertz of spectrum in the 700 MHz band in July. The telco noted that this first...

Extreme Networks brings reliability, intelligence to Swedish city with cloud-managed network installation

Extreme Networks provided approximately 3,500 Wi-Fi 6 Access Points for the cloud-managed network installation Extreme Networks, in partnership with NetNordic, has turned Borås Stad, Sweden into a smart city by establishing “one of the largest cloud-managed network infrastructures” in the country, according to the company. The...

GSA reports 200 mobile carriers have already deployed 5G in 78 countries

A total of 200 operators in 78 countries have already launched one or more 3GPP-compliant 5G services as of the end of December, according to the latest update from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). Also, 487 operators in 145 countries were investing in 5G,...

Well, technically… the internet is fundamentally broken: Althea’s Deborah Simpier (Ep. 61)

Deborah Simpier, CEO at Althea, a networking company, comes on the podcast to explain how the company's blockchain/LTE solution offers a different approach to a distributed network, and why the current internet business model doesn't work for everyone.

John Deere unveils fully autonomous tractor at CES, says it’s just the beginning

'Today, the fully autonomous portion is just tillage; tomorrow it may be planting, and after that it may be spraying,' the manager of John Deere’s StarFire Network Al Savage told RCR Wireless News at CES The most impressive thing about the 40,000-pound tractor that John...

Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service gains IPv6 flexibility

Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports IPv6 to reduce latency, simplifies routing, and provide for greater address density.

Beijing ends 2021 with 56,440 5G base stations: report

Chinese operators have deployed a total of 56,400 5G base stations in Beijing at the end of 2021, local news agency Xinhua reported. Local authorities have said that the number of 5G base stations in the Chinese capital is expected to exceed 60,000 by the...

6G research needs collaborative efforts in the initial phase: Ericsson

Stakeholders involved in the early phase of 6G research should work in a collaborative way with the aim of creating momentum in research activities towards next-generation technologies, Ali Khayrallah, senior scientist radio networks of the Ericsson Advanced Technology Group, told RCR Wireless News.  “I think...

Free Mobile’s 5G footprint reaches 77% of French population

French mobile operator Free Mobile, a subsidiary of Illiad, said its 5G footprint currently covers 77% of the population, up from 52% in May 2021. Free Mobile said that its 5G network currently reaches 9,100 municipalities across France. It also said the firm had already...

Test and Measurement: Rohde & Schwarz boost Wi-Fi 6 chipset testing with Broadcom

Rohde & Schwarz recently announced that it has put together tailored test solutions for Broadcom's Wi-Fi 6E chipsets, which operate in the 6 GHz band. In collaboration with Broadcom, R&S said that its new R&S CMP180 wireless device test platform has been validated for Broadcom's new chipsets. The test...