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Intel sells stake in Arm Holdings as restructuring continues

Intel previously held 1.18 million shares in Arm A recent SEC filing shows that Intel sold its stake in British chip firm Arm Holdings in Q2. The news comes amid the massive job cuts taking place at the company, signaling a larger shakeup within the...

DigitalBridge launches offer to acquire JTower in take-private deal

JTower said that the tender offer will be open until October 10 U.S. investment firm DigitalBridge Group is offering a 152% premium for Japanese tower company JTower in a deal that values the Asian telecom infrastructure company at around JPY93 billion ($630 million), according to...

EE deploys 1,000 small cells across the UK, installs first 5G sites

EE highlighted its first 5G small cells are now live as part of a trial taking place in the London Borough of Croydon U.K. telco EE, owned by BT Group, confirmed it has already deployed over 1,000 small cells across the country, with 400 new...

CelcomDigi, U Mobile and ZTE claim new record in live 5G-A trial

ZTE said the 5G-A trial recorded mobile speeds at 30.8Gbps Malaysian carriers CelcomDigi and U Mobile and Chinese vendor ZTE claimed a new record with mobile speeds at 30.8 Gbps with 5G-Advanced (5G-A) technology during a live trial conducted in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. In addition to...

#TBT: State of the handset market; US consumers double data use in six months; Skype plans an IPO … this week in 2010

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! State of the...

Skylo supports NTN emergency connectivity on Google Pixel 9

Pixel 9 devices are the first with Google's Satellite SOS, supported by Skylo Satellite direct-to-cellular provider Skylo announced that its Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) connectivity is integrated into the new Google Pixel 9 smartphone series, to support emergency communications when a terrestrial cellular network is not...

Maxis, Huawei partner on 5G-Advanced joint innovation center

Earlier this year, Maxis said it successfully showcased what it claimed to be the first 5G-A technology trial in Malaysia and Southeast Asia in partnership with Huawei Malaysian telco Maxis and Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies have announced a new collaboration on a joint innovation center...

North America to lead O-RAN market by 2028: Dell’Oro

Europe is forecast to account for 15-20 percent of the global O-RAN revenues by 2028, according to the report North America is expected to lead the Open RAN (O-RAN) market during the 2023-2028 period, according to a recent report by Dell’Oro Group. Dell’Oro highlighted that North...

Qualcomm, Keysight test FR3

Frequency Range 3 is between 7.125 GHz-24.25 GHz With help from Keysight Technologies, Qualcomm Technologies has established what is claimed to be the industry's first end-to-end interoperability and data connection in Frequency Range 3 spectrum. 3GPP's Frequency Range 3 falls between 7.125-24.25 GHz. Frequency Range 1...

Starlink scores license to operate in Sri Lanka

Starlink owns about 60% of the approximately 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) has issued a license to Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to provide the country with satellite broadband services. Reports from Reuters revealed that Starlink had approached...

New York, Wyoming BEAD plans approved

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved the initial plans of the states of New York and Wyoming, for how they expect to use their respective portions of federal funding to expand broadband services. New York was allocated more than $664 million...

KT and LG Electronics partner on 6G transmission, full-duplex research

KT and LG will also collaborate on the global standardization for 6G systems South Korean operator KT and LG Electronics are jointly developing 6G transmission and full-duplex communication technologies, and will collaborate on the global standardization for next-generation cellular systems. Full-duplex will be introduced as part...

TIM to sell remaining stake in tower company Inwit

TIM holds an indirect stake of only 3% in Inwit through its 10% stake in holding company Daphne 3 Telecom Italia (TIM) signed an agreement with Impulse I, a consortium led by private equity group Ardian, to sell its remaining stake in mobile tower company...

Rosenworcel proposes inquiry on telecom customer service options

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is proposing that the agency open an inquiry on "ways to ensure that consumers have appropriate and efficient access to customer service resources" when it comes to phone, cable and broadband services. The proposal, which would have to...

Bharti Enterprises to acquire 24.5% stake in BT Group

Bharti said it will take a 10% stake immediately, while the remaining amount will have to be cleared by regulators Indian conglomerate Bharti Global signed an agreement with Altice to acquire its 24.5% in U.K.-based BT Group, international press reported. The reports noted that the full...

BSNL’s 5G network likely to go live by Q4 2025: Report

BSNL is targeting a 20% market share of the country’s overall mobile market by the end of 2024 Indian state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will launch its 5G services within six to eight months after completing the March 2025 pan-India 4G rollout deadline,...

Telstra, Microsoft push AI through Australian fiber network

Telstra is extending AI infrastructure from Microsoft throughout the footprint of its Intercity Fibre Network project Australian operator Telstra is extending Microsoft’s AI infrastructure throughout the footprint of its Intercity Fibre Network project as part of an extended strategic partnership between the two companies. The...

Cisco to lay off thousands as AI ambitions rise

Cisco is cutting thousands of more jobs as it shifts focus to growing business segments like cybersecurity and AI In a second round of layoffs, Cisco is cutting thousands of jobs as it shifts focus to growing business segments like cybersecurity and AI. Early reports indicate the...

EchoStar’s profits fall as its debts loom

$2 billion of EchoStar's debt comes due in November, but does not have the funds to pay EchoStar lost customers across all of its business segments—pay TV, broadband and wireless—during the second quarter of 2024, as the company works to refinance $2 billion in debt...

Rakuten Mobile raises funds though leasing of mobile assets

Rakuten Mobile said it will continue to manage and operate these mobile network assets in Japan Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group and Macquarie Asset Management announced that Rakuten Mobile will raise between JPY150-300 billion (around $1-2 billion) in funds for the sale and leaseback...

China Tower inks IoT monitoring deals with two Chinese telcos

The deals aims to help China Tower handle demand for transmission of monitoring data and related data analysis services for mid and high-point IoT devices Chinese tower operator China Tower has renewed multi-year framework deals with compatriot operators China Telecom and China Unicom with the...

China Mobile’s H1 revenues grow 3%

China Mobile plans to launch 5G-Advanced (5G-A) technology in over 300 cities across China this year China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, recorded operating revenues of CNY546.7 billion ($76.3 billion) in the first half of the year, up 3% year-on-year, the...

AT&T told to come back to Earth with space coverage claims

NARB concurs with recommendation that AT&T 'discontinue or modify' claims about the availability of NTN coverage The National Advertising Review Board (NARB) has agreed with the previous recommendation made by a panel of the BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD) that AT&T “discontinue or...

Airtel ends June with 90 million 5G customers

Airtel had ended the previous fiscal quarter with 72 million customers in the 5G field Indian telco Bharti Airtel ended its first fiscal quarter of 2025 on June 30, with a total of 90 million 5G subscribers, the telco’s managing director, Gopal Vittal, said during...