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T-Mobile US inks deal with Crown Castle to expand 5G infrastructure

T-Mobile US and Crown Castle International have signed a new 12-year agreement to support the continued build-out of T-Mobile's nationwide 5G network with increased access to Crown Castle's towers and small cell locations. Under the terms of the agreement, T-Mobile US will further expand the...

Microsoft ‘improving the cloud for telcos’ after AT&T Network Cloud acquisition

Azure for Operators is a carrier-grade hybrid cloud solution, says Microsoft Microsoft said it’s “improving the cloud for telcos” almost seven months after it announced it had acquired AT&T’s Network Cloud. Shawn Hakl, VP of 5G strategy, Azure for operators, broke out the company’s news in a...

ATIS’ Next G Alliance shows the path to sustainable 6G

ATIS’ Next G Alliance published a white paper with the aim of showing how the ICT industry can contribute to reducing overall energy consumption and achieving environmental sustainability objectives while accelerating progress toward future 6G technology. The white paper, called "Green G: The Path Towards...

KT, Fujitsu, NTT Docomo partner to bring O-RAN to South Korea

Korean carrier KT and Japanese tech company Fujitsu have completed a verification facility at the KT Research and Development Center in Seoul, South Korea, at which the two companies leveraged Fujitsu’s Open RAN-based 5G base station equipment to successfully test call connections during interoperability...

#TBT: Music downloads are hot; Mobile TV moves; China set for domestic handset boom … this week in 2006

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! Verizon adds full-track...

Log4J exploits continue: Microsoft

Microsoft said bad actors wasted no time exploiting the recently zero-day exploit of Log4J, Java-based logging software.

Qualcomm demonstrates it’s ‘more than mobile’ with automotive, XR partnerships

LAS VEGAS – During a CES 2022 press event Tuesday, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon presented several new partnerships spanning several markets, proving once again, that “there is more to Qualcomm” than its mobility technology. Most notably, though, were the company’s announcements around its continued...

UTStarcom, China Unicom work to develop 5G transport network solution

Telecom infrastructure provider UTStarcom announced progress with China Unicom Research Institute in their cooperative development and field testing of a disaggregated networking solution for 5G transport networks. China Unicom Research Institute is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Unicom, one of the major mobile carriers...

Wi-Fi Certified 6 Release 2 adds new features to address growing demand

Wi-Fi Alliance CEO: 'Wi-Fi Certified 6 Release 2 furthers Wi-Fi’s evolution to address today’s market needs' In the fall of 2019, Wi-Fi Alliance released the Wi-Fi Certified 6 certification program, designed to ensure the best user experience based on the latest generation of Wi-Fi, IEEE...

Verizon, AT&T change course, agree to another C-Band delay

Carriers now plan to start C-Band operations on Jan. 19 After putting out a firm statement rejecting requests from the Federal Aviation Administration to further delay activation of C-Band spectrum, AT&T and Verizon have abruptly changed course and agreed to a two-week delay. Reuters...

HPE software problem spikes 77 TB of Kyoto University research

HPE has acknowledged a December software bug that ended up deleting 77TB of research data on a Kyoto University Cray/HPE supercomputer

Huawei shows stable carrier business in 2021 but overall revenues decline

Huawei rotating chairman Guo Ping said in an annual internal New Year’s message that the vendor’s carrier business remained stable and its enterprise segment booked solid growth last year. However, the company’s total revenue for full 2021 was expected to decline by 28.9% year-on-year to...

Ligado, Nokia strike deal to target US private networks

Ligado's spectrum will be used in conjunction with Nokia's Digital Automation Cloud for enterprise private wireless Ligado Networks and Nokia announced plans to combine Nokia's Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) enterprise private wireless networks solution with Ligado's L-Band nationwide licensed spectrum for deployment in the U.S....

New Zealand’s 2degrees and Orcon to merge, offering integrated services

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 to merge in a NZ $1.7 billion deal, positioning them as the country’s third-largest integrated...

French telcos had 31,650 authorized 5G sites at end-2021

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 provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR. ANFR said that the number of authorized 5G sites...

Well, technically… telcos can only grow by moving into the enterprise: IBM’s Marisa Viveros (Ep. 60)

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 specifics of the company's recent cloud partnerships with Verizon and Telefonica and explains how...

AT&T, Verizon CEOs reject FAA request to further delay C Band deployments

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 their C Band plans until early January following warnings issued by the Federal Aviation Administration...

BlackBerry ends legacy service support

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

5G supply chain challenges to continue during 2022: ABI Research

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 That Will—and Will Not—Shape 2022", noted that the U.S. government's Entity List has created a...

The current state of 5G in Spain

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, we briefly describe the current state of 5G deployments by Telefonica, Orange, Vodafone and...

Evolved Packet Core vs. 5G cloud-native core

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

Top 5 5G network automation use cases

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

Four predictions for the indoor location market

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 applications for being able to leverage better indoor location, whether that means using Wi-Fi,...

Four notable developments in indoor location during 2021

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 didn't quite pan out that way; development and implementation of the technologies that enable...