Fundamentals

Brownfield operators rejoice!—cloud-native is not a prerequisite for AI-native We’ve covered in these pages before an idea put forth in great detail by McKinsey and Company–and by others–that operators have …

In February 2022, Etisalat rebranded to e&; the UAE-headquartered multinational was early in doing the hard work of reinventing from a telco to a tech-co, to borrow verbage from industry …

Telco AI forecasted to become a $42 billion business by 2033 While artificial intelligence (AI) hype is running rampant, AI is also bringing real benefits to real businesses and the …

While private 5G investment has clearly not lived up to forecasts, the technology has matured, enterprises are buying it, and it is delivering net new value. Perhaps the central dilemma …

The new Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) sets a common regulatory and legal framework for the development and application of AI in the European Union (EU). It was proposed by …

WASHINGTON, D.C.—While in-building coverage for cellular and public safety Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems is a challenge across building use types, it is a particularly urgent one in schools. At …

Among the main motivations behind deploying private 5G networks at the edge for enterprises are the need for full and sole control of the network, according to an analyst at …

‘The industry could use a great PR company,’ said NB+C’s Vice President of Human Capital Maybe it’s because it’s a small industry, or because it’s an “in-the-family” kind of industry, …

Paris is the smartest (capital) city in Europe, apparently. So says smart cities new research by Swedish real-estate tech firm ProptechOS, which has evaluated 23 European capitals on a number …

Whatever happened to the concept of ‘smart cities’? We used to write about them all the time, but the whole discipline seems to have splintered in recent years into a …

A Kyndryl executive stated that private 5G networks also need to be integrated with a host of other networks and technologies Private 5G networks is paving the way for a …

Note, this is an edited transcript of the opening address at Private Networks Global Forum last week. The whole event is available for registrants on-demand, for free (follow link). But …

The FBA predicts that 205,000 fiber optic technicians will be needed across the country over the next five years Last June, the Biden administration announced how it will allocate the $42.5 billion …

Timing and synchronization are crucial to customer experience, because timing & sync errors in 5G TDD networks can severely degrade a site’s ability to provide consistent call quality and good …

Balancing spectrum incumbents with new users and mitigating signal interference are increasingly challenging All around the world, CSPs are looking for access to more spectrum. In many cases, governments are …

There was a good session last week at Private Networks Global Forum with Arvin Singh, head of global 5G solutions engineering at Verizon, and part of the US carrier’s global …

Enterprises report that one of their top reasons for considering and implementing private networks is in pursuit of better network reliability. But how do you achieve the expected level of …

Private 5G networks are beginning to deliver ‘real business value,’ says AWS exec Even as private 5G deployments are taking off around the world, from China to Europe, scaling across …

Telecommunication networks are fundamentally about sending and receiving signals accurately. In order for the network to accurately juggle the complex transmission and reception of data from many devices in various …

Annual spending on private 5G networks will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of about 42 percent between 2024 and 2027, accounting for nearly $3.5 billion by the end of …

Smart ports are just about the easiest place to put a private 5G network right now – at this point in the development of 5G technology, when outdoor coverage and …

Verizon Business is probably the one operator-backed enterprise services provider – outside of China, at least – that is starting to look like it has the measure of the private …

The rise of Open RAN, where multi-vendor radio systems comprising centralized, distributed and radio units are made interoperable, is now decidedly mainstream. Following early commercial deployments from greenfield operators, Open …

Just to add to the mess of forecasts about private 5G; annual spending on private 5G networks will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of about 42 percent between 2024 …

5G enterprise services are changing the network testing dynamic completely New enterprise services like private networks and network slicing have been at the center of conversations around how telcos can …