BROWSING: LTE

NTT intros service platform for enterprises to design, deploy, manage private 5G globally

NTT has launched a private cellular as-a-service platform for enterprises to deploy private LTE and 5G networks anywhere in the world. The Japan-based firm described the offer as an “end-to-end stack of services that goes beyond the network” to include infrastructure and device management,...

United Group taps Nokia for core network upgrades in Southeast Europe

The Nokia core products will help United Group's network support advanced 5G services, like network slicing United Group (UG) has selected Nokia’s cloud-native core network products in Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia, including the vendor’s Cloud Packet Core, Voice Core, 3G Core and Cloud Infrastructure and...

Nokia supplies private LTE for Western Power Distribution’s smart-grid tests

Nokia has deployed a private LTE network for electricity company Western Power Distribution (WPD) in the UK to test various smart grid applications including for monitoring of power networks, distributed generation, grid automation, and surveillance cameras. Nokia has deployed the LTE version (branded 4.9G LTE)...

AT&T offers eSIM and iSIM to streamline cellular IoT production

AT&T has teamed up with Belfast-based SIM specialist Kigen, spun-out of chip design company Arm at the end of last year, to allow cellular IoT device makers to source integrated SIM solutions earlier in the manufacturing process. This includes at the point of contract...

Telefónica to build private 5G NOCs to serve industry in Spain, Brazil, UK, Germany

Note, this article is taken from an upcoming report on operator-run private 5G enterprise NOCs. Look out for the report next week; sign up here (last chance!) for the webinar on private 5G enterprise NOCs on August 11, featuring ABI Research, Radisys, Vodafone and...

ADI White Paper: Optimal RU Performance and Energy Efficiency for 5G RAN

When the wireless revolution began some 30 years ago, there were only a handful of bands, mostly confined below 900 MHz and typically 1 or 2 bands per country. Today, driven by exponential growth, there are 76 LTE and 5G bands in FR1 alone....

ADI White Paper: Solutions for Designing and Building a Power Efficient O-RAN solution

When the wireless revolution began some 30 years ago, there were only a handful of bands, mostly confined below 900 MHz and typically 1 or 2 bands per country. Today, driven by exponential growth, there are 76 LTE and 5G bands in FR1 alone....

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: The Motivation, Technology and Testing for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS)

Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) is an innovative new technology that enables the parallel use of LTE and 5G in the same frequency band. For many carriers that do not own 5G frequency bands, dynamic spectrum sharing allows them the ability to immediately capitalize on...

Druid Software signs with CBRS specialist CTS on private 5G managed service bundle

Massachusetts-based telecoms infrastructure provider Communication Technology Services (CTS) is working with core network provider Druid Software to bundle the Irish firm’s Raemis platform into its private LTE/5G offer in the US. CTS is offering a managed private LTE/5G service to enterprises leveraging the Citizens...

Keysight Technologies partners with Cisco, Xilinx for 5G O-RAN migration

Keysight Technologies joined forces with Xilinx and Cisco to showcase fronthaul solutions that support a smooth migration from traditional 4G LTE networks to 5G open radio access networks (O-RAN). Keysight Technologies noted that multi-vendor Radio Access Network (RAN) deployments based on open standard interfaces defined...

MNOs vs NEPs vs SIs – the pitched battle (in numbers) over private 5G management

Note, this is part of a forthcoming report on operator-run private 5G enterprise NOCs. Look out for the report next month; sign up here for the upcoming webinar on carrier-run private 5G enterprise NOCs, featuring ABI Research, Radisys, Vodafone and others. What do we think we know...

Parallel Wireless, Neptune Communications bring Open RAN LTE to the Caribbean

Parallel Wireless and Neptune Communications will use Open RAN to provide mission-critical voice, data service to government agencies in Barbados Parallel Wireless and Neptune Communications are laying claim to delivering the first Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant 4G LTE solution in the Caribbean. Neptune’s 4G LTE...

Will operators build dedicated NOCs to run private 5G for key industrial enclaves?

Note, this is part of a forthcoming report on operator-run private 5G enterprise NOCs. Look out for the report next month; sign up here for the upcoming webinar on carrier-run private 5G enterprise NOCs, featuring ABI Research, Radisys, Vodafone and others. At times, during the...

5G could add £6.3bn to UK manufacturing sector by 2030, says Vodafone

Adoption of 5G could add £6.3 billion to the value of the UK manufacturing industry by 2030, according to a new report from Vodafone. Investment in 5G in manufacturing could increase growth in the sector across the country, especially in the UK industrial heartlands...

SIs in trouble, hyperscalers indifferent – the case for carrier-led private 5G

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Software AG, StarHub and the blueprint for carrier-led industrial private 5G’, available here. Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software AG, is presenting the case for telcos as the go-to agents for private 5G. He...

Intel ramps up private LTE with Federated Wireless, California school districts

Federated Wireless has signed with Intel to use its Smart Edge platform to pursue private network trials using CBRS spectrum in the education sector in the US. The move is part of Intel’s drive to push edge networking in sundry enterprise sectors. The firm...

MFA Webinar: Uni5G Private Networks: A Simplified Path to Deployment

Industry verticals are seeking to deploy 5G and 4G private networks to increase control, reliability and security of their networks. This webinar will highlight the private network opportunity in unlicensed, shared and locally licensed spectrum. Attendees will learn how MFA is enabling a simpler path...

‘The quality is in the radio, not the core’ – Nokia questions new rivals in private LTE/5G

The magic in private cellular networks comes with the radio, and not with the core, says Nokia. And the magic in the radio cannot be so easily copied or imitated; it takes decades of graft, it says, honed through five generations of cellular at...

Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile, Vodafone lead AT&T, Verizon for enterprise 5G

Deutsche Telekom, China Unicom, Orange, China Mobile, and Vodafone have ranked top, apparently in order, in an assessment of 20 mobile network operators for enterprise 5G connectivity. These five are “clear leaders in this space”, said author ABI Research, and head the market from...

Software AG, StarHub and the ‘blueprint’ for carrier-led industrial private 5G

Software AG remains set on its strategy to make mobile operators the go-to agents for private 5G in ‘vertical’ spectrum, and particularly in the Industry 4.0 space where it retains a developing crossover customer base in telecoms and industry. While most of the market...

Mavenir deploys Open vRAN at Deutsche Telekom’s O-RAN Town

Deutsche Telekom launched O-RAN Town in the city of Neubrandenburg this past June Mavenir has deployed Open vRAN, integrated with massive MIMO (mMIMO) Active Antenna Units (AAU), as part of Deutsche Telekom’s, “O-RAN Town” in Germany to deliver a 5G Non-Standalone Architecture (NSA) service. The...

KT, Samsung claim first 5G Standalone launch in South Korea

Korean carrier KT and compatriot tech company Samsung Electronics have launched what it claims to be the first 5G Standalone (SA) in the country, Samsung Electronics said in a release. For this commercial launch, Samsung provided KT its end-to-end 5G network solutions from Radio Access...

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: How Network Testing Ensures High Quality In-Building LTE and 5G Deployments

Most mobile traffic is generated in buildings and the reflective windows in these modern buildings cause radio waves to attenuate, causing degradation of cell phone reception. Hence, correct deployment and testing is important. This white paper examines different network architectures such as active DAS and...

EE’s 5G network to reach 50% of the UK population by early 2023

U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, expects to reach half of the U.K. population with its 5G service by early 2023, BT said in a release. The telco said that its 5G network will reach 90% of the country’s territory by 2028. To reach...