The AST SpaceMobile satellites will depart from a launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida in September
Satellite direct-to-cellular company AST SpaceMobile has completed construction of its first five Bluebird low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, and announced a shipment scheduled for the first week of August, followed by...
5G base stations accounts for 33% of the total number of mobile base stations across China
Chinese mobile operators had deployed a total of 3.92 million 5G base stations by the end of June, local news agency Xinhua reported, citing the latest available data from...
Earlier this week the Schwab Network news program with Nicole Pettalides invited me on the show to discuss Verizon quarterly earnings. I took the conversation wider and deeper onto the changing wireless industry. I’ve been offering comment on the always changing wireless industry for...
Court ruling reverses an earlier panel decision on USF constitutionality
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that the mechanism by which the Universal Service Fund is funded and administered is unconstitutional, which imperils the existence of the program that supports...
T-Mobile US is acquiring a 50% stake in Metronet for $4.9 billion
T-Mobile US and investment firm KKR have entered a joint venture (JV) to purchase Metronet, an Indiana-based ISP that provides internet service to more than 2 million households across 17 states. According to...
Vodafone has been minimizing its ownership of Vantage Towers for the past several years
Vodafone Group has sold a further 10% stake in Vantage Towers for 1.3 billion euros ($1.4 billion), a decision the company said is “in line” with its operating targets. Proceeds from...
The use of mmWave links in Wi-Fi 8 is expected to deliver higher bandwidth and data rates
Even though the certification for Wi-Fi 8, or 802.11bn, is still several years away, vendors and standards bodies are already formulating plans around what Wi-Fi 8 will be...
BSNL is currently deploying its 4G network in partnership with TCS, Tejas Networks and the C-DOT
The Government of India will soon set up a project management unit (PMU) for state-run telco BSNL, through which the carrier will be monitored on a daily basis with...
Crown Castle reported profits of $251 million for the second quarter of 2024, down 45% from the same period last year amid an ongoing pullback in capital expenditures by mobile network operators.
Net income was also impacted by a $45 million charge related to...
Some quick thoughts on the big IT outage today, which grounded planes, trains, banks, hospitals, shops, telcos, and broadcasters around the world. Reports on the radio this morning – when the story was breaking, as I drove the kids to school – led on...
Amphenol will buy CommScope's outdoor and indoor cellular infrastructure units for $2.1 billion
CommScope has struck a deal to sell its Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) business unit and its Outdoor Wireless Networks (OWN) unit to Amphenol for about $2.1 billion.
The transaction is expected to...
MAPC builds upon the network management improvements of previous generations of Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 7, or 802.11be, was only certified in January and its adoption is just beginning to ramp up; however, whispers of Wi-Fi 8, or 802.11bn, are beginning to circulate, with some of its...
Nokia saw its (“comparable”) operating profit slide by 32 percent in the second quarter of 2024, finishing at €423 million, versus €619 million a year ago. Sales fell alongside, down 18 percent at €4.466 billion in the quarter, from €5.438 billion. It put the...
Under the agreement, Edotco will provide U Mobile with access to its tower infrastructures
Malaysian telco U Mobile and compatriot telecommunications infrastructure company Edotco announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the rollout of a 5G network under the government’s dual-network model.
U Mobile noted that the...
Huawei said its new facility is located in in Jinze, a town in Shanghai’s Qingpu district
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has completed the construction of its CNY10 billion ($1.4 billion) research and development (R&D) center in Shanghai, Chinese press reported.
According to the report, the new...
Think of a cutting-edge, high-tech environment. You’re probably not thinking of a farm, are you? Yet, in the flourishing landscapes of New Zealand, a cherry farm is leading the charge in embracing smart farming and Industry 4.0 applications to improve productivity, costs, safety and...
While public Wi-FI can be very convenient, both for users and providers, it also introduces a number of security challenges. Unsecured or under-secured public Wi-Fi networks can expose users to cyber threats like identity theft, financial fraud and data breaches. Once they are connected, attackers...
Telenor CTO highlights the role of ecosystem collaboration in driving growth and innovation
Communications service provider (CSP) Telenor recently expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a two-fold goal: to embolden Telenor’s ongoing transition from telco to cloud-native tech-co, and as part of...
Telecom Egypt secured the country's first 5G license earlier this year
Telecom Egypt said it will deliver Egypt’s first 5G network later this year, beginning with services in the cities of Alexandria, Aswan, Cairo, Giza and Luxor. For the groundbreaking deployment, the carrier selected 5G...
The reduction in the forecast is caused by severe economic headwinds and the slow adoption of 5G SA networks by mobile network operators
The global mobile core network (MCN) market is expected to decline by 10% during the 2024-2028 period, according to a newly published...
The network has achieved a significant improvement in key communication metrics such as capacity, coverage and efficiency
A group of Chinese telecom engineers have established what they claim is the world's first field test network for 6G communication and intelligent integration, Chinese newspaper China Daily...
Eckholm defends API strategy in the wake of Vonage impairment, but says lack of 5G monetization is impacting the NEM
Ericsson saw sales growth in the North American market for the first time since 2022, to the tune of a 14% increase over last year....
German operators will have to stop using critical components made by Huawei and ZTE in its 5G networks by end-2026
Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community (BMI) has reached individual agreements with local operators Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and O2 Telefonica on the use...
O2 Telefonica said that the new site has been deployed in Bavaria
German operator O2 Telefónica has put into operation the first mobile site that operates completely independently of the general power supply.
The site has been deployed in the small town of Sindlbach, in the...
