AT&T's five-year deal with Ericsson and a spike in 5G investment in India were bright spots in an otherwise contracting market
With the exception of a major five-year deal with AT&T and a spending spike in India, Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm described a “difficult mobile...
HFCL highlighted that the market for 5G equipment remains strong in India
Indian telecoms vendor HFCL has won a purchase order of INR 6.23 billion ($75 million) for the supply of indigenously manufactured 5G network equipment, local paper The Economic Times reported.
“This is the first...
RAN market trajectory will continue downward, analyst firm says
The market for Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment is expected to remain a tough one this year, according to new figures from Dell'Oro Group.
Momentum for 5G build-outs in India has been a bright spot in...
New investors join Vodafone on backing 'cellular in space' network
Satellite direct-to-cellular company AST SpaceMobile has garnered two major new financial backers, adding AT&T and Google as strategic investors along with additional funding from existing partner Vodafone to support commercial roll-out of its technology.
The...
John Deere said the new offering will be initially available for farmers in the United States and Brazil through a limited release
John Deere has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to provide satellite communications service to farmers.
Utilizing the Starlink network, this solution will allow...
du said it will be able to provide mobile coverage in areas that were previously out of reach
United Arab Emirates (UAE) operator du has partnered with satellite operator Intelsat, with the aim of expanding cellular connectivity across the Arab country.
Through the collaboration with Intelsat,...
EE said it has expanded its 4G network to over 1,600 additional rural communities across the U.K.
U.K. carrier EE, which is part of BT Group, said it completed its 4G coverage upgrades under the first phase of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, six...
I have been in the Telecom industry since 2004 when I started in network engineering at Verizon, this year marks 20 years in the industry! I ‘grew up’ Telecom and have worked in wireline, wireless and places where they converge, I have seen lots...
SoftBank, in collaboration with a consortium, will exhibit a demonstration of this platform during an upcoming event in Japan this month
Japanese telco SoftBank announced it has initiated field trials for 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) utilizing the segment routing IPv6 mobile user plane (SRv6...
Ooredoo Kuwait said the the initial trials focused on Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and diverse use cases
Kuwait’s largest operator, Ooredoo Kuwait, announced the successful completion of 5G mmWave technology testing in close collaboration with the Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA).
The initial trials,...
The new O-RAN center is expected to be operational this year
Aramco Digital and Intel announced plans to establish what they claim to be Saudi Arabia’s first Open RAN (O-RAN) development center.
The partners explained that the collaboration will accelerate the development and implementation of O-RAN...
Clearly, the focus of the initial response among the analyst community to HPE’s proposed $14 billion takeover of Juniper Networks, announced last week, has been on the latter’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in the networking space, acquired and developed since its own purchase of...
Ceragon said it is expected to begin delivery and deployment of the new sites in the second quarter of 2024
Israeli wireless solutions firm Ceragon Networks has signed an agreement with a global integrator, in support of a network modernization project for a Tier 1...
Future 6G systems are already coming into focus through research and early development, and one of the most exciting aspects is the role that artificial intelligence will play in the next generation of cellular systems.
First, a note on artificial intelligence versus machine learning....
In May 2023, the government of Malaysia said it would allow the operation of a second 5G network in the country
Malaysia’s communications minister, Fahmi Fadzil, said that the country has achieved its target of 80% 5G coverage in populated areas, paving the way for...
Vantage's longtime financial backers lead the investment, driven by anticipated need for more data center capacity
Vantage Data Centers has garnered $6.4 billion in equity investment, lead by digital infrastructure investment company DigitalBridge and tech backer Silver Lake, that the data center company says will...
Nokia will expand and modernize the existing IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) voice core network
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has been selected by United Arab Emirates (UAE) operator du to modernize its circuit-switched core network.
As part of the project, Nokia will expand and modernize...
In addition to helping operators cut costs, Ericsson’s AI-enabled approach to 5G transport automation sets the stage for new service monetization
As the industry continues to advance 5G networks, the stage is set for the scaled transition to cloud-native standalone mode of operation that will...
Cloud and edge solutions provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has confirmed it has agreed a deal to acquire enterprise networking specialist Juniper Networks for $14 billion. The acquisition will double HPE’s networking business, increasing from around 18 percent of its total annual revenue to...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is closing on a $13 billion deal for Juniper Networks, according to a report yesterday (Monday, January 8) in The Wall Street Journal, and widely covered elsewhere since. So far, neither company has commented on the story; the original cites...
Ultrawideband (UWB), a low-power, low-cost radio technology for near-field communications and high-accuracy ranging applications has grown in commercial importance for short-range data communications and is used in various market segments such as telecommunications, automotive, banking, healthcare, and the public sector. It is estimated that...
Wi-Fi Alliance's official certification program for Wi-Fi 7 has begun
Wi-Fi Alliance is kicking off 2024 with a shiny new certification program for Wi-Fi 7, signaling that the newest generation of Wi-Fi is ready for mass adoption.
As is typical in Wi-Fi generations, there is...
The XR2+ Gen 2 comes with more GPU and AI capabilities; Qualcomm named Google and Samsung as among OEM partners
Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show starting today in Las Vegas, Qualcomm announced the latest-and-greatest in Extended Reality (XR) silicon platforms. The XR2+ Gen 2,...
Deploying massive MIMO for mid-band 5G presents the opportunity to massively reduce per site power consumption and system-level energy efficiency
While there isn’t anything magical that happens when a new year starts, it does represent the opportunity to renew focus, refresh ambition and revisit priorities....
