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NGA highlights role of 6G in distributed sensing, communications

The NGA was launched by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), as an initiative to advance North American wireless technology leadership over the next decade ATIS' Next G Alliance (NGA) has published a new white paper that looks at the transformative role that...

BSNL to complete large portion of its 4G network by November

India's telecom minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said that BSNL is being revived in a "very systematic and methodical way" Indian state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has started its 4G deployment and will have completed a significant part of the rollout by November 2024, local...

Nokia intros Federal Solutions unit to sell private 5G to U.S. government agencies

Nokia has launched a dedicated business unit in the U.S. to deliver private cellular, edge computing, and other critical connected solutions to the federal government. The new unit, called Nokia Federal Solutions, has been “bolstered”, the company said, by its recent acquisition of the...

Customer priorities, crossover products, cultural profiles – talking HPE + Juniper

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...

Deutsche Telekom to launch ‘ultra-mobile’ deployable solution

Deutsche Telekom said that around a dozen companies are currently testing the mast German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it is relying on ultra-mobile transmission mast to fulfill with short-term requirements due to festivals or large construction sites. A few months ago, Deutsche Telekom developed a prototype...

Samsung Electronics sees 6G as crucial for the company’s future

Samsung noted that the development of future 6G systems will be critical for the commercialization of innovative products in AI, autonomous driving and extended reality Future 6G communications technology will be crucial for the future of Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics, according to Samsung Electronics’...

Dish Wireless awarded $50 million for O-RAN test facility

ORCID will allow participants to test and validate their hardware and software solutions against an O-RAN network deployed by Dish Dish Wireless, which is now a subsidiary of EchoStar, was awarded a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information...

O-RAN firm Parallel Wireless deploys 1,500 sites across Africa

Parallel Wireless already deployed O-RAN sites in Nigeria, Tanzania, Guinea Conakry, Ghana, South Sudan, Uganda, DRC and Malawi U.S.-based Open RAN (O-RAN) firm Parallel Wireless said it has already deployed a total of 1,500 sites across Africa. Parallel Wireless partnered with regional telecommunications providers and...

BSNL targets market share of 20% in India with its 4G rollout

BSNL will launch 5G technology in 2025 via an upgrade of its 4G infrastructure Indian state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is targeting a 20% market share of the country’s overall mobile market by the end of 2024 by accelerating the rollout of its 4G...

Telit Cinterion to enable global cellular IoT connectivity with satellite

Telit Cinterion said it signed partnership with floLIVE and Skylo Technologies to unveil the new solution IoT solutions provider Telit Cinterion announced a solution featuring cellular and satellite connectivity services on its ME910G1 and ME310G1 modules. In a release, the company said it signed partnership with...

Zain Kuwait completes 5.5G test with Huawei

Zain Kuwait also tested Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) Zain Kuwaut said it has achieved speeds of 10 Gigabits per second after completing a 5.5G technology trial on its network in partnership with Chinese vendor Huawei. The Middle East telco said it was the first operator...

HFCL secures order to upgrade optical transport network for BSNL

BSNL previosuly said it expected to launch a 4G network this year Indian telecoms vendor HFCL has signed a deal worth INR 11.2 billion ($135 million) with state operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to upgrade its optical transport network (OTN) across India. The vendor noted...

The current state of 5G in Germany

During 2023, the largest operators in Germany have been focusing on the expansion of their 5G networks, with some operators already offering coverage to more than 90% of the country’s population. German telco Deutsche Telekom said that its 5G network currently covers 96% of the...

5G FWA will be key for last-mile connectivity in India: Qualcomm

Qualcomm said 5G FWA will create new opportunities in the consumer and enterprise segments 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) will be a crucial technology for enabling last-mile connectivity in India, local newspaper Economic Times reported, citing Savi Soin, president of Qualcomm India. Soin also noted that...

Nokia to sell its device, service management unit to Lumine Group for $203m

Nokia has agreed to sell its Device Management (DM) and Service Management Platform (SMP) businesses to Canadian telecom and media software company Lumine Group for $185 million euros (approximately $203 million). Nokia said that its Device Management software capabilities help communication service providers...

Qualcomm partners with Airties for 5G FWA

The two companies are collaborating to optimize Airties’ managed Wi-Fi solutions to integrate more easily on broadband carrier platforms, featuring Qualcomm 5G FWA platform French company Airties, which provides managed Wi-Fi for broadband service providers, announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies for fixed wireless access...

Balancing network efficiency, cost and performance

AT&T said it is looking at trying to turn some circuits down as users migrate from legacy technologies such as DSL to fiber Operators are facing the challenge of having to deploy more hardware to meet the appetite of users for more data while at...

Hughesnet’s new satellite bumps offered speeds as high as 100 Mbps

Satellite broadband provider Hughes Network Systems, aka Hughesnet, which is part of Echostar, has begun offering service plans with speeds up to 100 Mbps using capacity from its new Jupiter 3 satellite. That's a big bump in speeds for Hughesnet service. Depending on how...

Lynk signs letter of intent to become publicly-listed

Under the terms of the agreement, the combined company would operate as Lynk Global Satellite-direct-to-standard-phone (sat2phone) telecoms provider Lynk and Slam, a special purpose acquisition company, announced that they have signed a non-binding letter of intent for a potential business combination. Under the terms of the...

The big Scope 3 challenge – next steps to tackle indirect emissions upstream and downstream in the supply chain

Australian telco Telstra said that the bulk of its scope 3 emissions relate to the carrier's supply chain Companies operating in the telecommunications field are currently facing challenges when measuring Scope 3 emissions, said Alessandro Gropelli, deputy director general at European Telecoms Association (ETNO) and...

Jio’s 5G FWA service already available in 514 Indian cities: Report

Jio initially launched its 5G FWA offering in September in eight Indian cities Indian telco Reliance Jio Infocomm’s 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) offering, dubbed JioAirFiber, is already commercially available in 514 cities in 25 states across India, according to local press reports. JioAirFiber is available...

A truly green future? Gazing into the crystal ball – 6G, AI, ML, data sufficiency…

Weaver Labs said it is currently working on a 6G project funded by the U.K. government with universities and vendors The telecommunications industry is in a good track in order to deliver its really ambitious objective of reaching sustainability in the whole sector, according to...

Vodafone explains its sustainability efforts

Vodafone aims to use fully use renewable sources to power its networks by 2025 U.K. telco Vodafone is implementing a number of actions in order to be in a position to fulfill with its sustainability goals, according to Erik Kling, president and head of IoT...

India to reach 130 million 5G subscriber by end-2023: Ericsson

Ericsson said that India will have 860 million subscribers in the 5G segment by end-2029 5G subscriptions in India are expected to reach 130 million by the end of 2023 and are forecast to grow to 860 million by 2029, according to the latest edition...