Arcep said it has awarded a total of 81 trial licenses since March 2022
French regulator Arcep said it will extend an ongoing trial platform in the 3.8 – 4.0 GHz band for manufacturers and market players wanting to experiment and test new 5G use...
Verizon said that it was able to demonstrate a "significant boost to network performance" on its commercial network, as well as "meaningful power efficiency gains" and the capability to support higher throughputs, through the use of Intel's 4th generation Xeon Scalable processor with vRAN...
The Vodafone hybrid 5G private network infrastructure will cover 23 of Snam's facilities
Vodafone Italia is providing Italian energy infrastructure company Snam with a hybrid 5G private network infrastructure that will cover 23 of the company’s facilities and connect a large number of devices simultaneously.
“The...
As part of the deal, Telstra will also acquire Versent subsidiary Stax, an enterprise self-service management platform
Telstra has solidified the purchase of Melbourne-based cloud services company Versent for $267.5 million. The deal will bolster Telstra Purple, the carrier’s tech services business, while enabling Versent...
Buy-in from incumbent vendors could catalyze Open RAN deployment
With Dell’Oro Group estimating that Open RAN manufacturer revenues accounted for a mid-single digit share ($2 billion to $3 billion) of the total $40 billion annual RAN market in 2022, analyst Stefan Pongratz expects disaggregated radio...
Baidu will integrate the Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces XR developer platform into its XiRang metaverse platform
Chinese internet giant Baidu announced this week on social media that it has partnered with Qualcomm announced on extended reality (XR) and metaverse technologies to create a new metaverse platform...
TSMC is a member of RE100, a global renewable energy initiative that targets net-zero carbon emissions by 2050
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is now aiming to use 100% renewable energy for its global operations by 2040, ten years ahead of its original target. Further,...
Bloomberg has reported that Qualcomm has just suffered another significant stock decline. They have in fact been struggling for several different reasons over the past several years. The good news is, they remain one of the few leaders in the smartphone chip market, worldwide....
The telecom industry, and Americans across the country, continue to be inundated by robocalls — to the tune of 77 billion unwanted robocalls over the past 12 months. Robocalls have undermined consumer trust in voice calling to such an extent that 68% of Americans...
Spectrum Mobile from Charter costs less and offers a more reliable connection to wireless data service compared to Xfinity Mobile from Comcast. The problem is these two companies do not compete. That means there is zero competitive pressure to keep all competitors at their...
Intel talks the importance of a robust Open RAN/vRAN ecosystem
Intel’s Kartik Srinivasan, senior director of product for Intel Ethernet, views virtualized and Open RAN as “game changer” that will only benefit from ongoing vendor-led work to muck through interoperability and integration requirements. In a...
The rich 5G vision that captured the popular imagination years ago, with articles in the media on how 5G would transform the way we live and work, has yet to be fully realized. There is growing consumer sentiment that 5G has been a letdown; that it...
The European Commission believes that the proposed merger of Spanish operatorsOrange and MásMóvil may reduce competition in the mobile and fixed internetmarkets.
On April 3, 2023, the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation toassess if the proposed merger would potentially restrict competition in several marketsegments...
India has earmarked a total of INR890 billion ($10.8 billion) for the allotment of 4G and 5G spectrum for BSNL
Indian state-run operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has inked a strategic partnership with engineering services company L&T Technology Services (LTTS) with the aim of...
Dell talks taking an ecosystem approach to help reposition operators as “trusted business partners,” and capture new 5G service revenues
“If you go back 20 years, telcos provided a broad range of services to enterprises, and they were a trusted business partner,” Dell Technologies Senior...
Irish energy company ESB Networks has appointed Dublin-headquartered critical comms provider Sigma Wireless and Finnish network equipment vendor Nokia to deploy a private LTE network over a three year period. Nokia is supplying the core and radio access networks. The new infrastructure will support...
UK operator Vodafone has issued a report, written by telecoms consultancy STL Partners, that there will be (up to) 3.3 billion IoT devices variously trading with each other in an ‘economy of things’ by the end of the decade. The number is a colossal...
With generative AI putting a spotlight on NVIDIA, the company is pushing “accelerated computing” as key to bringing AI to bear across industries
The idea is to use NVIDIA services, software and systems to build “AI factories” that also run 5G RAN workloads
NVIDIA, SoftBank partnership...
In January 2022, Microsoft announced plans to acquire Activision for $68.7 billion
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard, claiming the deal would lead to “reduced innovation and less choice” in the cloud gaming market.
Announced in January...
In today's fast-paced telecommunications industry, companies are constantly looking for ways to grow their business and stay ahead of the competition. In this episode of 5G Talent Talk with Carrie Charles, we sit down with Joe Cecin, CEO of Ontivity, a national-scale network services...
Watching the evolution of telco carrier RAN networks feels like viewing a sports replay in slow motion. It’s interesting to see, and there are often angles and perspectives that crop up that aren’t immediately apparent. In the end, however, you still know where things...
In a world where startups dominate the headlines, there's something remarkable about a company that boasts a 94-year-old history. How has KLA Laboratories managed to not just survive but thrive for nearly a century?
In today's episode of 5G Talent Talk, Carrie Charles is joined...
The convergence of wireless and wireline networks will provide a consistent 5G experience no matter how consumers are connected, delivering on the technology’s many promises – from better and differentiated Quality of Experience (QoE) to advances in the IoT and AI fields. In 2023,...
Joining host Carrie Charles on today's episode of 5G Talent Talk is Leticia Latino Van-Splunteren, CEO of Neptuno USA. Together, they explore the way 5G technology is transforming the telecom industry and discuss the challenges and opportunities for building a talented and diverse workforce...
