The main business driver for private networks is security, according to a Spirent report
It comes as no surprise that talk of private wireless was rampant at Mobile World Congress 2023, and while Steve Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent Communications, was impressed by...
'The market approach is chaotic, but it doesn't mean it’s overhyped:' Intel exec
A panel discussion at Mobile World Congress 2023 sought to answer one of the industry’s most burning questions: Is private wireless overhyped? The three panelists answered this question, first in simple terms...
Dream Las Vegas will house 531 hotel rooms, 12,000 square feet of meeting and event space and a 20,000-square-foot casino
Boingo Wireless has been selected to design, build and manage extensive DAS and Wi-Fi 6E networks at Dream Las Vegas, a new hotel and casino...
Sixty percent of Super Bowl LVII attendees were Verizon customers, and together, they used 47.8 TB of data
Ahead of Super Bowl LVII, Verizon invested more than $100 million in network upgrades and enhancements in and around State Farm Stadium and the greater Phoenix area....
In just over 18 months, T-Mobile US has secured 2.6 million 5G FWA customers
At Mobile World Congress Barcelona, RCR Wireless News caught up with Neville Ray, president of technology at T-Mobile US, to discuss 5G progress and where the carrier is seeing the greatest...
BARCELONA—It was a hectic week for test and measurement vendors at Mobile World Congress 2023, with a slew of announcements, and demonstrations across the Fira, that illuminate where the industry's attention and development efforts are focused.
Power usage—specifically, telecom equipment that can use...
MWC, Barcelona—ZTE has released a 5G-Advanced solution, dubbed Cluster DFS, in partnership with Chinese carrier China Telecom. According to ZTE, the new offering will facilitate the development of specific B2B and B2C services using a single 5G network.
China Telecom claims to have deployed the...
Rakuten Symphony said the agreement stipulates the deployment of private networks in six Asian markets
MWC, Barcelona—Axiata Enterprise, which is a business solutions company owned by Asian mobile telecommunications conglomerate Axiata, and Japanese company Rakuten Symphony have inked an agreement under which the latter will...
Orange said the new financing will enable the telco to boost 4G networks in rural parts of France
French operator Orange has secured financing for a total of 500 million euro ($530 million) from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to partly finance the deployment of...
Ericsson and Aeris Communications sought, somehow, to raise confidence in their conjoined IoT strategy at MWC, following the sale of Ericsson’s loss-making IoT Accelerator business to long-time partner Aeris at the end of last year. In Barcelona, Ericsson hosted Aeris on its stand, and...
The biggest news from MWC23 in Barcelona is surprisingly not 5G. This year Mobile World Congress focused on where wireless is heading and what changes we can expect going forward. Based on the countless conversations I have been having with industry executives, I beleive...
The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Mobile Work Congress 2023
MWC, BARCELONA - Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom and Ericsson have agreed to align their efforts around 5G Advanced and 6G, with a particular focus on bringing more energy-efficient networks to the private wireless...
MWC, Barcelona: Spanish telco Telefónica has unveiled a 5G-connected digital twin designed to optimize quality in the production of industrial parts. The digital twin also has the the capacity to make decisions in real time, it said.
Telefónica’s digital twin features a KR4 robotic arm,...
BARCELONA--Every year at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) event in Barcelona, the world’s biggest telecom operators gather among the smartphone OEMs and chip vendors to show off their latest achievements. This year, many of the telcos coalesced around Qualcomm’s XR platform, Snapdragon Spaces. Seven...
BARCELONA—Igal Elbaz, AT&T's CTO for networks, has words for Open RAN doubters: Open RAN is going to happen, because it's that important to telecom innovation. It's just a matter of when, and he said there are two factors which will determine how quickly it...
The CEO of Orange said that European operators considered that the huge investments in network infrastructure was being hard to monetize
MWC, BARCELONA: European telcos face intense pressure on two fronts, said Christel Heydemann, chief executive of French group Orange at MWC – to support...
Dell Technologies kicked off a private 5G charm offensive with the operator set last week, in time for MWC, offering pre-tested and validated edge compute and networking solutions, plus system integration and support, for operators to sell private 5G to enterprises. At the outset,...
The pilot comes out of the new GSMA Open Gateway framework for universal APIs – to open cellular network access for developers
MWC, BARCELONA: Telefónica has integrated its network application programmable interfaces (APIs) with a pilot AWS Wavelength Zone at a Telefónica multi-access edge (MEC)...
The O-RAN cooperation will be performed by exchanging the respective expertise and technologies between the parties
MWC, Barcelona. Vodafone and NTT Docomo have said they will work together to simplify open RAN testing and integration for network equipment vendors, with a view to harmonize the...
MWC 2023, Barcelona. Cellular will now find your IoT sensor in “every warehouse, farmhouse, outhouse, and doghouse”, to (mis)quote Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard; Deutsche Telekom has said it is working with Intelsat and Skylo to offer a satellite extension to its terrestrial cellular IoT...
The two telcos said the new network APIs are integrated onto Microsoft Azure Programmable Connectivity
BARCELONA—Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US have developed a platform with joint Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - called T-DevEdge – with the aim of making easier for the global developer community...
New GSMA report looks at how many people have access to mobile broadband but do not use it
BARCELONA—You've heard of the digital divide, but how about the "usage gap"? In a new report from GSMA Intelligence, the usage gap in mobile internet refers to...
Nokia refreshes its branding, emphasizing collaboration
BARCELONA—One of the most venerable telecom brands is remaking itself. Nokia unveiled a new logo that its executives say is part of its strategy to grow its enterprise customer base.
"A significant part of the world sees us as a...
Singtel said the new capability identifies and blocks cyber threats at the network level thus preventing them from reaching the network’s users
Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel unveiled its new 5G security-as-a-slice (SecaaS) offering, the telco said in a release.
The new capability identifies and blocks cyber...
