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T-Mobile US reportedly considering the purchase of UScellular assets

T-Mobile US is rumored to be considering the purchase of UScellular spectrum licenses for more than $2 billion T-Mobile US is in discussions to purchase a piece of UScellular, a move that would give the telco access to additional...

Nokia and Vodafone trial O-RAN tech with Arm and HPE

During the O-RAN demo, Nokia said that the data calls were successfully conducted using commercial user devices Nokia and Vodafone announced the successful completion of an Open RAN (O-RAN) trial in collaboration with partners Arm and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The...

Korean telco LG Uplus ends Q1 with 7.19 million 5G subscribers

LG Uplus said its overall mobile user base climbed 27.8% y-o-y to 26.26 million in Q1 Korean operator LG Uplus ended the first quarter of 2024 with 7.19 million 5G subscribers, up 13.2% year-on-year, according to the company’s latest earnings...

Rakuten Mobile, JTower expand collaboration on infra sharing

Rakuten Mobile started using JTower's solutions in January 2020 Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile and compatriot telecom infrastructure company JTower announced that Rakuten Mobile has adopted JTower’s indoor infrastructure-sharing solutions for its network in more than 100 facilities and buildings across...

Test and Measurement: Keysight adds pulse generation to FieldFox

Keysight Technologies this week announced that it has added a software option that will enable pulse generation capabilities to its FieldFox handheld radio frequency analyzer, including the ability to generate FM chirps, AM pulses, FM triangles, continuous wave signals...

Cornerstone signs with Signify to setup as 5G-IoT neutral host on UK streetlights

UK tower company Cornerstone is to build an outdoor neutral host 5G and IoT platform across UK cities by deploying cellular-connected luminaries from Dutch lighting firm Signify in street lighting infrastructure. The firm, a radio infrastructure joint-venture originally between...

Nokia strikes private 5G deal with IT reseller CGI in the UK

Nokia has announced another private-5G go-to-market deal, this time with the UK arm of Canada-based IT consulting giant CGI. It is unconfirmed whether the deal extends beyond than the UK and Ireland. CGI has already deployed Nokia’s private LTE/5G...

Spectrum, innovation and openness: Samsung on bolstering US wireless leadership

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Spectrum, driving innovation and openness. From Samsung Networks' view, these are the three things that the U.S. government should be focusing on to bolster the country's global leadership in wireless technologies. "We've got a lead in this country....

SoftBank, KDDI expand collaboration to build 5G networks

SoftBank and KDDI will aim to jointly build out a total of 100,000 base stations each by the fiscal year 2030 Japanese telecom operators SoftBank and KDDI Corporation said they have agreed to start discussions to potentially expand the scope...

Virgin Media O2, Accenture partner to pursue private 5G

Virgin Media O2 said that the first customer implementations in the U.K. will take place in the coming months U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 and Accenture have announced a new collaboration to seek opportunities in the U.K.’s mobile private network...

AI capabilities we don’t need—or are unable to use fully, just yet, ahead of an upcoming third revolution in mobile communications?

Apple has just shown its new lineup of iPads including Pro models with “outrageously powerful AI chips.” The company said the M4’s neural processing unit is more powerful than any “AI PC today.” The chip’s video and photo-editing capabilities were...

AWS to invest an additional $8.8 billion in Singapore by 2028

AWS said this investment will be executed during the 2024-2028 period Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to invest an additional S$12 billion ($8.8 billion) into its existing cloud infrastructure in Singapore from 2024 to 2028, with the aim of...

What role does testing play in delivering 5G QoE?

5G enterprise services are changing the network testing dynamic completely New enterprise services like private networks and network slicing have been at the center of conversations around how telcos can monetize 5G. However, offering these services introduces network complexities that,...

Microsoft to build $3.3 billion AI data center at failed Foxconn site

The AI data center will result in 2,300 union construction jobs and around 2,000 permanent jobs over time, said the White House President Joe Biden announced this week Microsoft’s plans to build a $3.3 billion artificial intelligence (AI) data center...

Vodafone and Sony spin-offs combine blockchain IoT platform with smart IoT label

Pairpoint, the blockchain-based trading venture owned by Vodafone and Japanese trading company Sumitomo Corporation, is working with smart label pioneer Sensos, a spin-off from Sony Semiconductor Israel, to combat supply chain fraud. They have combined the former’s so-called Economy...

#TBT: Verizon takes LTE nationwide; GSMA’s open API work; Embedded chips in brains? … this week in 2012

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and...

Mining company Sigma to install private LTE from Nokia at lithium plant in Brazil

Sigma Lithium, a lithium mining company producer, is to deploy a private LTE network from Nokia to improve worker safety and operational efficiency at a mine in Brazil. Nokia said it is the first “private LTE… network in the...

EchoStar continues to shed subscribers

EchoStar continued to lose customers across its mobile, broadband and pay-TV customer bases as a combined company following the acquisition of Dish Network—but its losses overall were less than at the same time a year ago. Compared to the...

What we learned from 78 seconds of Tesla talking about private 5G

US car maker Tesla has just released a 78 second video about a private 5G network at its Berlin autoplant, and the whole of social media has exploded; or at least, the tech commentariat on certain channels has shared...

New Zealand clears One NZ acquisition of Dense Air’s local business

In November 2023, One New Zealand said it had reached an agreement to acquire Dense Air’s business with the aim of expanding its 5G footprint New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has granted clearance for local carrier One New Zealand Group to...

SK Telecom’s 5G subscriber base grows 12.6% y-o-y in Q1

During the first quarter of 2023, SK Telecom added nearly 530,000 5G subscribers SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 15.93 million subscribers in the 5G segment, up 12.6%...

O2 launches 5G Standalone in Spain

O2 said that its 5G SA service is now available in the cities of Avila, Barcelona, Castellon, Ferrol, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Segovia, Seville and Vigo Spanish company O2, which is a brand of local telecom operator...

O2 Telefonica and Nokia deploy 5G SA on AWS cloud

Nokia, which supplies the 5G core for the O2 Telefonica 5G SA network, claimed that this development is a first of its kind Amazon Web Services (AWS) will host O2 Telefónica’s Standalone (SA) 5G core network software on its public cloud...

How to simplify Open RAN MIMO testing—from lab to live

LitePoint focused on testing Open RAN MIMO radio units as a whole rather than antenna-by-antenna As operators look to maximize spectrum utilization and deliver strong quality of experience to users, multi-antenna MIMO radio units have become mainstays in global radio...

Three over-the-air (OTA) testing challenges

When it comes to over-the-air (OTA) testing, more test points equals more test time, says NI Chief Systems R&D Engineer When it comes to over-the-air (OTA) testing, more test points equals more test time, and this has never been more...