The local regulator said that the decision to shut down 3G networks is to optimize 4G LTE and 5G services across Qatar
Qatar’s Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) issued a decision ordering the shutdown of 3G networks in the country by December 31, 2025.
The regulator said...
GSA report expects global 2G/3G network shutdowns to peak in 2025
With operators globally seeking to shut down legacy network technology and repurpose 2G and 3G spectrum for 4G and 5G, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has been tracking the progress and plans for...
The number of active IoT devices will more than double to 40 billion by the end of 2033, according to IoT analyst house Transforma Insights. Short-range IoT technologies will account for 73 percent of the total by the end of the period; cellular IoT...
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Canadians and SMS?...
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...
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Speculation on Cingular's...
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Absorbing the impact...
EE said the process to switch-off its 3G network is expected to start in January 2024
BT Group said it expects to fully complete the switch-off of U.K. carrier EE’s 3G network by March 2024, BT’s chief networks officer Greg Mccall said in a blog...
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Playing 3G games...
The licensing deal between Huawei and Ericsson includes 3G, 4G and 5G network infrastructure and consumer devices
Huawei and Ericsson have established a new, global patent licensing agreement that includes 3G, 4G and 5G network infrastructure and consumer devices, granting global access to each other’s...
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Crown Castle goes...
IMDA said that 3G subscriber base makes up approximately 1% of the total mobile subscriptions in the country
Singaporean mobile operators Singtel, StarHub and M1 plans to shut down their 3G services by the end of July 2024, local telecom regulator IMDA said in a...
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Waiting for the...
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3G standards squabbles...
Orange and AMN will deploy roughly 500 base stations in rural Madagascar over the next ten years
Orange Madagascar has signed an agreement with tower company Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) to build additional 2G and 3G infrastructure in the country’s rural areas. The pair said...
Verizon originally planned its 3G shutdown for 2019
Verizon officially turned down its 3G network on the final day of 2022. It had been the last holdout among national mobile network operators, with AT&T and T-Mobile US already having completed their 3G shutdowns.
Verizon first...
While cellular has undergone and brought about rapid and continuous change in human communication over the 40 years since the industry’s inception, we can identify a certain few developments that were profound and revolutionary. These include digitization of voice in 2G, text messaging, smartphones...
As US IoT chipmaker Silicon Labs opens the (virtual) doors to its third Works With event (September 12-14), and readies a rush of new product releases (coverage incoming), Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ross Sabolcik, the firm’s general manager for industrial and commercial,...
Snap IoT analysis just in from ABI Research; the US-headquartered firm has run the rule over the post-coronavirus market for IoT gateways and concluded, because of industrial IoT takeup among other factors, that total global revenues from the sale of IoT gateways will jump...
Germany-based IoT provider 1NCE has said it has doubled its NB-IoT footprint with expansion into Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the Slovak Republic, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. The company claimed it has the “world’s largest NB-IoT coverage map, available at a single...
Three said its 5G offering is available in over 400 locations across more than 3,000 sites in the United Kingdom
U.K. operator Three announced that its 5G network currently covers more than 54% of the population.
The operator said its 5G offering is now available in...
The story of how blockchain is revolutionizing IoT, by democratizing and expanding low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking and creating incremental opportunities for forward-looking enterprises, has been told already. We know the IoT market has failed so far to live up to the hype (50 billion...
Three says that usage of its 5G network has surged by an astonishing 385% since 2020
According to a new report released by UK operator Three, more users in the region are using its 5G services than its 3G services for the first time. The...
Global revenues from cellular IoT modules increased by 58 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with the year-ago period, with more than 40 percent of the total revenue in the period in China. 5G-based IoT modules contributed to nearly a quarter of...
