Vodafone Idea aims to expand 4G coverage in 17 priority circles and launch 5G in key geographies across India
Indian carrier Vodafone Idea confirmed plans to invest a total of INR500-550 billion ($6-6.6 billion) within the next three years, the carrier’s CEO Akshaya Moondra said...
China Mobile ended the first quarter with 488 million 5G subscribers
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, recorded operating revenues of CNY263.7 billion ($36.4 billion) in the first quarter of the year, an increase of 5.2% year-on-year, the carrier said in...
Garcia noted that America Movil is on track to meet its capital investment forecasts for 2024, which will be $7.1 billion
Mexican carrier América Móvil will invest in 5G technology in all the markets in which it operates, the company's CFO, Carlos García Moreno, said...
Dell’Oro highlighted that global carrier revenues are expected to increase at a 1% CAGR over the next three years
Worldwide telecom capex experienced a decline in 2023 in nominal terms as telecom operators are scaling back their investments in the 5G field, according to a...
China said its investments in the 5G field increased by 5.7% last year versus the previous year
China hiked its investment in 5G networks to CNY190.5 billion ($26.6 billion) last year, local press reported, citing the latest official data from the Ministry of Industry and...
China Mobile reported a net addition of 130 million 5G subscribers during the first half of 2023
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, ended the first half of the year with a total of 393 million 5G subscribers, up 49.7% year-on-year,...
American Tower ended the second quarter of 2023 with a portfolio of approximately 226,000 communications sites
American Tower Corporation (ATC) is seeing a positive outlook for its international operations given the expected increase in capital expenditures and mobile data consumption in these markets, the company’s...
Bell now offers "5G+" coverage to more than 40% of the Canadian population
Canadian carrier Bell is on track to reach 85% of the country’s population with its 5G service by the end of 2023, the company’s President and CEO Mirko Bibic said during a...
Indus Tower currently has over 189,000 towers across India
Indian telecommunications tower company Indus Tower will accelerate investments to expand its infrastructure across the country to take advantage of the rapid rollout of 5G services by local carriers Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm, local...
Mobile network operators are taking initiatives to deploy 5G faster and make it accessible to more and more users. However this comes with a host of new challenges such as ensuring adequate coverage, capacity and throughput, managing network complexity and interoperability, and balancing costs...
China Mobile ended February with 639.1 million 5G package subscribers after the telco added a total of 16.6 million 5G subscribers during the month
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, will reduce its 5G capex this year, according to its...
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...
The report noted that despite the progress in 5G networks and FTTH deployments, the European continent risks falling short of its “gigabit for all by 2030” target by 10%
5G technology was available to 73% of the European population by the end of 2022, up...
FET had initially launched commercial 5G services in Taiwan in 2020
Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecommunications expects its 5G subscriber penetration rate to reach 40% by the end of this year from more than 30% last year, local newspaper Taipei Times reported.
The carrier’s president, Chee...
As manufacturing players decide whether or not to adopt 5G, one of the primary factors is how much it costs to deploy and operate these systems in terms of capital and operating expenditures, and how long it will take to achieve return on investment....
CTIA said that mobile carriers in the U.S. had invested a total of $121 billion in network infrastructure since 2018
U.S. mobile operators invested a total of $35 billion last year, marking the fourth consecutive year of increased investment, according to the 2022 CTIA annual...
The why and how of Open RAN, capex/opex savings and through honest collaboration, have been pretty well sorted. Now it’s time to leverage the capabilities of virtualized, open, multi-vendor solutions to deliver innovation.
For operators, hosting radio workloads in cloud environments can facilitate a host...
Orange Spain is currently offering 5G services through frequencies in the 3.5 GHz and 700 MHz bands
Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 1,222 towns and cities in 51 provinces across the country, the carrier said in a statement.
According to the European...
The why and how of Open RAN, capex/opex savings and through honest collaboration, have been pretty well sorted. Now it’s time to leverage the capabilities of virtualized, open, multi-vendor solutions to deliver innovation.
For operators, hosting radio workloads in cloud environments can facilitate a host...
SK Telecom said its 5G customer base accounted for 45.9% of total mobile subscribers at end-March
South Korean operator SK Telecom ended the first quarter of 2022 with a total of 10.88 million subscribers in the 5G segment, after a net addition of 1 million...
5G connections are forecasted to represent 12% of total mobile connections in Latin America by 2025, according to a recent report by industry body GSMA.
The report showed that overall 5G connections in the region are expected to reach 86 million by that time.
The report...
Mexican telecom giant América Móvil's expected launch of 5G in certain markets will not represent a boost in its planned capex for this year, CEO Daniel Hajj said during the telco's Q1 results call.
The operator confirmed it will invest $8 billion this year, including...
The telecommunications industry is facing a major workforce problem and it couldn't come at a worse time. Just as operators are embarking on multi-year capex cycles to build out 5G, a lack of skilled workers could potentially be a bottleneck.
As such, test and...
Verizon raised 2020 5G capex guidance as COVID-19 spread
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely to slow the pace of capital spending aimed at building out 5G wireless networks in the US, according to a recent report by Fitch Ratings.
“Although wireless leaders Verizon,...
