A recent report from IHS Markit predicts the private LTE network market will hit $2.6 billion in device and equipment revenues by 2020.
The private LTE network market is set to see significant growth over the next few years, with a new forecast...
The FCC is set to begin the final phase of its 600 MHz incentive auction process, with the assignment portion starting on March 6.
Winning bidders that picked up spectrum licenses in the Federal Communications Commission’s 600 MHz incentive auction process are...
Ooredoo said the service will initially be available for select customers in capital city of Doha.
Middle East mobile operator Ooredoo launched fiber-to-the-home service in Qatar with support for speeds up to 10 gigabits per second. The service is initially available in...
DT said M2M deal with China Mobile will provide customers access to the Chinese market, while smart glass partnership could target augmented reality.
BARCELONA, Spain – Deutsche Telekom and China Unicom inked a partnership to enhance their respective machine-to-machine operations and...
Was the strong showing at the recent MWC event by Sprint a sign of maturation or more cynically an attempt to attract attention?
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Ontology deal to provide EXFO with real-time network topology discovery and service-chain mapping to improve network visibility platform for operators.
EXFO said it has acquired privately held Ontology Systems in a deal valued at $7.6 million, net of cash.
U.K.-based Ontology works...
Connected factory trial is currently focused on production line monitoring and materials tracking use cases.
China Mobile and Ericsson said they are carrying out a connected factory trial at the plant of Ericsson’s subsidiary Ericsson Panda Communication, in the city of Nanjing,...
Cloud-based 5G end-to-end network slicing demo hosted at DT’s lab in Bonn, Germany.
Huawei and Deutsche Telekom said they are currently carrying out a demonstration of cloud-based “5G” end-to-end network slicing, which includes radio access, transport and core network elements. ...
Verizon buys S.F. spectrum from MetroPCS, Sprint launches EV-DO modem and Qualcomm puts the brakes on EV-DV … 12 years ago this week.
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Orange plans to initially focus on certain verticals including health care, public transportation and smart cities.
BARCELONA, Spain – Orange Business Services identified health care, public transportation and smart cities as three key verticals the company will target with its recently launched...
T-Mobile US attracts the most customers in 2016, while Verizon excelled in retail churn.
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All four nationwide carriers...
Latest agreement between Swiss telecom operator Sunrise and Huawei builds on initial strategic partnership from 2012.
BARCELONA, Spain – Swiss telecommunications operator Sunrise Telecom extended a previous partnership with Huawei as part of the company’s goal of creating a “defect-free” network. The deal...
Nokia said the data center interconnect solutions will link seven facilities.
Nokia said it is providing Chinese phone maker and internet service provider Xiaomi with a fiber optic network to link seven data centers in the Beijing region.
For the project, Nokia is providing...
AT&T is part of a group looking to tackle SDN standards, though the carrier’s AIC deployment looks to be behind schedule.
Looking to push the pace of development and adoption of software-defined networking services, a cadre of companies and organization led by...
China Mobile states plans to begin large-scale precommercial 5G technology trials in 2019.
BARCELONA, Spain – China Mobile said it will launch a new phase of its “5G” field trials this year, according to Liu Guangyi, CTO of wireless development at China...
Are communication service providers in a prime position to take advantage of the growing connected home market?
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Enterprise densification efforts continue to challenge carrier ROI models, though a combined approach using small cells and DAS could provide an answer.
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ETSI Open Source MANO initiative swells to 60 organizations with arrival of Verizon, Atos and CableLabs as new members.
Verizon Communications is one of the latest telecommunication operators to join the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Open Source MANO project, which is focused...
NEC claims the test with U.K. operators BT and EE targeting backhaul solutions for 4G and 5G deployments.
NEC is working with U.K. telecommunication operators BT and EE, and the University of Salford as a research partner to test millimeter wave mobile...
Huawei claims the SOC 2.0 5G solution will provide on-demand services for all vertical industries.
BARCELONA, Spain – Huawei launched its Service-Oriented Core 2.0 platform, which it explained is a “5G” core solution for commercial use cases.
Huawei said the SOC 2.0 platform...
Telecom giant NTT DoCoMo said it's looking to launch commercial 5G services in 2020.
BARCELONA, Spain – NTT DoCoMo confirmed plans to launch a “5G” trial in May covering two districts in Tokyo.
During a presentation at the Huawei Digital Transformation Forum at...
The telecom industry’s move towards 5G through greater use of virtualization technologies is set to change the view of service assurance.
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When digging into SD-WAN, why outer space and networking have a lot more in common than we think.
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Alphabet, which oversees the Google empire, claims testing success for its planned SAS platform designed to manage access to 3.5 GHz CBRS resources.
The move to provide access to the so-called consumer broadband radio services spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band received...
