Did you ever wonder how the nation’s top wireless companies like Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, AT&T Mobility, Dish, C-Spire, US Cellular and others maintain their sprawling and ever-growing networks? While they have their own engineering teams who are always at work, there is always too...
Greetings from Louisiana, Texas, Nebraska and Missouri. Pictured is Fastwyre’s oversized check presentation for the First Annual Sedalia Hot Air Balloon and Kite Festival. We are excited to be a part of what will hopefully be a terrific tradition for the Sedalia area. More...
The 5G inter-network roaming trial will be launched in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region
Telecom operators in China said they will jointly launch what they claim to be the world's first commercial 5G inter-network roaming service trial.
According to local press reports, the trial will be...
Hong Kong aims to award 20 megahertz of spectrum in the 850 MHz to 900 MHz band and 90 megahertz in the 2.3 GHz band
Hong Kong’s Communications Authority (CA) announced plans to reassign a total of 110 megahertz of 4G and 5G spectrum across...
When wireless and telecom earnings were announced last week, they revealed something important everyone needs to understand. The industry is changing and transforming, once again. Wireless has always been one of the healthiest ongoing growth stories of all time. While that continues, things are...
Huawei said its investment in R&D represented 25.1% of total revenues last year
Huawei increased its investment in R&D and expanded its R&D staff last year as part of the vendor’s efforts to stabilize its business amid the sanctions imposed by the U.S. government
Huawei’s CFO...
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This week’s Brief is...
Small-medium businesses (SMBs) are far more sophisticated adopters of technology than many give them credit for. Representing 99% of the businesses on the planet, catering to their technology needs should be a core focus area for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) looking to expand their...
The new working group will define and identify digital twin applications for the telecommunications industry
The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced a new working group with the aim of addressing the application and adoption of digital twins in the telecommunications market.
In a release, DTC noted...
ZTE said its net profit surged 18.6% year-on-year last year
Chinese vendor ZTE reported operating revenues of CNY 122.95 billion ($17.68 billion) in 2022, up 7.4% year-on-year.
In its earnings statement, the Chinese company said that its net profits amounted to CNY 8.08 billion, an increase...
Game, set, and match at MWC, and the contest hasn’t even started. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has bought Italian private core network specialist Athonet for an undisclosed fee. For our money (old Enterprise IoT Insights money), this is likely to be the biggest news...
Juniper Research forecasts that 80% of global operator-billed service revenue will be attributable to 5G services by 2027
Mobile operators are forecast to generate $625 billion from 5G services globally by 2027, up from $310 billion in 2023, according to recent analysis by Juniper Research.
The...
SK Telecom and Joby Aviation discussed cooperation for participation in Phase 1 of the K-UAM Grand Challenge
Korean carrier SK Telecom and Joby Aviation, a U.S. urban air mobility (UAM) company had talks with the aim of strengthening their cooperation, Korean news service Business Korea...
Firms from Japan and the U.K. are expected to begin Open RAN technology sharing this year
The U.K. and Japan announced plans to cooperate to promote Open RAN networks amid the increasing presence of Chinese vendors in the telecom sector, The Japan Times reported, citing...
In October, shipments of 5G mobile phones in China neared 19.52 million
Chinese 5G mobile phone shipments reached 173 million in the first 10 months of this year, down 17.7% from the same period last year, state news agency Xinhua reported.
In October, shipments of 5G...
CFO Margherita Della Valle takes over the top role as interim CEO while the board looks for a permanent replacement
Multinational telco Vodafone announced Monday that its CEO of four years, Nick Read, will step down at the end of the month. CFO Margherita Della Valle has...
What is the app economy? And what role do service providers play in it? Tune in to hear Melissa Zeloof, VP of marketing at ironSource, answer these and other questions.
Huawei generated $61.8 billion in revenue in the first three quarters of the year, down 2.2% y-o-y
Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE have reported their financial results for the first nine months of the year.
Huawei said it generated CNY445.8 billion ($61.8 billion) in revenue in...
Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo also aim to remotely connect their O-RAN test capabilities in the U.K. and Japan
U.K. telecom group Vodafone and Japanese telco NTT Docomo reached an agreement with the aim of cooperating to bring the benefits of O-RAN for operators and vendors...
A panel session at Private Networks European Forum earlier this month put the spotlight on the discipline of private 5G and edge system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are increasingly facing-off with rival factions in the developing Industry 4.0 supplier market. These other...
Who’d have thought that two decades after the connectivity boom at the turn of the century, sustainability and net-zero would be the key drivers of innovation within the telecommunications industry? It stands to reason that one of the most technologically advanced sectors on the...
Vodafone would own 51% of the potential new entity while CK Hutchison would own the remaining 49%
Vodafone Group confirmed that it is in discussions with Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings in relation to a possible combination of Vodafone UK and Three UK.
In a...
NEC Advanced Networks will drive developments in the radio unit business in an intial phase, with a focus on spectrum optimization and AI/ML-based massive MIMO products
NEC has created a North American 5G "innovation unit" in New Providence, New Jersey, with the aim of expanding...
Huawei said that the massive MIMO technology deployed in the Philippines boost download and upload speeds by 35%
Chinese vendor Huawei has started to commercially deploy its third-generation 5G massive MIMO outside China, with the Philippines being the first major market.
In a release, the vendor...
