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Amid RCS momentum, Rohde & Schwarz validates test cases

Rohde & Schwarz said it is the first test company to validate Rich Communications Services conformance tests, amid growing global momentum for RCS. RCS is a set of IMS technology features that seeks to enable mobile operators to compete with over-the-top messaging services such as...

UK city of Bristol is named the smartest of them all

The city of Bristol, in southwest England, has been named the smartest of smart cities by the GSMA at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona. The mobile trade organisation noted its “focused, collaborative, and future-thinking approach”, as well as its robust communications infrastructure, well-established...

5G to reach 1.2 billion connections globally by 2025, GSMA says

The GSMA estimates that IoT connections will total 25 billion by that year BARCELONA- 5G networks will reach 1.2 billion connections by 2025, accounting for 14% of global mobile connections by that time, according to a recent report by the GSMA. The report also forecasts that...

GSMA says 41 mobile IoT networks are available worldwide

The GSMA said this growth is supported by 34 IoT labs globally The GSMA announced that a total of 23 mobile operators have commercially launched 41 mobile IoT networks worldwide across both NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies. The GSMA highlighted that this growth is supported by 34...

Industry leaders preview MWC 2018 trends (Reader Forum)

Spoiler alert: 5G technologies like massive MIMO, C-RAN and more are going to lead the discussion at MWC 2018 The telecom industry is gearing up for what is arguably the most important trade show of the year--Mobile World Congress 2018. MWC will play host to...

United Arab Emirates paves the way for 5G deployments

Telecom regulator TRA announced the creation of three working groups to facilitate 5G developments in the Arab country The United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) announced the initial steps for the future development of 5G networks in the country. The regulator confirmed that telecommunications...

European telecom ministers agree on 5G roadmap

The GSMA estimates 5G will account for 31% of total mobile connections in Europe by 2025 European telecommunications ministers agreed on a joint roadmap for the development of 5G networks. The 5G roadmap constitutes a common understanding on the harmonization of 5G spectrum bands and their...

Three indicators of 5G market momentum

Hype is certainly high for 5G, given that the industry is still technically in a pre-standard phase and that standalone 5G systems are still some time off. But the level of interest, and many of the results of ongoing tests and trials, are promising....

Wi-Fi in 280 characters (Reader Forum)

  Twitter just doubled the character limit for tweets to 280 and the internet was not shy about testing their boundaries. And we’ll likely see the limit edge ever upwards in the future. Why? Because consumers always push the boundaries of technological scarcity, and given...

Middle East telcos to be early 5G adopters, GSMA study says

Forecast predicts 50 million 5G connections in the region by 2025 Middle East mobile telephony operators will be early adopters of 5G technology, according to a recent study by the GSMA. The study projects there will be more than 50 million 5G connections across the Middle...

Operators target $1.8 trillion IoT revenue opportunity by 2026

Americas will represent a third of total revenue, GSMA says Mobile network operators globally will benefit from an estimated $1.8 trillion internet of things (IoT) revenue opportunity by 2026 boosted by the early deployment of commercial Low Power Wide Area Networks in licensed spectrum, the...

Telecom Tweets of the Week: Google in hot water with the EU

Google and parent company Alphabet continue to earn the ire of European Union regulators, who are contemplated a second record fine for the company after recently smacking down the company for favoring results from its own shopping service over others. This week came the news...

China set to become largest 5G market by 2025

A GSMA study forecast the nation will reach 428 million 5G subscribers by that time China is expected to represent 39% of global 5G connections by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)....

GSMA predicts major growth in APAC mobile market

The GSMA further expects APAC will have 670 million 5G connections by 2025 SHANGHAI- China and India will account for almost half of all new mobile subscribers expected to be added worldwide by the end of the decade, Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA,...

LPWA deployments starting to gain traction, GSMA says

Operators deploying LPWA technology include AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Chinese telcos The deployment of LPWA solutions is starting to gain traction with the recent developments by some leading operators including AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom (DT), Verizon and Vodafone,...

Telecom Tweets of the Week: Hitting the big time

According to the GSMA, worldwide mobile subscriber numbers have hit 5 billion. That's just actual users -- the GSMA says that mobile connections are actually at 7.7 billion. And those figures don't include machine-to-machine connections like all those connected cows. https://twitter.com/GSMAi/status/874942141688156162 As Mike Quindazzi, managing director...

RCS update: Sprint, Rogers start RCS interconnect; OpenMarket demos RCS for IoT

Demo on T-Mobile US' network focuses on IoT; Sprint, Rogers RCS interconnect went live on June 1 Rich Communications Services messaging adoption appears to be picking up speed. Sprint and Rogers recently enabled the first North American cross-carrier RCS interconnection, while messaging platform provider OpenMarket and...

5G North America focuses on momentum, promise of 5G

As the industry gears up for "5G", the expectations continue to be high that the next generation of wireless technology will be able to solve any problem that the industry faces: much more capacity, higher speeds, much less latency, the ability to handle billions...

Oracle sees big NFV moves coming out of MWC 2017

NFV continues to gain development and deployment momentum across the telecom space, with Oracle expecting big moves in 2017. On this week’s “NFV/SDN Reality Check” we speak with Chris King, senior director of CSP products at Oracle, to discuss news...

LTE-M and NB-IoT on the path to 5G

LTE-M and NB-IoT on the path to 5G The two newest 3GPP technologies for low-power/wide-area IoT - LTE-M (Cat-M1) and NB-IoT (Cat-NB1) - are now being rolled out globally but at different times and emphasis depending on region.   Moderator Joe Barrett, President Global Mobile Suppliers...

Enterprise IoT Summit: Securing the enterprise for IoT

Securing the enterprise for IoT Moderator Steve Brumer is joined by Paul Jauregui, VP Marketing, Praetorian; Jon Clay, Sr. Global Marketing Manager, Technology and threat Marketing, Trend Micro; Dr. Shane Rooney, IoT Executive Director, GSMA and Mahesh Kodukula, Market Segment Manager of IoT, 7layers https://youtu.be/uofzuaS2njg Steve Brumer, Partner at 151 Advisors...

GSMA study predicts 1.1 billion 5G connections by 2025

Report: 5G technology will provide coverage to one-third of the world’s population by 2025. "5G" connections are forecast to reach 1.1 billion by 2025, according to a recent report by industry trade group GSMA. The association predicts commercial 5G networks will begin to be...

Huawei, China Mobile and GSMA look to achieve NFV reliability

Partners look to release NFV requirements, an assessment framework and best practices by the end of 2017. Huawei, China Mobile and the GSMA have agreed to work together on a joint project to build an assessment framework for achieving carrier-grade network functions virtualization...

LPWA connections to reach 1.4 billion globally by 2022

GSMA says LPWA technologies are backed by 67 global operators. The GSMA predicts low power wide area technology connections are set to exceed 2G, 3G and 4G, becoming the leading technology for internet of things connectivity with 1.4 billion connections by 2022,...