T-Mobile US is looking to leverage its self-described 5G network leadership to grow enterprise-facing business from less than 10% to 20% in the next five years. To that end, T-Mobile for Business has a new Senior Vice President of Sales in George Fischer, who's...
Each year advancements in wireless network technology transform the way businesses use and benefit from mobile capabilities. 5G offers super-fast speeds, low latency and massive capacity. Mobile edge computing brings compute and storage services to the edge of a wireless network. The combination of...
C Band launch on Jan. 19 will make 5G available to 100 million PoPs
Despite an ongoing back-and-forth with the airline industry, FAA and FCC around the impact C Band-based 5G could impact aircraft operations, Verizon is committed to activate its mid-band 5G network on...
Verizon and Google Cloud have confirmed a partnership on 5G and multi-access edge computing (MEC). Verizon said it is the first US operator to offer “5G mobile edge computing” with “all” of the major cloud providers. It is working with Microsoft Azure at the...
Hans Vestberg on 5G mobile edge: 'We're probably two years ahead of anybody else in the market, in the world even'
Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg presented at the 2021 UBS Global TMT Conference earlier this week, where he touched on the company’s five “vectors of...
Google Cloud: "Edge is de facto creating a new set of applications"
At the recent Google Cloud Next event, the company took the wraps off Google Distributed Cloud, a new product portfolio that extends Google infrastructure to the edge and on-premise using qualified hardware. The...
The kaleidoscope has been shaken, and the pieces are in flux; it is a quote from when British politics was supposed to change forever. But it captures very well an even more seismic upheaval, which promises indelible change for global industry – and will...
Vodafone Business and Microsoft have announced a five-year deal on private 5G, edge computing, and IoT for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The arrangement, extending a long-running partnership between the two, will see Vodafone Business sell the Microsoft suite of compute and storage functions,...
Shared risk and shared responsibility as public and private MEC are deployed
Under the shingle of mobile edge computing (MEC), there are a lot of edges and a lot of ways to describe them. Here we’ll focus on the distinction between the telecom edge operators...
So AWS responded about some of the finer details in its new private 5G offer, announced yesterday. What have we learned? Not much, at least in terms of the identity of the networking partners it is using for the project. But there was some...
Big news in the excitable private 5G universe; Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced its own private 5G service, AWS Private 5G, incorporating small cell radio access network (RAN) units, core and RAN software, and subscriber identity modules (SIM cards), plus sundry edge servers...
Verizon has partnered with AWS and Microsoft on delivering MEC services
Verizon is all in on both public and private MEC and has a range of partnerships in place with the likes of AWS and Microsoft Azure as well as companies focused on applications. But...
Turning MEC investments into business outcomes is an exercise in ecosystem development and solution integration
There’s an animating tension as it relates to service provider monetization of mobile edge computing (MEC) for enterprises. Businesses want to buy solutions that are easy to use, where the...
5G throughput and latency can deliver smart manufacturing use cases like machine vision and automated guided vehicles
5G is a powerful technology that is closely tied to conversations about the digital transformation of industrial verticals. For smart manufacturing, 5G opens up all sorts of time-...
For operators to effectively monetize 5G, the thinking is that 5G networks need to be coupled with a geographically distributed mobile edge computing (MEC) infrastructureand enterprise-facing applications capable of delivering business outcomes that help a user save money or make money. That logic is...
Hyperscalers, with only varied and newly acquired in-house 5G knowledge, are outpacing telcos, with 40 years in the game, at private 5G, according to new research from Omdia. The analyst house has named Microsoft as the ‘top innovator’ in the field, ahead of AT&T...
Cloud gaming represents a great opportunity to show off what 5G and MEC are capable of
With cloud gaming revenue predicted to come in at over $1 billion for the first time this year — about double what it was raking in last year —...
MEC, AI, ML and IoT all have a part to play in 5G manufacturing
5G is a powerful technology but the notion of 5G manufacturing—using 5G to drive digital transformation within a manufacturing enterprise—includes more than just the network. To drive efficiency gains in manufacturing...
