Network slicing uses 5G SA technology, which BT Group launched last September
BT Group has announced what it claims to be the first real-world deployment of 5G Standalone (5G SA) network slicing capabilities over the EE mobile network.
In a release, the telco said that this...
The slicing solution allowed e& UAE to automatically detect when a gaming console connected to the network and instantly create a dedicated slice
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that Emirati-based telco e& UAE has become the first operator globally to utilize its network slicing solution to...
Think of all the technologies an enterprise needs to operate – cloud services, robotics, mobile devices, IoT devices, and so on and so forth. What do all of these things have in common? In some capacity, they must always stay connected to a network....
The new deal with Nokia will support du as it expands its 5G-Advanced network
Emirati telco du announced the extension of its strategic partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia to expand its 5G network in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the former said in a release.
The...
Deutsche Telekom plans use more AI, particularly to streamline customer support processes.
German telecom firm Deutsche Telekom has announced that artificial intelligence (AI) and global economies of scale will be pivotal to its growth strategy over the next few years, according to a company statement.
Based...
Elisa currently covers 95% of Finland’s population with 5G
Finnish telecom operator Elisa now covers 95% of Finland’s population with 5G and has plans to expand the coverage even further in the coming years, the telco's Head of Mobile Access Tiina Höckert told RCR Wireless...
As 5G Standalone ramps, monetization hinges on marrying customer experience with network insights
While digital transformation has been a buzzword in many different industries for some time, the rubber is meeting the road, so to speak, in the world of telecoms. The pressing need to...
Reliance Jio Infocomm carried out this 5G network slicing trial in partnership with OnePlus
Indian carrier Reliance Jio Infocomm and Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus have jointly announced the successful validation of their 5G network slicing efforts at a newly established 5G innovation lab in India....
In an interview with RCR Wireless News, Tay Yeow Lian, managing director of networks at Singtel Singapore, noted that the telco currently offers nationwide 5G SA services with a network of more than 1,500 5G mobile base stations
Singaporean telco Singtel plans to explore...
One thing seems clear, after a couple of announcements in recent weeks and several years in the doldrums: network slicing is coming, and it will make a new virtue of nationally-available 5G networks for enterprises. Last week, the analyst community debunked a few myths...
Vodafone initially launched 5G Standalone technology in the country in 2023
Some 39% of companies in the U.K are ready to invest in 5G Standalone (5G SA) right now, with 14% expecting to invest in this technology within 12 months, according to recent research by...
A couple of interesting-sounding mission-critical slicing exercises by mobile operators in Europe in the last week or so got RCR Wireless to thinking about whether the slow rollout of standalone 5G (5G SA) in national network infrastructure has reached a point where it is...
Austria-based critical communications provider Frequentis has taken a slice of Drei Austria’s national public 5G network in its home country to develop and test applications for public safety and emergency response control centres. The setup has also seen Drei Austria, in combination with parent...
Port operators APM Terminals and ENNA Group have tapped Deutsche Telekom subsidiary Hrvatski Telekom for a ‘private’ slice of its public 5G network at their joint-venture development at the new Port of Rijeka, set to be the largest shipping port in Croatia when it...
Vodafone partnered with a Glastonbury Festival drink vendor to demonstrate how network slicing can enable faster payment transactions
Vodafone partnered with EBC, an onsite drink vendor at the Glastonbury Festival — a music event in Somerset, U.K. — to demonstrate how network slicing can enable...
5G-equipped cameras will ride under racing catamarans
T-Mobile US will be supporting a high-speed sailing race in New York City this weekend with a hybrid 5G-Advanced network that includes network slicing capabilities, in order to ensure high-performance data transfers for live broadcasting.
The Mubadala New...
The much-hyped 5G network rollout has hardly begun in earnest. Even though the technology was first launched in South Korea five years ago, much of the world is still yet to benefit from its lower latency, higher reliability, and blazing data transfer speeds.
Carriers have...
The private 5G network uses core equipment from Ericsson and will cover an area of more than 35,000 square meters
Deutsche Telekom is providing a 5G Standalone (SA) private network to broadcaster RTL Deutschland at the latter company's broadcasting center in Cologne, to boost coverage...
The roar of the crowd echoed through the packed stadium as the stage went dark. A pop megastar's latest spectacular sold-out show was finally over, and throughout the entire four-hour extravaganza, tens of thousands of adoring fans continuously posted videos to social media to...
5G enterprise services are changing the network testing dynamic completely
New enterprise services like private networks and network slicing have been at the center of conversations around how telcos can monetize 5G. However, offering these services introduces network complexities that, according to panelists as the...
Orange sees its cloud-native reinvention as setting the stage for the ultimate move to AI-native networking
As it relates to how telecom networks were built and operated, not much changed between 1990 and 2010; physical networks were (and some still are) built using specialized, proprietary...
Draft rules decline to broadly classify network slicing technology
The draft net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission will vote on later this month, don't take a position on whether network slicing technology would fundamentally and inherently be regulated by those rules.
The draft...
The 5G edge cloud network slicing solution can be used by enterprises and industries across a wide range of use cases including retail, media, utilities, healthcare and transportation
Finnish vendor Nokia and Austrian carrier A1 Austria announced that they have successfully completed what it claims...
Think Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny: "What is a git anyways?"
The move to 5G Standalone is afoot, and operators are working out the kinks of instantiating network slices tuned to the needs of particular end user applications. In the broader move...
