Qualcomm president: 'The global deployment of 5G mmWave is inevitable and essential'
Qualcomm revealed at MWC 2021 that the Snapdragon 888, its 5G mobile platform announced in December 2020, is getting an upgrade. The new model, the Snapdragon 888 Plus, offers an increased Qualcomm Kryo...
The floodgate of Mobile World Congress 2021 announcements has opened! 5G Open RAN will undoubtedly be the biggest theme among them. On the first day of the event, the 5G behemoth Qualcomm announced the world’s first 3GPP Rel. 16 Small Cell platform FSM200xx as...
Samsung will provide 5G equipment for 2,500 rural sites in the south-west of England and Wales
Samsung has made significant headway in the European telecommunications market with its new Vodafone partnership, its first large-scale deal with a European operator. The British carrier selected the vendor...
In 2021, positive forecasts of the Open RAN market start gaining ground in the industry. It is predicted that the total RAN market will reach 10% by 2025 compared to less than 1% today. Undoubtedly, Open RAN lab trials and live deployments help close...
This weekend sees the G7 meetings take place, which gives Britain a chance to stake its place in the world order post-Brexit. The recent agreement on corporate taxation - whether you agree with it or not - is a powerful indicator of how much...
The transcript of a recent internal presentation by Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei attracted much attention in the press and was interpreted as a strategy to counter restrictions to access the US and other markets, and to impose Chinese global dominance in telecommunications as a...
Dell is also introducing new reference architectures and an Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab
Dell Technologies launched new cloud-native network infrastructure that includes a full stack of open, scalable carrier-grade server and software solutions with the ambition to simplify and accelerate the telecom journey towards disaggregate networks the...
The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office is moving to support development and testing of an open-source Standalone 5G software stack from the OpenAirInterface (OAI) Software Alliance, with the launch of OpenAirX-Labs (OAX).
The lab launch under PAWR gives a U.S.-based home to work from...
Open RAN and virtual RAN have gotten so much media attention lately that some even call it just “hype.” But there is no denying the fact that there has been tremendous commercial traction and meaningful progress in making these concepts mainstream. There was another...
TIM's "Beyond Connectivity" program focuses bringing AI and cloud to bear on network operations
Major European operators in January signed a memorandum of understanding outlining their multi-year commitment to deploy Open RAN technologies throughout their coverage areas. Now Italy's TIM has announced it will work...
Mavenir this week announced a large infusion of capital through an arrangement with Koch Investments Group subsidiary Koch Strategic Platforms. KSP has taken a minority stake in Richardson, Texas-based Mavenir to the tune of $500 million. Mavenir sells end-to-end cloud-native software solutions for network...
Open RAN vendors are racing to catch up with incumbent Single radio access network (SRAN) vendors when it comes to providing a complete, comprehensive offer. Going forward, Open RAN will be one of the foundations for building RAN, and as such, the new mainstream....
Massive MIMO solutions set for Q4 availability
The availability of Open RAN-compatible massive MIMO radios has been on operator wish lists for some time as they look to bring disaggregated radio access network kit into more demanding, urban deployments. Cloud-native network specialist Mavenir this week...
Performance, end-to-end responsibility among Open RAN concerns expressed by Huawei Carrier Business Group CTO
Of the big three network infrastructure vendors, Nokia has been the most adaptive in regard to Open RAN while Ericsson, an active member of the O-RAN Alliance, is also making product...
Etisalat signed an MoU with Rakuten Communications Platform for cloud-native, Open RAN support
Etisalat, following a joint announcement with Rakuten Communications Platform to develop a reference design for cloud-native, Open RAN networks, is furthering its commitment to disaggregation of the radio access network through a...
Ericsson Open Lab carrier partners include KDDI, Ooredoo, Orange, SoftBank, and Turkcell
In support of the broad industry move toward cloud-based radio access networks running on commodity hardware, Ericsson and a number of operator and other partners announced the launch of the Ericsson Open Lab...
Telefonica Deutschland building out 5G using 3.6 GHz; plans to deploy in 700 MHz and 1800 MHz
German operator Telefónica Deutschland / O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, is currently reaching 30 cities with its 5G technology, the operator said in a release.
The telco said...
Telefónica brand Movistar using Open RAN in Puerto Madryn, Argentina
One of the persistent questions related to Open RAN is whether the shift from integrated radio stacks to multi-vendor Open RAN kit presents a trade off between lower capex with increased system integration costs. With...
Radio Access Network (RAN) implementations in mobile networks have traditionally been vendor-specific and implemented with proprietary technology. They do follow the specifications laid out by 3GPP, ITU, IEEE, and other standards bodies, but RAN is complex (as governed by the laws of physics) and...
Japanese mobile service provider NTT DoCoMo has selected Samsung as a 5G network solution provider. Samsung will specifically support the carrier’s next phase of its Open RAN development.
The agreement represents the first time that Samsung has directly supplied 5G kit to NTT DoCoMo. Last...
Etisalat signs memorandum of understanding to use Rakuten Communications Platform for cloud-native, Open RAN networks
Last week Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) tapped Airspan as a 4G and 5G hardware/software vendor, and this week RCP announced it's working with Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat to develop a "reference...
Shortly after LTE reached maturity, service providers started facing new challenges to meet customer demand for high capacity and “always-on” connectivity with quick set-up and transition time, spurred by diverse new applications and extremely high data usage by subscribers. To address some of these...
Airspan Networks plans to go public in the third quarter of this year via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company and use $166 million from the transaction to fuel its 5G ambitions in the midst of a global inflection point in 5G and...
My grandfather gave me a Swiss Army Knife when I was 10 years old. (Of course, the first thing that I did was to test the sharpness of the blade, and I found out that it was a lot sharper than Mom’s kitchen knives). One...
