Edge resilience, according to Volt Active Data’s Chief Product Officer Dheeraj Remella, is a ‘multi-pronged endeavor’
By utilizing edge technology, telecom operators can improve their own operations and enable new applications and use cases; however, the edge must be close to the premises in order...
As brownfield Open RAN deployments pick up and interoperability processes are refined, questions around fiber expense and massive MIMO still dog the ecosystem
Open RAN has come a long way since the days of the xRAN Forum and C-RAN Alliance. Standards have been developed and...
Nvidia CEO said India 'possesses size, data, and skill' necessary to be a leader in AI
Nvidia announced new partnerships with Indian conglomerates Tata Group and Reliance Industries to develop language models for business and consumer AI applications, cloud infrastructure and generative services in...
As operators move into the telco cloud era, which deployment option(s) will win out?
As the title of this piece—and the Telco Cloud & Edge Forum session it’s based on—suggest, it seems that the two most likely outcomes for operators on a long-term journey to...
Beyond the technical considerations of 5G Standalone, operators need to focus on use cases and go-to-market strategies
There are around 45 commercial 5G Standalone deployments in the world right now, and there’s a perceived hesitancy among operators to make the move; this despite the pressing...
The shift to 5G Standalone—and enterprise service delivery—requires cross-domain network resource management and an OSS/BSS re-alignment
The latest generation of cellular that’s available out in the world today largely follows a 5G Non-Standalone architecture meaning new radios and spectrum were added to existing core infrastructure....
Oppo India conducted a 5G Standalone (SA) network trial with its Reno6 series of devices with Reliance Jio at the mobile carrier’s 5G Lab, yielding, according to the company's “highly positive results.” The Reno6 Pro smartphone supports 11 5G bands, and the Reno6 supports...
Facebook’s recent investment of $5.7 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms has received much media attention. Soon after, private equity firms Vista Equity Partners, and Silver Lake announced $1.5 billion and $747 million investments into the venture. Facebook and Reliance Jio have indicated that their...
The Facebook, Reliance Jio collaboration will involve bringing together JioMart with WhatsApp
Facebook is making a $5.7 billion investment in Reliance Jio, translating to a 9.99% stake in the Indian mobile carrier’s operations.
Facebook spoke of the development on its corporate website where comments made by...
Bharti Airtel achieved a median download speed of 7.4 Mbps
According to a new Tutela report, Bharti Airtel’s network is stronger than its rival telecom operators in India in four of the five key tested metrics for the network connectivity. Airtel proved to have the...
Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has officially started accepting customer applications for its mobile service, scheduled to be launched next month.
Rakuten Mobile is initially launching a single unlimited plan with free service over the first 12 months for 3...
Indian carriers have been busy conducting trials and implementing 5G-ready equipment
For some time, it was looking as if India’s 5G spectrum auctions would take place by the end of this year. However, high spectrum prices continue to throw a wrench in India’s 5G timeline....
A cloud-first strategy takes cost out of 5G, setting the stage for profitability
SINGAPORE--To be clear, neither Reliance Jio in India or Rakuten in Japan currently offer 5G services. In fact, Rakuten recently delayed the launch of its LTE network. Nevertheless, the two operators have...
Indian telecommunications operator Reliance Jio expects to connect at least a billion connected IoT devices to its Internet of Things (IoT) platform within the next two years, Indian newspaper The Economic Times reported the company’s Chairman Mukesh Ambani as saying. "Jio has developed an innovative service on its pan-India 4G network...
Indian carriers Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea will probably not take part in the country’s 5G spectrum sale scheduled to take place in the second half of the year, if the telecom regulator fails to lower current recommended reserve prices, local newspaper Economic Times...
India’s
incumbent telecom operators are expected to launch 5G trials in June after a
panel at the Telecom Ministry has recommended spectrum for the tests, local
press reported.
The panel, which deliberated on the amount of necessary spectrum and duration of the 5G trial, has recommended 5G spectrum...
Samsung confirmed the initial 5G test will be carried out in New Delhi in partnership with Indian carrier Reliance Jio
Korean telecom gear maker Samsung Electronics announced plans to carry out 5G field trials in New Delhi, India, in the first half of the next...
The Asia Pacific region led the small cell market last year, mainly due to large deployments in China and India
A total of 2.3 million small cell units were shipped during 2017 globally, an increase of 39% year over year, according to a new study...
The virtualized network train has left the station, and operators and vendors are having to lay track as they go on the way to their final destination - commercial-scale, self-optimizing, virtualized networks.
These networks might sound like science fiction, but in fact they’re already here....
Reliance Jio says posted customer data is "unauthentic", but reports conflict
Reliance Jio, India's fast-growing new market entrant with an LTE-only network, has reportedly been the subject of a massive customer data breach. The carrier said that the customer data was surfaced on the collection...
A greenfield, data-centric operator model transformed LTE in India
Jio, the latest entrant into the Indian mobile carrier market, employed a data-centric, sole vendor partnership to bring to life an all-LTE network covering the entire subcontinent. Since launching less than six months ago, Jio has...
SVP of AT&T Labs Chris Rice named chair of ONAP Project just weeks after its formation out of The Linux Foundation; releases code in bid for collaboration.
Mere weeks after its formation, the Open Network Automation Platform Project released its code and documentation...
The Swedish vendor’s demo included a 5G test bed, 5G New Radio and use cases.
Ericsson said it completed the first demonstration of "5G" technology in Indonesia, including a 5G test bed, 5G New Radio and use cases such as a motion-sensing...
Indian telco extended a welcome free offering until the end of March 2017.
Indian mobile operator Reliance Jio extended its free mobile service promotion until the end of March 2017.
The operator announced a new “Happy New Year” offer including free voice, data...
