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Ericsson to upgrade Telenor Sweden’s network for VoLTE

Telenor Sweden has tapped Ericsson to upgrade its core network to enable voice over LTE and voice over Wi-Fi. The two services go hand-in-hand because the IP multimedia subsystem core that enables VoLTE also facilitates calling over Wi-Fi networks. Ericsson's IMS core includes a multimedia...

The path to 5G with Sonus Networks

As the industry looks toward 5G it’s important to not forget that there are still many years of LTE to come and voice over LTE is just emerging as a viable alternative to today’s mobile voice infrastructure. Recently I had an opportunity to speak with...

SoftBank ends June with 31.5M subs in Japan

Operator’s overall revenue expands 10% year-on-year in fiscal Q1 Japanese mobile operator SoftBank ended the first quarter of fiscal year 2015 with 31.56 million mobile subscribers in the country, up from 30.8 million in the year-ago period. Net additions during the quarter totaled 20,000. The...

Huawei wins almost half of China Mobile VoLTE project

The Chinese company expects deployments to be completed by the end of 2015 or in early 2016 Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei was awarded the largest share of China Mobile’s voice-over-LTE project, which includes network convergence building and reconstruction across 31 provinces and municipalities in...

China Mobile and Vodafone Italy launch VoLTE

VoLTE rollouts are supported by Huawei and Nokia Networks Two major telecom service providers last week announced the launch of commercial voice-over-LTE services. China Mobile in partnership with Huawei, and Vodafone Italy with partner Nokia Networks, are rolling out the high-definition voice feature. As part of...

Editorial Webinar: WebRTC, VoLTE, RCS set to reshape carrier offerings in battle with OTT

This webinar looks at how VoLTE, RCS and WebRTC are being used and will be used by operators to remain competitive. The webinar will glean insight from mobile operators that have already begun to rollout these services or are planning to rollout services, vendors supporting the...

Feature Report: Tapping RCS, WebRTC, VoLTE and VoWi-Fi to improve service, battle OTTs

Mobile operators are feeling increased pressure from over-the-top players to provide additional features and services that consumers have come to expect from the application world. Three ways they are looking to counter the OTT threat is through the implementation of Voice over LTE (VoLTE),...

Vodafone launches VoLTE technology in Italy, Spain

The new offering will enable the telco to improve quality of mobile service in the two markets U.K.-based mobile operator Vodafone announced plans to deploy voice-over-LTE technology in Italy and Spain this month. The company said the technology will improve the quality of its mobile...

China Telecom expands 4G LTE network

China Telecom expects its FDD-LTE technology to cover 95% of China’s population by year end Chinese mobile telephony operator China Telecom aims to provide LTE coverage to 95% of the country's population by the end of the year, according to local press reports. To achieve...

Alcatel-Lucent scores NFV, SDN, cloud deals with China Mobile, China Unicom

1-year deals valued at $1.3B; include NFV, SDN and cloud support Alcatel-Lucent signed a pair of contracts with China’s largest mobile operators to support the rollout of network functions virtualization, software-defined networking and cloud technology. The one-year deals are valued at $727 million with China...

Test and Measurement: Cobham Wireless adds small cell testing support

The big news of the week, of course, was Keysight Technologies' announcement that it will purchase Anite for $606 million. Read more on that transaction, expected to close this fall, here. In other news across the testing industry this week: • Cobham Wireless, formerly Aeroflex, added...

VoLTE gets high marks in initial benchmarking

In one of the first public views of how voice over LTE is performing in live networks, P3 Communications released VoLTE benchmarking results, which reflected good performance across all of the carriers that have implemented the technology – in one market, at least. In general, the results...

Viavi Webinar: VoLTE – Don’t Risk Short-Circuiting Voice

With over 260 live LTE networks today and another 87 expected to go live this year (GSM Association, 2014), LTE will soon become the dominant technology in many countries. As operators focus on building networks that can handle rich content, where does that leave...

Reader Forum: Taking INs out – next-generation BSS for LTE

One of the biggest challenges facing communications service providers today is how to best monetize mobile data and avoid data becoming a commodity. To do so effectively, CSPs need to look at the value that data enables and not just think of pricing based...

EMEA CEOs: BICS looks to the future

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Daniel Kurgan, CEO of BICS, about the company’s current strategy and his view of the opportunities and risks in the markets the company addresses. But first, a few words about what BICS is in case you aren’t following...

CDMA remains on Verizon Wireless radar; 600 MHz auction strategy in flux

Verizon Wireless said CDMA to continue supporting IoT, connected devices While LTE is the network of now and the future at Verizon Wireless, the carrier expects to continue supporting its legacy CDMA operations for the foreseeable future to handle connected devices as part of the...

Reader Forum: From CSP to DSP – the 4 keys to transformation

At the risk of revealing my true age, I can remember how cool I thought it would be to have a camera on the first mobile phone I purchased 10-plus (give or take) years ago. My cell phone service back then was just the...

Vodafone Germany taps NFV for VoLTE; Consolidated launches NetCracker OSS

VoLTE deployment runs across VMware NFV platform VMware reported that its VCloud for NFV platform has been deployed by Vodafone Germany to support voice-over-LTE services. VMware said its platform is supporting virtual network functions from multiple network vendors to power the VoLTE service. Vodafone Germay noted the VoLTE...

Taiwan to reach near full LTE coverage by year-end

LTE-A, VoLTE likely to hit Taiwan in 2016 Taiwan's main mobile telephony operators launched LTE services in May 2014, and by the end of the first quarter of 2015, nearly 90% of the territory had LTE coverage, according to tech consultancy firm IDC Taiwan senior...

Reader Forum: Preparing for 5G trends in the real world

  Current state of 5G trends What is "5G?" Many organizations and entities with a stake in the outcome are attempting to answer that question. A useful example is the push by the GSMA for international, industrywide agreement on a 5G definition and a set of...

Sprint to offer free Wi-Fi access at Boingo airport locations

Sprint, Boingo Wi-Fi deal to provide seamless connections at 35 locations Sprint continues to push its Wi-Fi agenda, announcing a deal to offer customers access to Boingo Wireless’ cadre of hot spots at 35 airport locations across the country. The multiyear partnership will see Wi-Fi-equipped Sprint...

P3 Communications benchmarks VoLTE

Network engineering and testing company P3 Communications is in the midst of drive-testing Voice over LTE implementations by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile US in the Washington, D.C. area, as part of its first effort for public benchmarking of VoLTE on mobile networks in the...

LIS2015: Keeping up with the evolution of LTE

DEL MAR, Calif. – The continued evolution of LTE is providing fertile ground for the testing industry, and features including carrier aggregation and Voice over LTE were the focus of the first day of this week's LTE Innovation Summit. Olga Shapiro, program director for the...

EMEA: OpenCloud virtualizes VoLTE

OpenCloud touts "the power of open." Being open is an important concept, but is not necessarily a new topic. Consider the context in which "open" plays a role in this specific discussion. Networks today are pretty much standardized. Although services are different from a packaging...