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‘No one rings up and asks for a private 5G network’ – BT Business on 5G business

There’s lots of good stuff in the new RCR Wireless report on private 5G in Industry 4.0 – which is out now, free to download, and available here. But not everyone responded in time, and not everything made the...

Test and Measurement: Spirent Communications sees an ‘uptick’ in performance

Spirent Communications is in the process of being acquired by Keysight Technologies Spirent Communications said that it has been seeing an "uptick" in its performance during the third quarter of the year, compared to the same time last year. In...

‘A pivotal moment for telcos’ as AI and network infrastructure converge

Dell Technologies and NVIDIA partner to offer CSPs an easy button for AI As communications service providers (CSPs) work to manage multi-faceted network modernization and transformation programs, networks, operations and services are all becoming more complex. With the rise of...

Vodafone to supply global IoT airtime to Oracle’s enterprise customers

UK-based Vodafone is to supply global IoT connectivity for industry applications running on Oracle’s edge-cloud enterprise platform, called Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP). The US software company said Vodafone’s global SIM will “underpin” its portfolio of industry applications, as offered...

SK Telecom’s 5G subscriber base grows 10.5% y-o-y in Q3

During the third quarter of the year, the Korean operator added nearly 400,000 5G subscribers SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the third quarter of the year with a total of 16.57 billion subscribers in the 5G segment,...

Nokia secures contract to upgrade Taiwan Mobile’s 5G network

Nokia has most recently supported Taiwan Mobile in the deployment of its nationwide 5G infrastructure including over 3,000 new cell sites Finnish vendor Nokia has signed a one-year 5G contract extension with Taiwan Mobile with the aim of boosting the...

How to scale Open RAN—TCO and lifecycle management are concerns

Open RAN technology is proven and operators are committed, but the lingering questions around integration costs and lifecycle management in a multi-vendor network remain A panel comprising a leading Open RAN vendor, a leading Open RAN test firm, and a...

Initial observations on 5G energy efficiency measurements (Reader Forum)

Editor's note: This article is a follow-on to “5G Energy Efficiency Metrics, Models and Systems Tests” which was published by RCR Wireless News on August 28, 2024 Introduction The Aether SMaRT-5G initiative (originally started by the Open Networking Foundation    ...

What tech trends will be most important in 2025?

AI tops the list of 2025 tech trends in IEEE survey Artificial intelligence is expected to be the most important technology in the coming year—the second time in a row that AI has topped IEEE's annual Impact of Technology survey. And...

SK Telecom targets North American market with AI personal assistant

SK Telecom said that its Aster service is scheduled to launch a closed beta in North America later this year, with a full market launch planned for 2025 Korean carrier SK Telecom unveiled ‘Aster(A*)’, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven personal assistant...

CMA shows path for Vodafone-Three UK merger

The regulator said it will announce its final decision on the Vodafone-Three merger on December 7 The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that a multi-billion-pound commitment to upgrade the network of the new entity resulting from...

BT intros app-level tracking of enterprise AI emissions

BT is offering enterprise customers a granular view of electricity consumption and carbon emissions associated with their individual compute workloads and AI applications. The UK firm has expanded its so-called Carbon Network Dashboard to provide customers with a view...

Four drivers of Open RAN for in-building cellular

CommScope sees market opportunity, TCO, ecosystem support and convergence all making the case for in-building Open RAN Reflecting on the typical 10-year cellular generation cycle, as well as the roughly 20-year lifecycle of a G, CommScope’s Luigi Tarlazzi, vice president...

Fixed Wireless Access adoption takes off, shedding new light on design and test requirements

Fixed wireless access (FWA) point adoption rates are continuing to climb in the U.S. and globally, as mobile carriers harness the combined power of 5G and advanced Wi-Fi to tap into a new revenue stream while improving the customer...

UScellular continues to lose mobile customers amid sell-off

UScellular says FWA customer base saw growth, a bright spot in its results UScellular reported a continued downward slide in its total operating revenues, service revenues and net income, as it proceeds with selling assets and shifting its business into...

Huawei launches set of 5G-A solutions for the mobile AI

Huawei noted that the new solutions aim to boost the requirements of the so-called mobile artificial intelligence (AI) era Chinese vendor Huawei launched a new set of 5G-Advanced (5G-A) solutions during the company’s Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2024 (MBBF 2024),...

Cisco appoints NEC to sell private 5G to enterprises in EMEA

The global system integration division of Japan-based NEC Corporation has signed with Cisco to resell the US firm’s private 5G core network and management solution to enterprise customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It will sell via...

U Mobile selected to deploy Malaysia’s second 5G network

U Mobile and other operators have stakes in DNB, the company in charge of the deployment of the first 5G network in Malaysia The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) gave the approval to deploy the second 5G network to...

The Sunday Brief: Who’s got momentum? (Part 1)

November greetings Cedar Rapids, Kansas City, and Iowa City.  The opening picture was taken from Kinnick Stadium after the first quarter (note the “Hi Kids” sign on the scoreboard – more on the Hawkeye Wave tradition here), where the University...

Smart-city firm Iteris sold for $335m to Italian system integrator Almaviva

US smart-city software company Iteris has sold to Italian outfit Almaviva Group for $335 million. Iteris provides infrastructure management solutions and consultancy. The deal covers 100 percent of its Nasdaq capital, priced at $7.20 per share, and is funded...

Hrvatski Telekom and Nokia open 5G functions to app developers in Croatia

Nokia is working with Hrvatski Telekom (HT), the largest operator in Croatia, to connect its network-as-code developer platform (Network as Code) to HT’s network assets. The aim is to enable developers to harness and monetise HT’s 5G network assets...

Kagan: Chat with Mikko Uusitalo of Boldyn Networks on private wireless

Recently, I had an interesting conversation with Mikko Uusitalo who leads the private networks Europe division of Boldyn Networks, a shared networks infrastructure provider. Still learning more about them. So, let's take a closer look at what they are...

5G-A networks key to unleash potential of Mobile AI: Huawei

Huawei said that 5.5G networks can support the diversified connections and services that are needed to address the new requirements coming from AI agents, smart vehicles and embodied intelligence ISTANBUL, TURKEY- The deployment of 5.5G, or 5G-Advanced (5G-A) networks by...

du has already deployed ‘hundreds’ of 5G-A base stations in UAE

du is initially deploying 5G-A infrastructure in Dubai and plans to extend the network at a national level in a second phase ISTANBUL, TURKEY- Emirati-based telco du is currently in the process of deploying 5G-Advanced (5G-A) technology in Dubai as...

How is Google is applying its own AI learnings to telecoms?

Demand forecasting and anomaly detection are AI capabilities that Google sees as accelerating numerous additional use cases. A very material amount of all internet traffic, around 60% to 70%, runs through the Google Global Network. In reaching that scale, the...