Just what would it take to actually get ubiquitous 5G in rural America? UScellular CEO Laurent Therivel walked through that scenario for just one county in rural Iowa at last week's CTIA 5G Summit, illustrating the challenges and the...

Vodafone and Three should establish a national security committee within the joint entity under the terms approved by the government The U.K. Secretary of State has approved the proposed merger between local carriers Vodafone and Three UK, subject to certain...

Just to add to the mess of forecasts about private 5G; annual spending on private 5G networks will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of about 42 percent between 2024 and 2027, accounting for nearly $3.5 billion by the...

Airtel is training more than 300 experts on Google Cloud services at a managed services center in Pune Indian telco Bharti Airtel announced today a long-term partnership with Google Cloud to develop and provide cloud and generative AI products to...

The investment from Microsoft will go towards building infrastructure, workforce training and support for French start-ups Microsoft has pledged to inject $4.3 billion into its French cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) operations by the end of 2027. The plan involves...

KT and Nokia agreed to collaborate on developing advanced Open RAN technology for 6G mobile communications Korean carrier KT has partnered with Finnish vendor Nokia to carry out research in the 6G field, Korean press reported.   The two companies agreed...

1&1 said that around 700,000 customers were already using its O-RAN network as of the end of March German operator 1&1, which is owned by United Internet AG, had constructed a total of 1,334 antenna sites by the end of...

Connectivity Expo or Connect (X) is a wireless conference soon coming to my hometown, Atlanta! This should be a powerful wireless industry event. It brings together top-level speakers from various companies, the FCC and more. It’s also a great...

Nokia has joined Verizon’s list of approved network equipment vendors with certified private network systems that can be deployed with its own licensed mid-band spectrum. The US operator has issued a statement to say Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud (DAC)...

It seems quite evident that AI, both generative and more classical, is going to change the way all industries work.For mobile network operators, AI seems like the tool that will finally turn data into insights that influence how networks...

T-Mobile US is rumored to be considering the purchase of UScellular spectrum licenses for more than $2 billion T-Mobile US is in discussions to purchase a piece of UScellular, a move that would give the telco access to additional...

During the O-RAN demo, Nokia said that the data calls were successfully conducted using commercial user devices Nokia and Vodafone announced the successful completion of an Open RAN (O-RAN) trial in collaboration with partners Arm and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The...

LG Uplus said its overall mobile user base climbed 27.8% y-o-y to 26.26 million in Q1 Korean operator LG Uplus ended the first quarter of 2024 with 7.19 million 5G subscribers, up 13.2% year-on-year, according to the company’s latest earnings...

Rakuten Mobile started using JTower's solutions in January 2020 Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile and compatriot telecom infrastructure company JTower announced that Rakuten Mobile has adopted JTower’s indoor infrastructure-sharing solutions for its network in more than 100 facilities and buildings across...

Keysight Technologies this week announced that it has added a software option that will enable pulse generation capabilities to its FieldFox handheld radio frequency analyzer, including the ability to generate FM chirps, AM pulses, FM triangles, continuous wave signals...

UK tower company Cornerstone is to build an outdoor neutral host 5G and IoT platform across UK cities by deploying cellular-connected luminaries from Dutch lighting firm Signify in street lighting infrastructure. The firm, a radio infrastructure joint-venture originally between...

Nokia has announced another private-5G go-to-market deal, this time with the UK arm of Canada-based IT consulting giant CGI. It is unconfirmed whether the deal extends beyond than the UK and Ireland. CGI has already deployed Nokia’s private LTE/5G...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Spectrum, driving innovation and openness. From Samsung Networks' view, these are the three things that the U.S. government should be focusing on to bolster the country's global leadership in wireless technologies. "We've got a lead in this country....

SoftBank and KDDI will aim to jointly build out a total of 100,000 base stations each by the fiscal year 2030 Japanese telecom operators SoftBank and KDDI Corporation said they have agreed to start discussions to potentially expand the scope...

Virgin Media O2 said that the first customer implementations in the U.K. will take place in the coming months U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 and Accenture have announced a new collaboration to seek opportunities in the U.K.’s mobile private network...

Apple has just shown its new lineup of iPads including Pro models with “outrageously powerful AI chips.” The company said the M4’s neural processing unit is more powerful than any “AI PC today.” The chip’s video and photo-editing capabilities were...

AWS said this investment will be executed during the 2024-2028 period Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to invest an additional S$12 billion ($8.8 billion) into its existing cloud infrastructure in Singapore from 2024 to 2028, with the aim of...

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,...

The AI data center will result in 2,300 union construction jobs and around 2,000 permanent jobs over time, said the White House President Joe Biden announced this week Microsoft’s plans to build a $3.3 billion artificial intelligence (AI) data center...

Pairpoint, the blockchain-based trading venture owned by Vodafone and Japanese trading company Sumitomo Corporation, is working with smart label pioneer Sensos, a spin-off from Sony Semiconductor Israel, to combat supply chain fraud. They have combined the former’s so-called Economy...