BROWSING: VoLTE

This announcement builds on a previous agreement that Vodafone and e& unveiled in October last year U.K. telecom group Vodafone and UAE-based operator e& have joined forces to provide other operators with fully managed voice solutions to support their international voice traffic requirements, the former...

Nokia will expand and modernize the existing IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) voice core network Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has been selected by United Arab Emirates (UAE) operator du to modernize its circuit-switched core network. As part of the project, Nokia will expand and modernize...

Let’s talk about Voice over New Radio (VoNR) and begin with an analogy. I like analogies because they can bring dry technical topics to life. Many cars today feature a Sport Mode button. Press this and the car behaves in a completely new and more...

The 5G New Calling Solution, which is based on 3GPP R16 specification, represents an upgrade of operators' basic calling services, bringing various interactive and new services to users, according to ZTE. The Chinese vendor said that 5G New Calling fully uses the high bandwidth and...

The partnership yields "a very competitive joint offering" for private 4G and 5G, according to ng-voice's CEO Telecom software maker ng-voice has announced a new partnership with telco infrastructure software maker Casa Systems which ng-voice says will yield fully cloud-native 4G and 5G solutions for...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Is throttling necessary? Recently...

Japanese mobile network operator KDDI suffered an equipment failure this past weekend that caused what it says is its biggest outage ever.

According to Vodafone and Mavenir, the news represents a significant milestone in the move away from physical infrastructure to a digital cloud-based environment Vodafone UK and virtualized RAN software specialist Mavenir are claiming the first successful data and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call across a...

Swedish vendor Ericsson has signed a new deal with Spanish operator Masmovil to upgrade the latter’s 5G network with 5G Standalone technology. In a release, the European vendor said that this new core network transformation project includes Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core, Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure,...

Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecom (FET) has selected Ericsson as its vendor for 5G Standalone (SA) and Non-standalone (NSA) dual-mode 5G Core and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services, the latter said in a release. The deal builds on Ericsson’s existing 5G partnership with FET, including...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! iPhone 6 breaks...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! SK Telecom launches...

  With RootMetrics resuming its regular on-the-ground testing in cities across the United States, the benchmarking and analysis company's testing teams saw the major T-Mobile US outage on Monday play out in real time, as it was happening. RootMetrics had teams doing outdoor testing in 10...

The IMS AS encompasses a number of defined roles in Next Generation Network architectures. It starts as the most fundamental TAS functionality allowing for the migration to VoLTE and VoWiFi. It further expands as the Service & Call Continuity AS (SCC-AS) providing for true...

An important part of a VoLTE strategy is understanding its deployment challenges. From integrating new infrastructure and tools to software compatibility across network functions and devices, VoLTE can be tricky to navigate and operationalize. Attend this webinar to gain insights that will help you...

  As Moore's Law predicts the future of technologies, the performance of processors improves exponentially at regular intervals without changing the price, thus reducing the popularization threshold and cost of various new technologies. This also happens to AI technologies. With the improvement of NPU computing capability...

Cloud native communications software specialist Metaswitch announced that Cubic Telecom, a connectivity management software provider for the automotive and IoT industries, has selected Metaswitch’s VoLTE solution to provide automotive enterprises with geo-redundant solutions for intelligent connected cars. This new agreement allows Cubic’s connected car solution to support...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Sprint abandons a...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Smartphone market starts...

  What coverage and capacity can we expect and what are the best deployment practices? Just last month, I had the pleasure to speak at the 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong, one of the largest wireless ecosystem events in the world, hosted by Qualcomm Technologies. It was attended...

Rural carriers can make investments today to set the stage for 5G ORLANDO--5G is the predominant discussion topic within the telecom industry, but that's a long ramp and, particularly for rural carriers, there are many other priorities that need to be addressed to ensure long-term...

Beyond the 5G hype, many rural carriers focused on LTE investments While 5G is and will remain the topic du jour in the telecom industry, it will be years before the next generation of cellular makes its way out of metropolitan areas to provide widespread...

Wi-Fi’s massive success (more than half of mobile device traffic is over Wi-Fi) has not stopped Wi-Fi from evolving. Wi-Fi continues to improve in performance, ease of use, and its ability to meet demanding use cases, such as voice, real-time high-definition video, IoT applications,...

  What drives the capacity beast? Traffic! According to GSMA, 4G mobile connections surpassed one billion in 2015. Additionally, 3 billion LTE devices are expected to ship by 2020, doubling the quantity in 2017. Although 4G connections represented only 26% of mobile connections in 2016, they...