February 2022

A couple years ago T-Mobile US acquired Sprint with the help of Dish Network who wanted to get into wireless themselves. Word was, Dish was going to become the fourth …

After being badly battered by the global pandemic, Mobile World Congress (MWC)—the mobile industry’s biggest show, is back to its old glory. It will again be the place where futuristic …

MobiledgeX Edge-Cloud 3.1 is aiming for a “write once, deploy everywhere” model of edge computing between GSMA-compliant edge clouds.

Azure Operator Distributed Services is “the next-generation hybrid cloud platform for operators,” according to Microsoft.

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed that proceeds from future auctions be dedicated to funding nationwide upgrades to Next-Generation 911 services. Rosenworcel made the remarks in a recent …

Telefonica said its new 5G offering will be initially offered in 700 towns and cities across Spain Spanish telco Telefonica has announced the activation of 5G services using spectrum in …

Orange selected Ericsson, Nokia and Oracle Communications for the group’s 5G SA deployments in Europe French telecommunications group Orange has selected its suppliers for the deployment of 5G Standalone (5G …

Paper from Accenture and CTIA sees 5G enabling huge reduction in carbon emissions According to a paper prepared by Accenture and CTIA, 5G technologies could cut U.S. carbon emissions by …

Greetings from Kansas City and Nebraska.  Pictured is our colleague, Bob O’Keefe, surveying the Omaha landscape during one of the coldest days of 2022.  Trust us – under that grin …

GSA noted that a total of 166 operators around the world are currently actively investing in NB-IoT networks   A total of 140 operators have already deployed or launched NB-IoT …

Samsung explained that SA Option 4 is a dual connectivity technology that connects both 5G and 4G radios to a 5G Core in advanced 5G SA mode Korean companies Samsung …

Keysight Technologies President and CEO Ron Nersesian will be retiring from his role as of May 1, and current COO Satish Dhanasekaran has been selected to step into the CEO …

MWC, Barcelona: The industrial sector loves the idea of digital change, says Verizon, and private 5G as a platform for it, but it’s just not very good at showing it. …

As it continues to focus on addressable market growth as a function of moving core mobile expertise into high-value adjacencies, Qualcomm dropped a massive amount of news—16 press releases, in …

ZTE and GSMA Intelligence released a report, dubbed ‘The carbon-neutral mobile networks-Tacking the holistic energy challenge’, in which they tackle sustainability and how this is moving to become core business …

MWC, Barcelona: Vodafone has launched a blockchain-based trading platform for IoT devices and sensors. The new Digital Asset Broker (DAB) platform, nominally geared to drive an ‘economy of things’, allows …

Microsoft Defender for Cloud has added Google Cloud to its Cloud Security Posture Management support, after adding AWS in 2021.

The Japanese company aims to launch its new 5G vRAN solution by the end of fiscal 2022 Fujitsu announced that it has successfully developed new software virtualized radio access network …

Rohde & Schwarz has won a third consecutive contract with China Mobile for frequency scanners to assist in 5G deployments, and the test company is heading into Mobile World Congress …

The JV said it expects to reach nationwide coverage with its 5G infrastructure by the end of 2024 Swedish network company Net4Mobility, a joint venture created by local carriers Tele2 …

In building a cloud-native Open RAN network, “We found that we had to become a system integrator” While DISH said this week on an earnings call it is behind schedule …

  The German telco expects to grow in the IoT segment via a new joint IoT offering with T-Mobile U.S, through which they aim to target global companies   Deutsche …

A single cellular site has never been this noteworthy and a milestone across multiple dimensions. I am talking about the recently launched Open RAN site in the UK by Vodafone …

Eighteen months after its acquisition of Cradlepoint, Ericsson has integrated Cradlepoint’s NetCloud platform with its own IoT Accelerator platform and extended SIM management to Cradlepoint’s LTE and 5G routers and …

US private networks and small cells provider Boingo Wireless is working with Qualcomm to “streamline” IoT deployments for enterprise customers, it has said. The Los Angeles firm has joined Qualcomm’s …