Iliad said its 5G coverage rate in France currently reaches over 94.4% of the population The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted French operator Iliad a new €300 million ($329 million) loan to finance its 5G network rollouts, the company …
Juan Pedro Tomás
Juan Pedro Tomás
Juan Pedro covers Global Carriers and Global Enterprise IoT. Prior to RCR, Juan Pedro worked for Business News Americas, covering telecoms and IT news in the Latin American markets. He also worked for Telecompaper as their Regional Editor for Latin America and Asia/Pacific. Juan Pedro has also contributed to Latin Trade magazine as the publication's correspondent in Argentina and with political risk consultancy firm Exclusive Analysis, writing reports and providing political and economic information from certain Latin American markets. He has a degree in International Relations and a master in Journalism and is married with two kids.
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Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland and Vodafone each covered an area of between 59% and 77% with 5G 5G networks covered 90% of Germany’s territory as of October, up from 5G coverage of 79% in October 2023, according to data from …
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SK Telecom said the innovation consists in upgrading the cryptography used to anonymize the user digital identity on the 5G network SK Telecom (SKT), the largest mobile operator in Korea, and Thales have partnered to test advanced quantum-resistant cryptography, or …
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The two companies are collaborating to optimize Airties’ managed Wi-Fi solutions to integrate more easily on broadband carrier platforms, featuring Qualcomm 5G FWA platform French company Airties, which provides managed Wi-Fi for broadband service providers, announced a collaboration with Qualcomm …
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Total mobile shipments in the January-October period surged 4.2% year-on-year to 230 million units China’s mobile phone shipments surged 19.7% year-on-year to over 29.16 million in October, local press reported, citing data from the China Academy of Information and Communications …
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AT&T said it is looking at trying to turn some circuits down as users migrate from legacy technologies such as DSL to fiber Operators are facing the challenge of having to deploy more hardware to meet the appetite of users …
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Under the terms of the agreement, the combined company would operate as Lynk Global Satellite-direct-to-standard-phone (sat2phone) telecoms provider Lynk and Slam, a special purpose acquisition company, announced that they have signed a non-binding letter of intent for a potential business …
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Rogers said the trial also tested SMS, data and emergency alerting services with a Samsung S22 smartphone Canadian operator Rogers and Lynk Global announced they completed what they say is Canada’s first satellite-to-mobile phone call. In a release, Rogers said …
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Telefonica Tech noted its new cyber-intelligence service is part of the NextDefense managed services Telefónica Tech, which is a unit of Spanish carrier Telefonica, has launched a comprehensive cyber intelligence service for large enterprises, the company said in a release. …
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Australian telco Telstra said that the bulk of its scope 3 emissions relate to the carrier’s supply chain Companies operating in the telecommunications field are currently facing challenges when measuring Scope 3 emissions, said Alessandro Gropelli, deputy director general at …
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Deutsche Telekom said its 5G network currently covers 96% of the German population Deutsche Telekom (DT) expects to launch its 5G Standalone (5G SA) offering in Germany next year, the telco said in a statement. In a round-up of its …
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Arcep said it has awarded a total of 81 trial licenses since March 2022 French regulator Arcep said it will extend an ongoing trial platform in the 3.8 – 4.0 GHz band for manufacturers and market players wanting to experiment …
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Jio initially launched its 5G FWA offering in September in eight Indian cities Indian telco Reliance Jio Infocomm’s 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) offering, dubbed JioAirFiber, is already commercially available in 514 cities in 25 states across India, according to …
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Ericsson and Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB), Malaysia’s 5G wholesale network supplier, have successfully conducted a proof-of-concept in the use of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and automation to simplify management of the 5G network and improve efficiency by reducing …
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Parallel Wireless said its 5G SA solution is purposefully architected to run on any general-purpose computing platform U.S.-based Open RAN (O-RAN) firm Parallel Wireless announced the general availability of what it claims to be the world’s first hardware-agnostic 5G Standalone …
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The deal is part of the MoU signed by Nokia and Deutsche Telekom at MWC 2023 in Barcelona Nokia and Deutsche Telekom (DT) announced that they have begun to deploy a multi-vendor Open RAN (O-RAN) network with Fujitsu in Germany. …
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The telco said that the trial took place across five different Singtel 5G Standalone (SA) locations Singaporean operator Singtel announced that it has successfully completed what it claims to be the country’s first trial of 5G New Radio Reduced Capability …
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The Huawei facility will be located near Strasbourg, according to the report Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies is planning to start building its mobile network equipment factory in France in 2024, Chinese press reported, citing a source with knowledge of the …
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China expects the standard-setting for 6G technology to be achieved around 2025 China aims to start commercializing 6G technology by 2030 and expects that the standard-setting for the technology will be achieved around 2025, Chinese press reported, citing Wang Zhiqin, …
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Virgin Media O2 noted its 5G technical teams have developed a small base station for drone use cases U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 has developed a 5G-connected drone to help search and rescue teams establish reliable communication in the most …
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Weaver Labs said it is currently working on a 6G project funded by the U.K. government with universities and vendors The telecommunications industry is in a good track in order to deliver its really ambitious objective of reaching sustainability in …
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IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur and SAMEER have been working to develop a 5G RAN sub-system at a local 5G testbed A 5G radio access network (RAN) technology developed by an Indian multi-institutional team has been licensed to local firm Tejas …
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Verizon said the stores opened at Lincoln Financial Field use its network and AI-powered computer vision technology Verizon Business and the Philadelphia Eagles announced the opening of two express shops at Lincoln Financial Field that use Verizon 5G. In a …
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du highlighted that 5G SA will allow local enterprises to leverage network-slicing technology United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier du confirmed the launch of its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network in the contry. The Arab telco said that the adoption of …
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Vodafone aims to use fully use renewable sources to power its networks by 2025 U.K. telco Vodafone is implementing a number of actions in order to be in a position to fulfill with its sustainability goals, according to Erik Kling, …