The FirstNet network for first responders has reached a connection base of more than 7 million, according to AT&T. The carrier also says that it has the largest network footprint in the country, with FirstNet now covering nearly 3 million …
An unusually competitive first quarter of 2025, combined with Verizon putting additional price increases in place, will impact the company’s quarterly churn, but the carrier maintains that its overall strategy on deepening relationships with customers will mean that it meets …
Keysight Technologies has launched two new oscilloscopes for 1.6 Tb optical transceiver testing, reflecting the increased demand for next-generation level speeds in data center networking. The new oscilloscope models including a single optical channel model and a dual optical channel model …
Satellite company Lynk Global said that it has successfully demonstrated its patented direct-to-device technology in tests conducted in Türkiye with mobile network operator Turkcell. Turkcell is Türkiye’s largest mobile operator and has more than 40 million subscribers. The two companies …
Device upgrades have already started to enable Verizon customers using some Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 smartphone models to do D2C texting.
Comcast is expanding the virtualization, disaggregation and embedding of AI more pervasively across its network in an initiative called Janus, with support from DriveNets.
A group of European broadcasters plus Rohde & Schwarz are working toward the use of 5G Broadcast The 5G Broadcast Strategic Task Force, made up of broadcasters from a number of European broadcasting markets and supported by testing and broadcast …
Commissioner Geoffrey Starks to resign Federal Communications Commissioner Geoffrey Starks said Tuesday that he will be resigning from his position at the regulatory agency. “Today I sent a letter to the President and Leader Schumer indicating that I intend to …
5G SA testing with 6-CA pushes downlink speeds up to 6.3 Gbps T-Mobile US touted the results of recent field testing that used six-component carrier aggregation (6-CA), combining the carrier’s low and mid-band spectrum on its 5G Standalone network to …
A new report from Ciena shows some of the demands AI is expected to place on data center networking With artificial intelligence expected to have a significant impact on network traffic, one of the emerging potential bottlenecks is in data …
‘Every rule, regulation, or guidance’ of the FCC is up for potential elimination under the new ‘Delete Delete Delete’ FCC proceeding Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has opened a new proceeding dubbed “Delete, Delete, Delete” aimed at massive deregulation, …
MWC 2025 test news focused on Open RAN, AI-RAN and NTN Mobile World Congress Barcelona sets the tone for the telecom industry’s focus in the coming year. And this year, those areas of focus appear to be both using and …
There is a significant amount of activity across industry standardization bodies to look at what is needed and how to implement AI, particularly in operational network environments, through groups ranging from the AI-RAN Alliance, the O-RAN Alliance, the Telecom Infra …
AT&T network CTO Yigal Elbaz on AI, Open RAN and how MWC trends from past years are playing out RCR Wireless News caught up with Yigal Elbaz, AT&T’s SVP of technology and network services and network CTO for AT&T Services, …
Commerce Secretary says the program “is in dire need of a readjustment” and emphasized “lowest cost” deployments The U.S. Department of Commerce is going to review the rules surrounding the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, prompting …
BARCELONA—Amid the flurry of sessions and briefings this week at Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, RCR Wireless News snagged a few minutes Karri Kuoppamaki, T-Mobile US’ SVP of technology development and strategy. Here’s what we asked, and how he …
Viavi Solutions will get part of Spirent Communications after all: Its high-speed Ethernet and network security business As Keysight Technologies continues to work toward its acquisition of Spirent Communications, it will divest some of Spirent’s assets. Keysight this week announced …
Telstra, KT, Verizon and Telia Norway are among the CSPs who have conducted 1.6 TB tests Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme coherent optical transceiver, which supports network speeds up to 1.6 Tbps, became commercially available in the fall of 2024. A …
Nokia balanced MWC 2025 developments in its core telecom business with a new 5G.MIL partnership with Lockheed Martin and Verizon, plus closing the Infinera deal BARCELONA—Nokia’s announcements this week reflect both the company’s telecom roots and its efforts to pursue …
What new demands does AI make on back-end data center networking? Beyond the physical testing of AI infrastructure, there are also broader questions of assurance that are still in the process of being answered. Testing the basic working functionality of …
Electro Rent’s intellirent unit focused on testing solutions for the power, data center and renewable energy markets Test equipment distributor Electro Rent is selling its intellirent business, which focuses on test equipment for power generation and distribution, data center and renewable …
Pending sale of Corning’s DAS and small cell business following a similar divestment by CommScope Corning has found a buyer for its distributed antenna system (DAS) and small cell business, and will sell the unit to infrastructure company Airspan. The …
5G repeater extends coverage by 20% and can stand alone from the power grid, Airgain says Airgain has just introduced a new, solar powered 5G repeater, which it says can extend 5G signals by 20% and operate “fully detached from …
AST SpaceMobile supported live NTN video calls for Verizon, AT&T via its new Bluebird LEO satellites Verizon said that it has successfully completed its first Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) live video call between a device on its terrestrial cellular network and …
Amid a boom in AI investments around servers and data centers, there are also signs that fiber infrastructure will need to have its capacity and capabilities upgraded in order to support AI traffic. For insight on the impact that AI …
