T-Mobile’s 600 MHz standalone 5G network In Early August, T-Mobile claimed a world’s first with the launch of a nationwide standalone 5G network that uses its 600 MHz spectrum. T-Mo initially launched its 600 MHz 5G network last year and …
Mavenir worked with Vodafone UK to bring Open RAN site in Wales on-air Vodafone has made clear it expects Open RAN technologies to play a big role across its multi-national network footprint. In its U.K. market, the operator recently said …
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Christian Block, Qualcomm (Ep. 19) 5G brings a new level of complexity to smartphone designs. To help its OEM partners, Qualcomm has honed its focus on RF front-end technologies to create …
Verizon CFO: 5G “created for business and society” Adding more millimeter wave-based 5G markets, building out mobile edge compute facilities, and expanding 5G coverage using Dynamic Spectrum Sharing–all 2020 priorities for Verizon that, eight months in, “We’re on track to …
AT&T SVP John Stephens updates on DSS, mmWave and 5G Speaking this week at the virtual Oppenheimer Technology, Internet and Communication Conference, AT&T SVP and CFO John Stephens provided a wide-ranging update on the company’s efforts to land subscribers to …
HPE 5G Lab meant to facilitate multi-vendor integration, interoperability In previous generations of cellular, HPE has largely focused its telco core network efforts on subscriber data management. But with 5G designed as a cloud-native network from core to edge, the …
T-Mobile US claimed a global first with activation of standalone 5G in 600 MHz T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert and President of Technology Neville Ray, discussing the operator’s second quarter financial results, touted the expansion of 600 MHz-based 5G coverage …
Goal is “to simplify the steps and reduce the integration effort” associated with open and virtualized RAN Virtualization of the radio access network is and will continue to happen in the interest of making highest and best use of the …
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Xiaoxia Zhang, Qualcomm (Ep. 18) Just as LAA made it possible for many operators to provide gigabit-class LTE, NR-U is poised to open the unlicensed 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands …
Pekka Lundmark returns to Nokia after two decades in Industry 4.0-target verticals Pekka Lundmark, after spending two decades in roles ranging from managing partner of startup-focused VC firm to CEO of both an energy company and heavy equipment provider, returns …
660 5G designs announced or in development Following the Wednesday announcement of its third quarter earnings and detailing a multi-year agreement with Huawei, Qualcomm stock jumped more than 12% at its height. The San Diego-based company turned in revenue above …
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Michelle Engarto, Corning (Ep. 17) Corning’s Michelle Engarto, vice president of wireless solutions and product line management, reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the role of cellular into sharp …
CES 2020 drew more than 180,000 people to Las Vegas The wave of industry event and exhibition cancellations that started in late February with the scrapping of Mobile World Congress Barcelona due to the then-emerging COVID-19 pandemic, has reached into …
Digital twin growth led by automotive, energy and manufacturing sectors At a high level, the goal of investing in the internet of things is to capture and analyze data from the physical world–machines, people, products, nature, everything–in pursuit of process …
Amdocs gaining deeper bench in 5G policy, charging and data management Amdocs announced on July 23 it will acquire Openet for $180 million with the transaction slated for completion before the end of the year. Amdocs, which counts more than …
Ericsson upping 5G core R&D, T-Mobile turning up soon With sub-6 GHz 5G deployments in a mature markets scaling rapidly–that’s to say nothing of a mixed bag of consumer interest–operators are now looking to bring the full 5G feature set …
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Caroline Chan, Intel (Ep. 16) Intel’s Caroline Chan talks through how 5G, when combined with edge computing and artificial intelligence, will serve as pillars for future innovation. Chan, who serves as …
Open RAN deployments seeing traction is rural markets Parallel Wireless on July 16 announced it is working with multi-national carrier Orange to use its disaggregated Open RAN technology to expand coverage in the operator’s Central African Republic network footprint. In …
Is open RAN right for near-term rip-and-replace? Huawei equipment has been ordered removed from networks in the United States and the United Kingdom with speculation that other European markets could soon follow. Advocates of open radio access network technology see …
The 5G smartphone market is set to rapidly expand in the next 12 months, with many mobile vendors looking to quickly develop their 5G portfolios. It is anticipated that 5G will increase more aggressively compared to 4G to become the most accelerated …
Initial focus on MEC experience management and deployment Theres a line of thinking that 5G service revenues are inextricably linked to mobile edge computing (MEC); to take advantage of the latency benefits baked in to 5G, compute has to be …
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Derek Johnston, Samsung (Ep. 15) Derek Johnston, head of marketing and 5G business development for Samsung Networks, provides some color on the company’s most recent 5G wins, takes a look at …
In conjunction with a wide swath of industry stakeholders, the United States federal government is working to form and implement the creatively-titled National Strategy to Secure 5G. Signed by President Trump in March, the strategy has three primary goals: “facilitating …
Oracle: Operator standalone motivation is growing enterprise revenue There’s a school of thought around 5G that would suggest effective ROI and service monetization hinges on offering up new, differentiated applications to enterprise users. And to do that, operators need the …
RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Jason Marcheck, Gartner (Bonus episode) Enterprise software licensing in a 5G world Gartner Research Director Jason Marcheck looks at how, as enterprises strategically consider 5G adoption, software licensing and procurement adds …
