Verizon CFO says 5G Home fixed wireless service “resonates with customers” Last year Verizon went to market with its millimeter wave-based 5G in four markets serving up fixed wireless residential broadband. That first cut was based on a proprietary standard …
Combo of HBO Max and 5G sets the stage for ad-related revenue Igal Elbaz, AT&T senior vice president of wireless technology, said last week at the Morgan Stanley European Technology, Media and Telecom Conference the carrier will continue to prioritize …
T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray to become president of technology; CFO Braxton Carter extends contract No, John Legere is not leaving T-Mobile US to take on the role of CEO at WeWork as was widely reported last week. But the flamboyant …
Vodafone tender includes 14 countries, `100,000 wireless infrastructure sites Vodafone has tested open RAN technologies in parts of Turkey and South Africa and, in October, began testing the radio access network equipment in the United Kingdom. And, in a presentation …
SoftBank owns 80% of co-working provider WeWork The Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter”, reported on Nov. 11 that T-Mobile US CEO John Legere, who is also tapped to run a combined T-Mo/Sprint, is “in discussion…to take …
Dynamic spectrum sharing allows operators to avoid re-farming Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) is a software-based functionality that allows a base station to simultaneously transmit LTE and 5G NR communications at the same time in the same band. This means operators …
Expecting Q1 boost on 5G licensing deal with Apple In a Q4 earnings presentation this week, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said the company has more than 230 5G “design wins launched or in development,” which is up from 150 in …
FTC commissioner called former AT&T practice essentially ‘scammed’ unlimited customers This week AT&T agreed to settle a 2014 complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that alleged the carrier “failed to adequately disclose to its unlimited data plan customers that, …
Initially open RAN value prop hinged on lower TCO The dominant open RAN talking points focus on leveraging open interfaces and general purpose hardware to lower total cost of ownership while providing operators the ability to mix-and-match at radio sites …
Qualcomm spectrum chief on C-V2X, NR-U, DSS and other 5G mega trends During Mobile World Congress Los Angeles, Dean Brenner, Qualcomm’s senior vice president of spectrum strategy and technology policy, sat down with RCR Wireless News to discuss some of …
Gogo tapped Airspan for air-to-ground 5G network build With 5G set to quickly scale and RAN virtualization and openness gradually shifting vendor dynamics, Airspan sees its history of hardware and software development, as well as its track record of large-scale …
SOLiD intros mmWave 5G repeater, testing O-RAN compliant RAN platform Earlier this year SOLiD Technologies joined the O-RAN Alliance in an effort to help shape the open interfaces needed to shift network economics and foster innovation in the RAN vendor …
Report: Put small cells “where there is high traffic demand but low signal quality” Small cell deployments have followed a few broad trends in the past few years. The first wave serve to fill in holes in network coverage; the …
5G is inherently complex–the network is complex, the network management is complex, the services that ride on top of it are complex and making sure those services are working the way they’re supposed to–service assurance, is, you guessed it, complex. …
Finalists envision 5G for robotics, productivity, film production and more As it scale out and refines it 5G service offering, Verizon has narrowed down the list of companies it plans to work with and fund as part of its Built …
Software, enterprise show growth; CEO calls out ‘challenges’ in mobile and fixed access Prior to reporting its third quarter earnings last week, Nokia had a market cap of a little more than $29 billion. After reporting its Q3 financials, including …
Combo of 5G and GPUs at the edge as enabler of consumer and enterprise XR use cases Verizon is steadily activating mobile 5G using its millimeter wave spectrum with the goal of hitting 30 markets by the end of the …
As open RAN moves toward tipping point, how will the vendor dynamics shake out? LOS ANGELES–Major, multi-national operators, as well as numerous others in the telecoms business, have thrown their lots in with the open RAN movement. The idea is …
Verizon relaunches 5G NR-based fixed wireless service with Chicago activation Last week Verizon presented its third quarter earnings and reported a small year-over-year increase in total revenue of $32.9 billion, up from $32.6 billion in the same quarter last year …
Ericsson exec discusses outlook for industrial adoption of 5G LOS ANGELES–Ericsson’s Erik Josefsson, head of advanced industries, is a surfer, he told Enterprise IoT Insights this week during Mobile World Congress. And, as such, he analogized industrial adoption of private …
Combo of open RAN, edge compute central to 5G service delivery LOS ANGELES–Today 5G is quite possibly the hottest topic in Los Angeles County, which would place it high in the running for hottest topic worldwide. But sometimes there’s a …
Pooling GPU compute at the edge translates 5G latency gains into user experience Edge compute is seen as a key piece of delivering monetizable, enterprise-facing 5G services. But what kind of compute in service of which applications has been an …
Mavenir announces availability of 4G/5G open RAN solution This week Richardson, Texas-based vendor Mavenir announced the “launch and availability” of a 4G- and 5G-compatible virtualized radio access network solution based on open interfaces developed by the O-RAN Alliance, a cross-industry …
Joining 13 NFL stadiums, basketball and hockey venues getting mmWave 5G On Friday Verizon announced it has activated its millimeter wave-based 5G network in three sports venues, has a fourth venue “coming soon,” and will launch at six additional facilities …
Telefonica Innovation Ventures invests in open RAN provider Altiostar ZURICH–As Telefonica continues to enhance its network and crystallize 5G plans, the Spanish-based multi-national operator this week, through its Telefonica Innovation Ventures investment arm, announced an investment in open radio access …
