5G health concerns have slowed 5G deployment in Switzerland ZURICH–The internet has served as a revolutionary tool to connect people, facilitate the exchange of ideas, help us access the latest, dankest memes and let fringe ideologies gain share of voice–case …
CTO discusses the operator’s 5G strategy, network automation tools ZURICH–In the past six years, Finnish operator Elisa has seen its subscriber base increase consumption of mobile data by a factor of 11, amounting to around 25 GB of mobile data …
Vodafone, Huawei, China Mobile, ZPMC partner on smart port development ZURICH–Port facilities serve as a crucial link in the global supply chain and, as an extension of that, global commerce. Given this key role, harnessing technology to develop smart port …
Ken Hu of Huawei says 5G creating safety, efficiency in Chinese mines; driving new consumer experiences in South Korea ZURICH–Successful 5G deployments is about more than consumers and enterprises; it requires buy-in and accommodation from governments and regulators as well, …
ADLink demos how machine vision and edge compute drive efficiency and savings for palletization Virtually any company that makes, sells or transports goods spends time and money putting boxes onto pallets. While this function is easy to overlook, it’s currently …
A closer look at network automation investments from T-Mobile The complexity of 5G network management and service delivery will require network automation. In turn, network automation and the ability to develop and launch services on the fly will require operators …
Report: Carriers will follow traditional DAS approach to large venues; open RAN a big opportunity for enterprise connectivity This is by no means new information but worth repeating: Carriers almost exclusively invest in in-building wireless systems for large venues like …
Increasingly complex networks, being built today to ultimately support billions of devices and dynamically provision the appropriate level of service, require network automation solutions to operate. And this paradigm will only compound as 5G matures and consumer and enterprise uptake …
Multi-vendor, open RAN deployment from NTT DoCoMo highlights momentum For mobile network operators looking to upgrade to 5G, the vendor community is dominated by a limited number of end-to-end suppliers. Aside from the obvious economics this paradigm prescribes, in a …
While some greenfield players are able to immediately embrace cloud-native network design and reap the benefits that come with it, those cases are few and far between. For most operators this is an incremental transition that gradually shifts from legacy …
AT&T hosted app developers using 5G and AR for healthcare, retail, finance, manufacturing The future is “phygital,”–a portmanteau of physical and digital, according to AT&T Business Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Mo Katibeh. Writing in a recent blog …
SOLiD’s Ken Sandfeld shares O-RAN outlook The move towards fully-interoperable, multi-vendor radio access networks is more of a marathon than a sprint, with operators and vendors actively engaging in specification development through the O-RAN Alliance and collaborating on an assortment …
Wireless companies see 5G fixed wireless as alternative to wired home broadband NEW ORLEANS–On a January earnings call, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson characterized 5G as a viable replacement to fixed broadband, recalling how in the 1990s there was skepticism that …
NEW ORLEANS–Automation, broadly speaking, is meant to replace manual processes with complex systems to collect, analyze and take action on data inputs. This will certainly have major implications for the global workforce but, when we focus more narrowly on network …
Marketing intent of 10G laid bare at Cable-Tec Expo NEW ORLEANS–Telcos have and continue to take heat for 5G-related marketing moves–AT&T’s 5G Evolution indicator anyone?–but operators are delivering limited commercial 5G today in geographies around the world. Not to be …
EXFO, VMware on how service assurance evolves with 5G The complexity of future 5G networks, simultaneously handling consumer, enterprise and machine-based data transmission, requires investments in network automation. But, as operators take a step-by-step to automating operational processes, the rewards …
EXFO discusses the step-by-step move toward network automation The complexity of future 5G networks, simultaneously handling consumer, enterprise and machine-based data transmission, requires investments in network automation. But, as operators take a step-by-step to automating operational processes, the rewards are …
Qualcomm sees 5G and AI as important adjacent technologies SAN DIEGO–5G is about a lot of things that have a key commonality–the devices that connect to 5G will consume and create a lot of data of myriad profiles. Fortunately 5G …
SAN DIEGO–With 5G poised to change the world, Qualcomm is fine-tuning its strategy to take the tech from handsets and the enhanced mobile broadband use case on to vertical enablement requiring the full scope of 5G, which is that eMBB …
Virtualized, open RAN meant to take cost out of network deployments Focused on the goal of delivering fully disaggregated, multi-vendor radio access network sites, the Open Test and Integration Center will serve as a sandbox for vendors and carriers to …
Video consumption trends informed AT&T network capacity planning Speaking this week at the Goldman Sachs 28th Annual Communicopia Conference, AT&T Communications Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, in a wide-ranging discussion, highlighted the confluence of internal and external trends he sees …
Nokia Bell Labs VP sees physical industries as a “great untapped opportunity” The telecom industry, and the massive capex that has gone into building out wired and wireless networks, is in large part responsible for enabling a massive boom in …
And what’s the path to 5G profitability? Looking back on the transition from 3G to 4G, Huawei’s Mohamed Madkour, VP of wireless and cloud core network marketing and solution sales, said operators followed a “cap and grow” strategy that just …
5G spectrum strategy is like a layer cake, T-Mobile CTO says Although a growing number of state attorneys general are challenging the deal as anti-competitive, T-Mobile US executives, speaking this week at an event hosted by Goldman Sachs, remain bullish …
StarHub looking beyond eMBB to 5G for URLLC With 5G on track to launch in Singapore and 2020, the three carriers are waiting for state regulators to finalize spectrum allocation before moving forward with plans to bypass non-standalone 5G networks …
