BROWSING: Carriers
Rakuten Mobile reaches 6.8 million mobile customers at end-Q1
Rakuten Mobile aims to reach 8-10 million mobile subscribers by the end of 2024
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, which is part of e-commerce giant Rakuten Group, has reached over 6.8 million subscribers as of the end of March, the carrier...
UAE telco e& claims record 5G speed of 30.5 Gbps
During the demo, e& UAE said it aggregated multiple carriers across high-band and mid-band spectrum
Emirati-based operator e& UAE claimed a record speed of 30.5 Gbps on its live 5G network, which, according to the carrier, represents a significant milestone...
What does it take to cover rural America with 5G? UScellular’s CEO breaks it down
Just what would it take to actually get ubiquitous 5G in rural America?
UScellular CEO Laurent Therivel walked through that scenario for just one county in rural Iowa at last week's CTIA 5G Summit, illustrating the challenges and the...
UK gives conditional security clearance for Vodafone-Three merger
Vodafone and Three should establish a national security committee within the joint entity under the terms approved by the government
The U.K. Secretary of State has approved the proposed merger between local carriers Vodafone and Three UK, subject to certain...
Airtel, Google Cloud partner on enterprise cloud and AI
Airtel is training more than 300 experts on Google Cloud services at a managed services center in Pune
Indian telco Bharti Airtel announced today a long-term partnership with Google Cloud to develop and provide cloud and generative AI products to...
KT, Nokia partner to research future 6G technologies
KT and Nokia agreed to collaborate on developing advanced Open RAN technology for 6G mobile communications
Korean carrier KT has partnered with Finnish vendor Nokia to carry out research in the 6G field, Korean press reported. Â
The two companies agreed...
T-Mobile US reportedly considering the purchase of UScellular assets
T-Mobile US is rumored to be considering the purchase of UScellular spectrum licenses for more than $2 billion
T-Mobile US is in discussions to purchase a piece of UScellular, a move that would give the telco access to additional...
Korean telco LG Uplus ends Q1 with 7.19 million 5G subscribers
LG Uplus said its overall mobile user base climbed 27.8% y-o-y to 26.26 million in Q1
Korean operator LG Uplus ended the first quarter of 2024 with 7.19 million 5G subscribers, up 13.2% year-on-year, according to the company’s latest earnings...
Rakuten Mobile, JTower expand collaboration on infra sharing
Rakuten Mobile started using JTower's solutions in January 2020
Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile and compatriot telecom infrastructure company JTower announced that Rakuten Mobile has adopted JTower’s indoor infrastructure-sharing solutions for its network in more than 100 facilities and buildings across...
SoftBank, KDDI expand collaboration to build 5G networks
SoftBank and KDDI will aim to jointly build out a total of 100,000 base stations each by the fiscal year 2030
Japanese telecom operators SoftBank and KDDI Corporation said they have agreed to start discussions to potentially expand the scope...
EchoStar continues to shed subscribers
EchoStar continued to lose customers across its mobile, broadband and pay-TV customer bases as a combined company following the acquisition of Dish Network—but its losses overall were less than at the same time a year ago.
Compared to the...
New Zealand clears One NZ acquisition of Dense Air’s local business
In November 2023, One New Zealand said it had reached an agreement to acquire Dense Air’s business with the aim of expanding its 5G footprint
New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has granted clearance for local carrier One New Zealand Group to...
SK Telecom’s 5G subscriber base grows 12.6% y-o-y in Q1
During the first quarter of 2023, SK Telecom added nearly 530,000 5G subscribers
SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 15.93 million subscribers in the 5G segment, up 12.6%...
O2 launches 5G Standalone in Spain
O2 said that its 5G SA service is now available in the cities of Avila, Barcelona, Castellon, Ferrol, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Segovia, Seville and Vigo
Spanish company O2, which is a brand of local telecom operator...
Vodafone Idea in talks with Nordic vendors for 4G upgrade: Report
Vodafone Idea recently secure funds via a $2.16 billion follow-on public offer (FPO)
Indian carrier Vodafone Idea has reportedly accelerated negotiations with Nordic vendors Ericsson and Nokia with the main aim of upgrading its 4G network, local newspaper The Economic...
German carriers deploy 4G/LTE network for Berlin subway
O2 Telefonica, Vodafone Germany and Deutsche Telekom took part in this 4G connectivity project
German telco O2 Telefonica and Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), the German public transport company which manages Berlin’s subway system, announced the launch of a new 4G/LTE mobile...
Three Indian telcos submit bids to participate in 5G auction
Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm and Vodafone Idea submitted bids to participate in the upcoming 5G spectrum auction
Indian telecom operators Reliance Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea will compete to secure additional spectrum for 5G services in an...
Ericsson, DNB partner for 5G use cases in Malaysia
DNB said its 5G network currently reaches over 80% of the country's population
Malaysian state-run 5G network Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) and Swedish vendor Ericsson announced the launch of a program to boost the digitalization of enterprises in Malaysia via...
UScellular sees 42% YoY growth in FWA customers
UScellular's Fixed Wireless Access business continues to gain momentum, with the company reporting that it added 124,000 FWA customers during the first quarter, up 42% from the same time last year. Comparatively, UScellular added 87,000 in the year-ago quarter,...
Telkom Indonesia inks cybersecurity deal with F5
F5 and Telkom agreed to work together to provide comprehensive cybersecurity services to organizations in Indonesia
Telkom Indonesia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with cybersecurity firm F5 with the main goal of collaborating on cybersecurity services and strengthen...
The Sunday Brief: T-Mobile’s Jedi mind trick
Cinco de Mayo greetings from the East Coast and the Midwest. Lots of upcoming travel in the schedule as Jim will be attending the Broadband Communities Summit in Houston this week. If you are there and would like to trade notes,...
Rakuten Mobile signs partnership with Korean newcomer Stage X
Stage X previously said it aims to deploy 6,000 5G base stations across Korea
Japanese companies Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony and South Korean mobile network operator Stage X announced an agreement with the aim of establishing a comprehensive framework for...
Malaysia’s 5G penetration reaches 36% at mid-April
Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said that 5G technology currently covers 80.2% of the country’s population
The adoption rate of 5G services in Malaysia has reached 36% as of mid-April, up from an adoption rate of 12-15% in November, according to...
SK Telecom to unveil LLM for telecom carriers in June
The LLMs will be designed to help telcos improve their customer interactions via digital assistants and chatbots
Korea’s largest telco SK Telecom said it expects to introduce a large language model (LLM) specializing in telecom-related terms next month, according to...
Tejas Networks to complete contract with BSNL this fiscal year
BSNL recently said it has reached 800,000 4G subscribers in its initial launch phase
Indian company Tejas Networks said it expects to conclude supplying 4G/5G network equipment to compatriot state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) this fiscal year, ending March...