The talk of the outsized role of cloud players in Open RAN is as old as talk of Open RAN itself. After prolonged anticipation, the collaboration between traditional telco and cloud players is finally coming to fruition. The recent HPE and Qualcomm announcement about...
KDDI has commercial, 5G Standalone network using Open RAN equipment
Wind River, a specialist in software for mission-critical intelligent systems, announced that Japanese carrier KDDI has used Wind River Studio for its O-RAN–compliant 5G Standalone virtualized base station technology, which has recently launched on its...
Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 840 towns and cities in 38 provinces across the country, the carrier said in a statement.
According to the European operator, its 5G network infrastructure already reaches 58.6% of the Spanish population.
Orange had said it expects...
MFA, formerly the MulteFire Alliance, has released a set of ‘technology blueprints’ for industrial 5G networks and devices to help enterprise users, device makers, and application developers select key 3GPP features for their specific 5G private network deployments and solutions. The new work was...
Core network provider Druid Software has partnered with IoT positioning firm Polte to bring the Texas firm’s ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) tech to private LTE and 5G networks, and also to enterprises tracking business assets from private onto public LTE and 5G infrastructure.
Druid...
Seven out of 10 businesses plan to invest in edge computing in the next 12 months, and eight out of 10 believe that 5G is "indispensable" to reaping benefits from edge, according to a new report from Google Cloud and Omdia.
The report is based...
Verizon Business CEO: The Audi will be 'both a 5G mobile device and a vehicle'
In its first major 5G deal with an automaker, Verizon has announced an agreement with Audi to bring 5G connectivity to the car manufacturer’s U.S. vehicle lineup, estimated to...
Mexican telecom group America Movil launched 5G services in 18 of Mexico's largest cities, reaching more than 48 million people.
The company, which operates in the mobile telephony segment through the Telcel brand, initially launched 5G in Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Tijuana and Puebla.
America Movil’s...
The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) released a whitepaper describing future 6G cases that will potentially emerge in the next decade.
Operators, technology suppliers and academic advisors participating in the NGMN alliance contributed their views on the potential use cases for as-yet-unstandardized 6G technology....
Following Cisco’s soft-launch at the start of the month – and also leapfrogging it with an immediate commercial release – rival IT vendor Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a new private LTE and 5G system for serious-minded enterprise usage, including in the prized...
The latest from Dell Technologies covers telco cloud infrastructure integration, Open RAN partnership, design validation, and CSP services
As telecom networks become more IT-centric in design and operation, and carriers move towards open networking and cloud-native network functions, it's getting complicated. Layer in the distribution...
AT&T says it has doubled the number of areas where FirstNet users can access 5G, from 10 to 20.
The carrier said that 5G connectivity on FirstNet has launched in Savannah, Georgia; in Western Kansas; Lansing, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Toledo, Ohio; Charleston and Hilton Head...
Kyndryl's Japanese subsidiary has announced a strategic partnership with Japanese telco SoftBank, which focuses on multi-cloud enablement, systems integration and 5G networking to "drive digital transformation projects" for Japan-based customers, the two companies said in a release.
Under the terms of the deal, Kyndryl and...
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 28.3 million 5G subscribers in January, according to the carriers’ latest available figures.
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, added a total of 14.48 million 5G subscribers during the first month of 2022.The operator...
Australian carriers Telstra and TPG Telecom announced a ten-year regional Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN) commercial agreement.
Under the terms of the deal, TPG Telecom will secure access to around 3,700 of Telstra’s mobile network assets, increasing TPG Telecom’s current 4G coverage from around 96% to...
US-based Federated Wireless, offering shared spectrum services in the CBRS band, has raised $58 million in Series D funding. The new investment will go to accelerate growth in enterprise markets, it said, with a major focus to “simplify” and “democratise” private LTE and 5G...
The move to a cloud-native core enables 5G VoNR services
While most current 5G network deployments are in the Non-Standalone mode of operation wherein 5G radios supporting new frequencies are attached to an LTE Evolved Packet Core. But operators are quickly gearing up to transition...
The European Union has filed a case against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for restricting EU high-tech companies from going to a foreign court to protect and use their patents.
In a release, the European Commission noted that China "severely restricts EU companies...
Australian rural carrier Field Solutions Holdings (FSG) has selected Nokia and Mavenir as its primary technology partners to build Australia’s fourth mobile network.
As part of the deal, the technology partners will supply 4G and 5G radio access networks and mobile core. Mavenir will provide...
T-Mobile US and Deutsche Telekom launched T-IoT, a new enterprise solution for global IoT connectivity, platform management and support.
In a joint statement, the companies said that the new offering will be available across 188 destinations, on 383 networks worldwide.
The companies also noted that many...
Turn of the decade calls for revitalized global climate action
The ongoing global warming and climate change are now exposing humanity to future threats, and their consequences are already impacting many regions of the world and affecting hundreds of millions of human lives as we...
6G isn’t even close to being standardized, but work is already underway to figure out what it might look like. And when it comes to what spectrum that future 6G systems will use, the path is clear: Spectrally speaking, the only place to go...
ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, has launched a “Panda’s Coming”, the world’s first panda protection 5G Messaging application.
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The “Panda’s Coming” has made full use of the advantages of 5G...
5G monetization hinges on partners, ecosystem, and delivering business outcomes
For a deep dive into 5G monetization strategies and considerations, access the 5G Monetization Forum on-demand.
Operators have invested billions in designing and deploying 5G networks but, to date, meaningful new service revenues have proved...
UK enterprises are looking to 5G to help alleviate immediate business pressures brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and related global events, according to a new study by EY.
The EY Reimagining industry futures study revealed that 80% of respondents say the impact of the global...
