Ericsson, Nokia this week announced new CSP software offerings
This week incumbent network equipment providers Ericsson and Nokia made major service provider software announcements, the former around service management and orchestration and the latter on a multi-faceted SaaS offering. These launches are indicative of the...
Canadian operator Rogers and the University of British Columbia (UBC) announced a new partnership for 5G research.
Under the extended partnership, researchers at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses and Rogers will seek to develop, explore and test new 5G capabilities in areas such as wildfire...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) unveiled plans to more than triple the number of 5G base stations over the next four years, targeting a total of 3.64 million by end-2025, local newspaper China Daily reported.
Under this plan, China aims to have...
Nokia announced that it is conducting a 5G Standalone (SA) network trial with Chubu Telecommunications (ctc), a subsidiary of KDDI in Japan.
For the trial, Nokia is supplying its latest AirScale product portfolio and Compact Mobility Unit (CMU) to support both 5G indoor and outdoor...
Diversification and the market moving towards mobile make “the time of Qualcomm right now”
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon’s message to investors at an event in New York City today was crystal clear. “This is the time of Qualcomm right now. We’re truly diversifying. The market...
Swedish vendor Ericsson announced a partnership with Korean communications firm SK Telecom, with the aim of supporting 5G Standalone networks through the deployment of a cloud-native dual-mode 5G Core.
Ericsson and SK Telecom had initially unveiled next-generation cloud-native 5G Core networks technology, architecture, implementation and...
Australian operator TPG Telecom has announced it has reached over 85% 5G population coverage in ten of Australia’s largest cities and region.
The carrier reached this level of coverage in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Wollongong and NSW Central Coast
In...
Indian operators Reliance Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have received a six-month extension from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to conduct 5G trials, according to local press reports.
With this extension, the carriers will be able to carry out 5G trials until May...
The Indian government is expected to award frequencies for the provision of 5G services in April or May 2022, Indian press reported, citing the country’s Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Vaishnaw said that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), which looks at the structure of...
Korean company Samsung Electronics announced it will be one of the first vendors to participate in the opening of Orange’s Open RAN Integration Center in Paris, France.
As part of the agreement, the two companies will collaborate to disaggregate the hardware and software elements of...
According to Vodafone, the expanded partnership with CityFibre will make it the largest full fiber broadband provider in the U.K.
Vodafone is expanding its partnership with CityFibre, which, according to the operator, will make it the U.K.’s largest full fiber broadband provider. Vodafone is targeting...
Spanish operator Orange ended September with over 620,000 subscribers in the 5G segment, local newspaper El Espanol reported.
This figure represents 3.8% of the company’s overall mobile base, which currently reaches 16.29 million.
According to the report, the telco aims to continue expanding its 5G network...
French operator Orange has officially inaugurated its Open RAN Integration Center, the telco said in a release.
The new testing and integration facility will enable companies from the O-RAN ecosystem to test and validate their products and services.
Orange’s O-RAN facility is located at Orange Gardens...
Finnish vendor Nokia announced it has deployed its 5G Standalone (SA) Core network in Finland for local communication service provide Telia.
In a release, the vendor said that this deployment will allow the telco to deliver new, advanced 5G services like slicing, provide reliable network...
T-Mobile US and Deutsche Telekom have signed up as official launch partners for the Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces platform
Qualcomm has announced the launch of its new Augmented Reality developer platform, the Snapdragon Spaces XR (extended reality) Developer Platform, and T-Mobile US and Deutsche Telekom are...
November greetings from the Midwest and Southeast, where we are hitting the road and logging many miles. Pictured is the Vernon County, Missouri courthouse.
After a short summary of market capitalization changes over the past two weeks as well as a short discussion of iPhone...
An international team of researchers from Japan and Finland will work to develop technologies and standards for future 6G technologies as part of a joint research agreement between the two countries, the University of Tokyo said in a release.
Japan and Finland have initiated a...
France had a total of 30,092 5G authorized sites as of November 1, of which 19,824 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR.
ANFR said that the number of authorized 5G sites...
Qualcomm reported quarterly revenue of $9.3 billion beating analysts’ projections
Qualcomm this week reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectation in terms of total revenue and earnings per share. The San Diego-based company reported quarterly revenue of $9.3 billion with the chips business growing 56%...
U.S. provider of wireless technology JMA Wireless and Japanese company Kyocera Corporation announced an agreement to jointly develop a 5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) backhaul system.
Leveraging Kyocera’s wireless base station technology and JMA’s XRAN, the new system will accelerate 5G network deployment across Japan. Kyocera and...
5G is ushering in a new era of faster and more efficient telecommunications, enabling the expansion of other new technologies, from automated factories to extended reality and giving users more security and control over their networks. In essence, 5G is remaking the telecom industry...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, has already deployed over 560,000 5G base stations across China, local press reported, citing the operator’s General Manager Dong Xin.
The operator aims to cover all rural towns across the country with its 5G network...
China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) has reached over 1 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the telco said in a release.
Li Feng, chairman of CMHK said: "We are delighted to announce that the number of 5G customers has exceeded 1 million just a few...
Vodafone Germany said its 5G network is now available to more than 35 million people across the country.
The company had previously said it aimed to service over 30 million people with 5G in Germany by the end of this year. The telco also said...
