A federal appeals court last week declined China Telecom’s emergency bid to halt a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order withdrawing its capability to provide telecommunications services in the United States.
According to a Reuters report, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Columbia...
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Booz Allen opened the 5G lab in Annapolis Junction, Maryland to support mission-critical applications
Information technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton earlier this week opened a 5G lab in Annapolis Junction, Maryland to support mission-critical client work. In addition to providing Booz Allen’s cloud, network...
5G connections are forecasted to represent 12% of total mobile connections in Latin America by 2025, according to a recent report by industry body GSMA.
The report showed that overall 5G connections in the region are expected to reach 86 million by that time.
The report...
Nokia announced that Japanese carrier KDDI has selected the vendor’s 5G Core and Converged Charging software to support its transition to a cloud-native 5G Core architecture.
In a release, Nokia explained that following the evolution of KDDI’s networks to 5G Standalone core, subscribers will experience...
Japanese operator NTT Docomo and compatriot vendor NEC Corporation have completed an interoperability testing for 5G Standalone (SA) using a 5G base station baseband unit (5G CU/DU) conforming to O-RAN open interface specifications and radio units (RUs) of different vendors.
In a release, the vendor...
South Korea ended October with a total of 19.38 million subscribers in the 5G segment, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT.
5G subscribers at the end of September had reached 18.41 million, according to the report.
5G subscribers...
Verizon will provide voice and data services to several Department of Energy facilities, including their Washington, D.C. headquarters
Verizon Public Sector announced that it has been awarded $34.6 million through two contract awards with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Per the task orders, awarded...
New Zealand mobile operator 2degrees said its 5G network has been switched on in central Auckland and Wellington for testing and optimization.
In a release, the telco said that this initial trial will pave the way for the commercial launch scheduled for the first quarter...
Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica expects to begin the deployment of 5G Standalone (SA) services next year, the telco said in a release.
The three initial use cases developed by Telefónica Tech and to be sold by the telco’s enterprise division Telefónica Empresas from January are:...
Australian operator Optus announced the launch of a 5G Standalone (SA) trial prior to the commercial launch of this technology, expected for 2022, the telco said in a release.
Optus said it will be using multiple bands to conduct limited trials for retail customers using...
The government of India expects local operators to launch 5G service in some parts of the country by mid-August 2022, local newspaper Business Standard reported.
According to the report, a source with knowledge of the matter said that a limited 5G launch is possible by...
At the same time, India is notably lagging in 5G due to regulatory delays
India expects to be in a position to launch indigenously developed 6G technology by the end of 2023 or early 2024, local press reported, citing the country’s Minister for Communication Ashwini...
JTower and NTT Docomo announced that they have formed a capital and business alliance with the aim of strengthening collaboration in the field of infrastructure sharing.
As part of the alliance, Docomo plans to acquire part of JTower shares held by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone...
Ericsson will buy Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal
Network equipment and services provider Ericsson will acquire enterprise cloud services company Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal, which it touts as fundamental to creating a cloud-focused platform centered on "open innovation" and the ability for...
Chinese vendor Huawei is in talks with almost all Brazilian operators that secured 5G spectrum in a recent spectrum auction, with the aim of selling 5G equipment, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported.
According to the report, Huawei could potentially find advantages in serving the Brazilian...
Ericsson and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) have announced an initial three-year research and development (R&D) partnership focused on three research projects aimed at advancing telecommunication networks with innovative technologies.
In a release, the Swedish vendor said that the partnership aims to...
ABI Research forecasts that approximately 90% of 5G cell sites in emerging markets will be operating with support for a combination of sub-6 GHz bands by 2026.
In a release, the consultancy noted that sub-6 GHz bands will provide optimum coverage while catering for sufficient...
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...
