Facebook’s recent investment of $5.7 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms has received much media attention. Soon after, private equity firms Vista Equity Partners, and Silver Lake announced $1.5 billion and $747 million investments into the venture. Facebook and Reliance Jio have indicated that their...
Mother’s Day greetings from Lake Norman and Charlotte, North Carolina, where businesses are starting to show signs of life. Pictured is Bossy Beulah’s, a Charlotte chicken establishment revived by local restauranteur Jim Noble. The lines are back at Bossy’s and, while we are physically...
The joint document states that suppliers should be assessed for "undue foreign influence"
This week, the Czech Republic and the United States signed a joint declaration pledging cooperation on 5G network security and establishing a strict framework for assessing foreign equipment providers. Signed by Czech...
Bell Canada has decided to put on hold the commercial launch of its 5G network due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company’s CEO Mirko Bibic said during a conference call with investors.
“We are ready with our initial 5G network, but frankly we don't think...
Loon has secured fly over approval for its high-altitude internet balloons in more than 50 countries and regions
AT&T has partnered up with Alphabet’s Loon division, whose aim is to provide internet connection using high-altitude internet balloons, or more technically, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The...
Liberty Global and Telefonica have reached an agreement to merge their U.K. operations in a 50-50 joint venture.
This move brings together the country's largest mobile operator, O2, with cable operator Virgin Media and its MVNO Virgin Mobile.
The combined subscriber base of the two companies,...
SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 2.65 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the carrier said in its earnings statement.
At the end of last year, the telco had a total of 2.22...
Hong Kong is starting a subsidy program with the main aim of encouraging early deployments of 5G technology in the territory, telecoms regulator (OFCA) said in a release.
The watchdog said that the new subsidy program was launched under the second round of government funding...
The trials are related to IBM's recent 5G edge computing offerings
IBM is working with Singaporean local mobile carrier M1 and South Korean vendor Samsung to trial 5G use cases for the manufacturing sector. The trials will explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and...
Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom confirmed it plans to launch commercial 5G services in the third quarter of the year despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shui-Yi Kuo, the carrier’s President and CFO, said during a conference call with investors.
“Although the pandemic continue to...
South African carrier Vodacom has launched what it claims to be Africa’s first live 5G mobile network, the telco said in a statement.
The initial 5G service is initially available in the cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, with additional cities to be reached...
Nvidia CEO says company is doubling down on data center development
Not too long after announcing its “home run” and long overdue acquisition of computing networking company Mellanox Technologies, Nvidia has revealed plans to add an additional asset to its lineup: networking software company Cumulus...
Canadian telecommunications services provider TeraGo announced that 5G technical trials in the greater Toronto Area have started at TeraGo's Thornhill head office location, utilizing 5G fixed wireless network equipment from Nokia.
In a release, the company said that initial testing will be in the 38...
April was 'different, but stable,' says US Cellular CEO
US Cellular reported a remarkably strong first quarter, considering the current climate. The operator saw net income of $71 million, up from $54 million in the year-ago period and no major disruptions to network investments. Operations...
Greetings from Lake Norman and Charlotte, North Carolina, where we are having a wet but overall terrific spring (pic is of our May Day celebration with neighbors – plenty of cheer… at a distance). This week, we will continue our earnings discussion with five...
Nokia CEO says the company has 70 5G deal wins and 21 live networks deployed
On its Q1 earnings call, Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri said that while the company’s revenues took a small hit — EUR200 million in net sales — due to...
Australian carrier Telstra has upgraded its 5G radio access network (RAN) coverage footprint across Australia, connecting a cloud-native 5G Core (5GC) network to handle new 5G standalone traffic.
Telstra used equipment from Swedish vendor Ericsson for the network upgrade.
The 5G upgrade means that Telstra already has...
COVID-19 has fundamentally shifted the ways in which we live and do business, and it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future having accelerated a transition into a new way of life almost overnight.
For enterprises, this has been highly disruptive. The coronavirus...
Singtel and a joint venture between StarHub Mobile and M1 were awarded licenses to build two nationwide standalone (SA) 5G networks in Singapore, , local telecommunications regulator IMDA said.
The winners were each allocated 100 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band.
IMDA noted that...
South Korea tech giant Samsung Electronics expects to see a slowdown in 5G investments in the second quarter of the year due to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, JongMin Lee, VP of Samsung's mobile communications business, said during the firm’s earnings call.
“It...
Expect more traction around mmWave 5G with upcoming auctions, activations
Qualcomm was within its second quarter 2020 revenue guidance despite a significant downturn in handset demand related to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated business closures and quarantine regulations. While the company sees this softening continuing...
The Chinese government has set new regulations for critical information infrastructure operators to buy tech equipment, which could potentially represent new obstacles for foreign vendors.
The new regulations, which were announced by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), require that domestic critical information infrastructure operators...
Nokia will deploy 300,000 radio units across several spectrum bands
Nokia has secured a $1 billion (nearly ₹7,636 crore) deal with India’s Bharti Airtel to supply its Single Radio Access Network (SRAN) solution across nine geographic regions in India.
In a process that is expected to...
Japan’s largest carrier, NTT DoCoMo, expects to attract 2.5 million subscribers in the 5G segment by March 2021, the operator said in its earnings statement.
The telco, which launched 5G service last month, said it signed up 14,000 5G users at end-March.
5G coverage is forecast to increase...
