Nvidia: "There is room in the cloud gaming market for GeForce Now to co-exist with Microsoft and Google's platforms"
Chipmaker Nvidia was the first to announce that is was testing a cloud gaming service in January 2018, ahead of both Microsoft and Google. That announcement,...
Indian telecom group Bharti Airtel may not participate in the country’s upcoming spectrum auction, which includes 5G airwaves, due to the high prices set by the Indian government.
India expects to award spectrum worth about $74 billion in an auction scheduled in the first quarter...
The lack of available 5G-enabled devices offered by AT&T remains an issue
AT&T's ongoing extension of 5G coverage is holding steady, as almost exactly a month after its last wave of deployments, the operator has announced 13 additional cities now covered by its low-band 5G...
Not including Snapdragon Ride, Qualcomm automotive design win pipeline tops $7 billion
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf, discussing Q1 2020 earnings on a Feb. 5 conference call, touted the company’s near- and long-term view of 5G adoption in not just handsets but also in IoT, automotive,...
Korean telecom operator KT ended 2019 with a total of 1.42 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the company said in its earnings statement.
However, the operator experienced a slowdown in the adoption of 5G subscriptions as net additions during the last quarter of the...
European Investment Bank loaned nearly $500 billion for 5G
German telecom operator Telefónica Deutschland has secured a EUR 450 million ($ 495 million) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to rollout its 5G network and further consolidate its LTE network.
In December Telefónica Deutschland announced that...
GSMA: 'RCS will create a market worth more than $74 billion by next year'
At the 2019 Competitive Carriers Association Convention last September, Josh Wigginton, VP of product management at Interop Technologies, spoke about the state of Rich Communication Services (RCS), arguing, that despite a slow adoption,...
Belgium’s Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) has proposed the issue of temporary 5G licenses in the 3.5 GHz band to avoid further delays in the country’s 5G rollout plans.
Existing 2G and 3G licenses in Belgium are due to expire in 2021. The...
Ericsson said it has been selected by Orange France to deploy its 5G Radio Access Network in three major French regions, including Paris, and modernize its existing 2G/3G/4G radio access network.
As part of the agreement, Ericsson 5G RAN products and solutions from the Ericsson...
South Korea ended November 2019 with 4.35 million subscribers in the 5G segment, but demand for the technology is currently experiencing a deceleration period, Korean press reported, citing government data.
After an initial accelerated demand for 5G, subscriber growth rates fell to 9.3% on a...
Super Game Sunday greetings from Kansas City (H&R Block Headquarters pictured) and Charlotte. The Patterson household is eagerly awaiting the 49ers/ Chiefs matchup and the return of the Vince Lombardi trophy to the City of Fountains. Regardless of the outcome, there is no doubt...
Orange France has selected Nokia to evolve its mobile access network towards 5G technology, the Finnish vendor said in a release.
Under the terms of the deal, Nokia will provide Orange, for a broad part of France, with a range of products and services from...
2019 was a big year for Verizon in terms of launching its millimeter wave-based mobile 5G service in more than 30 markets and numerous stadiums and arenas. And 2020 will see a further expansion of that 5G footprint as well as extension of 5G...
U.K. telecom group BT said that the decision by the UK government to restrict the use of Huawei’s kit in the country’s 5G networks would have a cost of £500 million ($655 million) for the company over the next five years.
“We are in the...
In addition, Vodafone and Saudi Telecom Company agreed to establish a long-term partnership
Vodafone Egypt, the leading operator in the north African country, has signed an initial agreement to sell a 55% stake in in the company to state-controlled telecommunications group Saudi Telecom Company (STC)...
Ericsson CEO says U.S. market is soft as Sprint/T-Mobile US merger delays 5G capex
Swedish network infrastructure vendor Ericsson on Jan. 24, reported fourth quarter 2019 financials and showed 4% year-over-year topline growth for full-year 2019 and 1% for the quarter. The company saw a...
Despite year-over-year revenue decrease, Sprint beat estimates
Sprint spent $1.1 billion on its network in the third quarter of 2019, the seventh straight quarter the operator has invested 10-figures, according to President and CEO Michael Combes. And that will continue, he said in a Jan....
The U.S. Commerce Department has withdrawn a rule aimed at further reducing sales to Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies amid concerns from the Defense Department the initiative would have a negative impact in U.S. companies, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The U.S. government...
Late January greetings from Charlotte, where one of the start-ups I am advising, Lucid Drone Technologies, won two awards this week (pictured are the happy founders David Danielson, Andrew Ashur, and Adrian Mayans). The Charlotte Inno Fire award includes a red blazer which Adrian...
British officials have proposed granting Chinese vendor Huawei a limited role in the deployment of 5G networks in the country, resisting U.S. pressure for a complete ban, Reuters reported, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.
The recommendation was made at a meeting of...
In 2019 Verizon launched mobile 5G in parts of 31 cities and a number of NFL stadiums and other arenas. While CEO Hans Vestberg, speaking to CNBC during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, wouldn't reveal the 2020 deployment roadmap, he did say...
SK Telecom: '5G cloud gaming will shift the paradigm in the video game industry'
In September, SK Telecom was named Microsoft’s “exclusive operating partner” for its cloud gaming service, xCloud, in Korea, which established a partnership to deliver the streaming service to South Korea over...
Telekom Austria's subsidiary A1 confirmed in a release that it will commercially launch 5G services this week.
A1’s 5G network will cover 350 locations across 129 municipalities in Austria, the company said.
The company claims its "A1 5Giganetwork" will be the largest 5G network in Austria,...
Sprint: ‘IoT is three simple letters, but it is an incredibly complex beast’
The Sprint IoT Factory, an online marketplace for easy-to-manage IoT solutions launched in May 2018, wasn’t closing as many sales as the site traffic suggested it should be. Sprint’s Head of Product...
