Operadores en regiones como Europa, Asia y Estados Unidos han comenzado la carrera del 5G con lanzamientos comerciales durante este año. RCR Wireless News entrevisto a Ignacio Contreras, director de marketing para 5G de Qualcomm, para conocer mas sobre la vision de la empresa sobre...
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has decided to challenge a recent decision by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that further restricted the company’s current business in the U.S. by banning local rural carriers to use a government fund to purchase equipment from the Chinese...
Happy Thanksgiving from Lake Norman, North Carolina, where I finally got the turkey to look normal after grilling (thanks to YouTube videos). Hope your Thanksgiving was filled with good food, fellowship, and safe travels.
This week’s Brief is a review and summary of one...
6G a focus of study at Finland's University of Oulu
Indian firm Tech Mahindra, a provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Business Finland, an agency directed by the Finnish government, for research...
Pre-Thanksgiving Greetings from Kansas City, Las Vegas (Bellagio flower display pictured), and Lake Norman. Please note that next week we vary from our traditional format and will have a short commentary on Tim Wu’s The Master Switch, one of the books we are including in...
We knew this day would come. Mike Sievert will replace John Legere as CEO of T-Mobile US in March 2020. Legere has been perhaps the most colorful and outrageous CEO the wireless industry has ever seen. With his over-the-top style and foul mouth, he...
Trump meets with "Tim Apple" in Austin
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Apple's CEO Tim Cook to see if the company could get involved in the deployment of 5G infrastructure in the country.
“I asked Tim Cook to see if he could get Apple involved in...
Verizon CFO says 5G Home fixed wireless service "resonates with customers"
Last year Verizon went to market with its millimeter wave-based 5G in four markets serving up fixed wireless residential broadband. That first cut was based on a proprietary standard rather than the global 5G...
Combo of HBO Max and 5G sets the stage for ad-related revenue
Igal Elbaz, AT&T senior vice president of wireless technology, said last week at the Morgan Stanley European Technology, Media and Telecom Conference the carrier will continue to prioritize network investments as the operator,...
During 2020, 25% of all breaches will happen outside the network perimeter
WatchGuard has released its 2020 cybersecurity predictions, and according to the report, vulnerabilities in 5G/Wi-Fi handover and the increase of mobile device usage and remote employees will be cause for serious concern in...
Edge computing is expected to transform the telecom industry
Xunlei, the Chinese shared cloud computing and blockchain technology company, will be working with China Tower to jointly develop an edge computing project in Shaanxi province to deploy computing nodes at 10,000 cellular tower stations.
In addition...
Chinese state-owned mobile carrier China Mobile has already deployed nearly 50,000 5G base stations across the country, state news agency Xinhua reported the company’s chairman Yang Jie as saying.
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile services provider in terms of subscribers, currently provides 5G services...
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce officially announced that it will extend for 90 days the Temporary General License (TGL) for Huawei and its non-U.S. affiliates which are subject to the Entity List.
The TGL authorizes U.S. companies...
The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to allow rural operators to continue doing certain transactions with Chinese vendor Huawei during an additional six-month period, Politico reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Huawei, which had been blacklisted by the U.S. government in May, has been...
5G spectrum licenses in Singapore are expected to be given out by the middle of 2020
Last week, Microsoft and Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) signed a Memorandum of Intent to provide a "development environment" to facilitate the creation of 5G applications, services and...
T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray to become president of technology; CFO Braxton Carter extends contract
No, John Legere is not leaving T-Mobile US to take on the role of CEO at WeWork as was widely reported last week. But the flamboyant CEO is leaving the operator...
Greetings from Chicago, Illinois (where the pre-winter winds were tame), and Davidson, North Carolina (where it really feels like winter even though it’s mid-November). This week’s TSB is less about the week’s events and more about strategy fundamentals. Next week’s edition will focus on...
Google has begun rolling out its own Rich Communications Services messaging service to U.S. users, just weeks after the four national U.S. carriers formed an RCS joint venture.
In a blog post, Sanaz Ahari, Google product management director, writes that the new capabilities are already...
MTN focused on 5G use cases relevant in South Africa
Ericsson has been selected by South African operator MTN as a 5G network modernization vendor, the former said in a statement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Ericsson will supply 5G products and solutions from its...
Korea’s largest telecom operator SK Telecom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Korea National Policy Agency (KNPA) and the Korea Road Traffic Authority (KoROAD) to cooperate in sharing traffic signal information and T Map data and to jointly develop 5G technologies for...
Spanish telecommunications operator Vodafone, a unit of U.K.-based Vodafone Group, announced plans to expand 5G services to five new cities in the coming months, Spanish press reported Vodafone Spain’s CEO, Antonio Coimbra, as saying.
Coimbra declined to name the cities in which the carrier plans...
ZTE, in partnership with China Telecom and China Unicom, has completed the network verification based on the "co-build co-share" mode in the commercial 5G environment, launching 5G Nonstandalone co-build/co-share sites which support 1.8 GHz/2.1 GHz/3.5 GHz in Hangzhou, China, the vendor said in a...
Vodafone tender includes 14 countries, `100,000 wireless infrastructure sites
Vodafone has tested open RAN technologies in parts of Turkey and South Africa and, in October, began testing the radio access network equipment in the United Kingdom. And, in a presentation this week at the Telecom...
SoftBank owns 80% of co-working provider WeWork
The Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter", reported on Nov. 11 that T-Mobile US CEO John Legere, who is also tapped to run a combined T-Mo/Sprint, is "in discussion...to take over leadership" of WeWork.
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