AT&T is spending around $120 million annually on network resiliency work
As Hurricane Ian spun toward the Florida coast in late September, AT&T was making some risky calculations about where to stage pallets of equipment and tractor-trailers full of generators that would help power its...
T-Mobile US is also re-farming its 1900 MHz spectrum, which was previously used on Sprint and T-Mo legacy networks
“Consider the mic dropped,” T-Mobile US said in a press release announcing that its Extended Range 5G service — which uses 600 MHz spectrum — now reaches...
The pair will embed Rohde & Schwarz 4.9G/LTE and 5G network measurement capabilities into the Nokia Drone Networks platform
Nokia and Rohde & Schwarz have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to embed QualiPoc 4.9G/LTE and 5G network measurement capabilities into the Nokia Drone Networks platform. The pair will work together on a drone prototype to enable early...
5G labs are becoming very popular. CSPs are welcoming partners to work with them to come up with new ideas and use cases that will ultimately drive increased use of 5G networks and effectively increase their revenues.
In Europe, Orange has a 5G lab where,...
What MNOs say isn’t always what enterprises hear. How to bridge the disconnects in the name of private wireless network progress.
No matter how many times I’ve seen it, the experience remains wildly uncomfortable.
I’m sitting at a table where MNOs are pitching to a major...
Infrastructure planning grants are part of the 2021 infrastructure bill
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has announced dozens of planning grants to states in recent weeks, which will be used to support five-year plans for broadband deployments nationwide that are intended to ultimately make...
Lumenisity makes hollow core fiber for data centers and ISPs
Microsoft has acquired U.K.-based Lumenisity, a start-up that makes hollow core fiber (HCF) solutions, primarily for data centers and internet service providers (ISPs). Microsoft has said that the acquisition of Lumenisity’s technology will better help...
AT&T's Director of Cybersecurity Amy Zwarico is excited about the telco trend of move to more software-defined networks because it's increases mobility and allows them to more quickly implement new security controls. However, as more elements of our networks are implemented in software, the...
The carrier aggregation trial was supported by Nokia and MediaTek
At O2 Telefónica's Innovation Cluster near Berlin, the carrier has successfully aggregated sub-6 GHz spectrum frequencies in a two-component carrier uplink Carrier Aggregation (CA) trial on 5G Standalone. The trial, which was supported by Nokia and MediaTek,...
Madan Thangavelu, director of engineering at Uber, provided some insights on real world applications of AI and edge to improve customer service fulfillment during a recent presentation at the Mobile Edge Forum 2022, available on demand here.
“When I think about edge, there’re just two...
Wi-Fi 7 has been designed from the ground up for operation in the 6 GHz band
Wi-Fi 7, which is designed from the ground up for operation in the 6 GHz band, is also known as Extremely High Throughput, thanks to its support of up...
Verizon has been involved in more than 17,000 drone flights since 2017
Verizon Public Sector is developing and testing 5G MEC and drone technology with the Veterans Health Administration’s National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation (NCCHI) and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS). The hope is...
Failure to fund the FCC rip-and-replace program fully will lead to service shutdowns: Letter to Congress
The Competitive Carriers Association and seven other organizations are calling upon Congress to fully fund the costs associated with removing and replacing the equipment from foreign vendors which has...
The settlement includes global cross-license for patented cellular standard-essential technologies
Apple and Ericsson have settled their yearlong legal dispute over iPhone-related and other patents. The settlement involves a new multi-year global patent license deal and joint commitment to “strengthen their technology and business collaboration, including in technology, interoperability...
Verizon has committed to virtualizing 20,000 sites by 2025; so far, it has virtualized more than 10,000 with Samsung
Verizon has added its first Ericsson virtualized cell site to further its network virtualization efforts. The cell site, also referred to as Ericsson Cloud RAN, has...
The new chipset is built on TSMC's 4nm fabrication technology
Last month, MediaTek announced its first SoC for 5G flagship smartphones, the Dimensity 9200. This week, the company has revealed yet another chipset in the lineup: The Dimensity 8200. The new chipset is designed for...
Canonical’s Charmed OSM is helping VMO2 to rapidly onboard new telco cloud network functions
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced Thursday that U.K. Communication Service Provider (CSP) Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has chosen Canonical’s Charmed OSM as the telco’s orchestrator for hybrid workload deployments. Charmed OSM eases CSPs’ transition...
MRU in Wi-Fi 7 builds off OFDMA, a feature first introduced in Wi-Fi 6
Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) is a new feature in Wi-Fi 7 that builds off another feature first introduced in Wi-Fi 6: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, or OFDMA. OFDMA establishes independently...
AT&T expects its 5G network infrastructure to reach 25 cities across Mexico before the end of 2022
AT&T Mexico is currently offering its 5G services in 18 cities across the country, local press reported, citing the company’s Deputy Vice President of Execution and Transformation Carlos...
The government of India is currently analyzing to award new spectrum bands in the range of 3700-4200 MHz and 4700-4800 MHz
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will seek recommendations from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to conduct a new 5G spectrum auction in...
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T-Mobile US turns...
Apple this week announced three new security features for users of its products
Apple this week announced three new security features for users of its products. The company said it is immediately expanding the scope of end-to-end encryption used to protect data stored on iCloud. And in the new...
As manufacturing players decide whether or not to adopt 5G, one of the primary factors is how much it costs to deploy and operate these systems in terms of capital and operating expenditures, and how long it will take to achieve return on investment....
The Industry 4.0 concept is driving the popularity of private 5G networks, which are also being increasingly adopted in the manufacturing and logistics space due to the lower costs of spectrum, Renu Navale, vice president in the Network and Edge Group and general manager...
