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Beyond RF challenges, US midband spectrum has limitations built into service rules As demand for various wireless services has grown, however, it has gotten harder and harder for federal regulators to come up with bands that can be (relatively) easily …

Singtel said that the Air 3268 radio is expected to save up to 18% more energy and weighs about 40% less than earlier generations of 5G radios Singapore operator Singtel has deployed the Ericsson Air 3268 radio cell to its …

The 5G core is built on the Verizon Cloud Platform Verizon has officially begun moving customer traffic onto its cloud-native, containerized-design 5G core. Doing so will deliver “unprecedented levels of service agility, flexibility and automated scalability,” said the carrier. The …

NTN applications are beginning to converge with cellular Keysight Technologies has added updates to its flagship Pathwave design software to support designs for 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN), by enabling architectural digital twins. Keysight says this changes the design flow from …

With backing from Microsoft and a $1,500 price tag, the question remains: What will it take to make enterprises care? At this week’s Meta Connect event, Mark Zuckerberg and company offered a State of the Union on the metaverse. He …

TIP OpenWiFi is an open source-based architecture that enables multi-vendor, interoperable Wi-Fi networks Boingo Wireless has become the first Telecom Infra Project (TIP) participant to adopt TIP OpenWiFi to help it quickly expand its commercial Wi-Fi 6E network. By leveraging …

NTIA survey finds 60% of unconnected households report that they have no need/interest in using the internet at home Over the past several decades, the U.S. Census Bureau or other agencies have been asking Americans about their use of computers …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy …

C-band has significantly greater capacity than lower frequency 5G bands According to a new Opensignal report, recent C-band deployments by AT&T and Verizon are helping the pair catch up to T-Mobile US, which has, on several occasions, emerged as the …

The new 6G research project will be based at the Samsung R&D Institute U.K. based in Staines-upon-Thames Samsung Electronics announced it will establish a new research group in the U.K., which will focus on developing technologies for 6G networks and …

‘The cloud is not industry specific,’ says AWS exec Amazon Web Services (AWS) doesn’t use the term “telco cloud” because, as the company’s Head of Worldwide Business Development for Communication Service Providers Sameer Vuyyuru told RCR Wireless News in an …

The groups hope to kickstart 5G RAN xApp research with the new tool  Mavenir has announced the release of ns-O-RAN, an open-source Open RAN simulator developed with researchers at Northeastern University’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT). Mavenir claims it’s the …

When it comes to 5G, no band is perfect. In low bands, 5G coverage is maximized and cell sizes can be quite large, the performance of 5G New Radio is limited because of smaller available channel bandwidths. Meanwhile, high-band, millimeter-wave …

The company’s January acquisition of QOS Networks yielded the basis for the newly announced edge offerings Zayo Group Holdings on Wednesday announced the launch of its edge network solutions portfolio. Zayo’s products include Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), Secure Access …

The nordic telco eyes Southeast Asia expansion and maybe an IPO Norwegian telco Telenor Group announced Tuesday the formation of Telenor Asia. Telenor described the new business group as “a more independent regional entity” based in Singapore, created to oversee …

The Dimensity 1080 chipset supports sub-6GHz 5G and Wi-Fi 6 MediaTek says its newest chipset, called the Dimensity 1080 (D1080), offers 5G smartphones a “nice performance bump and significantly upgraded camera features.” When compared to its predecessor, the Dimensity 920, …

Swisscom is putting the ‘world-first’ tech to work in its newly deployed 5G network, Ericsson said Ericsson on Tuesday announced a collaboration with network performance app developer Netscout and Swiss telco Swisscom, to produce a new cloud-based solution aimed at …

Europe battles skyrocketing energy costs as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues European service providers are preparing for the worst as power cuts threaten to down networks in the coming months. Telecom leaders, particularly in France and Italy, have been asking their …

Jill Stelfox, who is the CEO of Panzura, is the only female CEO in the data management space. She comes on the podcast to discuss why it’s important to change that.

In France, mobile carriers are currently providing 5G services through frequencies in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands France had a total of 36,295 authorized 5G sites as of October 1, of which 26,589 were declared technically …

American Tower (ATC) has invested approximately $300 million in energy efficiency improvements and solutions Airtel Africa and American Tower (ATC) have announced a multi-year strategic partnership that involves communication sites across Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda and prioritizes extending digital …

Nokia said that the Hexa-X-II initiative has been awarded funding from the European Commission Nokia announced that it will lead the Hexa-X-II project, the second phase of the European 6G flagship initiative. In a release, Nokia noted that this new …

‘There are not a lot of easy bands left’ says NTIA senior advisor With both mmWave and midband 5G auctions concluded and development and/or deployment underway for existing spectrum releases, one of the biggest spectrum question now is: What’s next? …

Eligible recipients now can get LTE, 5G or fiber connections through the new program  Verizon has announced an expansion of free broadband connectivity services for low-income households. The company’s new Verizon Forward Program promises home internet service for qualifying households using 5G, …

With a ten-city pilot underway, Safaricom breaks Ethio Telecom’s monopoly on Africa’s second most-populous country Kenya-based telco Safaricom has announced that it’s launched services in Ethiopia, marking the first time a privately owned Communication Service Provider (CSP) has operated in the …