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Rogers vowed to pursue its purchase of Shaw, commenting that the pair will work together to ‘highlight the many benefits of the merger’ After two days of mediations with Canada’s Commissioner of Competition, Canadian telco Rogers Communications failed to negotiate …

The government of Ukraine has awarded peace prizes to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle for their emergency digitalization efforts.

Vodafone and Google Cloud announced AI Booster, a new machine learning platform Vodafone will use to improve customer experience.

GSMA forecasts that 5G connections will represent 14% of total mobile connections in the APAC region by 2025 5G connections in Asia Pacific (APAC) are expected to reach 430 million in 2025, up from 200 million at end-2021, according to …

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 …

Rakuten Mobile holds a 51% interest in Rakuten Mobile Infrastructure Solutions, while Tepco owns the remainder Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile has established a joint venture company with Tokyo Electric Power Grid (Tepco), with the aim of deploying base stations on …

TSMC captured nearly 70% share of the global chipset market share, according to Counterpoint According Counterpoint’s latest Foundry and Chipset Tracker, several factors contributed to a decline of 5% YoY in Q1 2022 in the global smartphone chipset (SoC/AP+Baseband) shipments, …

Telefonica provides 5G coverage to 38 million people in 1,431 towns and cities across Spain Spanish telecom operator Telefonica’s 5G network currently covers 82% of the Spanish population, the telco said in a release. The operator said its 5G network …

Juniper Networks is promising better efficiency, future-proofing and lower TCO for metro area networks that migrate to Cloud Metro.

Cato Networks promises expanded cybersecurity with faster downtime recovery for Nordic businesses using its new Copenhagen, Denmark PoP.

Two Senators are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to pursue more information about just how much TikTok data is available to company representatives in China or Chinese security services, after recent press reports contradicted assurances given by a TikTok …

Japanese mobile network operator KDDI suffered an equipment failure this past weekend that caused what it says is its biggest outage ever.

The Government of Canada expects to award spectrum in the 3.8 GHz band to boost 5G services during 2023 The government of Canada has set rules for its auction of 3.8 GHz spectrum, which is expected to happen in 2023. …

China ended May with a total of 899.3 million subscribers in the 5G segment China’s telecommunication industry recorded revenues of CNY 665 billion ($99.46 billion) in the first five months of the year, up 8.5% compared to the same period …

Ice currently has over 700,000 customers and its 4G and 5G network covers 95% of the population in Norway Nokia announced that it has secured a five-year contract with Norwegian mobile operator Ice to upgrade and expand its 5G radio …

An Ohio man formed a broadband company on paper that used association with the federal EBB program to defraud consumers, the FCC says The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a fine of more than $220,000—the maximum it can impose—for an …

umlaut CEO touts the ‘perfect test environment’ German test and analytics company Umlaut has begun operating a private 5G Standalone Open RAN network, aimed at providing companies a place to test private 5G solutions without having to build their own …

Analysts remain optimistic that the job cuts don’t suggest larger problems brewing beneath the surface Open RAN vendor Parallel Wireless reported widespread layoffs earlier this week, citing economic conditions and the slower-than-expected pace of Open RAN adoption. While the company …

Virgin Media O2 launched services in June 2021 as a joint venture between Liberty Global and Telefónica in the U.K. U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 said it installed more than 1,300 small cells across London, claiming the largest deployment of …

Hong Kong operators have secured 700MHz frequencies in a spectrum auction last year Mobile operators in Hong Kong are set to gradually activate their mobile base stations in the 700 MHz band to provide 5G services, the Hong Kong’s Office …

NEC said that the acquisition is expected to be fully completed this month Japanese tech giant NEC has increased its capacity to deliver end-to-end Open RAN (O-RAN) ecosystems with the acquisition of Irish firm Aspire Technology, the former said in …

The general-purpose test equipment market is expected to grow at nearly 6% per year through 2026, reaching $1.95 billion by the end of the forecast period, according to new numbers from TechNavio. This market segment includes oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network …

Samsung Networks said it’s working on 2G vRAN solutions for mobile operators in Europe and elsewhere still supporting the legacy service.

 T-Mobile US says it has expanded its 5G Home Internet service availability to nearly five million more potential customers in five states: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. This additional coverage includes 81 cities and towns, the carrier said, including: …