The rollout of 5G is expected to begin in India in October 2022
The 5G spectrum auction in India, approved earlier this year, has concluded and according to the country’s telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, carriers purchased a total $19 billion worth of spectrum.
As expected, Reliance...
Cable MSOs Charter Communications and Comcast both saw strong growth in their mobile businesses during the second quarter, with each cable company reporting net mobile customer additions greater than 300,000 and outperforming host network Verizon, which added 12,000 postpaid phone lines during the second...
Switching to cloud-based BSS took two and a half years, but was seamless – U Mobile CIO
Whale Cloud has announced the completion of its migration of Malaysian telco U Mobile’s Business Support Systems (BSS) to a cloud-native environment. The process took two and a half...
The 6G white paper was elaborated by vivo Communications Research Institute
Chinese tech company vivo has released a white paper in which the firm explores a potential framework and enabling technologies for as-yet-unstandardized 6G systems.
Qin Fei, president of vivo Communications Research Institute, said: “At...
In June last year, American Tower had closed the first tranche of the acquisition of Telxius Towers, comprised of nearly 20,000 communications sites in Germany and Spain
American Tower Corporation (ATC) ended June with nearly 30,000 telecommunications sites across its European footprint, the company’s President...
China Broadnet had officially launched 5G services on June 27
China Broadnet, the country's new telecom carrier, recently rolled out its commercial 5G services in nine provincial-level regions across China as part of a trial program, local state-news service Xinhua reported.
According to the report, these...
Vodafone purchased a 70% stake in the Ghana business in 2008 for $900 million
Vodafone Group is selling its majority shareholding in its Ghana business to Africa-focused telecoms service and technology provider Telecel Group. Vodafone first teased the deal in 2021, according to Bloomberg, which...
SASE and SSE services are available using Secure Gateways hosted by Equinix
Comcast Business on Monday announced a partnership with enterprise security firm Fortinet to deliver Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE) solutions as managed services to Comcast Business customers. The new services...
The Federal Communications Commission's auction of 2.5 GHz midband spectrum raised more than $103 million in its first day of bidding.
The auction kicked off with a single, six-hour bidding period. Two two-hour rounds of bidding are scheduled for Monday.
Only 168 of the...
Auction of midband spectrum in rural areas starts with a single, full-day round of bidding
The first, day-long round of bidding on about 8,000 midband spectrum licenses at 2.5 GHz has officially begun.
Bidding began in the Federal Communication Commission's Auction 108 at 10 a.m. Eastern...
Rohde & Schwarz noted that the first global specification of 6G is expected within the next six to eight years
Rohde & Schwarz announced it will take part in 6G-ANNA, a so-called "lighthouse" project to advance 6G technology in Germany.
The three-year 6G-ANNA project was launched...
FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel coined the term 'homework gap' in 2012 to describe the difficulty millions of students have when completing online school assignments
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week announced additional funding for digital student services totaling more than $77 million. The funds are...
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 28.2 million 5G subscribers in June
China ended June with a total of 927.44 million subscribers in the 5G segment, according to the carriers’ latest available figures.
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 28.2 million 5G subscribers in...
Earlier this month, Bell started to offer its 5G+ offering following the deployment of frequencies in the 3.5 GHz band
Canadian operator Bell announced the commercial availability of its "5G+" service in southern Ontario, the carrier said in a release.
Earlier this month, Bell started to...
'We know AWS is a huge opportunity,' said the CFO
Amazon reported second quarter results after the bell on Thursday, posting revenue of $121.2 billion, higher than the $119.5 billion analysts expected. The company reported a net loss of 20 cents per share for the quarter, worse...
Orange Spain is currently offering 5G services through frequencies in the 3.5 GHz and 700 MHz bands
Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 1,222 towns and cities in 51 provinces across the country, the carrier said in a statement.
According to the European...
Amid a tight labor market still navigating the fallout from the global pandemic, staff turnover in wireless retail stores and customer service channels is having a noticeable impact on customer satisfaction, according to a new survey from JD Power.
"Longer wait times, lack of...
The CHIPS Act proposes $59 billion of funding for semiconductor manufacturing and research in the U.S
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed the CHIPS bill, or the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act, which aims to estabish a competitive edge over China...
Qualcomm exec: 'We changed everything about our wearable chipsets'
Last week, Qualcomm unveiled the latest additions to its suite of wearable platforms, Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 and Snapdragon W5 Gen 1. As Pankaj Kedia, senior director and global head for Qualcomm’s smart wearables and shareables...
Separate cores for wireless and internet and AI-enhanced reliability are coming, said the CEO
Rogers Communications said it will spend to spend CA$10 billion (US$7.78 billion) over the next three years to avoid another outage like the one that took out services across Canada in...
The agreement also includes end to end support services with Ericsson network orchestration and automation
Swedish vendor Ericsson has been selected by Italian telecom operator Windtre to deploy a container-based, dual-mode 5G core for Standalone on cloud infrastructure, the former said in a release.
Ericsson said...
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Sprint expands its...
Canada’s competition bureau has put on hold Rogers’ proposed purchase of Shaw, as it believes the deal will negatively impact competition in the domestic telecom sector
Rogers Communications has delayed the deadline for its CAD20 billion ($15.56 billion) acquisition of rival Shaw Communications to December...
Telefónica said it has already deployed nearly 6,000 5G antennas in the 3.6 GHz frequency
German telecom operator Telefónica Deutschland/O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said its 5G network is operating around 14,000 antennas in the country.
The telco said that this network infrastructure is enabling...
