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T-Mobile US says that it has expanded the availability of its 5G-based home internet service across new locations totaling 62 cities and towns in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. In those states, T-Mo says its T-Mobile Home Internet is now an …

Preamble puncturing makes it possible to “carve out a thin slice” of spectrum that has interference on it Preamble puncturing is an optional feature introduced in Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax that improves spectral efficiency by allowing a Wi-Fi 6 access …

Akamai’s $900 million Linode acquisition bolsters its cloud-to-edge services portfolio with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Heads of some of the biggest European telecommunications operators have published an open letter in the Financial Times claiming Europe’s telecoms market risks falling behind rivals, and that big tech firms needs to help fund network infrastructure deployments. The letter …

Juniper Networks announced that it is working with Vodafone and Parallel Wireless, conducting a multi-vendor Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller (RIC) trial for tenant-aware admission control use cases. The trial, initially running in Vodafone’s test labs in Turkey and with …

German telco Deutsche Telekom said that a total of over 63,000 antennas are already transmitting 5G across the country, providing coverage to over 90% of the population. In a release, the operator said that it had activated 159 new 5G …

Intel says it’ll buy analog semi foundry Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion in cash, expanding Intel’s capacity to build chips.

Verizon says its in-stadium fans experienced peak speeds of 3.89 Gbps during the Super Bowl In preparation Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, Verizon invested $119 million in a deployment that, among other things, included 169 new …

U.K. operator Virgin Media O2 announced that its 5G network infrastructure in the city of London has reached 64% of the population. In a release, the telco said that the expansion in its 5G footprint in London and other cities …

Sumita Gupta Sharma, head of Transmission Networks at Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier) speaks to the company’s name change and ambitions around disaggregating its optical networks. She also describes the need for more direct optical routes around the globe.

Splunk mines data for insights, including security threats, making it a more important company during the work-from-home surge Rumors are circulating that Cisco Systems has made a multi-billion-dollar offer to purchase software maker Splunk. First reported by The Wall Street …

Zain Bahrain exec: ‘Carrier Aggregation is the foundation for deploying high-performing 4G and 5G networks’ As part of its ongoing 4G/5G partnership with Ericsson, Zain Bahrain has implemented the vendor’s 5G Time Division Duplex (TDD/TDD) Carrier Aggregation (CA) on a …

What is the reality of 5G’s power needs? RCR Wireless reached out to Ian Campbell, CTO of cable and mobility at Cisco’s Service Provider segment, for his thoughts on the matter. This Q&A was conducted via email and has been …

Microsoft, The Linux Foundation and others are calling for reliable and consistent measurement of greenhouse gas emissions.

Cloudflare has acquired Vectrix and will add Vectrix’s CASB features to its own Cloudflare One SASE platform.

Chinese over-the-air measurement company General Test Systems and Japanese test and measurement company Toyo plan to form a new U.S.-based company called AeroGT Labs. The board of both companies have approved the plans, and the new company will combine products, …

In preparation for Super Bowl LVI, which takes place at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium this Sunday, the Tier 1 carriers have all invested heavily to bolster their 5G networks throughout the city, as well as in surrounding Inglewood. Below is …

AMD said it’s cleared regulatory hurdles to acquire FPGA pioneer Xilinx, giving AMD an important foothold in 5G and Open RAN.

The European Commission announced new decisions to open up additional frequencies for the provision of 5G services in the European Union. The body decided that the 900 MHz and 1.8 GHz bands will be used for the provision of 5G …

Samsung subsidiary Harman has acquired a German software company that focuses on automotive augmented and mixed reality. Automotive tech company Apostera and its AR and MR software solutions “will expand Harman’s automotive product offerings and position the company at the …

IBM and SAP have announced a new hybrid cloud partnership aimed at helping SAP’s large enterprise customers move ERP workloads to the cloud.

Spirent CEO says that assurance, validation and testing are “the closest things our customers have to a crystal ball” Network testing, validation and benchmarking are taking on new urgency in 5G and are even helping to shape operators’ strategies for …

Dell’Oro CEO says all the signals are pointing to Wi-Fi 7 as the important enterprise upgrade In a conversation with RCR Wireless News, Dell’Oro Group founder and CEO Tam Dell’Oro expressed that while she has “huge expectations for 6 GHz …

Telefonica Tech will offer customers Oracle’s managed platform and services, and Oracle’s first Spanish cloud region comes to Spain.