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According to Rob Cerbone, VP of product management and marketing at Communication Technology Services (CTS), the company have been trending towards selling connectivity services directly to enterprise customers, and as a result, has expanded its portfolio so it can provide …

JTower and NTT Docomo announced that they have formed a capital and business alliance with the aim of strengthening collaboration in the field of infrastructure sharing. As part of the alliance, Docomo plans to acquire part of JTower shares held …

Within six months of the Tracfone deal closing, Verizon must offer Lifeline plans with 5G It’s an early Christmas present, of sorts, for Verizon: The Federal Communications Commission has officially approved the carrier’s acquisition of prepaid MVNO Tracfone, subject to …

IBM spinoff Kyndryl is teaming up with VMware to offer app modernization and hybrid cloud efforts for its customers worldwide.

Ericsson will buy Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal Network equipment and services provider Ericsson will acquire enterprise cloud services company Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal, which it touts as fundamental to creating a cloud-focused platform centered on “open …

Chinese vendor Huawei is in talks with almost all Brazilian operators that secured 5G spectrum in a recent spectrum auction, with the aim of selling 5G equipment, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported. According to the report, Huawei could potentially find …

Amid anticipation for the freshly passed $65 billion in funding for broadband expansion, a new report from CTIA estimates that 5G Fixed Wireless Access broadband could serve nearly half of rural households in the U.S. According to the report, Accenture …

Viavi Solutions has released a new version of its Observer network performance and monitoring platform, bringing what it describes as “true three-dimensional network observability” by enabling the platform to provide visibility across different locations and data sources, and a flexible …

ABI Research forecasts that approximately 90% of 5G cell sites in emerging markets will be operating with support for a combination of sub-6 GHz bands by 2026. In a release, the consultancy noted that sub-6 GHz bands will provide optimum …

The Orange and Nokia trial was performed over a 914 km network between Paris and Biarritz In a recent trial, Nokia and Orange used the Nokia PSE-Vs, the vendor’s fifth generation super coherent optics, to support end-to-end 400 Gbps services …

Equinix will provide digital infrastructure services to support Dish’s cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network. As a result, Dish will have access to the infrastructure company’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers across the U.S. “Dish is taking the lead in …

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 the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy …

A CBRS-based neutral host offers substantial benefits compared to legacy Distributed Antenna System (DAS)-based approaches, says Geoverse The Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando is getting a pilot, private Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)-based neutral-host network provided by Geoverse to enhance …

Ericsson’s dips into Open RAN disaggregation efforts with Intelligent Automation Platform, promising optimized 4G and 5G network traffic.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) unveiled plans to more than triple the number of 5G base stations over the next four years, targeting a total of 3.64 million by end-2025, local newspaper China Daily reported. Under this …

Cloud gaming represents a great opportunity to show off what 5G and MEC are capable of With cloud gaming revenue predicted to come in at over $1 billion for the first time this year — about double what it was …

Nokia announced that it is conducting a 5G Standalone (SA) network trial with Chubu Telecommunications (ctc), a subsidiary of KDDI in Japan. For the trial, Nokia is supplying its latest AirScale product portfolio and Compact Mobility Unit (CMU) to support …

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) have expanded their parthersnip to further TIP’s Open AFC Software Group and help drive global adoption of Wi-Fi in the new 6 GHz unlicensed band — known today as …

Auction now shifts to an assignment phase for individual spectrum blocks The 3.45-3.55 GHz auction of 100 megahertz of midband spectrum has wrapped up its first phase after 151 rounds, raising $21.888 billion in bids and making it the third-highest …

Dish, Cisco strike partnership for 5G enterprise services and a deep transport network relationship Dish Wireless will both use Cisco equipment and software as a key part of its 5G network infrastructure and also plans to offer Cisco solutions to …

Operating in the sub-1 GHz band, Wi-Fi HaLow sports long range and low power connectivity, and can provide reliable connectivity in challenging environments The Wi-Fi Alliance recently announced the arrival of Wi-Fi Certified HaLow, designed for the certification of products …

T-Mobile said that its Ultra Capacity 5G network now reaches 200 million people in the US, with 300 expected by the end of 2022.

Swedish vendor Ericsson announced a partnership with Korean communications firm SK Telecom, with the aim of supporting 5G Standalone networks through the deployment of a cloud-native dual-mode 5G Core. Ericsson and SK Telecom had initially unveiled next-generation cloud-native 5G Core …

Telenor has announced a partnership with Google Cloud to modernize and digitize as it pivots to offer cloud-native 5G services.

Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo and aerospace company Airbus have successfully tested a solar-powered stratospheric drone, using it to deliver a data link at a distance of up to 140 kilometers (about 87 miles). The U.S.-based trial took place in August, …