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China invested $27 billion in 5G last year: Report

China said its investments in the 5G field increased by 5.7% last year versus the previous year China hiked its investment in 5G networks to CNY190.5 billion ($26.6 billion) last year, local press reported, citing the latest official data from the Ministry of Industry and...

CMA launches formal investigation into Vodafone-Three merger

The CMA is now inviting input by February 9, 2024 on how the Vodafone-Three merger could affect competition The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has officially started the initial phase of an investigation looking into the proposed merger between local carriers Vodafone...

Eutelsat says OneWeb LEO business behind schedule due to ground network delays

In an investor update, French satellite company Eutelsat said that its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network via OneWeb is "progressing well" but more slowly than expected, and that it still won't meet near-term financial expectations. OneWeb has 100% of the expected satellites in place...

Jio sees demand for its 5G FWA service from rural markets: Report

Jio had said that its 5G FWA will have pan-India coverage within the first half of 2024 Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is seeing demand for its 5G fixed wireless service (FWA), JioAirFiber, coming from tier-3 and tier-4 cities as well as from rural markets,...

Orange Spain, NTT Data develop 5G app for intelligent mobility

This solution has been developed by Orange and NTT DATA using the telco’s 5G SA network Spanish state-owned railway infrastructure manager ADIF is using local carrier Orange's 5G SA network, together with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the experience of travelers, facilitating intelligent mobility in...

Test and Measurement: Spirent collaborates on more realistic automotive testing

Simulation and validation company dSpace is partnering with Spirent Communications to leverage Spirent's high-fidelity global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) simulator, the Spirent GSS7000, as part of a turnkey solution to make Autonomous Driving Hardware-in-the-Loop test systems (AD-HIL) "even more realistic" by including real-time positioning...

T-Mo posts big numbers: 934K net phone adds, broadband growth

T-Mobile US beat out its mobile competitors on postpaid phone net additions in the fourth quarter, posting 934,000 for the quarter and 3.1 million for the year. In its home broadband business, T-Mo added 541,000 net new customers in the fourth quarter and 2.1...

Jio to launch 5G lab in India with OnePlus

Jio said that the new 5G lab will serve as a hub for testing and developing new technologies Reliance Jio Infocomm and Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer OnePlus announced a strategic partnership with the aim of boosting 5G technologies across India. This collaboration aims to bring together...

UK says e& stake in Vodafone poses national security risks

e& had increased its stake in Vodafone to 14.4% last year The U.K. government says that the stake in local carrier Vodafone held by United Arab Emirates-backed telecoms group poses a national security risk to the country. The Cabinet Office recently issued a notice warning that...

Nokia sees revenues decline, emphasizes a future beyond CSPs

CEO Pekka Lundmark calls results 'a resilient performance considering the challenging environment' Nokia saw an expected decline in revenues during the fourth quarter and full-year of 2023, but the company's results were better than investors were expecting, due in part to cost-cutting measures. While the...

Boingo Wireless installs 5G, expands Wi-Fi 6 at John Wayne Airport

Boingo Wireless said the 5G network will support subscribers of U.S. carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon at the airport Boingo Wireless has deployed a high-speed 5G network that will support subscribers of U.S. carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon at John Wayne Airport (JWA) in Orange...

T-Mo US picks Nokia to improve its 5G high speed internet service

Nokia said that FWA technology will support residential broadband applications such as high-definition video streaming Finnish vendor Nokia said it is collaborating with T-Mobile US to launch a dedicated gateway solution that supports LTE, 5G NonStandalone and 5G Standalone technologies for the carrier’s fixed-wireless high-speed...

India sets lower revenue target for upcoming 5G spectrum auction

The government of India aims to award additional 5G spectrum in March India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) set a lower revenue target for a planned spectrum auction in March, because local carriers have enough frequencies and will chiefly focus on renewing their existing frequencies...

#TBT: Android displaces Symbian; Verizon’s billion-dollar cloud buy; Obama calls for wireless broadband expansion … this week in 2011

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 the memories! Android takes top...

AT&T reports strong mobile, fiber results, but charges mar EPS

AT&T beat its guidance on its full-year mobility service revenues for 2023 and consumer broadband revenues for 2023, and garnered postpaid phone net adds for the quarter of 526,000. The company's stock still slipped more than 3% on Wednesday after its financial report, in...

DoT seeks explanations for 5G rollout delays in India

Vodafone Idea and Adani Data Networks had failed to fulfill with the minimum 5G rollout obligations in India India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sent notices to local operators Vodafone Idea and Adani Data Networks, seeking an explanation as to why fines should not levied...

Ericsson, Telus partner to launch 5G SA network across Canada

In June 2022, Telus had started to deploy its 3.5 GHz spectrum on its existing 5G wireless network Ericsson has partnered with Canadian telco Telus to launch and optimize its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network at a national level, the former said in a release. The...

Mobile core market stagnant due to slow 5G SA deployment: Study

Dell' Oro estimates that about 75% of 5G subscribers will be on 5G SA networks in 2028 The global mobile core network (MCN) market growth rate has been reduced to less than a 1% CAGR during the 2023-2028 period, according to a newly published forecast...

Verizon makes gains in mobile, FWA subs; says C-Band investments are paying off

'We are confident in our strategy,' declares CEO Hans Vestberg Verizon reported solid numbers in mobile postpaid customer additions and strong broadband additions driven by Fixed Wireless Access. The carrier noted that during the fourth quarter of 2023, it saw consumer postpaid phone gross additions jump...

China ends 2023 with 3.38 million 5G base stations

Government officials said 5G mobile phone users in China reached 805 million by the end of last year China ended 2023 with a total of 3.38 million 5G base stations at a national level, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said. By the end...

Vodafone, Qualcomm and Xiaomi test enhanced 5G uplink tech

Vodafone, Qualcomm and Xiaomi achieved peak upload speeds of up to 273 Mbps in this recent test Vodafone, Xiaomi, and Qualcomm Technologies said they have successfully tested a new 5G technology that will enable customers to get faster upload speeds and wider coverage with the...

India set to export locally-developed 4G, 5G stacks in 2024: Report

India has received inquiries from at least 15 global telecom operators, as well as bilateral inquiries from nine nations The government of India is looking to start exporting a full range of indigenously-designed 4G and 5G stacks in 2024, according to local press reports. The reports...

‘Each year without an auction … digs the US deeper into a hole’: CTIA presses for FCC auction authority, speedy execution on spectrum plans

'NTIA has less than two years to get the U.S. back on track," telecom industry group's CEO writes The United States' leadership in spectrum policy, 5G and reaping the economic benefits of the most advanced mobile networks are in jeopardy and have to get back...

Jio to reach pan-India coverage with its 5G FWA service in H1 2024

Jio had announced the launch of its 5G FWA service in eight cities across India in September 2023 Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm said that its 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service, dubbed JioAirFiber, will have pan-India coverage within the first half of 2024, according...