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Cisco to acquire Working Group Two from Telenor

Cisco helped Telenor launch Working Group Two, which offers mobile operators a cloud-based core network Cisco has revealed plans to acquire Working Group Two (WG2) from Telenor Group — which currently holds a 44.6% share in the company — for $150 million. WG2 offers mobile operators a...

Huawei returns to growth in H1 2023

Huawei said its net profit margin was 15% during the period, up from 5% in H1 2022 Chinese vendor Huawei recorded revenues of CNY310.9 billion ($43.1 billion) in the first half of the year, an increase of 3.1% compared to the same period the previous...

Test and Measurement: First Wireless Innovation Fund grants announced

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has announced the first $5.5 million in grants from a $1.5 billion fund focused on supporting the development open, interoperable wireless network tech in the U.S. The first few grants from the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, also...

Verizon aims to ‘re-set and redefine’ its managed network services with HCLTech deal

Deal reflects 'recognition that the enterprise market landscape is changing', says Verizon Business exec Verizon is seeking to "re-set and redefine" its managed network services on a global basis, announcing today that it has struck a deal with IT and managed network service provider HCLTech....

Qualcomm claims 5G SA download record

The record was achieved using the Qualcomm Snapdragon X75 chipset Qualcomm has claimed a new record, achieving a download rate of 7.5 Gb/s in sub-6 GHz bands using a Standalone (SA) 5G network configuration, four-channel carrier aggregation (4CA) and its Snapdragon X75 chipset. The record was...

Airtel launches 5G services via 26 GHz spectrum in India

Airtel has already launched 5G services in approximately 5,000 towns and cities across India Indian operator Bharti Airtel has launched 5G services across all 22 telecom circles in the country, using frequencies in the 26 GHz band. The telco stated that this deployment adheres to the...

Korean telco SK Telecom looks ahead to 6G

SK Telecom said that it is working to lead the early 6G standardization and technology ecosystem through collaboration with diverse overseas partners Korean telco SK Telecom has released a 6G white paper that focuses on the key requirements for 6G standardization and the telco's views...

NEC said its 5G base station RU gets O-RAN certification

NEC said this O-RAN certification has been issued by Japan OTIC Japanese tech company NEC said it has obtained O-RAN certification from Japan's Open Testing & Integration Center (OTIC) for its 5G base station radio unit (RU). The company said that this 5G base station...

US Cellular, Ericsson to offer custom private network solutions

Initially, US Cellular and Ericsson will focus on Industry 4.0 manufacturing, logistics, distribution and warehouse use cases US Cellular and Ericsson are now jointly providing private wireless network solutions across several industries, with an initial focus on Industry 4.0 manufacturing, logistics, distribution and warehouse use cases. Eventually, the...

Verizon to shut down BlueJeans

Verizon purchased BlueJeans in 2020 for $400 million Verizon is shutting down its video conferencing service BlueJeans three years after purchasing it for $400 million as a way to bolster its position in the enterprise communications space. Verizon bought the platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, which...

Airtel completes 5G tests using 26 GHz, 3.3 GHz bands

Bharti Airtel said the 5G tests were carried out in West Bengal region Indian telco Bharti Airtel has successfully tested 5G services and data speeds on both the 26 GHz and 3.3 GHz spectrum bands, local newspaper The Economic Times reported. The 5G tests were carried...

Adapting existing tech for novel private networks

SmartSky and Cambridge Consultants discuss adapting cellular technology for aviation air-to-ground private networks According to SmartSky CTO Dave Claassen, the biggest challenge of providing inflight air-to-ground (ATG) connectivity is that unlike a regular cellular network, ATG must operate in “three dimensions." “You have to take off...

Three aspects of assuring private networks

Private networks present a number of challenges for testing and assurance. By their nature, private networks are delivering some type of service aspect that cannot be achieved via the public network, whether that be more secure access, targeted coverage, or more sophisticated features such...

Ergen’s Echostar, Dish to re-combine

The combined company aims to 'create a global leader in terrestrial and non-terrestrial wireless connectivity' Fifteen years after Dish and Echostar were split into commercial satellite and satellite TV businesses, the two companies will re-combine in an all-stock deal to form a company that now...

UAE completes second phase of advanced 5G trials

The '5G-Advanced' project tested 5G using 400 megahertz of 6 GHz spectrum The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced the completion of the second phase of its “5G-Advanced” trials project, saying that the tests achieved speeds up...

Why do businesses want private networks? It’s simpler than you think.

A new survey of enterprises interested in adopting private networks lays out two primary reasons that they want to do so—and it's not driven by vertical-specific, high-performance use cases. Instead, they see the primary value of private networks as providing increased security and network...

Bharti Airtel claims India’s first 5G FWA service

Airtel said its 5G-based Airtel Xstream AirFiber offering is already available for its customers in Delhi and Mumbai Indian operator Bharti Airtel announced the launch of what it claims to be India’s first fixed wireless access (FWA) offering. In a release, the company said that its...

Samsung, Intel deepen vRAN partnership

Samsung will integrate its virtualized vRAN 3.0 software with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors Samsung Electronics and Intel announced this week that they are expanding their collaboration with the integration of the Samsung's virtualized radio access network (vRAN) 3.0 software with 4th Gen Intel...

Well, technically… tech innovation is not just about the big things: Merchants Fleet’s Jeanine Charlton (Ep. 105)

On this week's episode, Jeanine Charlton, the chief technology and digital officer at Merchants Fleet, explains what digital transformation looks like in the fleet management industry, touching on electric vehicles, driverless networks and the value of modern data and analytics platforms. https://soundcloud.com/rcrwirelessnews/well-technically-tech-innovation-is-not-just-about-the-big-things-ep-105?si=bac3f977bc744258a94d2ff6985ddbf0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

FCC seeks a better view of spectrum usage

Rosenworcel expresses hope that AI can help deal with congested airwaves The Federal Communications Commission is asking for input on new technological approaches to assessing spectrum usage, so that it has better insights into current technologies that might help the agency to manage spectrum and...

Locating and mitigating PIM in 5G systems

PIM is an escalating issue in 5G midband networks deployed in TDD spectrum Passive intermodulation is interference that is generated when two or more simultaneous signals interact in a nonlinear environment, where passive components (as opposed to transmitting ones) can cause new, unwanted signal noise...

Kagan: Huawei Pangu-Weather Model uses AI to improve global forecasting

The Huawei Pangu-Weather Model uses artificial intelligence to improve global weather forecasting. It is now used in the ECMWF, which is the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts website. Global weather forecasters, meteorologists, weather enthusiasts and the general public can now view the Pangu-Weather...

AT&T Labs claims first 5G RedCap data connection in the US

AT&T said it worked with Nokia and MediaTek on the testing U.S. carrier AT&T recently completed what it claims to be the first 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) data call in the U.S. The telco said that the RedCap data call was made in both the...

How does AT&T use AI across its network operations?

AT&T’s VP of Network Analytics & Automation said that the telco is already using AI across its entire operations chain, from day zero to day two Thanks to consumer-facing applications like Chat GTP, artificial intelligence is — an already hyped technology — is reaching a...