The government said that this satellite fund would be complemented by a range of live 5G integration projects
The U.K government said it is aiming to boost broadband and 5G coverage in the country with a potential plan to launch a £160 million ($204 million)...
Local operators Movistar and Tigo have already carried out 5G trials in the country
Colombia’s telecom ministry, MinTIC, has published the first draft of a resolution to award spectrum for the provision of 5G services in the country.
This process, which is already open for...
US Cellular is the largest domestic regional operator
US Cellular and its parent company, Telephone & Data Systems, are exploring "strategic alternatives" for the largest regional U.S. cellular provider. The news sent the companies' stock soaring, with US Cellular up nearly 90% in midday trading....
The trial features a teleoperated, remote-controlled shuttle service that runs between several DT sites in Bonn, Germany
Deutsche Telekom (DT) is working on a trial with teleoperated driving company MIRA GmbH. The trial features a remote-controlled shuttle service that runs between several of DT’s sites...
Around 95% of households across Germany can already access Deutsche Telekom's 5G network
German telecom operator Deutsche Telekom said that a total of 9,700 of its 5G antennas in 750 cities are currently transmitting on the 3.6 GHz spectrum band.
In a release, Deutsche Telekom said...
Ericsson said that this new facility is the company’s first 5G manufacturing facility in Southeast Asia
Swedish vendor Ericsson has inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Malaysia in which the company will produce 5G radio equipment.
In a release, Ericsson said that this new facility is...
China Tower said its net profit in the first half of the year climbed 14.6% year-on-year to $674 million
China Tower ended the first half of 2023 with a total of 2.06 million towers under management, after a net addition of 6,000 sites during the...
Keysight Technologies said that it has received Global Certification Forum approval for the first validated test cases for 5G New Radio Release 16 power-saving features; specifically, demodulation and radio resource management (RRM) in Band n78 (3.5 GHz).
Keysight said that it also received GCF approval...
One of the telecom industry's concerns about the massive amount of federal Infrastructure Act dollars that are poised to pour into the market to close the digital divide over the next few years, has been associated requirements on buying American-made products for use in...
Rakuten Symphony and Veon will seek to accelerate the reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, through collaboration on O-RAN
Rakuten Symphony has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with telecom operator Veon, with the aim of helping recovery of critical infrastructure in Ukraine, which has been...
T-Mobile also said it plans to expand the network slicing beta to additional application types and use cases in the future
T-Mobile US announced the launch of a network slicing beta for developers based on application type, with the aim of bringing new video calling...
The national roaming cooperation with Vodafone will include the provision of national roaming services in areas that are not yet covered by the new 1&1 mobile network
German carrier 1&1, owned by United Internet AG, said it has signed a long-term roaming deal with compatriot operator...
Mobile users experienced faster average download speeds on urban and rural highways than the overall national average, according to Opensignal report
Inspired by the growing popularity of road trips as a form of vacations in the U.S. Opensignal examined the mobile experience of its users as...
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Consolidated Comms sells...
The open and disaggregated movement, pioneered by OpenRAN, has become a well-known concept. It is driven by the principles of opening mobile networks to a broader range of suppliers and disaggregating software from hardware components in the network. These are the same principles that...
The 5G sites have been installed across 714 districts in India
Telecom operators in India have already installed over 300,000 5G mobile sites nationwide within 10 months of launch of the service, local press reported, citing the country’s union telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
The 5G sites...
CelcomDigi recently started its full-scale program to integrate and modernize its 4G network in Malaysia
Malaysian telco CelcomDigi has consolidated two clusters of networks in east Malaysia, the company said in a statement.
The Malaysian telco detailed that the network clusters were in Tuaran and Menggatal...
According to Dell'Oro, most manufacturers will deliver enterprise-grade Wi-Fi 7 products in 2024
According to the new Wireless LAN 5-Year July 2023 Forecast Report from the Dell’Oro Group, thewWireless LAN market is expected to grow another 11%, due to an uptick in the supply chain. Further,...
In June, AWS announced a $100 million investment to develop a center to help enterprises use generative AI (GenAI), the technology behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. The AI innovation center will offer generative AI testing and training services and will be staffed by data scientists, engineers and...
Ericsson will shut down its self-provided U.S. field services operations as of October 1, and it's laying off more than 750 people from its North American workforce. The company cited costs and a downturn in market demand as the reason for its exit from...
IoT investments in APAC are expected to reach $435 billion in 2027
Internet of Things (IoT) spending in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is forecasted to reach $277.5 billion in 2023, an increase of 11% compared to the previous year, according to IDC's latest Worldwide...
Singytel said that this testbed enables companies to use 5G to trial and adopt new solutions
Singaporean telco Singtel, together with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) have launched a 5G aviation testbed at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 3’s airside.
The partners said that this...
Rakuten Mobile said it plans to introduce this technology for commercial 5G SA mobile networks in the future
Rakuten Mobile and Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) have completed a research and development project aimed at the commercial deployment of fully virtualized...
Telecom tower and infrastructure company SBA Communications raised its guidance for the full year and touted a new master lease agreement with AT&T, but its executives also said that while 5G deployment activity continues, the second quarter saw a slow-down.
SBA reported net income...
