An accidental emergency alert sent to Florida residents' cell phones at 4:45 a.m. on Thursday prompted a public outcry, a contract cancellation by the state and an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission.
According to a tweet by the Florida Division of Emergency Management,...
Crown Castle said its capital expenditures during the quarter were $341 million
Crown Castle reported revenues its site rental revenues reached $1.62 billion in the first quarter of the year, climbing 3% compared to the year-ago quarter, the company said in its earnings statement.
The company’s...
ZTE said its net profits amounted to CNY 2.64 billion in the quarter, climbing 19.2% year-on-year
Chinese vendor ZTE recorded revenues of CNY 29.14 billion ($4.23 billion) in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 4.3% year-on-year.
In a release, the vendor said that...
The Women's World Cup is expected to be watched by 2 billion fans around the world, says FIFA
Cisco has been appointed by FIFA as the official network infrastructure provider for the Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023. In this role, Cisco will...
Chinese operators had deployed a total of 2.29 million 5G base stations nationwide as of the end of November
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 59.17 million 5G subscribers in March, according to the operators’ latest available statistics.
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in...
Recent research shows moving more workloads to the edge can optimize overall utilization and efficiency
Part of optimizing networks now means not just optimizing service performance and RF performance, but placement of compute workloads: In a data center or at the edge? This has implications...
AT&T reported a first quarter in which it saw its mobile subscriber growth slide compared to last year's performance and its free cash flow figure fell short of analysts' expectations, leading to a 10% drop in the company's stock in midday trading.
AT&T reported 424,000...
Northeastern said that the private 5G network follows the O-RAN architecture in a multi-vendor environment, with open interfaces and near real time RAN Intelligent Controller (RICs)
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University and its Open6G R&D Center announced...
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The private 5G network will enable use cases like patient check-in kiosks and assisted surgery and imaging, said Verizon
Verizon Business has deployed a private 5G network at the new Cleveland Clinic hospital in Mentor, Ohio. The network, based on an Ericsson platform, will help to...
Huawei and its partners have developed and released over 100 digital transformation standards for the smart city, finance, electric power, highway, aviation and healthcare industries
Chinese vendor Huawei will accelerate investments in the digitalization space, particularly in areas including connectivity, computing storage and cloud, the...
5G means more innovation and collaboration, which might offer increased opportunities for the female workforce
Maria Lema, the co-founder of Weaver Labs, spoke with RCR Wireless News during the latest Women in Telco Forum about working in a 5G world and how the accompanying technology...
The government expects this potential plan to boost competition in the domestic 5G market
The government of Malaysia plans to introduce a second 5G network from January next year, in a move which seeks to boost competition in the local telecom market, Reuters reported, citing...
AT&T Mexico said its 5G Innovation Laboratory is a space designed to test and validate 5G use cases
AT&T Mexico has begun technological tests of private networks in its 5G Innovation Laboratory with partners including Qualcomm, Celona, Axity and Veea.
The Mexican carrier said that...
China Tower said its net profit in the first quarter climbed 15% year-on-year to CNY2.50 billion
China Tower ended the first quarter of this year with a total of 2.06 million towers under management, after a new addition of 7,000 sites during the period.
In...
Siemens said the Verizon solution is designed to meet the requirements of its Zero Trust ideology of 'never trust, but always verify'
Verizon Business this week announced that it is providing Siemens with Zero Trust network capabilities. The deployment will take place at the company’s...
AT&T says it plans to deploy 5G SA "when the ecosystem is ready"
AT&T has laid claim to being the first to achieve a data call with two-carrier aggregation in the uplink in 5G Standalone.
In a blog post, Jason Sikes, AT&T's AVP of device architecture,...
Ericsson results beat expectations
Ericsson reported sales up 14% year-over-year, beating expectations and seeing particularly strong growth in the Indian market, while navigating a slight drop in network sales overall as the pace of early 5G deployments dropped off and carriers re-assess their equipment inventories...
Deutsche Telekom currently operates more than thirty of these local mobile networks based on 5G or LTE across Germany and Austria
German operator Deutsche Telekom announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) under a new program which connects AWS services with Deutsche Telekom’s private...
Vodafone has installed 119 new LTE stations and 26 5G stations across the country since the beginning of the year
Vodafone Germany has already equipped 37,000 antennas with 5G technology, the German carrier said in a release.
These include 3,400 5G Standalone (SA) stations with around...
There are 2,497 cities with commercial 5G networks, across 92 countries
Viavi Solutions’ latest report looking at the global state of 5G revealed that 47 of the world’s 70 largest economies by GDP now have active 5G networks. Further, the company found that 5G Standalone...
Viavi Solutions reported preliminary results today that fell short of its guidance on revenue, and cited a drop-off in research and development spending by network equipment manufacturers and semiconductor companies as the driver.
Viavi said that its revenues for its fiscal third quarter are...
Emerging network trends in telecom require a new level of workforce agility
Emerging network trends around virtualization and cloud technology, as well as the shift towards more open and software-defined networks, have led to material changes around how to navigate a telecom career. In a...
Virgin Media O2 said the Mavenir’s O-RAN system will consist of fully virtualized L1, L2 vRAN SW and will operate on Intel Xeon scalable processors
U.K. telecom operator Virgin Media O2 has selected U.S. company Mavenir as its Open RAN (O-RAN) vendor.
In a release, the...
