One of the constant wireless industry topics of conversation is spectrum: Who is buying what, who is using what, the technical pros and cons of different bands—and how to get more of it in commercial use.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has put...
Carriers are required to block SMS that are "highly likely to be illegal"
The Federal Communications Commission has now officially passed rules to require telecommunications operators to block suspicious text messages, calling scam and spam SMS "an increasingly pervasive consumer threat."
The FCC said...
Liberty Global also said the intended offer would be an offer in cash at a price of 22 euros ($23.7) per share
Liberty Global said it intends to launch a voluntary and conditional public takeover bid for all the shares of Belgian operator Telenet Group...
The scale of data which AT&T processes is staggering: More than 590 petabytes on a daily basis, the equivalent of 6.5 million 4K movies. Being able to process its data faster and more efficiently means tangible improvements in reduced cost (especially cloud costs), increased...
Ericsson will contribute a private 5G network for the Purdue Research Foundation to operate at the Purdue University Airport
Purdue University Airport, in collaboration with Ericsson and Saab, announced the deployment of a private 5G network which will serve as a “lab to life” proving...
The new working group will define and identify digital twin applications for the telecommunications industry
The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced a new working group with the aim of addressing the application and adoption of digital twins in the telecommunications market.
In a release, DTC noted...
Huawei replaced these parts with components developed by itself and other Chinese companies over the last three years
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has replaced more than 13,000 components that had been affected by the restrictions imposed by the U.S government, Chinese press reported, citing the...
Rosenworcel envisions a seamless 'Single Network Future'
With interest in integration of satellite and terrestrial networks on the rise in order to provide ubiquitous coverage, the Federal Communications Commission has proposed a new regulatory framework meant to support collaborations between satellite and wireless terrestrial network...
Vodafone aims to reach 2,000 municipalities across Spain with its 5G service by end-2023
Spanish telco Vodafone Spain aims to expand its 5G network to 65% of the population this year, the carrier said in a release.
With this network expansion plan, Vodafone will reach a...
Bharti Airtel said that its Airtel 5G Plus service is available to customers in over 270 cities in the country
Indian operator Bharti Airtel announced the launch of unlimited 5G data for its customers with the aim of encouraging them migrate to 5G services.
The telco...
Ericsson said the downlink peak rate of nearly 4.4 Gbps was reached by combining 20 megahertz of AWS, 80 megahertz of CBRS and 200 megahertz of C-band
Ericsson and MediaTek said they have successfully merged four channels – one FDD and three TDD – to...
Reliance Jio is offering its 5G service through a mix of wireless spectrum across 700 MHz, 3.5 GHz, and 26 GHz bands
Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm announced the launch of 5G services across 34 cities in 10 states, taking the total of towns and...
T-Mobile US buys Mint, Ultra Mobile and wholesaler Plum
T-Mobile US is acquiring actor Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile prepaid MVNO, its parent company and two other associated brands for up to $1.35 billion.
The parent company is Ka’ena Corporation, and its subsidiaries are Mint, Ultra Mobile...
Huawei and Zain will also collaborate to develop new use cases for the IoT and private network solutions
Chinese vendor Huawei and Saudi Arabian telecommunications operator Zain KSA have recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on their "5.5G" City joint innovation project.
Under the terms...
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LTE device numbers...
Samsung Electronics plans to make a massive $230 billion investment in South Korea's chip-making capacity, in the form of a new "mega cluster" of silicon manufacturing that could end up being the world's largest such hub.
The investment, to be made over the next...
Through these pilot projects, the government of Belgium aims to encourage the creation of new initiatives in the 5G field, Orange said.
Orange Belgium said it has been selected by the government of Belgium to carry out a total of 11 pilot projects supported by...
The state with the highest number of 5G base stations as of March 5 was Maharastra, with 15,394
Indian operators Reliance Jio Infocomm and Bharti Airtel have already deployed 102,215 5G base stations across the country, local press reported, citing data from India’s Department of...
Amazon will offer three terminals designed for different use cases
Amazon has given a glimpse at its progress toward its Project Kuiper ambitions of providing low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite-based broadband connectivity for consumers, businesses and IoT applications.
The company provided images and descriptions of three...
ZTE said the partnership will focus on technologies such as bare metal containers, SDN-based architecture, hardware acceleration, CUPS, and 3-layer decoupling
Telekom Malaysia (TM) and Chinese vendor ZTE have entered into a new partnership to build a hybrid cloud 5G core network, ZTE said in...
The main business driver for private networks is security, according to a Spirent report
It comes as no surprise that talk of private wireless was rampant at Mobile World Congress 2023, and while Steve Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent Communications, was impressed by...
Ofcom said it expects to receive responses to the consultation to award mmWave spectrum by May 22
U.K. telecom regulator Ofcom has confirmed that it will make millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum across the 26 GHz and 40 GHz bands available for new mobile technologies, including...
Telecom Egypt will adopt IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps deployed on RedHat OpenShift and implement IBM Robotic Process Automation
Telecom Egypt (TE) working with IBM to adopt intelligent automation technologies for the operations support systems (OSS) on its mobile, fixed and core networks. Automation will allow TE to innovate...
HFCL said that the private 5G collaboration will target verticals including manufacturing, retail, warehouse, mining, education, defence and smart city
Indian company HFCL, which focuses on digital networks for telcos, enterprises and governments, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to create converged private 5G solutions.
In...
