The White House is pondering more extensive U.S. limitations on the sale of chips and chip-making equipment to Chinese companies, and those could have substantial impacts on Nvidia's ability to sell to Huawei and a lesser impact on Qualcomm, according to press reports on...
BARCELONA—It was a hectic week for test and measurement vendors at Mobile World Congress 2023, with a slew of announcements, and demonstrations across the Fira, that illuminate where the industry's attention and development efforts are focused.
Power usage—specifically, telecom equipment that can use...
Rakuten Symphony said the agreement stipulates the deployment of private networks in six Asian markets
MWC, Barcelona—Axiata Enterprise, which is a business solutions company owned by Asian mobile telecommunications conglomerate Axiata, and Japanese company Rakuten Symphony have inked an agreement under which the latter will...
Orange said the new financing will enable the telco to boost 4G networks in rural parts of France
French operator Orange has secured financing for a total of 500 million euro ($530 million) from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to partly finance the deployment of...
TIM says the restructuring will improve the efficiency of designing and selling enterprise services
Telecom Italia (TIM) has restructured its enterprise business unit as part of the company’s larger strategy to separate its fixed-network infrastructure assets from services. The new division will serve large enterprise...
The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Mobile Work Congress 2023
MWC, BARCELONA - Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom and Ericsson have agreed to align their efforts around 5G Advanced and 6G, with a particular focus on bringing more energy-efficient networks to the private wireless...
BARCELONA—Igal Elbaz, AT&T's CTO for networks, has words for Open RAN doubters: Open RAN is going to happen, because it's that important to telecom innovation. It's just a matter of when, and he said there are two factors which will determine how quickly it...
The pilot comes out of the new GSMA Open Gateway framework for universal APIs – to open cellular network access for developers
MWC, BARCELONA: Telefónica has integrated its network application programmable interfaces (APIs) with a pilot AWS Wavelength Zone at a Telefónica multi-access edge (MEC)...
New GSMA report looks at how many people have access to mobile broadband but do not use it
BARCELONA—You've heard of the digital divide, but how about the "usage gap"? In a new report from GSMA Intelligence, the usage gap in mobile internet refers to...
Nokia refreshes its branding, emphasizing collaboration
BARCELONA—One of the most venerable telecom brands is remaking itself. Nokia unveiled a new logo that its executives say is part of its strategy to grow its enterprise customer base.
"A significant part of the world sees us as a...
Singtel said the new capability identifies and blocks cyber threats at the network level thus preventing them from reaching the network’s users
Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel unveiled its new 5G security-as-a-slice (SecaaS) offering, the telco said in a release.
The new capability identifies and blocks cyber...
Deutsche Telekom said that Nokia and Fujitsu have been selected as partners for an initial commercial O-RAN introduction in Germany
German carrier Deutsche Telekom announced a partnership with Nokia, Fujitsu and Mavenir for the initial phase of its commercial Open RAN (O-RAN) deployments across its...
AFC is a spectrum use coordination system designed specifically for 6 GHz operation
BARCELONA, SPAIN - Cisco has announced that it will integrate Federated Wireless’ Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) solution into its wireless 6 GHz-capable access points. The pair said the collaboration will help bring Wi-Fi 6E capabilities...
Dell announced new partnerships with Nokia, Qualcomm, Amdocs and Juniper Networks
BARCELONA, SPAIN - Dell Technologies kicked off Mobile World Congress Barcelona in a big way, announcing a string of industry collaborations that all aim to bolster the open telecom ecosystem.
The first two new...
ZTE said that this new solution, dubbed UniSite, aims to help carriers build a future-oriented 5G network offering capabilities for all spectrum bands
BARCELONA—Chinese vendor ZTE has released its new all-scenario 5G solution at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2023.
The vendor noted that the new...
China Mobile’s overall mobile subscriber base at the end of January amounted to 975.5 million, after a net addition of 503,000 subscribers during the month
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 16.53 million 5G subscribers in January, according to the operators’ latest available statistics.
China...
Keysight Technologies has acquired hardware design and intellectual property data management company Cliosoft to bolster its electronic design automation (EDA) portfolio and more tightly tie workflows and data between design and testing.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Keysight said that...
Verizon operates several 5G Labs in the U.S. that specialize in developing use cases for diverse industries
KPMG has deployed a Verizon private 5G wireless network into its Ignition Center inside KPMG Lakehouse as part of the two companies' alliance to deliver 5G solutions designed...
Huawei explained that the automation and intelligent upgrade of ports seek to achieve the optimal efficiency of the entire port system that includes machines, yards, vehicles, ships and goods
Huawei and the Tianjin Port Group (TPG) have recently announced a cooperative project with the aim...
Scammy texts are on the rise, and the FCC wants operators to block the ones most likely to be fraudulent
The Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules that would obligate service providers to block texts that are likely to be scams or spam.
FCC...
Nokia deploy a 5G Standalone (SA) network for both indoor and outdoor coverage
Finnish vendor Nokia secured a ten-year extension to its existing nationwide 5G network deal with Antina, the joint venture formed by Singapore mobile network operators M1 and StarHur.
The vendor said it won...
In addition to Samsung, Dish is working with Dell, VMware and AWS on its 5G network
Per a new agreement, Samsung is supplying Dish Wireless with an initial shipment of 24,000 Open RAN-compliant radios and 5G virtualized RAN (vRAN) software solutions to help the operator...
The first commercial O-RAN sites to be deployed under this agreement are planned for a rural area of Romania
European carriers Orange and Vodafone have reached an agreement to build an Open Radio Access Network (RAN) with RAN sharing in rural parts of Europe where...
Ericsson noted that some 136 million 5G subscriptions were added globally during Q4 2022
Global 5G subscriptions reached the 1 billion at the end of 2022, according to the latest update of the Ericsson Mobility report.
The report showed that some 136 million 5G subscriptions were...
