Vodafone Idea had already installed live 5G clusters in Delhi and Pune
Indian operator Vodafone Idea is currently in advanced talks with telecom equipment vendors for its 5G rollout strategy and will comply with minimum 5G rollout obligations, the company’s CEO Akshaya Moondra said during...
Orange and AMN will deploy roughly 500 base stations in rural Madagascar over the next ten years
Orange Madagascar has signed an agreement with tower company Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) to build additional 2G and 3G infrastructure in the country’s rural areas. The pair said...
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AT&T will lean on Frontier for fiber access and put up wireless gear at Frontier central offices
AT&T and Frontier Communications have struck a deal which will allow AT&T to deploy wireless assets at Frontier's central offices and tap into Frontier's fiber network in areas...
The supercomputer size has been expanded to 1,040 Nvidia A100 GPUs, for a performance of 17.1 petaflops
South Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT) has doubled the performance of its Titan supercomputer, which was first launched as a beta in May 2022. Titan is the intelligence behind...
The initiative will bring together 5G experts and specialists from both Telia and Ericsson to support the program and its customers
Swedish operator Telia and compatriot vendor Ericsson announced the launch of NorthStar, which it describes as a 5G innovation program for industrial enterprises, to...
The new center already received support from more than 40 companies and academic institutions with strong interests in the 6G field
The University of Sheffield said it is set to open what it claims to be the first national 6G research facility in the U.K.
In...
Rakuten Mobile said it aims to have 60,000 base stations in operation by the end of fiscal year 2023
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said its 4G network reached 98% of the country’s population as of the end of the most recent quarter.
The telco said it...
Verizon Super Bowl fans used 47.8 TB of data; AT&T fans used 21 TB
Both AT&T and Verizon reported a record amount of data on their networks in and around State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
Of the 67,827 in-person Super Bowl LVII fans,...
AT&T: 'Volumetric attacks could hit new peaks'
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks refer to a malicious actor or actors temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network to render an entire network or website unavailable. DDoS attacks typically target edge network devices...
The government is looking to award additional mid-band spectrum as well as frequencies in the sub-6 GHz bands for 5G
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is currently working on freeing up additional frequencies to support 5G services, local newspaper The Economic Times reported.
The report noted...
The most obvious definition of the "digital divide" is a binary one: Either you have internet access, or you don't.
But that simplistic approach doesn't capture the nuances of why an individual or household doesn't have internet access, and whether availability is their only...
Chief Network Officer Ulf Ewaldsson to take the reins as president of technology upon Ray's retirement
T-Mobile US' longtime network guru, Neville Ray, has announced that he will retire from his position as president of technology in the fall of this year.
T-Mo's current EVP...
The past three years have placed unprecedented demands on fixed and mobile broadband networks and underscored broadband as a necessity: A "seismic shift in broadband from being access to entertainment to becoming mission critical for work-from-home, online education, remote healthcare, economic development, and overall...
Orange said that 5G SA technology will be initially offered in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville
Spanish telecom operator Orange announced the activation of its 5G Standalone (SA) network in the country.
In a release, the telco said that the new technology will be initially offered...
The RIC, or RAN Intelligent Controller, is a central software component of the Open RAN architecture
NEC Corporation this week demonstrated multi-vendor integration and interoperability of a Near-Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller (Near-RT RIC). The project involved HCL Technologies’ Bouncer xApp in combination with VIAVI's new window TeraVM RIC Test.
The RIC,...
Huawei will distribute the cloud funds over the next five years
During LEAP 2023, Huawei announced a $400-million-dollar investment in a cloud region in Saudi Arabia. The funds, to be distributed over the next five years, will bolster the region’s digital economy and provide access...
Last year, the governments of Japan and the UK had signed agreement to cooperate with the aim of boosting O-RAN deployments
Japanese telcos NTT Docomo and Rakuten Mobile were selected by the U.K. government to work with local organizations with the aim of advancing the...
The total number of 5G base stations in Shanghai will reach 77,000 by the end of 2023
China’s main financial hub, Shanghai, will deploy an additional 10,000 5G base stations this year, local press reported, citing information by the Shanghai Communications Administration.
With this planned expansion,...
According to Fortune Business Insights, the global cloud gaming market is projected to grow to $40.81 billion by 2029
stc Group will deploy Blacknut’s B2B/B2B2C cloud gaming solution across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, following its successful collaboration with cloud infrastructure provider...
KT Corp. already provided 5G coverage in 85 regions across South Korea
Korean operator KT ended 2022 with a total of 8.48 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the telco said in its earnings statement.
In the last quarter of 2022, the KT added around 521,000...
DNB had selected Ericsson as its 5G vendor in July 2021
Malaysian state-backed 5G wholesale provider Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) could potentially select a second vendor for its 5G network, local press reported, citing a report by Singaporean investment bank UOB-Kay Hian.
The report revealed that...
AST SpaceMobile CEO has said goal is to 'close the connectivity gaps that negatively impact billions of lives'
AST SpaceMobile, a satellite operator which is based in the U.S., has entered two new partnerships: One with Kuwaiti operator Zain, and another with Brazil’s TIM.
In the...
Munich-based test company expands facility in Germany
Rohde & Schwarz broke ground this week on an expanded, 60-million-euro facility to be constructed in Memmingen, which is about 115 kilometers from Munich.
Munich-based R&S already has about 1,800 employees working at its Memmingen location and the...
