Samsung said that the partnership will not only improve network quality but also establish a foundation for the market’s transition into the 6G era
Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has recently partnered with Japanese carrier NTT Docomo to jointly research the application of artificial intelligence (AI)...
Ericsson takes stock of Open RAN standardization, integration and scaled deployment
Before examining what it will take to industrialize Open RAN, let’s look at what it means for a technology to be industrialized. At a high-level, it needs to be standardized, cost-efficient, able to integrate...
A Verizon network outage impacted customers across the United States on Monday, and the carrier has not yet publicly identified a cause.
The outage reports extended beyond the known outages caused by Hurricane Helene in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. According to customer-reported issues...
AT&T sees AI, cloud and Open RAN decoupling network enhancements from a “cycle of virtuous Gs”
AT&T is in the early days of a massive radio access network (RAN) modernization program. The operator is investing $14 billion over a five-year deal with primary vendor Ericsson...
Network operators are racing to restore connectivity across five Southeastern states devastated by Hurricane Helene.
Cellular networks across the Appalachian Mountains were taken out by the storm, which blew ashore in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane and then barreled northward, dumping feet of rain,...
Increasing demand for fast and secure bandwidth has resulted in a surge in transactions for fiber optic networks. Everything from smart devices to cloud services has accelerated the demand for scalable, secure and reliable fiber optic networks. Meanwhile, public funding has poured into the...
Beyond cost reduction, Vodafone sees Open RAN as a vector for innovation; cites work with Cohere Technologies
After six years of collaborative work, Vodafone has moved from a proto-Open RAN demo running on a laptop in the company’s stand at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...
Verizon Communications has made a deal to sell the rights to lease, operate and manage more than 6,300 towers across the United States to telecom infrastructure company Vertical Bridge for $3.3 billion.
Ron Bizick, president and CEO of Vertical Bridge, said that the deal...
O2 Telefonica now reaches more than 96% of the German population with its 5G service
German carrier O2 Telefónica said it has deployed a total of 1,900 transmitters across Germany since the beginning, the telco said in a release. The carrier, owned by Spanish telco...
FWA is a competitive threat to cable TV like Xfinity, Spectrum, Altice
Earlier this week, I attended the SCTE TechExpo 24 conference held in Atlanta. While this event was all cable TV, I know the cable television industry is facing a perplexing and new wireless...
From core to edge, Dell AI for Telecom includes network optimization capabilities and supports AI services like GPUaaS
Back in May at Dell Technologies World, the ICT giant unveiled its AI Factory with NVIDIA solution which holistically covers data, infrastructure, ecosystem, strategy and use...
Communications service providers (CSPs) are accelerating their cloud transformation journeys, shifting from centralized, vertically stacked networks to open frameworks that deliver choice, flexibility, and importantly, the opportunity to innovate quickly and compete with new products and services. But change brings inherent risk, and CSPs...
Nokia said the deal will help spark 'consolidate its RAN… simplify network operations' and 'improve cost efficiencies'
Spark New Zealand has chosen Nokia as its “majority supplier” for the expansion of its existing 4G and 5G program in cities across New Zealand. The carrier will use...
Vodafone signed new agreements with Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung
Indian carrier Vodafone Idea has concluded different deals worth $3.6 billion with Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung for the supply of network equipment over a period of three years.
In a release, the Indian telco noted that the...
Yesterday, Air Wireless just popped-up on the radar. They are a new company with a top team of executives who are using a new twist of DOCSIS to help companies offer wireless broadband. This wireless DOCSIS helps cable television, broadband providers and wireless networks...
Free also said that its recent launch of 5G SA technology allowed the telco to become the first operator in France to launch VoNR services
French telco Free Mobile, a subsidiary of local telecoms goup Illiad, claimed to be the first operator in the country...
The outage affected Reliance Jio Infocomm's mobile and broadband services
Indian carrier Reliance Jio Infocomm, owned by local conglomerate Reliance Industries, experienced a nationwide network outage on September 17, affecting millions of users across India.
The outage, which began earlier in the day, was attributed to...
The main mission of the AI-RAN Alliance is to 'weave AI right into the fabric of the radio access network'
Officially launched in February 2024, the AI-RAN Alliance is a group of technology and telecom leaders focused on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into...
Network equipment vendor Ericsson has joined the new Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN)-focused industry advocacy group, MSSA, that is focused on the use of satellite spectrum for direct-to-cellular device and IoT communications.
There are two broad approaches to NTN direct-to-cellular (D2C, sometimes also direct-to-device or D2D),...
Softbank and Intelsat are developing a universal device capable of maintaining a network connection worldwide
Softbank and Intelsat have announced a joint effort to establish “seamless 5G connections” between mobile and satellite networks. The pair said the hybrid network will be “ubiquitous,” providing connectivity worldwide.
As...
Reliance Jio Infocomm carried out this 5G network slicing trial in partnership with OnePlus
Indian carrier Reliance Jio Infocomm and Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus have jointly announced the successful validation of their 5G network slicing efforts at a newly established 5G innovation lab in India....
American Tower Corporation had initially announced the transaction in January 2024
American Tower Corporation (ATC) announced that it has closed the previously announced sale of 100% of the equity interests in its operations in India to Data Infrastructure Trust (DIT), an infrastructure investment trust sponsored...
Continuing its network convergence strategy, AT&T sees “a long-term, multi-decade play’
Speaking last week at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia and Technology Conference, AT&T CEO John Stankey blasted domestic policy around the auctioning and allocation of wireless spectrum. Speaking generally about the dynamics of mobile service...
According to Blue Plant’s VP, telcos will lean into AI in the RAN much more 'aggressively' in the 6G era
Even as 5G has yet to deliver on many of its promises, the balance is shifting; more and more conversations are beginning to favor the...
