We must 'rewire' our brains for what we use cellular for, says Ericsson's head of 5G marketing, North America
RCR Wireless News caught up with Ericsson's Peter Linder, head of 5G marketing, North America, to discuss what sets 5G apart from previous generations of cellular...
German company United Internet's CEO, Ralph Dommermuth, said that the construction of subsidiary 1&1 Drillisch’s 5G network would experience delays due to current measures adopted in the country to prevent a further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, local paper Handelsblatt reported.
The executive...
Over the past several years, there has been a growing interest in the use of accelerators on standard servers to improve workload performance. It started with GPUs to accelerate AI/ML and is now growing to include FPGAs, SMART-NICs on servers and other low-power embedded...
US Cellular CTO: ‘For 5G, you really need all the spectrum bands available’
US Cellular began its 5G journey in two of its most vital markets, Iowa and Wisconsin, launching its first networks early this year. While the operator has already delivered next-gen services to...
Korean carrier SK Telecom ended January with a total of 2.2 million subscribers in the 5G segment, according to the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT.
This figure represented a market share of 44.7% in the 5G segment.
SK Telecom said it has increased customers’ 5G...
The telecoms satellite was on a 15-year mission to provide television and broadband services to Venezuela
The VeneSat-1 satellite, or the Simon Bolivar Satellite, Venezuela’s only state-owned telecoms satellite, is out of service after veering off its orbital course, according to telescopic observations.
Launched in 2008,...
Chinese vendor ZTE announced its 2019 net profit amounted to CNY5.15 billion ($726 million), a year-on-year growth of 173.7%.
The company attributed the positive performance to double-digit growth in Asia and Africa, and strong gains in the vendor’s network group, which offset a decline in...
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu was granted what it claims to be Japan's first commercial private 5G radio station license from the Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications and will begin operating a Private 5G network at its Shin-Kawasaki Technology Square office, in Kawasaki City.
In a release,...
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Finnish private wireless provider Ukkoverkot, which has won a number of industrial LTE contracts with country-mate Nokia, has rebranded as Edzcom, and set a strategy for international growth, the company has announced.
The company already has 26 operational private LTE networks in the Nordic region,...
Russia’s largest communications service provider, MTS, has extended its partnership with Ericsson to include a large-scale network modernization of its 2G/3G/4G infrastructure over large parts of central Russia.
The Swedish vendor said the new modernization agreement will allow the Russian carrier to pave the way...
The commercial building automation system (BAS) market is expected to reach more than $44.2 billion globally by 2029, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.2% between 2020 and 2029, according to a new research from Navigant Research.
The report noted that...
3GPP has canceled its face-to-face meetings through June
It appears that the 3GPP — the global association developing the world's 5G technology standards — is not immune to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The associated earlier this week announced a three-month delay in the...
Stealth Communications CEO: 'network privacy concerns amid remote work are being overlooked'
As homes around the world increasingly become offices and classrooms as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the news has been awash with headlines detailing the impact of such a shift on our...
Chinese vendor Huawei announced its investments in research and development activities focused on its own technology will reach $20 billion this year, up compared to $15 billion in 2019, South China Morning Post reported Huawei’s CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying.
“The U.S. will continue to...
U.S. fiber infrastructure network company Segra announced the launch of?an in-building wireless?to help wireless carriers meet increased demand for more bandwidth and prepare for 5G technology, the company said in a release.
With
an estimated 80% of mobile traffic originating or terminating within a
building, universal in-building...
When this COVID-19 or coronavirus crisis first started, I was asked by CNN and others in the media how home internet would hold up with all the home usage. At that time, I said if your service was good on nights and weekends when...
Deep learning can be used for reducing energy use in buildings across the U.S. according to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory?(PNNL).
PNNL is one of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories, managed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science.
PNNL
noted that American buildings consume roughly...
Omdia: From Q3 2019 to Q4 2019, 5G's global connections experienced a 329% growth
Fueled by the rollout of 3GPP-standard commercial networks, 5G is officially considered the fastest growing generation of cellular technology as it is now roughly 5 million subscribers ahead of pace, according...
Ericsson said has been selected by Greece’s largest mobile communications service provider, Cosmote, as its sole 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) vendor under a network modernization deal.
Cosmote, the mobile arm of Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE), which is part of the Deutsche Telekom Group, is...
China Telecom ended February with a total of 10.73 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the carrier said in a presentation.
The operator also confirmed plans to spend 45.3 billion yuan ($6.4 billion) on 5G in 2020, up compared to 9.3 billion yuan in 2019.
In...
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Rakuten, and NEC announced that they have begun production of a jointly developed 5G mobile communications system radio unit (RU), and that the first unit has been shipped.
Production started at NEC Platforms’ plant in Fukushima,...
As more states respond to the novel coronavirus by ordering citizens to shelter in place except for essential businesses, communications infrastructure is considered one area that is crucial to maintain.
Network traffic, including voice calls, is on the rise, as companies shift to telework, healthcare...
End-to-end network slicing is key to enable net neutrality in the 5G era, according to Chinese telecom vendor ZTE.
ZTE proposes that operators can use the technology of network slicing to work as virtual private network for different types of terminals. In one network slicing,...
