In an investor update, French satellite company Eutelsat said that its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network via OneWeb is "progressing well" but more slowly than expected, and that it still won't meet near-term financial expectations.
OneWeb has 100% of the expected satellites in place...
Jio had said that its 5G FWA will have pan-India coverage within the first half of 2024
Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is seeing demand for its 5G fixed wireless service (FWA), JioAirFiber, coming from tier-3 and tier-4 cities as well as from rural markets,...
The new funding will enable Ericsson to carry out investments in R&D in wireless technologies between 2023 and 2025
Swedish vendor Ericsson confirmed it has signed two agreements for funding with the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a total of EUR 420 million ($456...
Juniper CEO on AI-native vision: “No application downtime or performance issues”
As HPE works to expand its networking business through the acquisition of Juniper Networks--a deal widely regarded as all about bringing artificial intelligence (AI) to bear “from edge to cloud to exascale” as HPE...
CEO Pekka Lundmark calls results 'a resilient performance considering the challenging environment'
Nokia saw an expected decline in revenues during the fourth quarter and full-year of 2023, but the company's results were better than investors were expecting, due in part to cost-cutting measures. While the...
Boingo Wireless said the 5G network will support subscribers of U.S. carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon at the airport
Boingo Wireless has deployed a high-speed 5G network that will support subscribers of U.S. carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon at John Wayne Airport (JWA) in Orange...
For enterprise AI, “Flexibility of deployment is key,” according to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna
IBM this week reported a 4% year-over-year increase in revenue to $17.4 billion in the fourth quarter, and full-year revenue up 2% to $61.9. In prepared remarks, CEO Arvind Krishana primarily...
Vodafone Idea and Adani Data Networks had failed to fulfill with the minimum 5G rollout obligations in India
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sent notices to local operators Vodafone Idea and Adani Data Networks, seeking an explanation as to why fines should not levied...
In June 2022, Telus had started to deploy its 3.5 GHz spectrum on its existing 5G wireless network
Ericsson has partnered with Canadian telco Telus to launch and optimize its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network at a national level, the former said in a release.
The...
Dell' Oro estimates that about 75% of 5G subscribers will be on 5G SA networks in 2028
The global mobile core network (MCN) market growth rate has been reduced to less than a 1% CAGR during the 2023-2028 period, according to a newly published forecast...
Government officials said 5G mobile phone users in China reached 805 million by the end of last year
China ended 2023 with a total of 3.38 million 5G base stations at a national level, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said.
By the end...
India has received inquiries from at least 15 global telecom operators, as well as bilateral inquiries from nine nations
The government of India is looking to start exporting a full range of indigenously-designed 4G and 5G stacks in 2024, according to local press reports.
The reports...
AT&T's five-year deal with Ericsson and a spike in 5G investment in India were bright spots in an otherwise contracting market
With the exception of a major five-year deal with AT&T and a spending spike in India, Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm described a “difficult mobile...
HFCL highlighted that the market for 5G equipment remains strong in India
Indian telecoms vendor HFCL has won a purchase order of INR 6.23 billion ($75 million) for the supply of indigenously manufactured 5G network equipment, local paper The Economic Times reported.
“This is the first...
RAN market trajectory will continue downward, analyst firm says
The market for Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment is expected to remain a tough one this year, according to new figures from Dell'Oro Group.
Momentum for 5G build-outs in India has been a bright spot in...
New investors join Vodafone on backing 'cellular in space' network
Satellite direct-to-cellular company AST SpaceMobile has garnered two major new financial backers, adding AT&T and Google as strategic investors along with additional funding from existing partner Vodafone to support commercial roll-out of its technology.
The...
John Deere said the new offering will be initially available for farmers in the United States and Brazil through a limited release
John Deere has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to provide satellite communications service to farmers.
Utilizing the Starlink network, this solution will allow...
du said it will be able to provide mobile coverage in areas that were previously out of reach
United Arab Emirates (UAE) operator du has partnered with satellite operator Intelsat, with the aim of expanding cellular connectivity across the Arab country.
Through the collaboration with Intelsat,...
EE said it has expanded its 4G network to over 1,600 additional rural communities across the U.K.
U.K. carrier EE, which is part of BT Group, said it completed its 4G coverage upgrades under the first phase of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) project, six...
I have been in the Telecom industry since 2004 when I started in network engineering at Verizon, this year marks 20 years in the industry! I ‘grew up’ Telecom and have worked in wireline, wireless and places where they converge, I have seen lots...
SoftBank, in collaboration with a consortium, will exhibit a demonstration of this platform during an upcoming event in Japan this month
Japanese telco SoftBank announced it has initiated field trials for 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) utilizing the segment routing IPv6 mobile user plane (SRv6...
Ooredoo Kuwait said the the initial trials focused on Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and diverse use cases
Kuwait’s largest operator, Ooredoo Kuwait, announced the successful completion of 5G mmWave technology testing in close collaboration with the Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA).
The initial trials,...
The new O-RAN center is expected to be operational this year
Aramco Digital and Intel announced plans to establish what they claim to be Saudi Arabia’s first Open RAN (O-RAN) development center.
The partners explained that the collaboration will accelerate the development and implementation of O-RAN...
Clearly, the focus of the initial response among the analyst community to HPE’s proposed $14 billion takeover of Juniper Networks, announced last week, has been on the latter’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in the networking space, acquired and developed since its own purchase of...
