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Wi-Fi 7 on track to nearly 50% adoption by 2024-end, says WBA

The WBA further found that 58% of respondents are more confident in investing in Wi-Fi than they were a year ago A new Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) report reveals that Wi-Fi 6, 6E and 7 will be among the top technology priorities for network operators,...

Boingo deploys Wi-Fi 6 network at Brazil International Airport 

The Wi-Fi 6 network at BSB will enable applications like mobile boarding passes and cashless food and beverage transactions Boingo Wireless has deployed a high-speed Wi-Fi 6 network throughout the Brasília International Airport (BSB), Brazil's third busiest airport, with roughly 13 million passengers passing through per year. The network extends throughout the...

Nearly 1 in 5 mobile subscriptions will be 5G by the end of 2023, Ericsson says

5G will account for 25% of global mobile traffic this year, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report Ericsson's newly released Mobility Report takes a look ahead to the height of the 5G era and forecasts that by the end of 2029, 85% of the...

Volt Active Data Webinar: AI-powered CX Value Assurance for 5G and beyond

Measuring and optimizing the value of WOW moments in relevant timescales One of the biggest challenges facing CSPs today is identifying which metrics are most representative of a customer's experience and how to combine them for customer facing teams and network operations to proactively act...

AWS, Alianza partner on telco cloud infrastructure

The telco cloud solution is generally available in North America and has reportedly been deployed by more than 100 CSPs Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud communications platform Alianza, Inc. announced at AWS re:invent a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) to address how communication...

Four drivers of Wi-Fi 6E adoption

LitePoint exec: 'This is the first year we’ve ramped Wi-Fi 6E; it's shipping in high volumes' According to IDC Research, 3.8 billion Wi-Fi devices are forecast to ship in 2023 alone, and of those, 473 million are expected to be Wi-Fi 6E devices. The firm...

Ericsson to deploy offshore network for Ooredoo Qatar’s oil and gas customers

The network for Ooredoo is '5G-ready' and the equipment used is ATEX 2 Zone certified, said Ericsson Ericsson is deploying a 4G network to help Ooredoo Qatar’s oil and gas enterprise customers connect their offshore facilities with arriving ships. The network will feature RAN equipment...

Vodafone highlights benefits of rapid 5G SA rollout for UK economy

Vodafone noted that 5G SA coverage in all populated areas across the U.K. by 2030 is a core ambition of the government The difference between slow and accelerated 5G rollout could represent an additional £7.4 billion ($9.27 billion) to the U.K. economy, according to a...

Bharti Airtel reaches full 5G coverage in several Indian states

Bharti Airtel said its 5G service is now accessible across all districts and union territories in India Indian operator Bharti Airtel said its 5G service, dubbed "Airtel 5G Plus," is now available across all districts in the states of Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Odisha, Karnataka, Gujarat...

CommScope looks to secure deals with Indian telco BSNL: Report

CommScope is currently supplying cables, microwave antennas, filters and switches to Indian telcos Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm U.S. company CommScope said it is currently in talks with Indian state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to potentially secure telecoms contracts with the company,...

Ericsson, Vodafone and Qualcomm demo RedCap data call

Ericsson said the RedCap demo took place in Ciudad Real, Spain, using Vodafone Spain’s live testing 5G network Ericsson, Vodafone and Qualcomm Technologies have demonstrated what they claimed to be the first RAN Reduced Capability (RedCap) data sessions on a European network. The RedCap demo took...

German telco 1&1 to launch mobile services next month

1&1 customers currently have access to 4G services via the roaming agreement with O2 Germany German operator 1&1, which is owned by United Internet AG, announced the launch of mobile services on its own network for smartphone users, starting December 8. The telco also announced it...

Ericsson Microwave Outlook Report

The introduction of 5G has seen E-band spread to most parts of the world. In this 10th edition of the report, we see that the E-band spectrum fulfills the capacity needs for most deployments even beyond 2030. Driven by advancements in microwave technology, the...

Nokia strikes optical transport network deal with Airtel

The Nokia OTN solution will enable Airtel to upgrade its legacy transport switching infrastructure across its pan-Indian network footprint Finnish vendor Nokia has entered into an agreement with Indian carrier Bharti Airtel to deploy a next-generation optical transport network with the aim of providing additional...

Reliability over throughput — a Wi-Fi 7 update

Wi-Fi 7 introduces the concept of priority channels and the ability to schedule traffic The Wi-Fi Alliance is expected to certify the Wi-Fi 7 (or 802.11be) standard sometime around the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024. However, despite its yet-to-be-certified status, the latest...

Huawei debuts ‘5.5G’ intelligent core network solution

Huawei said that its new core network solution applies intelligence, as well as intent-driven technologies, to the core network Chinese vendor Huawei announced the launch of its "5.5G" intelligent core network solution, the company said in a release. George Gao, president of the Huawei Cloud Core...

Rakuten Mobile launches R&D into advanced edge cloud tech

Rakuten Mobile has recently started R&D on the advancement of edge platform functions for the next communication standard after 5G Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said that its research and development (R&D) project into advanced edge cloud technologies for next-generation communications has been selected by Japan’s...

SKT claims Open RAN virtual base station advancements

SKT says it has improved the power consumption and processing capacity of virtual base stations Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT) is claiming advancements in the power consumption and processing capacity for Open RAN virtual base stations, resulting from its work with several industry partners including Samsung,...

Jio sees growing interest for its locally-made 5G stack: Report

Jio said its 5G stack includes 5G radio, core, OSS/BSS, small and pico cells and other software solutions Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is seeing interest from global operator for its 5G stack, local newspaper The Economic Times reported, citing the company’s president Mathew Oommen,...

Orange France uses satellite tech to expands broadband offering

Orange said that the new broadband offering is based on the Eutelsat Konnect VHTS satellite French carrier Orange extended its range of broadband connectivity solutions in its home market with a new satellite offering. In a release, Orange said that the new satellite service adds to...

What does global Wi-Fi 6 and 6E adoption look like?

According to Broadcom, the Wi-Fi 6/6E market is 'fully saturated' Wi-Fi 6, or IEEE 802.11ax, was certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance in the fall of 2019, and unlike past upgrades, this generation highlighted efficiency by introducing multi-user concepts, rather than focusing solely on faster speeds...

Nokia partners with Mavenir to prove O-RAN system performance

Nokia said the testing was carried out at its O-RAN Innovation Center in Dallas Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia’s Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas. During the...

ZTE highlights role of partnerships to expand presence in server, storage market

Chinese vendor ZTE is taking advantage of the wave of growth in the computing infrastructure and server and storage market due to the rapid development of 5G, artificial intelligence, edge computing, cloud computing, virtual reality and other new technologies, ZTE VP Wang Quan, told...

Why an SI? How a cellular systems integrator can help your private network succeed

Private cellular networks offer tremendous benefits for enterprises: better security than Wi-Fi, smooth handovers between radios, improved throughput and latency, and future-proof support for a diverse set of use cases. An expert partner is necessary to bring private networks to their full capabilities and tailor...