Telecom carriers continue to work on restoring service in the areas of West Maui impacted by devastatingly destructive wildfires. The official death toll stood at 96 as of early Monday, with hundreds of people still missing and the search and recovery efforts still in...
With the rise of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, artificial intelligence is having a major moment. The march to network automation to reduce OpEx and generate new revenues comes with complexity that can't be managed by humans.In RCR Wireless News' latest report, we explore...
Maybe not completely—but some proactive work can help identify when PIM problems are likely
Interference from passive intermodulation often doesn’t show up as a major issue until a new site starts taking on significant amounts of traffic, or perhaps when a popular new device adds...
Telkomsel said that upgraded 4G/5G network will support its efforts in realizing the development of services for B2B and B2C segments
Indonesian operator Telkomsel and Ericsson will be working together to expand and bolster their existing 4G/5G networks footprint in the Asian country.
Ericsson said it...
China Mobile reported a net addition of 130 million 5G subscribers during the first half of 2023
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, ended the first half of the year with a total of 393 million 5G subscribers, up 49.7% year-on-year,...
Both countries will also seek to promote Open RAN in other countries across Latin America
Brazil’s telecommunications regulator Anatel and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan (MIC) signed a cooperation agreement with the main aim of expanding Open RAN deployments and related...
Huawei said its net profit margin was 15% during the period, up from 5% in H1 2022
Chinese vendor Huawei recorded revenues of CNY310.9 billion ($43.1 billion) in the first half of the year, an increase of 3.1% compared to the same period the previous...
NEC said this O-RAN certification has been issued by Japan OTIC
Japanese tech company NEC said it has obtained O-RAN certification from Japan's Open Testing & Integration Center (OTIC) for its 5G base station radio unit (RU).
The company said that this 5G base station...
Bharti Airtel said the 5G tests were carried out in West Bengal region
Indian telco Bharti Airtel has successfully tested 5G services and data speeds on both the 26 GHz and 3.3 GHz spectrum bands, local newspaper The Economic Times reported.
The 5G tests were carried...
Airtel said its 5G-based Airtel Xstream AirFiber offering is already available for its customers in Delhi and Mumbai
Indian operator Bharti Airtel announced the launch of what it claims to be India’s first fixed wireless access (FWA) offering.
In a release, the company said that its...
Samsung will integrate its virtualized vRAN 3.0 software with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Samsung Electronics and Intel announced this week that they are expanding their collaboration with the integration of the Samsung's virtualized radio access network (vRAN) 3.0 software with 4th Gen Intel...
AT&T said it worked with Nokia and MediaTek on the testing
U.S. carrier AT&T recently completed what it claims to be the first 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) data call in the U.S. The telco said that the RedCap data call was made in both the...
Around 95% of households across Germany can already access Deutsche Telekom's 5G network
German telecom operator Deutsche Telekom said that a total of 9,700 of its 5G antennas in 750 cities are currently transmitting on the 3.6 GHz spectrum band.
In a release, Deutsche Telekom said...
Ericsson said that this new facility is the company’s first 5G manufacturing facility in Southeast Asia
Swedish vendor Ericsson has inaugurated a new manufacturing facility in Malaysia in which the company will produce 5G radio equipment.
In a release, Ericsson said that this new facility is...
China Tower said its net profit in the first half of the year climbed 14.6% year-on-year to $674 million
China Tower ended the first half of 2023 with a total of 2.06 million towers under management, after a net addition of 6,000 sites during the...
For Communication Service Providers (CSPs), the mobile network must ensure ubiquitous coverage and provide the necessary capacity to its users. Base station (BTS) antennas are more than just “components of the network” that connect the end users “to” the mobile network. All cellular traffic...
Fixed wireless access (FWA) using sub-6 GHz spectrum has generated significant new revenue since 2021 for mobile network operators (MNOs) at the expense of the cable industry. This should be no surprise given research by Nokia in 2020 showing that consumers would be willing...
One of the telecom industry's concerns about the massive amount of federal Infrastructure Act dollars that are poised to pour into the market to close the digital divide over the next few years, has been associated requirements on buying American-made products for use in...
T-Mobile also said it plans to expand the network slicing beta to additional application types and use cases in the future
T-Mobile US announced the launch of a network slicing beta for developers based on application type, with the aim of bringing new video calling...
Getting Open RAN acceleration right directly impacts network monetization opportunities
As the Open RAN market continues to mature and evolve, there's a growing debate around whether in-line or look-aside acceleration is better-suited for lower layer processing.
The main difference between these two approaches is that in...
The open and disaggregated movement, pioneered by OpenRAN, has become a well-known concept. It is driven by the principles of opening mobile networks to a broader range of suppliers and disaggregating software from hardware components in the network. These are the same principles that...
The 5G sites have been installed across 714 districts in India
Telecom operators in India have already installed over 300,000 5G mobile sites nationwide within 10 months of launch of the service, local press reported, citing the country’s union telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
The 5G sites...
CelcomDigi recently started its full-scale program to integrate and modernize its 4G network in Malaysia
Malaysian telco CelcomDigi has consolidated two clusters of networks in east Malaysia, the company said in a statement.
The Malaysian telco detailed that the network clusters were in Tuaran and Menggatal...
According to Dell'Oro, most manufacturers will deliver enterprise-grade Wi-Fi 7 products in 2024
According to the new Wireless LAN 5-Year July 2023 Forecast Report from the Dell’Oro Group, thewWireless LAN market is expected to grow another 11%, due to an uptick in the supply chain. Further,...
