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Ericsson, Telia carry out 5G tests in Norway using mmWave spectrum

Ericsson said that the 26GHz mmWave tests took place in the Norwegian cities of Oslo, Trondheim and Lillestrøm Telia Norway and Ericsson have carried out 5G tests using mmWave spectrum, achieving download speeds of close to 4 Gbps, the vendor said in a release. The 26...

Mobilitie acquires Signal Point to boost 5G on US military bases

Mobilitie enables multi-carrier 5G connectivity for mobile network operators, large enterprises, and municipal and government customers U.S. wireless infrastructure provider Mobilitie has reached an agreement to acquire Signal Point Systems, a telecommunications infrastructure provider focused on U.S. military bases, the former said in a release. The...

Rohde & Schwarz, IEMN collaborate on terahertz testing

Rohde & Schwarz and IEMN have researched high frequency measurements and the integration of R&S solutions with photonic technologies The Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN) in France and test equipment company Rohde & Schwarz have expanded their collaboration to research terahertz communications that...

Rakuten Mobile’s 4G infra reaches 97% of Japanese population at end-Q1

Rakuten Mobile's CTO Tareq Amin said that the telco now aims to accelerate 5G deployments across Japan Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said it 4G network reached 97% of the country’s population as of the end of the first quarter of the year. In its earnings statement,...

Virgin Media O2 reaches 400 U.K cities with its 5G network at end-Q1

Virgin Media O2 launched services in June 2021 as a JV between Liberty Global and Telefónica in the U.K U.K. operator Virgin Media O2 announced that its 5G network infrastructure had reached 400 towns and cities across the country as of the end of the...

Finnish government unveils new 6G initiative

The members of 6G Finland will now start creating a 6G R&D roadmap on the most important common priorities Several Finnish research institutes and companies currently doing 6G research and development have founded a national coalition, dubbed 6G Finland, with the aim of boosting Finland’s...

Test and Measurement: ‘Opportunities for improvement’ in Rakuten Mobile’s 5G Open RAN, SRG finds

Rakuten Mobile's Open RAN 5G network leaves something to be desired in terms of both spectral efficiency and performance, according to new testing from Signals Research Group. SRG conducted the tests over three days in late April, looking at both Rakuten's 5G and LTE networks....

Nokia telco SaaS targets network efficiency, home device management 

Nokia's new telco SaaS offerings target network efficiency, home device management and network anomaly detection.

Wi-Fi Alliance details the ‘rapid adoption’ of Wi-Fi 6 and 6E

By 2025, Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E are expected to surpass 80% market share The Wi-Fi Alliance certified the sixth generation of Wi-Fi in 2019, followed by the certification of Wi-Fi 6E in 2021. Since then, said the Alliance, there has been "rapid adoption,"...

Nokia secures license to demo private 5G products at its Tokyo office

Nokia said the center will allow local enterprises, telcos and infrastructure providers to understand the potential of "Local 5G" technology Nokia announced the re-opening of its newly revamped Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Japan, to test and demonstrate its "Local 5G" equipment, software and services,...

European Union publishes report on Open RAN security

The report recommends a number of actions to mitigate potential risks of Open RAN in Europe European Union member states, with the support of the European Commission and ENISA, which is the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, have published a report on the cybersecurity of Open...

RootMetrics: Verizon’s 5G boosted by C-Band deployments, but T-Mo leads in speed

RootMetrics is only about halfway through the 125 U.S. cities that it tests every six months, but after 60 cities, it's releasing a look at what it's seeing so far in 5G test results. While the number of cities where each of the three...

#TBT: Appealing net neutrality; AT&T moves into SDN; Verizon buys AOL … this week in 2015

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Industry appeals FCC's...

Vodafone UK signs 10-year deal for three new solar farms

Energy generation is scheduled to begin at the end of 2022 As part of its plan to achieve net-zero U.K. operations by 2027, Vodafone has signed a 10-year agreement with power supplier Centrica and MYTILINEOS' Renewables & Storage Development business unit for power generated from...

‘You’ll see more from us’: Ericsson exec reflects on changing auto industry

Ericsson supports more than 20 million vehicles across 150 countries with its automotive portfolio This week, Ericsson is at the Financial Times’ Future of the Car conference in London, an event the telecom vendor has been attending since 2017. As Åsa Tamsons, the company’s senior...

ITW 2022: Risking the new, or risking the status quo?

FOREST HEIGHTS, MARYLAND—Telecom companies want to set out a path for growth in a rapidly evolving technology and connectivity landscape, but they are wary of the lessons learned from recent rounds of expensive network investment where most of the resulting economic gains associated with...

SK Telecom ends Q1 with almost 11 million 5G subscribers

SK Telecom said its 5G customer base accounted for 45.9% of total mobile subscribers at end-March South Korean operator SK Telecom ended the first quarter of 2022 with a total of 10.88 million subscribers in the 5G segment, after a net addition of 1 million...

‘It’s a complete hot mess’: Challenges and opportunities (challenges, mostly) in 5G, private networks and service assurance

Private networks are all about cost, control, security, new use cases and performance, summarizes Jagadeesh Dantuluri, general manager for private and dedicated networks at Keysight Technologies. But as much as telcos, NEMs and other ecosystem players are eyeing private 5G networks and more tailored...

EE reaches half of UK population with its 5G service

EE initially launched 5G technology in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham and Manchester U.K. carrier EE announced its 5G network has already passed 50% population coverage in the country. EE, which had launched its 5G network in May 2019, claimed to be the only mobile operator...

Red Hat prioritizes enterprise edge adoption and hybrid cloud with new announcements

Red Hat said it's prioritizing enterprise edge adoption and hybrid cloud in new changes across its product line.

Orange France selects Ericsson’s 5G converged charging solution

Orange previously said it was planning to introduce 5G Standalone (SA) services for the general public in 2023 Ericsson and Orange France have signed a five-year agreement which will make Ericsson Charging the strategic monetization platform for Orange France’s 5G subscribers. The cloud-native Ericsson Charging solution...

Samsung unveils 6G research findings and 6G spectrum white paper

Samsung Electronics had published a white paper introducing its 6G vision in July 2020 Samsung Electronics released a white paper that lays out the company’s vision for securing global frequency bands for future 6G technology. The paper, titled “6G Spectrum: Expanding the Frontier,” discusses ways to...

Ethio Telecom launches 5G in Ethiopia’s capital

Ethio Telecom CEO says to expect 150 cell sites over the next year Ethiopia’s Ethio Telecom launched a pre-commercial 5G network across six mobile stations in the capital city of Addis Ababa this week. The launch, said the company, is an important milestone in its...

Juniper reboots Contrail Networking as CN2

Juniper Networks has rebooted Contrail Networking as CN2, going cloud-native with Kubernetes support and more.