Jio already deployed over 115,000 5G sites across India
Jio is aiming to conclude its 5G rollout ahead of its earlier target of December 2023
Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm has deployed over 115,000...
CelcomDigi inks network modernization deals with Huawei, ZTE
CelcomDigi will modernize its nationwide Radio Access Network (RAN) with equipment and services from both Huawei and ZTE
Malaysian carrier CelcomDigi announced partnerships with Chinese...
Freedom Mobile launches 5G services in Canada
As of now, the carrier’s 5G is available in Greater Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, the GTA, Hamilton, London and Windsor
Canadian mobile operator Freedom Mobile has...
Well, technically… telcos need to adopt a customer, not infrastructure, first approach: Optiva’s Joy...
Joy King is the Vice President of telecoms cloud company Optiva and leads the company’s Go To Market (GTM) Strategy. She joins RCR Wireless...
LoRa and Sigfox tie the knot – Semtech and Unabiz shake on historic IoT...
And so it comes to pass; hybrid IoT devices running both LoRaWAN and Sigfox, once the bitterest rivals in the low-power wide-area network (LPWAN)...
How Nextivity is bringing private LTE to the middleprise
Nextivity sees solving for complexity and risk management as key to driving private LTE adoption
While there’s industry consensus that it will be a marathon,...
Private-LTE AMI specialist Ubiik buys New Zealand industrial IoT firm Mimomax
Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik has acquired New Zealand industrial IoT solution outfit Mimomax Wireless for an undisclosed fee....
Grand Rapids, Michigan, appoints Dimonoff to install smart-city street-lighting network
The City of Grand Rapids, in Michigan in the US, has awarded a major smart street-lighting contract to Canadian firm Dimonoff, which will see...
RCR Live: Telco Reinvention – Key Findings Report
As the telecoms industry undergoes rapid change and digitalization, 2023 marks the year of much-needed reinvention. Both carriers and other stakeholders are facing new...
Three benefits of deploying AI at the edge
Running AI workloads at the edge enables better economics, faster decision making and automation
If you look past the hype, look past the technological complexity,...
Bouygues Telecom, SFR allowed to include 5G in their sharing deal
The network sharing agreement was initially implemented for 2G, 3G and 4G technologies, but will now be expanded to include 5G technology
French telecom regulator...
China deployed nearly 3 million 5G base stations at end-June
Operators in China deployed nearly 600,000 5G base stations in the April-June period alone
Chinese operators have outperformed the country’s own construction target for 5G...
Malaysian telcos agree to acquire stakes in 5G operator DNB
DNB was set up by the Malaysian government in 2021 as a special purpose vehicle to develop the country’s 5G network infrastructure
Malaysia’s main mobile...
What is the state of private 5G in 2023?
Leo Gergs, analyst with ABI Research said that the private 5G market is moving away from an exploratory phase
The global private cellular market is...
GSMA predicts rapid 5G growth in APAC region
The GSMA expects 5G connections to account for 41% of all mobile connections by 2030
According to the GSMA’s new Mobile Economy APAC 2023 report, the Asia...
The Sunday Brief: Lead balloon
Greetings from Nebraska and Missouri, where we finally cut the ribbon at the historic Fox Theater in Sedalia. We are pleased to be bringing...
How is generative AI relevant to telecom operators?
Discussion around generative AI has quickly become a mainstay in conference presentations and earnings calls. The predominant thinking is that if you’re an enterprise, including...
MachineQ expands BLE/LoRaWAN indoor IoT tracking portfolio, targets life sciences
MachineQ has launched a number of new active RFID asset tracking tags for indoor positioning, along with a new IoT occupancy monitoring solution. They...
All’s fair in 5G monetization (Reader Forum)
The 5G revolution has sparked a race among communication service providers (CSPs) to maximize return on their significant investments.
To date, the focus has largely...
Kagan: Updating 9-1-1 Emergency Services is a challenge and opportunity
When we were young, we were taught in case of emergency to call 9-1-1 or the Operator for help. That was back in the...
Private 5G – five tech drivers, five business drivers (part 1)
A panel discussion with Microsoft and Intel at Private Networks Forum in May yielded some helpful insights about the push-and-pull for enterprises to deploy...
Private networks Q&A: Verizon’s Andrea Caldini (Part 2)
Andrea Caldini is vice president of product engineering and development, global network and technology, at Verizon, and has been instrumental in the company's pursuit of...
Crown Castle anticipates lower activity in the tower business: CEO
Crown Castle said its customers are accelerating the selection and identification of new small cell locations in high-traffic locations
Crown Castle is seeing lower activity...
Ericsson, O2 Telefonica complete 5G Cloud RAN PoC in Germany
Ericsson said that the joint PoC deployment was carried out at O2 Telefónica's Wayra innovation hub in Munich
Ericsson and German telco O2 Telefónica completed...
Test and Measurement: Keysight adds a ‘truly software-defined’ handheld analyzer
Keysight Technologies has expanded its FieldFox line of handheld analyzers with a new model that has more than 20 options including vector network analyzer,...