Five telecom and connectivity trends you can’t afford to ignore in 2023 (Reader Forum)
The telecom industry is entering a period of rapid growth and convergence, as technological advancements make it easier for people to communicate with each...
Capgemini opens 5G co-creation lab in San Francisco for enterprises and partners
IT services company Capgemini has opened a 5G solutions facility in San Francisco, in the US, to help enterprises boost their adoption of 5G...
Kagan: MWC23 showed wireless growth trends beyond 5G
The biggest news from MWC23 in Barcelona is surprisingly not 5G. This year Mobile World Congress focused on where wireless is heading and what...
True and Dtac merge to create biggest telco in Thailand
Thai carriers Total Access Communication (Dtac) and True Corp have completed their merger. Nordic operator Telenor, which partially ownes Dtac, said in a statement...
China ramps up 6G R&D focus to spur Industry 4.0 drive
The Chinese government is to put major focus on 6G technologies, according to Chinese state newspaper Global Times. It reckons China has a competitive...
Nokia gets nod from Indonesian telco IOH to build region-wide private network for Industry...
Indonesian telecoms operator Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has appointed Finnish vendor Nokia to build a wide-area private wireless network in certain regions across the...
Chunghwa Telecom and Ericsson align on future 5G and 6G innovations
The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Mobile Work Congress 2023
MWC, BARCELONA - Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom and Ericsson have agreed to align...
Telefónica demos edge-5G, digital twins, and blockchain for smart factories, farms
MWC, Barcelona: Spanish telco Telefónica has unveiled a 5G-connected digital twin designed to optimize quality in the production of industrial parts. The digital twin...
NTT Docomo and NTT expand experimental 6G trials with five vendors
Docomo and NTT have been collaborating with Fujitsu, NEC and Nokia on trials of not-yet-standardized 6G technologies since June 2022
MWC, BARCELONA: Japanese telco NTT...
‘Now is the time to demo massive IoT’ – Sigfox debuts in Turkey
Sigfox operator group iWire Global is to rollout a new Sigfox ultra-narrowband IoT network in Turkey, via a new joint-venture subsidiary in the country...
Deutsche Telekom partners with Microsoft on private 5G to target SMEs
Deutsche Telekom is to introduce a cheaper and simpler private 5G network offer for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using Microsoft’s multi-access edge compute...
Microsoft adds BICS to private MEC bundle for private-to-public network roaming
Carrier services company BICS is providing private-to-public network roaming for enterprises installing private 5G networks from Microsoft. BICS said the pair have “collaborated to...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces gains momentum with telecom operators at MWC 2023
BARCELONA--Every year at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) event in Barcelona, the world’s biggest telecom operators gather among the smartphone OEMs and chip vendors...
Editorial Report: Fighting the newest breed of DDoS attacks on data centers
Over the last few years, the threat posed by Distribute Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks has increased at an alarming pace. The frequency, magnitude...
Semtech and TTI to launch hybrid LoRaWAN and cellular IoT solutions
Two in two days for The Things Industries (TTI), and further progress towards a ‘unified LPWAN world’; Semtech Corporation, in charge of the LoRa...
AT&T on Open RAN: ‘It’s important. It will happen.’
BARCELONA—Igal Elbaz, AT&T's CTO for networks, has words for Open RAN doubters: Open RAN is going to happen, because it's that important to telecom...
‘Is it fair?’ Burdened telcos bemoan ‘contradictory’ risk-and-reward delta
The CEO of Orange said that European operators considered that the huge investments in network infrastructure was being hard to monetize
MWC, BARCELONA: European telcos...
Dell, Airspan open private 5G members’ clubs for operators, integrators
Dell Technologies kicked off a private 5G charm offensive with the operator set last week, in time for MWC, offering pre-tested and validated edge...
Telefónica combines open APIs with AWS MEC zone – to demo live volleyball stream
The pilot comes out of the new GSMA Open Gateway framework for universal APIs – to open cellular network access for developers
MWC, BARCELONA: Telefónica...
New cybersecurity strategy must stress accountability (Reader Forum)
Rampant malicious activity in cyberspace hurts individuals, companies, and government agencies, while threatening US national security. The expected release of a new National Cybersecurity...
Vodafone and NTT Docomo to simplify open RAN testing and integration
The O-RAN cooperation will be performed by exchanging the respective expertise and technologies between the parties
MWC, Barcelona. Vodafone and NTT Docomo have said they...
FiberLight survey highlights innovation imperative
The current economic climate might be uncertain, but one thing is not: companies are still heavily investing in high-bandwidth network services.
FiberLight recently surveyed 1,750...
‘Every warehouse, farmhouse, outhouse’ – Deutsche Telekom preps global satellite IoT offer
MWC 2023, Barcelona. Cellular will now find your IoT sensor in “every warehouse, farmhouse, outhouse, and doghouse”, to (mis)quote Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard; Deutsche...
DT, T-Mobile US launch network APIs and joint developer platform
The two telcos said the new network APIs are integrated onto Microsoft Azure Programmable Connectivity
BARCELONA—Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US have developed a platform with...
Navigating the Changing Landscape of Telecom with Chad Rasmussen of Y-COM
As we head further into 2023, new trends come surfing in the telecom industry. In such an ever-changing landscape, how does a company meet...