Open RAN, RIC, CHIPS, and more: A discussion with Mavenir
While Mavenir’s John Baker, senior Vice President of business development, is clear-eyed about challenges, both technical and business, the Open RAN ecosystem and other...
The Sunday Brief: Bigger questions after second quarter earnings (Part 2)
Greetings from the Midwest and Southeast (at left, toting the week’s produce from Kansas City’s open-air City Market). The freshly-picked watermelon we purchased there...
Nordic Semiconductor expands low-power IoT range with first Wi-Fi chip
Nordic Semiconductor has expanded its low-power IoT hardware portfolio to include Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. The Norwegian outfit has debuted its first Wi-Fi chip, the...
Optus launches 5G Standalone network
Optus has been testing 5G Standalone tecnology for nearly one year
Australian operator Optus has recently launched its 5G Standalone network after nearly a year...
Chinese carriers deploy over 1.97 million 5G base stations: Report
Mobile operators are expected to add a total of 600,000 base stations across China during 2022
Chinese operators have already deployed over 1.97 million 5G...
Cisco tops revenue and profit estimates, cites tech ‘megatrends’
Cisco CEO said company is benefitting from long-term technology shifts towards hybrid cloud, 5G and WiFi 6
Cisco has reported $13.1 billion in revenue for...
Senators again push FCC to reverse its Ligado spectrum decision
Results of a NSF study on the FCC order is set to be released on September 9
A bipartisan group of Senators is again pushing...
Drei launches LoRaWAN network in Austria
Drei has been currently working with its partner SPL TELE in the expansion of the LoRaWAN network
Austrian operator Hutchinson Drei has set up a...
Test and Measurement: Keysight touts an ‘exceptional’ Q3
Keysight beat the upper end of its revenue guidance
Keysight Technologies exceeded its own expectations on revenue during its fiscal third quarter, with company revenues...
The big benefits of better billing in a digital world (Reader forum)
Along the way to becoming one of the world’s largest 5G providers, India’s Jio also has shown telecom companies around the globe how to...
Diversification in the supply chain — a very 5G problem (Reader Forum)
The U.S., U.K. and Europe have all seen complexities and challenges arise from the initial lack of supply chain diversification in 5G network hardware....
Auction action picks up, bids head past $345 million
"Now we're going into the long tail" of the auction, says Sasha Javid, Bitpath COO and auction tracker
The 2.5 GHz auction has hit its...
Nova Labs acquires FreedomFi to accelerate Helium Network rollout
FreedomFi provided Nova Labs with the expertise in telecommunications that it needed to make the Helium Network successful
Nova Labs, the founding team behind the...
More isn’t always better: Three dangers of cheap IoT devices
More isn’t always better. Despite the Internet of Things (IoT) growing to 15 billion worldwide devices next year, many are cheap in price and...
Next G Alliance announces general council, 6G research priorities
Research council members will work with the U.S. and Canadian governments as well as private-sector 6G research communities
ATIS’ Next G Alliance announced the formation...
Verizon awarded $28.35 million US DoD contract
Verizon will provide integrated voice and data services to the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)...
Lyft, Motional to launch new robotaxi in Vegas
Motional and Lyft have been conducting autonomous rides in Las Vegas since 2018
Motional and Lyft announced the launch of the former’s new all-electric IONIQ...
Extreme Networks launches first outdoor Wi-Fi 6E access point
The outdoor AP combines Wi-Fi 6E, advanced security and AI/ML capabilities in a single solution
Extreme Networks revealed the Extreme AP5050, which it claimed is...
FirstNet board approves $358m budget
"Cellular devices are centric to what we're doing," LAPD commander tells the FirstNet board
The First Responders Network Authority board has approved the agency's budget...
Kagan: Frontier Enterprise hires BT exec to wake up business segment
Frontier Communications has been through the ringer in recent years. They are now in the process of recovery and rebuilding in a marketplace that...
Semtech supports water monitoring system in New Zealand
IoT Ventures selected Semtech to supply LoRa devices for its Drought Early Warning System, a network of low-cost rainwater tank and rain monitors
IoT semiconductor...
#TBT: Is throttling necessary?; VoLTE proves its quality; Cisco shifts skills mix … this...
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...
Malaysian operators finally agree to take stake in wholesale 5G network
The Malaysian government established an August deadline for operators to accept the stake in DNB or else lose 5G spectrum access
Malaysia’s transition to 5G...
Three Open RAN obstacles: Servers, RIC testing and optionality
In a bit of circularity, the Open RAN promise of full optionality between hardware and software components is also an overarching difficulty in deploying...
Mavenir sales job cuts suggest shifting Open RAN market
Mavenir is 'looking to optimize,' said executive
A month and a half after reports emerged about widespread layoffs at Parallel Wireless, Mavenir, another Open...