Germany, France and Italy want to charge Big Tech for broadband
The three governments want content providers to subsidize EU 5G and broadband buildouts.
The European Commission is under increasing pressure to make tech giants pay...
Airtel preps for 5G launch in key cities across India
Airtel recently secured 19,800 MHz of spectrum in the latest spectrum auction conducted by the Department of Telecom
India’s largest telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, aims...
What is 5G RedCap, and will it save cellular IoT? The skinny on the...
The latest release of the 5G New Radio (NR) standard has, at last, fixed a problem for cellular-based sensor comms with the emergence of...
Apple mixed reality headset will boost market, says GlobalData
The analyst firm further predicts that consumer mixed reality headsets will generate global revenues of $50 billion by 2030
Rumors about a high-end virtual reality...
How is in-building cellular being deployed?
Nextivity demystifies in-building cellular networks and explains how Cel-Fi solutions shorten time-to-value from months to weeks
Having ubiquitous, reliable, and performant in-building cellular service isn’t...
Who is buying Open RAN? Market sizing, outlook
Open RAN investment grows from less than 1 percent of total RAN spend in 2019 to 3-5 percent in 2022
While there are distinctions between...
Well, technically… carriers need to plan, plan again and then plan some more: Clearfield’s...
Clearfield's CEO Cheri Beranek discusses how ongoing supply-chain constraints are impacting the fiber industry and explores to what extent federal funding will help address this and other challenges related to building out fiber assets and closing the digital divide.
Singtel VC arm Innov8 stumps-up $100m of new funds for 5G, AI, and IoT...
Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) has said it will invest a further $100 million in 5G, AI, and IoT startups via its Singtel Innov8 corporate venture...
Revenue boost for automotive industry from cellular connectivity outweighs SEP licensing costs (Analyst Angle)
The automotive industry is being revolutionized by continuous cloud connectivity, autonomous driving technologies, drive train electrification and shared mobility. These transformations are being facilitated...
India concludes $19 billion 5G auction
The rollout of 5G is expected to begin in India in October 2022
The 5G spectrum auction in India, approved earlier this year, has concluded...
Comcast, Charter continue rapid mobile growth
Cable MSOs Charter Communications and Comcast both saw strong growth in their mobile businesses during the second quarter, with each cable company reporting net...
U Mobile modernizes BSS with Whale Cloud
Switching to cloud-based BSS took two and a half years, but was seamless – U Mobile CIO
Whale Cloud has announced the completion of its migration...
‘Ubiquitous and sophisticated digitalization’: vivo on a framework, technologies for 6G
The 6G white paper was elaborated by vivo Communications Research Institute
Chinese tech company vivo has released a white paper in which the firm explores...
American Tower ends Q2 with 30,000 telecom sites in Europe: CEO
In June last year, American Tower had closed the first tranche of the acquisition of Telxius Towers, comprised of nearly 20,000 communications sites in...
China Broadnet expands 5G services in nine Chinese regions
China Broadnet had officially launched 5G services on June 27
China Broadnet, the country's new telecom carrier, recently rolled out its commercial 5G services in...
For 5G vRAN, Samsung combines innovation with proven large-scale deployments
Major Tier 1 operators are using Samsung’s cloud-native vRAN, including Open RAN, in greenfield and brownfield networks
From distributed, to centralized and now to virtualized...
Vodafone to sell Ghana unit to Telecel
Vodafone purchased a 70% stake in the Ghana business in 2008 for $900 million
Vodafone Group is selling its majority shareholding in its Ghana business...
Fortinet expands enterprise security reach with Comcast Business
SASE and SSE services are available using Secure Gateways hosted by Equinix
Comcast Business on Monday announced a partnership with enterprise security firm Fortinet to...
Verizon CEO: ‘Private networks are the gateway to’ MEC
Hans Vestberg touts Verizon success with FBI, Virginia International Terminals
While it's weathering a rough second quarter, Verizon still sees material revenue opportunities from delivering...
2.5 GHz auction raises $100 million in first day
The Federal Communications Commission's auction of 2.5 GHz midband spectrum raised more than $103 million in its first day of bidding.
The auction kicked...
Nokia announces 5-year deal with AST SpaceMobile
The cell satellite service will leverage Nokia’s AirScale products
Nokia announced this week a five-year deal with AST SpaceMobile, the Texas firm with ambitions to build a...
2.5 GHz auction begins
Auction of midband spectrum in rural areas starts with a single, full-day round of bidding
The first, day-long round of bidding on about 8,000 midband...
Rohde & Schwarz to take part in Germany’s 6G project
Rohde & Schwarz noted that the first global specification of 6G is expected within the next six to eight years
Rohde & Schwarz announced it...
FCC commits additional funding to close the ‘homework gap’
FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel coined the term 'homework gap' in 2012 to describe the difficulty millions of students have when completing online school assignments
The Federal...
Chinese telcos end June with over 927 million 5G subscribers
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 28.2 million 5G subscribers in June
China ended June with a total of 927.44 million subscribers in the...