Telstra reaches 75% of Australia’s population with 5G
Australian operator Telstra said that its current 5G coverage footprint currently reaches 75% of the country’s population.
“After starting our initial 5G rollout across major...
FirstNet expands its deployables, cell sites
FirstNet-AT&T has expanded its fleet of portable land- and air-based cell sites for temporary coverage, with more than 100 deployables now available to FirstNet...
Operator iWire raises $34m to launch Sigfox in 12 markets in Africa, Asia, Middle...
Sigfox operator iWire Connect has raised $34 million in Series A funding to build Sigfox networks in 12 countries in Asia, the Middle East,...
Qualcomm’s green network research focused on powerful, sustainable 5G
Reducing power consumption has been a priority in the telecommunications industry for years with efforts focused on both devices and base stations. The 3GPP,...
Can neural networks enable natural network evolution without cyclical air interface updates?
The evolution of cellular networks follows a fairly predictable cycle of R&D, standardization, application of standards to new equipment, deployment of that equipment, and...
5G and augmented reality becoming a reality (Analyst Angle)
The confluence of 5G and augmented reality has been a cornerstone of digital disruption conversations for quite a while. However, only recently has both...
The public cloud for telecom: Livin’ on a prayer or soon-to-be runaway success?
TelcoDR Founder and CEO on the vision for bringing public cloud to telecom
BARCELONA--Cloud City in Hall 2 is by a wide margin the focal...
Well, technically… fiber is the main character in 5G’s movie: FiberLight’s Sue Kelly (Ep....
On this week’s episode, FiberLight’s SVP of Enterprise Sales Sue Kelly discusses the important, and often overlooked, role that fiber will play in the 5G era, as well as what operators and enterprise customers are looking for in their fiber solutions.
Orange, Sierra Wireless, STMicro, Lacroix form all-in-one design house to scale IoT
Orange has banded together with hardware, software, design, and manufacturing companies in the IoT space to accelerate deployment of cellular IoT in Europe. Canadian...
Bridging the Digital Divide and Expanding the Network with Staffan Göjeryd
Among other lessons, this pandemic has made us realize the need to bridge the existing digital divide that holds back a lot of people....
Qualcomm reveals Snapdragon 888 Plus and 5G Open RAN platform for small cells
Qualcomm president: 'The global deployment of 5G mmWave is inevitable and essential'
Qualcomm revealed at MWC 2021 that the Snapdragon 888, its 5G mobile platform...
Do business professionals understand 5G? Not so much, Ciena report concludes
There is a "significant knowledge gap relating to 5G" among U.S. business professionals, Ciena report says
Less than 20% of professional employees in the U.S....
Nvidia announces Arm support for AI-on-5G platform and next-gen DPU
The AI-on-5G platform combines the GPU and the DPU on the same EGX Nvidia AI card
At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Nvidia announced that...
BAI Communications buys Mobilitie
BAI Communications, which is majority-owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), has agreed to acquire privately held U.S.-based network infrastructure company Mobilitie,...
The Sunday Brief: Charter Communications – Formulaic Diversification
June greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman, Dallas (TX), and the mountain town of Murphy, NC. After a busy week, the Briefer took some R&R time...
Qualcomm VP of Engineering: ‘We’re taking 5G into 5G Advanced…and beyond’
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is hard at work shaping the future of 5G as public networks continue to expand and improve, and ecosystem stakeholders work...
Global workplace experience apps market to reach $988m by 2025: research
The global workplace experience apps market within commercial office space is expected to reach $988 million by 2025, up from an estimated $406 million...
Deutsche Telekom implements campus network for the Port of Hamburg
German telco Deutsche Telekom has partnered with HHLA Sky, a subsidiary of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik, to implement a campus network at the Port...
IBM secures cloud, AI deals with Verizon and Telefonica
IBM also announced the expansion of its automation portfolio at MWC 2021
Helped along by its purchase of software company Red Hat, IBM has snagged...
Kell if I Know … UWB (Episode 1)
In the debut episode of "Kell if I Know", Adam Smith, director of marketing for LitePoint, discusses the ins and outs of Ultra-Wideband (UWB)...
Druid Software teams up with system integrator Siticom on private 5G in Germany
Ireland-based core network vendor Druid Software has announced a go-to-market deal on private 5G with system integrator Siticom. The Germany-based firm has an agreement...
EXFO Infobrief: 5G Adaptive Service Assurance
The end goal for 5G is a cloud-native, service-based, fully standalone (SA) network. That’s a major undertaking, which means most operators will spend several...
MWC in the time of COVID: Reflections from Barcelona
BARCELONA--In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera", the brilliant Colombian novelist weaves a narrative of love, rejection, devotion, and ultimately reconciliation—decades...
NEC Corporation inks O-RAN collaboration with Taiwan’s MTI
Japanese company NEC and Taiwanese company Microelectronics Technology (MTI), a network RF solutions provider, announced a collaboration focused on boosting the Open RAN (O-RAN)...
Kagan: Cisco interview on transforming the internet for the future
What will the internet look like going forward? I recently spoke with Jonathan Davidson, SVP and GM of Cisco Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group. He did...