Self-X vs. zero-X—Turkcell on the path to AI-native
As Turkcell adopts AI, initial use cases include energy savings, customer complaint forecasting and radio link failure prediction
Looking back at the technological jump from...
Kagan: Military is investing in private 5G
Private 5G continues to grow and is spreading to new sectors. I have been reading where the military is now starting to focus on...
FCC seeks to require telcos to bolster network security
The ongoing fallout from the Salt Typhoon cyber attack on U.S. telcos may result in new requirements around network security plans
In the wake of...
Some private cellular apps need a new business model (Analyst Angle)
In the private 5G market, many applications are waiting for IoT devices to be ready. RedCap devices are very slow in coming to...
Nokia’s Bell Labs, stc unveil gen AI solution to enhance user experience
Nokia said the genAI solutions aims to streamline service provision, reduce costs and increase network efficiency
Nokia's Bell Labs Consulting and Saudi Arabian telco stc...
SK Telecom announces restructuring to advance in the AI field
SK Telecom also merged its AI R&D efforts to strengthen AI and digital transformation (AT/DT) capabilities
Korean telco SK Telecom (SKT) unveiled its 2025 organizational...
UK regulator clears Vodafone-Three merger
The Vodafone-Three merger is expected to close during the first half of next year
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided Vodafone’s merger...
Why under-the-hood tech is set to boost telco connectivity in 2025 (Reader Forum)
We’re now a quarter of the way through the 21st century. Just 25 years ago, we feared the Year 2000 (Y2K) (or Millennium) bug...
The evolution of O-RAN RIC (Reader Forum)
The O-RAN Alliance was developed to drive advancements in RAN by separating the management and control plane from the user data processing plane
3GPP Radio...
Hong Kong carriers secure spectrum in the 6/7 GHz band
Earlier this month, OFCA said it concluded the auction of 2.3 GHz and 850 MHz spectrum in the 6/7 GHz band
Hong Kong’s Office of...
US further limits China’s chip advancements
BIS emphasized that these measures align with the Department of Commerce’s efforts to hinder the capacity of China to access to technologies essential for...
BT wins new deal for UK’s emergency network expansion
BT said the Emergency Services Network (ESN) is a critical communications system designed to deliver secure, mission-critical voice, video and data across the 4G...
Ericsson wins new 4G, 5G extension deal with Bharti Airtel
As part of the agreement with Airtel, Ericsson will also undertake the software upgrade of its current deployed 4G radios
Swedish vendor Ericsson has...
Vodafone Group sells remaining stake in Indus Towers
In India, Vodafone Group operates via its partially owned telco Vodafone Idea
Vodafone Group announced that it has launched a placing of its remaining 79.2...
#TBT: AOL expands wireless search; Sprint wants 800 MHz retuning delay; Qualcomm joins Wi-Fi...
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...
T-Mobile US in 2024: Eight strategic takeaways
How is T-Mobile US positioned as it heads into 2025? Execs discussed momentum and priorities.
At this week's eighth annual Wells Fargo Annual TMT Summit,...
Dell’s vision for Open RAN and network transformation
From greenfield to brownfield Open RAN— “We’ve achieved another major step in the development process.”
At the Fyuz event in Dublin, Ireland, Dr. Anna Zakrzewska,...
Eureka moments, snowball effects, whack-a-mole – multiplying private 5G apps
One more private 5G panel write-up, and it’s another cracker. Here, Peter Cappiello, chief executive at Future Technologies, Johnathan Lewis, director of innovation at...
AT&T’s three-year vision: Multi-vendor Open RAN, owners economics at scale
Carrier announces new radio deals with Fujitsu, Mavenir as part of its move toward multi-vendor Open RAN
AT&T has laid out aggressive plans for fiber...
Samsung and Liberty test vRAN, Open RAN in Puerto Rico
The pair claim Liberty is the first telco to in Puerto Rico and Latin America to introduce 5G vRAN and Open RAN tech
Puerto Rican operator Liberty is collaborating with Samsung Networks Latin America to...
Dell Technologies and NVIDIA eGuide: AI from the core to the edge
Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating vast new opportunities for communications service providers (CSPs), from faster, self-optimizing networks to intelligent chatbots that transform their customers’...
Test and Measurement: Canadian 5G midband spectrum use expands
Opensignal's assessment of Canadian 5G service reflects slightly more use of midband spectrum
Canada's 5G user experience is slowly improving, and its use of midband...
BSNL reaches 50,708 4G sites by end-October
BSNL noted that these 4G sites are 5G-upgradable
Indian state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) has installed a total of 50,708 4G sites across India...
India to refarm spectrum for 5G and 6G services
The initiative will involve reallocating airwaves in 10 spectrum bands
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is planning to refarm over 1,100 megahertz of spectrum currently...
O2 Telefonica, AWS use quantum tech to enhance mobile networks
O2 Telefonica and AWS had also launched a new cloud-based core network this year, which is now available to one million customers
German operator O2...