BROWSING: MTS

Ericsson already started process to layoff its staff in Russia : CEO

Ericsson had suspended operations and deliveries to customers in Russia in April as a consequence of the war with Ukraine Swedish vendor Ericsson has already notified its 400 employees in Russia that they will be laid off as part of the company’s plan to shut...

Ericsson taps HERE for custom mapping of private 5G enabled smart mines

Ericsson has recruited US-based mapping company HERE Technologies to provide the mining industry with “custom mapping capabilities”, to go with its own private LTE and 5G network offer to the sector. HERE Technologies joins the Swedish vendor’s roster of approved Industry 4.0 vendors (“partner...

MTS, Ericsson ink deal to develop private 5G-ready networks in Russia

  Russian telco MTS and Ericsson have signed a strategic partnership to develop private 5G-ready networks for industrial enterprises in Russia, the vendor said in a release. Since 2019, MTS has implemented more than 15 pilot projects for private networks in partnership with Ericsson across various...

Steel giant Severstal taps MTS, Ericsson for private LTE at Russian mega mine

Steel giant Severstal has appointed Russian mobile operator MTS, working with Swedish network vendor Ericsson, to build a private LTE network at the Karelskiy Okatysh iron ore mining and processing plant. The site, in the Republic of Karelia, is one of the largest iron...

MTS launches LTE/5G private network for Russian mining company

MTS first announced plans to build the private network using Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution in October 2020 Russian operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has launched the country’s first commercial 5G-ready private network for gold and silver producer Polymetal International plc. at the Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit in...

Ericsson, MTS to deploy LTE/5G-ready private network for Russian mining company

The network will be built on the Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution Ericsson and Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS) announced plans to jointly deploy a commercial LTE/5G-ready private network at steel and mining company EVRAZ’s digital Sheregeshskaya mine in south-central Russia. The private network will be built on...

MTS and Ericsson team up on private LTE for Russian gold miner Polymetal

Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and Swedish network vendor Ericsson are to deploy a private LTE network for Anglo-Russian mining company Polymetal. The deployment is at Polymetal’s Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit in the Republic of Sakha , in the far-east of Russia. The network...

Test and Measurement: Americans are ‘falling back into old habits’, Verizon says

  Verizon is beginning to see a shift back toward a more typical, pre-pandemic network mix of calls and texts and is seeing more evidence of people leaving home, according to its most recent update. Handoffs between cell sites are "steadily increasing from the peak of...

Test and Measurement: Keysight supports Rakuten Mobile’s 5G testing

Keysight Technologies said this week that Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten will be using Keysight's test equipment in support of its Rakuten Mobile network launch. Rakuten Mobile, which just began offering its low-cost data service to consumers last week, will be using Keysight's 5G network and...

Russia’s MTS pleads with users to stop overloading network with memes, videos

MTS president says the carrier is seeing 'serious changes in the structure of consumption of mobile Internet traffic' COVID-19 continues to spread globally, and networks around the world are working double-time trying to keep up with the unprecedented influx of traffic as work and school...

Ericsson inks deal to prepare Russia’s MTS network for 5G

  Russia’s largest communications service provider, MTS, has extended its partnership with Ericsson to include a large-scale network modernization of its 2G/3G/4G infrastructure over large parts of central Russia. The Swedish vendor said the new modernization agreement will allow the Russian carrier to pave the way...

Beeline launches 5G pilot zone in Moscow

Megafon also planning a 5G testbed Russian mobile operator Beeline has launched a 5G pilot area near the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russian press reported. The launch of the 5G pilot area comes after an agreement signed between the telco and Moscow municipal government. Part of the...

Nokia secures 5G deals in Europe, Asia

  French telecommunications group Iliad announced it has selected Finnish vendor Nokia as its strategic partner for its 5G network deployments in France and Italy. The vendor has been working with Iliad since 2010 and has participated in the telco’s deployments of 3G and 4G networks. "By...

Millimeter wave 5G coming to Moscow in the fall

Qualcomm working with local operators and government on millimeter wave 5G trial network Millimeter wave spectrum has been front-and-center in U.S. 5G deployments with AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon all going to market using high-band frequencies, while Sprint went to market using its 2.5 GHz...

Test and Measurement: The role of devices in user experience

Which mobile device a user has plays a crucial role in their experience of a mobile network -- and Samsung devices give users the best experience in 35% of countries tested, according to new analysis from OpenSignal. OpenSignal relies on device-based measurements for its data,...

Vodafone launches commercial 5G services in five Italian cities

  Italian carrier Vodafone announced the launch of commercial 5G services in five cities across the country. Initially, the 5G service will be available in Milan, Turin, Bologna, Rome and Naples. The company used equipment from Nokia and Huawei for the deployment of commercial 5G. The telco,...

Test and Measurement: Hitting the gas on automotive testing

Automotive testing came into focus this week, with a number of companies involved in demonstrations and development related to testing of various types of vehicle-related technologies. The 5G Automotive Association conducted cellular vehicle-to-everything testing in Berlin, with participation from BMW Group, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer...

Test and Measurement: TIA seeks to develop best practices for edge computing

The Telecommunications Industry Association has started up a new standards task group that aims to develop industry best practices for edge data centers. The work will update TIA's existing TIA-942 standard -- which was developed with large, centralized data centers in mind -- to include...

Russian telco MTS tests smart city services in Tatarstan

MTS is currently in process to deploy a nationwide NB-IoT network across Russia   Russian telecom operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has launched a smart city pilot project based on an narrowband internet of things network for the housing and utilities sector in Arsk, in the Republic...

Test and Measurement: Sprint launches ad blitz for ‘better than ever’ network

Sprint is trying to capitalize on recent favorable testing results with a new advertising campaign that proclaims its network is "better than ever" -- emphasizing how much its network has improved by comparing by its own past performance and coverage to its present capabilities,...

Test and Measurement: WTG, MTS, PCTel report results

As quarterly results continue to roll in for test companies, Wireless Telecom Group saw its net revenues rise 12% in the second quarter, compared to its performance during the same period last year. WTG reported net revenues of $13.4 million for the quarter. The company...

Hong Kong regulator opens up 5 GHz band for LAA

LAA also deployed in Russia by MTS As operators around the world work to add capacity to mobile networks, a consummate limitation is the availability of spectrum. To address this crunch, innovative technologies like Licensed Assisted Access (LAA), which aggregates an unlicensed band with licensed...

Russia’s MTS launches integrated IoT platform for enterprises

The telco said the new offering features an integrated smart metering solution Russian telco MTS has launched an integrated IoT platform to support enterprises' connected device strategy and monitor equipment performance. MTS said the IoT platform features an open application programming interface (API) and supports various...

Test and Measurement: Keysight collaborates with Semtech on LoRa test

Keysight Technologies is collaborating with Semtech, the company behind the LoRa low-power wide-area network technology for the internet of things, to develop LoRa testing support in Keysight equipment and software. Keysight said that Semtech provided it with technical information for LoRa that it...