BROWSING: Standalone 5G

Private 5G and network slicing set to drive enterprise adoption of 5G  In a wide-ranging conversation with RCR Wireless News, Verizon Business Chief Revenue Officer for Global Enterprise and Public Sector Massimo Peselli shared his outlook for 2024. With a growing private 5G business and...

In the transition to 5G, communication service providers (CSPs) have invested billions of dollars in building their infrastructure and virtualizing key components. Funding from the recent Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in the United States will further infuse capital nationwide to expand mobile broadband services, particularly...

T-Mobile US, working with Ericsson and Qualcomm, achieved speeds of 4.3 Gbps T-Mobile US is touting its tests of millimeter-wave spectrum in its 5G Standalone production network, saying that it has been able to hit download speeds of 4.3 Gbps. Those downlink speeds were achieved with...

Telecom Argentina’s first 5G SA antennas were deployed in large urban concentrations in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area Telecom Argentina said it recently activated its first 5G antennas using the 3.5 GHz band, thus becoming the first telco in the country to launch 5G Standalone...

The Port of Tyne views its private 5G network as a key enabler of a broad suite of smart port use cases The Port of Tyne in the United Kingdom is among numerous similar facilities around the world that are investing in sweeping digital transformation initiatives...

Dish Network CEO is also leaving EchoStar merger nears completion As the company reinvents itself to be a mobile network operator augmented by satellite capabilities brought in by EchoStar, Dish Network stock plummeted to a 25-year low following weak Q3 earnings. The Wednesday earnings call,...

Vodafone said its 5G Standalone network (SA) currently serves 45% of the German population Vodafone Germany's 5G network currently reaches 90% of the country’s population, the telco said in a release. Meanwhile, the operator’s 5G Standalone network (SA) serves 45% of the German population, the carrier...

Orange says the combination introduces the ability to activate networks faster and delivers flexibility, optimization Orange Spain has successfully tested a data connection using Open RAN equipment and a cloud-native Standalone (SA) 5G core network, a combination the carrier said introduces the ability to activate...

Considerations include operational readiness, business case development and go-to-market strategy A logical, virtual, end-to-end network slice that automatically comes into being to serve the exacting requirements of a particular horizontal or vertical use case—that’s a big part of the vision of 5G and the monetization...

In February, the Spanish carrier had launched its 5G SA network in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville Spanish telecom operator Orange has activated its 5G Standalone (SA) network in new cities across Spain. In February, the Spanish carrier had launched its 5G SA network in Madrid,...

The first locations to be covered by the service, branded 5G Ultra, include London, Manchester, Glasgow and Cardiff Vodafone UK has claimed a first in the U.K., with the launch of Standalone (SA) 5G in several major cities. The first locations to be covered by...

John Stankey says AT&T will finish $6 billion cost-cutting plan this year, then move into cutting legacy infrastructure costs Now that it’s well-past the divestiture of Warner Media and executing on a back-the-basics approach to wired and wireless networks, AT&T CEO John Stankey touted a...

Orange said that the new 5G technology was recently launched in Bilbao, Alicante, Sabadell, Hospitalet, Castellon and Valladolid Spanish telecom operator Orange activated its 5G Standalone (SA) network in new cities across the country. According to the telco’s website, the new technology was recently launched in...

There are 2,497 cities with commercial 5G networks, across 92 countries Viavi Solutions’ latest report looking at the global state of 5G revealed that 47 of the world’s 70 largest economies by GDP now have active 5G networks. Further, the company found that 5G Standalone...

Cloud-native OSS/BSS should reduce opex and drive automation, but this requires technological and organizational change Before getting into expert commentary on cloud-native OSS/BSS provided during the recent Telco Cloud & Edge Forum (available on demand here), it’s important to understand what operational support systems (OSS)...

New manufacturing paradigms such as industrial automation come with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements that apply both to companies’ production processes as well as the underlying telecommunication systems. As a result, companies expect their telcos to provide ultrahigh reliability and redundancy, advanced security...

Ferrovial plans to use private 5G for its own asset-specific operations, and as a value-add for new (and prospective) customers Across its its six business units—highways, constructions, airports, mobility, energy and water—Spanish firm Ferrovial has annual turnover in excess of $7 billion, more than 18,000...

AT&T is expanding its fiber and wireless networks while planning for multi-service edges and distributed Standalone 5G cores DALLAS--AT&T CTO Jeremy Legg last week at the company’s headquarters met with members of the trade press to lay out a phased, one- to two-year strategy that’s...

Orange has made large-scale commitments to deploy Open RAN systems across its network footprint over the coming decade. Ahead of large-scale deployments, the operator has built an experimental network in Lannion, France, that uses Open RAN along with a cloud-native approach to 5G with...

Combo of 600 MHz 5G Standalone and 2.5 GHz gives T-Mobile US a “differentiated” value proposition On the heels of agreeing to spend $3.5 billion to acquire formerly-leased 600 MHz spectrum in 17 partial economic areas, T-Mobile US CFO Peter Osvaldik joined the virtual Oppenheimer...

The majority of 5G SA network deployments will stick to telco cloud, a new report asserts. The revenue for 5G workloads hosted on public cloud services will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 88% between now and 2026, totaling $4.6 billion over that...

Kubernetes as a lynchpin for network automation at scale Zero-touch network automation needs to be employed at every level of the 5G stack in order for 5G Standalone (SA) services to work as envisioned. 5G SA will bring considerable benefits to customers, but it also...

Skoda Auto noted that the 5G research network allows data to be locally transmitted securely in real time   Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto has launched a mobile private 5G network in cooperation with mobile operator Vodafone at its Mladá Boleslav site, the former said in...

Ericsson said that more than 20 5G SA networks were already operational globally by the end of 2021 The number of 5G Standalone (SA) networks at a global level could reach nearly 40 at the end of 2022, according to the latest edition of the...