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Mobile Networks

Nokia preps ultra-compact private 5G to target 10m industrial SMEs

March 18, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Nokia is preparing an ultra-compact version of its private cellular network solution to pitch to the small-and-medium sized enterprise (SME) market, particularly as it aligns with its focus on selling edge-based network-and-compute solutions to Industry 4.0 sectors. Speaking with RCR […]


Technology, Wireless

Nokia strikes deal with Eurofiber to integrate private 5G and fiber for enterprises

March 15, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Nokia has struck a deal with enterprise infrastructure provider Eurofiber to integrate its private LTE (4G) and 5G macro products into the Dutch firm’s “open digital infrastructure” offer, which utilises its own proprietary fiber optic network in Belgium, the Netherlands, […]


Mobile Networks

Regulator may require Indian telcos to display 4G, 5G coverage maps

March 12, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is considering whether to require local carriers to display the coverage map on their websites so that their customers know where they will get 5G or 4G services, local newspaper The Economic Times […]


Technology, Wireless

5G mmWave: The Next Generation of Fixed Wireless Access Services Has Arrived

March 7, 2024

Via: The Fast Mode

Fixed wireless access (FWA) is surging in popularity thanks to 5G technology. It’s seen explosive growth, especially in areas lacking wired broadband options, and is expected to reach more than 250 million happy subscribers by 2028 (1). While this success […]


Editorial

Countdown to 6G: Preparing for the Next Technological Leap

February 27, 2024

Via: Mary Gamet

In recent decades, we have experienced unprecedented industrial and scientific advancements. Human existence as we know it has been reshaped by technology, and it’s not slowing down anytime soon. Today, the world stands on the brink of another life-changing technological […]


Technology, Wireless

The Myths of mmWave Fixed Wireless Access—Busted!

February 22, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

During the days of early launches, 5G was practically synonymous with millimeter-wave. With the debut of the new technology, expectations were so high that no spectrum could live up to them. So when midband airwaves became available, it was no […]


Software, Technology

Network APIs and the path to 5G monetization

February 21, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

While talk of network APIs and the value these open interfaces could bring to operators, software developers, cloud players, end users and others, is not new, it’s certainly having a moment ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This is […]


News

What Will (and Won’t) Happen for 5G in 2024

February 20, 2024

Via: The Fast Mode

The continued expansion of 5G networks in 2024 will improve how we remain connected in more ways than ever before. Consider, for example, a fitness tracker that has just been loaded into a shipping container in the Port of Shanghai. […]


News

StarHub reaches 99% coverage in Singapore with its 5G network

February 15, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Singaporean telco StarHub said its outdoor 5G network has achieved over 99% coverage nearly four years after the carrier introduced 5G technology. In 2020, StarHub’s 5G service only had 50% of network coverage across the country. Talking about the coverage […]


News

CTIA calls for adoption of harmonized midband spectrum in the US

February 13, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Allocating harmonized mid-band spectrum for 5G technologuy can unlock approximately $200 billion for the U.S economy over the next 10 years, according to a new study by Accenture, which was commissioned by wireless industry association CTIA. The report noted that […]


Technology, Wireless

How to Choose the Right Form of LTE Connectivity for IoT

February 12, 2024

Via: Network Computing

As operators worldwide continue to migrate users from 3G to make available spectrum to support 5G, businesses relying on 3G for their Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications should assess alternatives and plan for future generations. When assessing IoT […]


Security

Orange Becomes First in Slovakia to Offer Cyber-Secure 5G FWA for Businesses

February 7, 2024

Via: The Fast Mode

Orange Slovakia has become the first operator in the country to provide 5G Internet connectivity for companies. After a successful test run that started on December 14, 2023, the service is now available for business customers. This service provides businesses […]


News

Monetizing 5G and the Rise of Cloud-Native Cores in 2024

February 5, 2024

Via: The Fast Mode

This year, the telecom industry will undergo a significant transformation: 2024 will be the year that communications service providers will begin to see a concrete return on their 5G investments. The core opportunities for CSPs to generate new revenue streams […]


News

Cisco and NTT supply private 5G to RAI Amsterdam conference venue

February 5, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

RAI Amsterdam, the conference and exhibition centre in the Dutch capital, has a new private 5G network, courtesy of NTT and Cisco. The setup has been signed off in time for the Cisco Live conference at the venue this week […]


News

Proximus preps private 5G testbed at Belgian hospital

February 2, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Proximus NXT, the system integrator division of Belgian operator Proximus, is to deploy a private 5G network, in pilot form, at the AZ Groeninge hospital in Kortrijk, West Flanders, in Belgium. The “proposal”, as it stands, is to “test 5G […]


News

LTE and 5G critical comms market to jump 57% to $5.5bn by 2026

January 29, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

What to believe? Who to believe? (We’ll write about this one day.) But, just because it’s modish, and because it presents another (!) way to segment the non-traditional new-cellular comms market, new research reckons the combined market for public and […]


News

T-Mo US picks Nokia to improve its 5G high speed internet service

January 25, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Finnish vendor Nokia said it is collaborating with T-Mobile US to launch a dedicated gateway solution that supports LTE, 5G NonStandalone and 5G Standalone technologies for the carrier’s fixed-wireless high-speed internet (HSI) traffic. Under the terms of this deal, Nokia […]


Mobile Networks

Mobile core market stagnant due to slow 5G SA deployment: Study

January 24, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

The global mobile core network (MCN) market growth rate has been reduced to less than a 1% CAGR during the 2023-2028 period, according to a newly published forecast report by Dell’Oro Group. The report noted that the growth in this […]


Hardware, Technology

China ends 2023 with 3.38 million 5G base stations

January 23, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

China ended 2023 with a total of 3.38 million 5G base stations at a national level, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said. By the end of last year, the country had more than 10,000 5G-powered industrial internet […]


Hardware, Technology

HFCL secures large order for locally-made 5G equipment: Report

January 22, 2024

Via: RCR Wireless News

Indian telecoms vendor HFCL has won a purchase order of INR 6.23 billion ($75 million) for the supply of indigenously manufactured 5G network equipment, local paper The Economic Times reported. “This is the first such large order for 5G networking […]