Category: News

February 14, 2024

Samsung Electronics and Vodafone, in collaboration with AMD, yesterday announced that they have successfully demonstrated an end-to-end call with the latest AMD processors enabling Open RAN technology, a first for the industry. This joint achievement represents the companies’ technical leadership […]

February 13, 2024

With 5G networks operating at scale, communications service providers (CSPs) stand ready to embark on the next evolution of cellular. The move toward running network workloads in public/private hybrid cloud environments across distributed infrastructure represents a paradigm shift for technology […]

February 13, 2024

Having completed the initial deployment of the FirstNet network for first responders, AT&T and the First Responders Network Authority today announced that they expect to invest $8 billion in to the network over the next 10 years. That investment will […]

February 13, 2024

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 […]

February 9, 2024

United Arab Emirates (UAE) telco du announced the deployment of a large-scale three carrier aggregation (CA) in TDD Massive MIMO base station, delivering a peak data rate of over 5 Gbps as part of its efforts towards the implementation of […]

February 9, 2024

Opensignal this week debuted an assessment of the role of network reliability in customers’ choice of a mobile carrier, compared to other metrics including speeds. An Opensignal US household survey of more than 55,000 people showed that while cost was […]

February 9, 2024

BT Group, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies said they have successfully demonstrated end-to-end consumer and enterprise 5G differentiated connectivity enabled by network slicing. In a release, Ericsson said that the 5G demo was carried out using Ericsson’s 5G Core and radio […]

February 7, 2024

A new study from Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications markets, predicts there will be 290 million connections globally by 2030; the year after its initial expected launch in 2029. To achieve this early growth, the report cautions operators […]

February 7, 2024

Cisco is delivering a cloud-based service that gives enterprise customers a centralized hub for managing generative AI elements such as large language models (LLM), security controls, APIs and more. Called Motific, the service promises to help streamline and accelerate the […]

February 6, 2024

China Mobile, the world’s largest telecom operator by mobile subscribers, said it has successfully launched what it claims to be the world’s first satellite to test 6G architecture, Chinese newspaper China Daily reported. 6G has yet to be formally standardized, […]

February 6, 2024

SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended Q4 2023 year with a total of 15.67 million subscribers in the 5G segment, up 17% from 13.4 million in the same period the previous year, the carrier said in its earnings […]

February 6, 2024

Verizon has decentralized its national organizational structure into 18 regions and is heavily focusing on its network and market position on a local basis, executives said during an investor update on Monday, including both network optimization and local incentives and […]

February 5, 2024

While the industry is already beating the 6G drum, there’s still a lot left to do with 5G. The move to 5G Standalone (SA) and leveraging a cloud-native core network will hopefully have a breakout year in 2024, helping operators […]

February 5, 2024

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 […]

February 5, 2024

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 […]

February 2, 2024

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 […]

February 2, 2024

Testing company Fortive, whose T&M brands include Tektronix and Fluke, beat its guidance and saw fourth quarter 2024 revenue growth of 4% year-on-year. Net earnings for the fourth quarter were $265 million, and for the full year, net earnings were […]

February 1, 2024

The iconic Harry Beck Tube Map has been reimagined for the first time in over 90 years, as part of a new partnership between Transport for London (TfL) and Samsung, to promote the Circle to Search with Google feature on […]

January 31, 2024

Enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is on a major ramp and communications service providers (CSPs) are no exception. In fact the IBM Global AI Adoption Index 2023, published on Jan. 10, found that “37% of IT professionals within the […]

January 31, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) can potentially transform networking, where the operational model has largely remained static for decades, but AI needs to be native in the network versus an overlay. The difference between AI-driven and AI-native networks is fundamentally about integrating […]