Category: News

January 11, 2024

Malaysia’s communications minister, Fahmi Fadzil, said that the country has achieved its target of 80% 5G coverage in populated areas, paving the way for the launch of a second 5G network, local press reported. Fahmi also said the country would […]

January 11, 2024

U.S.-based Open RAN (O-RAN) firm Parallel Wireless said it has already deployed a total of 1,500 sites across Africa. Parallel Wireless partnered with regional telecommunications providers and governments in countries including Nigeria, Tanzania, Guinea Conakry, Ghana, South Sudan, Uganda, DRC, […]

January 10, 2024

Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has been selected by United Arab Emirates (UAE) operator du to modernize its circuit-switched core network. As part of the project, Nokia will expand and modernize the telco’s existing IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) voice […]

January 10, 2024

Rest assured, the future for telcos in 2024 is far less dire than this line from Star Wars – Attack of the Clones. But you wouldn’t know it based on growing industry concerns surrounding how bad actors are using Artificial […]

January 9, 2024

T-Mobile US continues to maintain its lead in offering the fastest 5G speeds and availability, but Verizon and AT&T’s C-Band deployments are helping those carriers to make some inroads. That’s the general breakdown of Opensignal’s latest assessment of the state […]

January 9, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is closing on a $13 billion deal for Juniper Networks, according to a report yesterday (Monday, January 8) in The Wall Street Journal, and widely covered elsewhere since. So far, neither company has commented on the […]

January 9, 2024

As Congress works to hash out a federal budget, the Federal Communications Commission is warning that the Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides monthly subsidies to help American families pay for broadband services, will have to end unless it receives an […]

January 9, 2024

Aviat Networks, has put in place strategic collaboration agreement with Indonesian telco PT Smartfren Telecom to deliver high speed wireless connectivity, private wireless networks and industry digitalization and automation services to private networks customers across Indonesia. In a release, Aviat […]

January 8, 2024

David Joosten, director of the Americas and partner markets at Vodafone Business, identifies key trends that will shape the digital enterprise market in 2024, as follows… 1 | 5G and IoT will benefit society more than AI The convergence of […]

January 5, 2024

T-Mobile US is laying claim to an industry first: Testing the aggregation of six component carriers in sub-6 GHz spectrum. The carrier recently completed the testing, working in partnership with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies, in its live production 5G network. […]

January 4, 2024

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 […]

January 4, 2024

Zain Kuwaut said it has achieved speeds of 10 Gigabits per second after completing a 5.5G technology trial on its network in partnership with Chinese vendor Huawei. The Middle East telco said it was the first operator to complete a […]

January 4, 2024

Everyone is into AI these days, even network planners. But for network professionals, the primary focus has been on the use of AI in network operations. What about the impact of AI on network traffic? When I asked almost 100 […]

January 3, 2024

The World Economic Forum has inducted 21 manufacturing operations into its Industry 4.0 hall-of-fame based on their usage of sundry digital tech, notably AI, to raise productivity, reduce wastage, and drive sustainability – and to generally withstand the crosswinds of […]

January 3, 2024

The radio access network (RAN) is the biggest energy draw in a mobile network. Because of this, network infrastructure vendors and operators are primarily focused on reducing power consumption in the radio domain. Doing this successfully has the potential to […]

January 2, 2024

Business critical mobility, demand and reliance on cloud-based services, and hybrid work that’s here to stay, are all trends that challenge IT operations. Whether users and devices are located across large enterprise sites or at remote branch offices, the requirements […]

January 2, 2024

It’s that time of year when we all start to wax nostalgic and consider our triumphs and trials of the past year in preparation for making resolutions we’ll discard the moment they become inconvenient. Which for me means about 2.5 […]

December 28, 2023

Oxford picked rizz as its word of the year. Merriam-Webster picked authentic, while noting that rizz, deepfake, and coronation also stood out. In a similar vein, we present the 2023 Network Computing words of the year. These terms entered the […]

December 22, 2023

It literally took an act of Congress, but T-Mobile US will get access to the licenses the carrier won in 2022. President Joe Biden has signed the 5G SALE Act, giving temporary authorization to the Federal Communications Commission to process […]

December 22, 2023

It literally took an act of Congress, but T-Mobile US will get access to the licenses the carrier won in 2022. President Joe Biden has signed the 5G SALE Act, giving temporary authorization to the Federal Communications Commission to process […]