BROWSING: 5G

Just what would it take to actually get ubiquitous 5G in rural America? UScellular CEO Laurent Therivel walked through that scenario for just one county in rural Iowa at last week's CTIA 5G Summit, illustrating the challenges and the need for coordinated federal funding...

Vodafone and Three should establish a national security committee within the joint entity under the terms approved by the government The U.K. Secretary of State has approved the proposed merger between local carriers Vodafone and Three UK, subject to certain conditions, the U.K. government said...

1&1 said that around 700,000 customers were already using its O-RAN network as of the end of March German operator 1&1, which is owned by United Internet AG, had constructed a total of 1,334 antenna sites by the end of the first quarter of the...

Connectivity Expo or Connect (X) is a wireless conference soon coming to my hometown, Atlanta! This should be a powerful wireless industry event. It brings together top-level speakers from various companies, the FCC and more. It’s also a great place to network with a...

During the O-RAN demo, Nokia said that the data calls were successfully conducted using commercial user devices Nokia and Vodafone announced the successful completion of an Open RAN (O-RAN) trial in collaboration with partners Arm and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The Finnish vendor said that the...

LG Uplus said its overall mobile user base climbed 27.8% y-o-y to 26.26 million in Q1 Korean operator LG Uplus ended the first quarter of 2024 with 7.19 million 5G subscribers, up 13.2% year-on-year, according to the company’s latest earnings statement. The telco added a total...

Rakuten Mobile started using JTower's solutions in January 2020 Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile and compatriot telecom infrastructure company JTower announced that Rakuten Mobile has adopted JTower’s indoor infrastructure-sharing solutions for its network in more than 100 facilities and buildings across Japan. In a release, Rakuten Mobile,...

SoftBank and KDDI will aim to jointly build out a total of 100,000 base stations each by the fiscal year 2030 Japanese telecom operators SoftBank and KDDI Corporation said they have agreed to start discussions to potentially expand the scope of their ongoing collaborative initiative...

Virgin Media O2 said that the first customer implementations in the U.K. will take place in the coming months U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 and Accenture have announced a new collaboration to seek opportunities in the U.K.’s mobile private network market, the former said in...

In November 2023, One New Zealand said it had reached an agreement to acquire Dense Air’s business with the aim of expanding its 5G footprint New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has granted clearance for local carrier One New Zealand Group to acquire 100% of the shares...

During the first quarter of 2023, SK Telecom added nearly 530,000 5G subscribers SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 15.93 million subscribers in the 5G segment, up 12.6% from 14.14 million in the...

O2 said that its 5G SA service is now available in the cities of Avila, Barcelona, Castellon, Ferrol, Gran Canaria, Madrid, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Segovia, Seville and Vigo Spanish company O2, which is a brand of local telecom operator Movistar, launched 5G Standalone (5G...

Nokia, which supplies the 5G core for the O2 Telefonica 5G SA network, claimed that this development is a first of its kind Amazon Web Services (AWS) will host O2 Telefónica’s Standalone (SA) 5G core network software on its public cloud infrastructure in Germany. Nokia, which...

Qualcomm is leading the innovation pipeline for 5G Advanced and beyond For decades, Qualcomm has been at the forefront of spearheading pivotal wireless innovations. With 5G, we pioneered key inventions that were adopted into the first three standard releases (i.e., Release 15, Release 16, Release 17). And now,...

Spirent is already taking steps to automate service assurance in carrier networks At the recent Test & Measurement Forum, Spirent Communications Senior Director of Assurance Strategy Ross Cassan laid out key networking trends that are impacting service assurance and how the company is amending its...

Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm and Vodafone Idea submitted bids to participate in the upcoming 5G spectrum auction Indian telecom operators Reliance Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea will compete to secure additional spectrum for 5G services in an upcoming auction, according to local...

DNB said its 5G network currently reaches over 80% of the country's population Malaysian state-run 5G network Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) and Swedish vendor Ericsson announced the launch of a program to boost the digitalization of enterprises in Malaysia via 5G technology. Under the terms of...

F5 and Telkom agreed to work together to provide comprehensive cybersecurity services to organizations in Indonesia Telkom Indonesia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with cybersecurity firm F5 with the main goal of collaborating on cybersecurity services and strengthen Telkom’s own security capabilities, the...

Vodafone is also an active member of LF Edge’s parent body the Linux Foundation LF Edge, an umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation, announced that Vodafone has joined the project as a new member, the former said in a release. Additional members of LF Edge include...

The latest test and measurement trends include Non-terrestrial and Open RAN networks To set the stage for the Test and Measurement Forum (available on demand here), Emil Olbrich, vice president of network technologies with Signals Research Group (SRG), laid out some of the market trends...

Stage X previously said it aims to deploy 6,000 5G base stations across Korea Japanese companies Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony and South Korean mobile network operator Stage X announced an agreement with the aim of establishing a comprehensive framework for strategic collaboration between the companies,...

O2 Telefonica and Samsung will add seven vRAN and O-RAN network sites in the Bavaria region Samsung Electronics and German carrier O2 Telefónica announced that launch of their first virtualized RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN (O-RAN) commercial site in Germany following extensive trials. The partners said...

Last year, Vodafone UK and Three UK had announced a new joint venture agreement to merge their operations U.K. carrier Vodafone said it aims to roll out its 5G Standalone (5G SA) technology to rural Wales as part of its proposed merger with rival telco...

In partnership with Northeastern University, VIAVI is also using AI for city-scale network digital twins Operators, generally, are currently (and have been for some time) going through a number of significant transformations, chief among them the shift to cloud-native 5G Standalone and the disaggregation of...