BROWSING: 5G

Capgemini opens 5G co-creation lab in San Francisco for enterprises and partners

IT services company Capgemini has opened a 5G solutions facility in San Francisco, in the US, to help enterprises boost their adoption of 5G and edge technologies. Located at Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE), the center claims to provide a co-creation environment for innovative...

True and Dtac merge to create biggest telco in Thailand

Thai carriers Total Access Communication (Dtac) and True Corp have completed their merger. Nordic operator Telenor, which partially ownes Dtac, said in a statement that the transaction is the largest telco merger in Southeast Asia by combined enterprise value. The new company will have a...

Chunghwa Telecom and Ericsson align on future 5G and 6G innovations

The companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Mobile Work Congress 2023 MWC, BARCELONA - Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom and Ericsson have agreed to align their efforts around 5G Advanced and 6G, with a particular focus on bringing more energy-efficient networks to the private wireless...

Microsoft adds BICS to private MEC bundle for private-to-public network roaming

Carrier services company BICS is providing private-to-public network roaming for enterprises installing private 5G networks from Microsoft. BICS said the pair have “collaborated to solve the challenges” of IoT roaming between private enterprise networks and public operator networks. The Belgium-based firm is providing roaming...

‘Is it fair?’ Burdened telcos bemoan ‘contradictory’ risk-and-reward delta

The CEO of Orange said that European operators considered that the huge investments in network infrastructure was being hard to monetize MWC, BARCELONA: European telcos face intense pressure on two fronts, said Christel Heydemann, chief executive of French group Orange at MWC – to support...

Dell, Airspan open private 5G members’ clubs for operators, integrators

Dell Technologies kicked off a private 5G charm offensive with the operator set last week, in time for MWC, offering pre-tested and validated edge compute and networking solutions, plus system integration and support, for operators to sell private 5G to enterprises. At the outset,...

Vodafone and NTT Docomo to simplify open RAN testing and integration

The O-RAN cooperation will be performed by exchanging the respective expertise and technologies between the parties MWC, Barcelona. Vodafone and NTT Docomo have said they will work together to simplify open RAN testing and integration for network equipment vendors, with a view to harmonize the...

‘Every warehouse, farmhouse, outhouse’ – Deutsche Telekom preps global satellite IoT offer

MWC 2023, Barcelona. Cellular will now find your IoT sensor in “every warehouse, farmhouse, outhouse, and doghouse”, to (mis)quote Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard; Deutsche Telekom has said it is working with Intelsat and Skylo to offer a satellite extension to its terrestrial cellular IoT...

DT, T-Mobile US launch network APIs and joint developer platform

The two telcos said the new network APIs are integrated onto Microsoft Azure Programmable Connectivity BARCELONA—Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US have developed a platform with joint Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - called T-DevEdge – with the aim of making easier for the global developer community...

Singtel unveils 5G security-as-a-slice offering in Singapore

Singtel said the new capability identifies and blocks cyber threats at the network level thus preventing them from reaching the network’s users Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel unveiled its new 5G security-as-a-slice (SecaaS) offering, the telco said in a release. The new capability identifies and blocks cyber...

Deutsche Telekom kicks off commercial O-RAN deployment

Deutsche Telekom said that Nokia and Fujitsu have been selected as partners for an initial commercial O-RAN introduction in Germany German carrier Deutsche Telekom announced a partnership with Nokia, Fujitsu and Mavenir for the initial phase of its commercial Open RAN (O-RAN) deployments across its...

Dell expands partner ecosystem with focus on open telecom

Dell announced new partnerships with Nokia, Qualcomm, Amdocs and Juniper Networks BARCELONA, SPAIN - Dell Technologies kicked off Mobile World Congress Barcelona in a big way, announcing a string of industry collaborations that all aim to bolster the open telecom ecosystem. The first two new...

Bosch and Nokia combine on 6G research for Industry 4.0

MWC 2023: Bosch has said it is working with Nokia to develop industrial IoT solutions based on incoming 6G cellular networks. It follows the same joint work, formalised by the pair in a partnership in 2017, on 5G networks, now coming to market, mostly...

ZTE launches new all-scenario 5G solution

ZTE said that this new solution, dubbed UniSite, aims to help carriers build a future-oriented 5G network offering capabilities for all spectrum bands BARCELONA—Chinese vendor ZTE has released its new all-scenario 5G solution at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2023. The vendor noted that the new...

Major telcos move to open network APIs to developers – to drive innovation, revenues

MWC 2023: The GSMA has announced a framework of universal network application programmable interfaces (APIs) to provide universal access to operator networks for developers. At launch, at the annual MWC showcase in Barcelona, the so-called GSMA Open Gateway initiative has the support of 21...

Chinese carriers add 16.5 million new 5G subscribers in January

China Mobile’s overall mobile subscriber base at the end of January amounted to 975.5 million, after a net addition of 503,000 subscribers during the month Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 16.53 million 5G subscribers in January, according to the operators’ latest available statistics. China...

Infovista Analyst Report: The evolution from drive testing to multi-level automated testing in 5G

The wireless evolution to 5G, digital services, IoT, cloud-native and virtualized architectures is creating networks that are at once more powerful and sophisticated, and more complex to manage and optimize. To keep up with the new requirements and expectations, operators have to widen the...

Latest chip from Marvell simplifies transition to cloud-native RAN

‘The easiest way to migrate from the traditional to a cloud-native RAN is to use the same proven silicon and software for both,’ says Marvell With Mobile World Congress Barcelona less than a week away, RCR Wireless News caught up with Marvell’s Senior Director of...

KPMG targets healthcare sector with Verizon’s 5G private network

Verizon operates several 5G Labs in the U.S. that specialize in developing use cases for diverse industries KPMG has deployed a Verizon private 5G wireless network into its Ignition Center inside KPMG Lakehouse as part of the two companies' alliance to deliver 5G solutions designed...

Private 5G will be worth $96bn by 2030 – but half will go on problem-solving SI services

Ahead of a big week in Barcelona, when the telecoms set hits town for its annual MWC jamboree, and when the only talk of any outward substance will be about edge-based 5G for enterprises, analyst house ABI Research has stuck out a revised forecast...

Huawei, Tianjin Port Group to develop digital twin of the port

Huawei explained that the automation and intelligent upgrade of ports seek to achieve the optimal efficiency of the entire port system that includes machines, yards, vehicles, ships and goods Huawei and the Tianjin Port Group (TPG) have recently announced a cooperative project with the aim...

HPE buys Athonet – ignites private 5G play, lights MWC touchpaper

Game, set, and match at MWC, and the contest hasn’t even started. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has bought Italian private core network specialist Athonet for an undisclosed fee. For our money (old Enterprise IoT Insights money), this is likely to be the biggest news...

Anritsu White Paper: Introduction to 5G Positioning Technologies

5G is expanding into new industry segments, but also expanding into new technology areas, such as 5G positioning. Key concept of 5G precise positioning is to utilize 3GPP signaling in the 5G network to enhance the performance of position calculation. The eco-system for the...

Nokia secures 5G network extension deal in Singapore

Nokia deploy a 5G Standalone (SA) network for both indoor and outdoor coverage Finnish vendor Nokia secured a ten-year extension to its existing nationwide 5G network deal with Antina, the joint venture formed by Singapore mobile network operators M1 and StarHur. The vendor said it won...