BROWSING: Carriers

The new working group will define and identify digital twin applications for the telecommunications industry The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced a new working group with the aim of addressing the application and adoption of digital twins in the telecommunications market. In a release, DTC noted...

ZTE said its net profit surged 18.6% year-on-year last year Chinese vendor ZTE reported operating revenues of CNY 122.95 billion ($17.68 billion) in 2022, up 7.4% year-on-year. In its earnings statement, the Chinese company said that its net profits amounted to CNY 8.08 billion, an increase...

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...

Juniper Research forecasts that 80% of global operator-billed service revenue will be attributable to 5G services by 2027 Mobile operators are forecast to generate $625 billion from 5G services globally by 2027, up from $310 billion in 2023, according to recent analysis by Juniper Research. The...

SK Telecom and Joby Aviation discussed cooperation for participation in Phase 1 of the K-UAM Grand Challenge Korean carrier SK Telecom and Joby Aviation, a U.S. urban air mobility (UAM) company had talks with the aim of strengthening their cooperation, Korean news service Business Korea...

Firms from Japan and the U.K. are expected to begin Open RAN technology sharing this year The U.K. and Japan announced plans to cooperate to promote Open RAN networks amid the increasing presence of Chinese vendors in the telecom sector, The Japan Times reported, citing...

In October, shipments of 5G mobile phones in China neared 19.52 million Chinese 5G mobile phone shipments reached 173 million in the first 10 months of this year, down 17.7% from the same period last year, state news agency Xinhua reported. In October, shipments of 5G...

CFO Margherita Della Valle takes over the top role as interim CEO while the board looks for a permanent replacement Multinational telco Vodafone announced Monday that its CEO of four years, Nick Read, will step down at the end of the month. CFO Margherita Della Valle has...

What is the app economy? And what role do service providers play in it? Tune in to hear Melissa Zeloof, VP of marketing at ironSource, answer these and other questions.

Huawei generated $61.8 billion in revenue in the first three quarters of the year, down 2.2% y-o-y Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE have reported their financial results for the first nine months of the year. Huawei said it generated CNY445.8 billion ($61.8 billion) in revenue in...

Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo also aim to remotely connect their O-RAN test capabilities in the U.K. and Japan U.K. telecom group Vodafone and Japanese telco NTT Docomo reached an agreement with the aim of cooperating to bring the benefits of O-RAN for operators and vendors...

A panel session at Private Networks European Forum earlier this month put the spotlight on the discipline of private 5G and edge system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are increasingly facing-off with rival factions in the developing Industry 4.0 supplier market. These other...

Who’d have thought that two decades after the connectivity boom at the turn of the century, sustainability and net-zero would be the key drivers of innovation within the telecommunications industry? It stands to reason that one of the most technologically advanced sectors on the...

Vodafone would own 51% of the potential new entity while CK Hutchison would own the remaining 49% Vodafone Group confirmed that it is in discussions with Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings in relation to a possible combination of Vodafone UK and Three UK. In a...

NEC Advanced Networks will drive developments in the radio unit business in an intial phase, with a focus on spectrum optimization and AI/ML-based massive MIMO products NEC has created a North American 5G "innovation unit" in New Providence, New Jersey, with the aim of expanding...

Huawei said that the massive MIMO technology deployed in the Philippines boost download and upload speeds by 35% Chinese vendor Huawei has started to commercially deploy its third-generation 5G massive MIMO outside China, with the Philippines being the first major market. In a release, the vendor...

CTIA said that mobile carriers in the U.S. had invested a total of $121 billion in network infrastructure since 2018 U.S. mobile operators invested a total of $35 billion last year, marking the fourth consecutive year of increased investment, according to the 2022 CTIA annual...

Russian press reports indicated that some managers were relocated to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Chinese vendor Huawei decided to relocate part of its staff from Russia to central Asia amid fears of potential sanctions from the United States, according to Russian press reports. Huawei began relocating Chinese...

The company is also working with Google on an “ultra-affordable” 5G handset, said its chairman  With its 5G spectrum auction behind it, the government of India is putting the pressure on regional Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to quickly spin up 5G service for Indian consumers...

ZTE's profits for the period were up 12% year-on-year Chinese vendor ZTE reported operating revenues of CNY 59.82 billion ($8.65 billion) in the first half of the year, up 12.7% compared to the same period last year. In its earnings statement, the Chinese company said that...

They promise universal text coverage in the U.S. in late 2023, with voice to follow T-Mobile US and satellite broadband company Starlink announced this week a partnership that sees SpaceX’s Starlink using T-Mobile mid-band spectrum to deliver ubiquitous satellite-based text messaging capabilities for T-Mobile customers....

The vendor's founder Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei would shut down marginal business units Chinese vendor Huawei needs to adopt "survival mode" for at least the next three years chiefly due to the global recession perspectives, Chinese site Yicai Global reported, citing an article published...

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, available here.  So what happens behind the ‘green curtain’, exactly? What is the trick that non-cellular IoT leader Semtech is looking to pull off with its purchase of cellular IoT maker Sierra Wireless? Or rather, how...

Jennifer Kyriakakis, the founder & CMO of Matrixx Software, defines the modern telco and lays out why 5G is a catalyst for the changes they are undergoing. She also explains why things like cloud-native and agnostic architecture should be at the heart of this...