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#TBT: Monetizing MEC; FCC nominee withdraws; Dish tests 800 MHz … this week in 2023

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Snapdragon Spaces at...

#TBT: Oracle buys Acme Packet; Rumors of an Apple watch; The state of LTE … this week in 2013

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Oracle eyes all-IP...

Dish Wireless awarded $50 million for O-RAN test facility

ORCID will allow participants to test and validate their hardware and software solutions against an O-RAN network deployed by Dish Dish Wireless, which is now a subsidiary of EchoStar, was awarded a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information...

#TBT: Covid’s impact on IoT tracking; T-Mo integrates Sprint network; Apples-to-apples 5G … this week in 2020

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Covid-19's impact on...

How will Dish Wireless use the Open RAN RIC?

A Q&A with Dish’s Sidd Chenumolu on the public cloud, network programmability and the role of the RIC Dish Wireless has reached major coverage milestones in its effort to build out a nationwide Standalone 5G network using Open RAN principles. Company Vice President of Technology...

RIP, 3G—Verizon’s shutdown wraps up 3G sunsets for US national carriers

Verizon originally planned its 3G shutdown for 2019 Verizon officially turned down its 3G network on the final day of 2022. It had been the last holdout among national mobile network operators, with AT&T and T-Mobile US already having completed their 3G shutdowns. Verizon first...

What are the three main Open RAN architectures?

Mavenir exec: 'Open RAN is about the interfaces between the elements; not the interfaces within the products' According to Mavenir Senior Vice President of Business Development John Baker, there is still significant confusion about what Open RAN really means. In an effort to clear up...

Three learnings from the Dish cloud-native 5G deployment

When going to cloud-native 5G, forget what you know about telecoms: Dish exec Said Berrahil U.S. operator Dish is in process of building out a cloud-native 5G network that adheres to Open RAN principles and specifications. Extending from this idea of a cloud-native network, the...

Telco trends around cloudificaton and edge move market to Zayo

Zayo CEO sees edge as requiring data center capacity, networking and other service support Multiple mega-trends impacting how telecommunications operators strategically evolve their own businesses while delivering solutions for the digital transformation of their customers depend on access to fiber optic infrastructure. Whether that’s network...

Dell highlights telco and edge customer wins in Q2 earnings report

Dell Technologies is supporting T-Mobile US and Dish 5G efforts Dell Technologies has been tracking the move of data creation and processing out of centralized data centers and to the various edges, and adapting its products and services to address this market shift for some...

Dish and Cisco partner with Duke University to trial CBRS neutral-host network

Dish Wireless and Cisco, in partnership with Internet2, have launched a Neutral Host Network (NHN) pilot at Duke University using Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) shared spectrum. Stephen Bye, chief commercial officer at Dish Wireless, explained that it can be challenging to provide consistently reliable connectivity...

Helium rebranded Nova Labs, raises $200m in Series D – from a16z, DT, Goodyear, Nokia

Helium, the company in charge of the crowd-sourced Helium non-cellular IoT and cellular 5G networks, has rebranded as Nova Labs, and announced $200 million of Series D funding from New York-based investment company Tiger Global and Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Besides...

How is DISH approaching 5G monetization?

Competitors are focused on FWA and MEC as routes to 5G monetization With operators spending billions to deploy, package and sell connectivity-backed solutions, 5G monetization has moved front-and-center in operator's messaging. Verizon, for instance, recently laid out its three-year service revenue outlook and sees fixed...

DISH Chairman says 5G deployment is six months behind schedule

In building a cloud-native Open RAN network, "We found that we had to become a system integrator" While DISH said this week on an earnings call it is behind schedule on its 5G deployment, the new facilities-based wireless carrier said it will light up service...

The Sunday Brief: The John Malone CNBC interview—explained and deciphered

Holiday greetings from the Midwest (pictured is our Thanksgiving view of Table Rock Lake from our Branson family rental) and South Central US.  We hope everyone had a restful Thanksgiving week and look forward to seeing those of you attending CES early next month.  Speaking...

Dish selects Equinix as connectivity infrastructure provider for 5G network

Equinix will provide digital infrastructure services to support Dish’s cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network. As a result, Dish will have access to the infrastructure company’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers across the U.S. “Dish is taking the lead in delivering on the promise of...

Arm teams with Tech Mahindra on private 5G and open RAN test centre

Arm has opened a virtual ‘5G solutions lab’ with India-based system integrator Tech Mahindra. The setup will provide a live test environment for Arm’s customers in chip production, network design, network operation, and enterprise fields to demo 5G network solutions, it said. In particular,...

Massive IoT starts to come online as NB-IoT roaming and billing get sorted, says BICS

International cellular provider BICS has said it has NB-IoT roaming coverage in a dozen countries, with new NB-IoT deals being signed at a faster rate than on LTE-M, and a loose target of “more than 20” NB-IoT roaming contracts by the year-end. The Belgium-based...

DISH ‘seeing significant traction’ around private enterprise 5G networks

DISH planning Q4 beta test of 5G network in Las Vegas; construction to be largely complete by end of Q3 In its ongoing effort to shield customers from coming 3G network shutdowns while working on resell arrangements with both AT&T and T-Mobile US, DISH is...

Kagan: Wireless deal good for DISH, AT&T, but not for T-Mobile US

Congratulations to both Dish and AT&T on this new deal. And sorry to T-Mobile. Earlier this week there was a major announcement. Dish will be an MVNO reseller of the AT&T Mobility network. That’s great news for Dish and their investors because they can...

Dish selects Oracle to enable SBA for its 5G core

Dish has selected Oracle to enable a Service-Based Architecture (SBA) for its 5G core, the former said in a release. SBA, part of the 3GPP 5G standard, enables network services to be rapidly incorporated into new applications by Dish or Dish customers through automated, intelligent...

ATC invests in different areas to be ready for continued 5G rollouts: CEO

American Tower Corporation (ATC) has been investing in more efficient and scalable power solutions at many of the company’s sites to be ready for the requirements of U.S. carriers extending their 5G networks nationwide, the company’s President and CEO, Tom Bartlett, said during a...

VMware paves the way for virtualized RAN with new platform

VMware has announced the launch of its VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN, a platform that enables Communication service providers (CSPs) to virtualize radio access network (RAN) functions and implement an open RAN architecture. “A modern, open, and disaggregated RAN offers CSPs the single best opportunity...

Dish vendor updates: Towers, transport and 5G security

American Tower, Netcracker, Palo Alto Networks latest vendors tapped for Dish 5G build Dish executives are looking toward some sort of commercial 5G service this year and, in pursuit of that, continue to onboard vendors to help them become the fourth facilities-based carrier in the...