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The Sunday Brief: Verizon at CES—let the renaissance begin

More snowy and chilly greetings from Jefferson City and Willard, Missouri, as well as the Tar Heel state, where we anxiously await next week’s warmup.  The opening picture is from a Zoom presentation last week to the Colorado Wireless Association (COWA).  A terrific discussion...

Samsung Galaxy S21 supports 5G carrier aggregation

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 can aggregate T-Mobile's 600 MHz and 2.5 GHz 5G bands Samsung this week debuted its latest flagship, the Galaxy S21, with across-the-board feature advancements and, of course, support for non-standalone and standalone 5G both sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave. Of interest n...

Samsung’s ‘better normal’ includes at-home robots and AI

At CES 2021, Samsung introduced new consumer robot concepts At this year’s virtual CES, Samsung’s President and Head of Research Sabastian Seung made the company’s goal of enhancing the at-home experience very clear. “Our world looks different, and many of you have been faced with...

5G in 2021: Expectations and Evolution

5G is the fastest-growing mobile technology in history and is being adopted four times as quickly as LTE was when it was introduced, as 5G Americas observed in a new report. For impatient customers, 5G and the new applications it will power cannot come...

Samsung achieves 305 Gbps on its 5G SA Core using Intel processor

Samsung revealed that it achieved a 5G Standalone Core data processing capacity of 305 Gbps per server and latency improvement in a mobile network environment using Intel’s second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and the Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E810 with Enhanced Dynamic Device Personalization...

Samsung, IBM collaborate on industrial private 5G and edge compute

Samsung and IBM have announced plans to jointly advance Industry 4.0 by providing new enterprise mobile edge computing and private 5G networks solutions that run on Samsung’s 5G-enabled Galaxy devices. The pair also said that the collaboration will leverage IBM’s industry solutions driven by...

Samsung, IBM make pact on private 5G and edge compute for ‘industrial-scale’ AI

Samsung and IBM are to collaborate on on-premise industrial 5G and edge computing to drive the Industry 4.0 market, they have said. The pair want to combine their expertise in private 5G networks and edge computing, in the shape of Samsung’s 5G smartphones and...

Vidéotron launches 5G in Montreal, using Samsung’s RAN gear

Vidéotron's network uses 600 MHz, 700 MHz, 2.6 GHz and AWS spectrum Vidéotron has launched 5G service to its users in Canada with support from Samsung. The initial roll out took place in Montreal, the country’s second largest city, with expansion planned across the province...

Ericsson ignites legal battle with Samsung over royalty payments

Ericsson’s shares fell 8.2% after trading began in Stockholm Ericsson announced that it’s taking Samsung to court in the U.S., alleging that the South Korean company failed to deliver on contractual commitments concerning royalty payments and patent licenses. In a statement, Ericsson said that case involves...

Mercedes-Benz, Samsung intro in-car control of smart home with new S-Class

Mercedes-Benz has integrated its in-car voice assistant system with the home-based Samsung-owned SmartThings platform to enable drivers and passengers to interact with connected devices in their homes. It is the first native in-car system to be linked with smart home functions, claim the pair. The...

Kagan: Industry analyst on Qualcomm 5G Summit 2020

Last week I virtually attended the Qualcomm 5G Summit 2020, which is their annual conference where they talk about what they have accomplished in the past year, where they are today and what their plans are going forward. Let me share a few key...

Samsung, KCCS to implement 5G private network at a Japanese manufacturing facility

Samsung will supply the 5G private network with its RAN for mid-band and mmWave spectrum, and cloud-native core Samsung Electronics and Kyocera Communication Systems (KCCS) are engaging in their first collaborative project to implement a dedicated 5G private network at a Japanese manufacturing facility. The...

Rogers’s 5G network reaches 130 towns and cities in Canada

  Canadian operator Rogers Communications has expanded its 5G network to reach 130 towns and cities across the country, the carrier said in a release. In January 2020, Rogers Communications had initially launched 5G in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Other large cities covered with 5G technology...

Korean carriers order 28 GHz 5G base stations from Samsung: Report

  Korean telecommunications operators SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus have ordered 28 GHz 5G base stations from compatriot company Samsung Electronics for the first time, Korean press reported. According to the reports, these are the same base stations that U.S. carrier Verizon recently ordered from...

Well, technically… multi-vendor interoperability leads to a robust, innovative ecosystem: Suruchi Gupta, Samsung (Ep. 13)

On this week's episode, Suruchi Gupta, Samsung's senior professional of sales and head of 5G collaboration, discusses the company's commitment to helping create an open telecom ecosystem that supports multi-vendor interoperability.

Samsung to deliver 5G network solutions built on Red Hat’s cloud portfolio

Samsung’s 5G vRAN, virtual core, MEC, and management and analytics will be central to the collaboration Samsung will deliver 5G network solutions built on Red Hat's hybrid cloud portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat...

Breaking down the pros of Open RAN

Let’s frame the Open RAN value proposition to better understand the benefits of disaggregating radio hardware and software, trading single-purpose equipment for general-purpose hardware and moving vital network functions into the cloud. First and foremost, network economics need to change; for 5G, and LTE,...

Samsung, KDDI demo 5G end-to-end network slicing

5G end-to-end network slicing will allow for the creation of new services and business models Samsung Electronics and KDDI completed a 5G end-to-end (E2E) network slicing demonstration with a RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) in Tokyo, Japan yesterday. The demo, which tied together Samsung’s virtualized core,...

Intel secures license to continue supplying products to Huawei: Report

  Intel has secured licenses from U.S. authorities to continue supplying certain products to Chinese vendor Huawei, Reuters reported, citing an Intel spokesman. According to the report,  the licenses are now required to make a transaction with Huawei or a listed affiliate involving any equipment using...

Verizon is working with Corning, Samsung to deliver in-building 5G mmWave

In-building 5G mmWave solutions will bring high throughput, great capacity, high reliability indoors Verizon has begun trials with Samsung, and recently completed similar trials with Corning, that test new 5G mmWave in-building solutions, which the operator hopes will extend the footprint of its 5G network...

Galaxy XCover Pro – Rugged, functional, and stylish smartphone for frontline users

Every time I see the frontline users chugging along those thick, heavy, oversized rugged phones, I feel there should be a way to make them sleek, and stylish like consumer phones, without compromising on the functionality. And I am delighted to say that Samsung...

Samsung snags $6.6 billion contract with Verizon

At least a portion of the deal is confirmed to relate directly to 5G Samsung has snagged a five-year, $6.6 billion contract with Verizon that primarily covers installing and upgrading the U.S. mobile provider’s infrastructure as part of the preparation for providing next-generation services. While little...

Bell Canada to launch 5G in 28 additional markets this year: CEO

  Canadian telecommunications operator Bell expects to expand its current 5G network to 28 additional markets this year, Mirko Bibic, president and CEO of Bell Canada, said during a conference call with investors. Bell had announced the launch of its commercial 5G service in the country...

Samsung expands CBRS network solutions to address connectivity disparity

The Samsung 64T64R CBRS Massive MIMO radio operates over the entire CBRS spectrum with an IBW of 150MHz Samsung delivered its first Federal Communication Commission-certified, 5G-ready CBRS massive MIMO solution in July of 2019. The solution, based on the 3GPP Release 15 standard, is capable...