Category: Local area networks and wide area networks

October 31, 2023

Major multinational European carriers have publicly and repeatedly expressed intent to deploy Open RAN at scale. This is driven by a number of factors chief among them the need to comply with national-level regulations concerning the replacement of equipment from […]

October 30, 2023

Swedish vendor Ericsson announced the launch of its “India 6G” program with the formation of an India 6G Research team in its Chennai R&D Center. In a release, Ericsson noted that it currently has three R&D facilities in India: in […]

October 27, 2023

Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited demonstrated what it claims to be India’s first satellite-based giga fiber service dubbed JioSpaceFiber at India Mobile Congress 2023. The telco said the new offering aims to provide high-speed broadband services to hard-to-reach geographies […]

October 27, 2023

Japan’s NTT Corporation and Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Co. have entered a partnership around the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) concept, which promotes the use of photonics technologies to develop high-speed, high-capacity network and information processing infrastructure. According to its […]

October 24, 2023

The maritime sector is embracing the use of optical fiber links, instead of traditional coaxial cable, to carry signals throughout maritime vessels. With fiber being lightweight, smaller, easier to manage and route round obstacles, including bulkheads, it is the preferred […]

October 23, 2023

Deutsche Telekom demonstrated the use of 5G network slicing for mission-critical urban infrastructure with edge IoT solutions company cthings.co. The demonstration took place at the launch of the hubraum 5G Testing Lab in Kraków, Poland earlier this month and featured […]

October 18, 2023

5G speeds and availability continue to increase around the world, with regional leaps forward due to network launches in places like India. Testing and analysis company Ookla recently released new reports on 5G markets around the world that give a […]

October 17, 2023

The government of Malaysia aims to ensure at least half of rural areas in the country have access to 5G coverage by mid-2024, local press reported. Deputy prime minister of Malaysia Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi also said the government […]

October 17, 2023

Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom and Swedish vendor Ericsson have implemented network slicing technology to help improve healthcare services in Taiwan, the latter said ina release. The vendor highlighted that there is a clearly identified need for technological answers to health […]

October 16, 2023

BICS announced that it has enabled the “world’s first-ever” intercontinental 5G Standalone (SA) roaming connection. The real-world connection runs between a 5G SA network from BICS’ parent company, the Belgian mobile operator Proximus, and Middle Eastern operator stc Kuwait’s 5G […]

October 16, 2023

Argentine telecommunications regulator Enacom confirmed it would carry out an auction to award 5G frequencies on October 24, local press reported. Through the move, the cash-strapped government aims to raise around $1.1 billion. Enacom also confirmed that local operators Personal […]

October 4, 2023

Levira and Rohde & Schwarz have demonstrated 5G Broadcast capabilities for public safety during the CREVEX 2023 crisis training exercise in Estonia. The Government Office of Estonia conducted the CREVEX 2023 complex exercise to train and test nationwide emergency response […]

October 2, 2023

Three vendor wins, a subsea spead trial, and a FTTH update from around the world: NEC said this morning that it has completed the Patara-2 subsea cable system for Telkom Indonesia. The subsea cable connects the cities of Waisai, Manokwari, […]

September 26, 2023

5G networks covered 89% of Germany’s territory as of July, up 5.1% percentage points compared to the 5G coverage registered at the beginning of the year, local newspaper Handelsblatt reported, citing data from the country’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur). 5G […]

September 25, 2023

U.K.-based investment firm Zegona Communications confirmed it is in discussions with U.K. telecom group Vodafone on a potential acquisition of the carrier’s Spanish business, Zegona Communications said in a statement. Zegona also revealed it has also been in contact with […]

September 22, 2023

The neutral host market is hotting up in the US, suddenly. Following on the heels of Celona’s tie-up with T-Mobile on extending public 4G-LTE coverage with its equipment into the CBRS band, US-based indoor connectivity specialist InfiniG has announced a […]

September 20, 2023

Three regional moves with the help of key vendors, and a couple of interesting executive hires: Wyoming’s TCT has tapped Adtran to power broadband expansion into rural areas. They will be using Adtran’s Mosaic One SaaS solution and other technology […]

September 19, 2023

Private wireless is a relatively new space and now it is evolving to the next level. US Cellular just announced they are partnering with Betacom to deliver private wireless service to their enterprise and business customers. Partnering is a quicker […]

September 18, 2023

Swedish vendor Ericsson said it has successfully carried out tests on Malaysia’s 5G network deployed by Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) for what it claimed to be the first implementation and validation in Southeast Asia of Ericsson’s pre-commercial Reduced Capability (RedCap) […]

September 13, 2023

The long tail of national regulation on ‘vertical’ private 5G spectrum continues to wag, in a slightly inconsistent manner. Swiss telecoms regulator BAKOM has announced it will open the 3400-3500 MHz (3.4-3.5 GHz) band for enterprises to deploy private 5G […]