Tag: 5G

April 25, 2024

U.S. consumers are primed to accept Fixed Wireless Access service as a primary connectivity option, and those who have it don’t intent to switch any time soon, according to a new report from Ericsson’s Consumer Lab. Of U.S. households which […]

April 24, 2024

5G, fiber continue to drive the telco’s results in Q1 AT&T beat expectations on its customer growth, with revenues off just slightly from the same period last year as CEO John Stankey continued to emphasize the telco’s focus on consistent, […]

April 22, 2024

Malaysian state-run 5G network Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) denied a report which had alleged that the company had not been transparent in its internal operations, with regards to the awarding of contracts to third party vendors—in particular, for Ericsson’s 5G […]

April 19, 2024

T-Mobile US is now Delta Air Lines preferred mobility partner, the companies announced this week. As part of the pair-up, Delta will move more than 60,000 lines to T-Mobile US and the carrier’s 5G hybrid network will be deployed at […]

April 18, 2024

In today’s evolving telecoms landscape, providers are faced with mounting competition and growing pressure to provide the best, most reliable service. Many experts in this sector understand the limitations of existing networks, realizing that the true way to establish the […]

April 18, 2024

Chinese vendor Huawei is using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to upgrade network capabilities at all levels with the aim of accelerating network intelligence, Steven Zhao, vice president of Huawei’s data communication product line, said during a speech at the Huawei […]

April 16, 2024

The current emphasis on bringing cloud-native technology and operating principles into 5G—with the move to a Standalone 5G architecture and cloud-native 5G core the next major transition—will inform how 6G is designed, standardized and deployed. Beyond a number of 5G […]

April 15, 2024

Belgian operator Proximus has announced a strategic partnership with European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. Under the terms of the partnership, Proximus and Airbus will launch “Agnet MCx”, a solution for business-critical communications and collaboration. This solution will be available in the […]

April 12, 2024

Singapore Polytechnic (SP) and Qualcomm Technologies have announced a joint initiative with the aim of bringing Qualcomm Technologies’ 5G training and certification to polytechnic students in Singapore. Qualcomm Technologies’ collaboration with SP on programs from Qualcomm Academy, the educational and […]

April 9, 2024

Whatever the 5G use case is, one of the results for operators is the need to serve more throughput per subscriber. At the same time, operators have committed to net-zero goals, and are otherwise looking to cut costs associated with […]

April 3, 2024

Driven by an ever-expanding universe of connected devices and more powerful smartphones, mobile data traffic is continuing to surge, meaning the stakes are higher than ever when it comes to providing high-performing 5G networks. For years, the “best network” was […]

April 2, 2024

Chinese operators have already deployed 92,000 5G base stations in China’s financial hub Shanghai has a 92,000 5G base stations as of the end of February, Chinese news service Xinhua reported. By the end of 2023, 38.5% of the city’s […]

April 1, 2024

5G connections reached 1.76 billion globally at the end of 2023, after a net addition of 700 million connections during the year, according to a new report by 5G Americas with data from Omdia. North America was the main region […]

March 26, 2024

China is expected to reach a 5G adoption rate of 90% by 2030, making it a world leader in this space, according to the GSMA’s Mobile Economy China 2024. The report predicted that by the end of this year, the […]

March 26, 2024

The telecom industry is currently seeing good momentum for Open RAN adoption and deployment. Recently, RCR Wireless News caught up with Ganesh Shenbagaraman, Head of Standards and Ecosystems at Radisys, to talk about upcoming Open RAN initiatives and what he […]

March 22, 2024

Chilean operators Claro and Entel were the only bidders in Chile’s second 5G spectrum auction, local press reported. The main aim of the tender is to award up to five blocks of 10 megahertz each in the 3.5GHz spectrum band. […]

March 19, 2024

Is there an echo in here? Swedish vendor Ericsson has established a new federal division in the U.S. to deliver “5G-driven digital transformation” across multiple agencies in the U.S. federal government. It follows a similar move by Finnish rival Nokia […]

March 14, 2024

Although the 5G-Advanced era does not officially begin until the freeze of 3GPP’s Release 18, which is expected in June of this year, mobile network operators are already busy testing of related technology and features in the lab and even […]

March 13, 2024

Globe Telecom, which is the largest mobile network operator in the Philippines, said it deployed 894 new 5G sites nationwide during the course of 2023. During the first half of last year, the telco had activated 356 new 5G sites […]

March 12, 2024

Middle East telco Ooredoo Group is working with Chinese vendor Huawei to move toward the ‘5.5G’, or 5G-Advanced, era by upgrading its core networks across key markets. The partnership, which was signed during Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024, will see […]