Tag: Samsung

February 16, 2024

Canadian operator Telus and Samsung Electronics announced that they will build what they say will be Canada’s first commercial virtualized and Open RAN (O-RAN) network. The companies said they are expanding their collaboration from greenfield to brownfield deployments. The partners […]

September 1, 2023

U.K. telco Vodafone confirmed it has officially started the installation of Open RAN (O-RAN) equipment for 2,500 sites in Wales and in certain regions of England, the telco said in a release. The telco noted that O-RAN technology will be […]

March 8, 2023

Indian operator Bharti Airtel continues to rapidly expand its 5G footprint in the country with the launch of 5G in 125 cities across the Asian nation. In a release, the Indian carrier said its “Airtel 5G Plus” service is now […]

February 23, 2023

Per a new agreement, Samsung is supplying Dish Wireless with an initial shipment of 24,000 Open RAN-compliant radios and 5G virtualized RAN (vRAN) software solutions to help the operator accelerate its network deployment in the U.S. The Dish network is […]

February 20, 2023

Wind River announced that its Wind River Studio is being used by Japanese operator KDDI for its O-RAN­-compliant 5G virtualized base station, which began commercial deployment last month in Osaka, Japan. For its 5G virtualized base station, KDDI uses Wind […]

January 23, 2023

Samsung Electronics and Japanese operator KDDI asay that they have successfully achieved Service Level Agreement (SLA) assurance network slicing in a field trial conducted in Tokyo, Japan. In a release, the Korean vendor said that the companies proved that they […]

December 16, 2022

The U.K. government announced this week that it is putting 110 million pounds into support for 5G and 6G-related telecom research and development. The funding will include 28 million pounds that will be shared among the University of York, University […]

December 8, 2022

Verizon has added its first Ericsson virtualized cell site to further its network virtualization efforts. The cell site, also referred to as Ericsson Cloud RAN, has been implemented with support from Intel and RedHat, which have provided the processing and […]

November 7, 2022

Samsung Electronics announced it recently used mmWave spectrum to achieve record data rates over a distance of 10 kilometers in trials with Australian operator nbn. The Korean vendor noted that this test demonstrates the expanded reach possible with this spectrum […]

October 31, 2022

New millimeter-wave 5G devices and chipsets have made significant progress in power use and compared to earlier iterations, according to new benchmark testing by Signals Research Group. SRG looked at the devices’ electrical current drain in relationship to bandwidth consumption […]

September 7, 2022

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo in December activated a 5G Standalone (SA) network using both mmWave and mid-band frequencies. Users with compatible devices can now use 5G NR Dual Connectivity (DC) capabilities which aggregate the high- and mid-band frequencies providing a boost […]

August 31, 2022

A wide range of technologies such as AI, advanced sensors, optics, cloud computing, high-speed digital, satellite and robotics will undergo rapid advancement in the next decade, combining and augmenting to enable new use models made possible by 6G, according to […]

July 25, 2022

WaterBear Network, the free streaming platform dedicated to sustainability and the future of the planet, has announced the continued expansion of its linear FAST channel on Samsung TV Plus across Spain and Italy. Available to Samsung’s Smart TV and select […]

June 2, 2022

With 5G rollouts still very much underway but having made significant global progress, the industry is beginning to turn its attention to the development of 6G technology. In the slightly edited conversation with RCR Wireless News below, Dr. Sunghyun Choi, […]

May 19, 2022

Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a very important, yet not very well-known, slice of the wireless landscape. It has significant growth potential for the companies that can find a solution to this problem. There are many companies in the wireless […]

February 18, 2022

KDDI is claiming to have turned on the world’s first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) site in partnership with Samsung and Fujitsu. Powered by virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN), the first network site went live […]

February 11, 2022

A bit of M&A news, and three vendor network deployment projects: SEACOM has announced a deal to acquire infrastructure assets from Uganda’s Africell. The pan-African service provider continues to expand its terrestrial footprint, complementing the subsea cable along east Africa […]

April 15, 2021

Samsung Electronics Australia is opening its telecommunications networks operations, Samsung Networks Business, in Australia, with initial offerings including the company’s Compact Macro 5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) radio solution, which is functional in both 26GHz and 28GHz spectrums. “The launch of Samsung […]

February 4, 2021

Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 Ultra, announced in January, has a number of features aimed at eliminating a particularly annoying pain point for consumers: The transition between Wi-Fi and cellular and vice versa. “Our solution to that inconvenience is enhanced intelligent […]

January 27, 2021

According to the Global mobile Suppliers Association’s (GSA) newest 5G chipset report, the number of discrete 5G modems more than doubled during 2020, and number of 5G processors increased ninefold. The report indicated that 29 commercially available 5G mobile processors/platforms […]