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Latest T-Mobile US “Un-carrier” event featured strong focus on 5G for rural America In terms of 5G creating long-term user value and service provider revenue, the high-level global focus is on enterprise enablement. 5G for consumers is an expected evolution–higher speeds, lower latency, faster downloads and so forth, but not necessarily as economically impactful as

Google Cloud spent much of 2020 ratcheting up its focus on supporting telecom players’ computing needs, particularly when it comes to edge. Part of Google Cloud’s strategy for serving telcos is developing solutions that the carriers can both use in their own business, and that they can sell to others, according to Amol Phadke, managing

Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile said it attracted over 3.9 million applications for its mobile service since it launched its 4G offering one year ago. The telco launched a new promotional campaign to attract more subscribers. This campaign offers the Rakuten UN-LIMIT VI service plan to customers free of charge for the first three months of

Rohde & Schwarz’s Teisnock factory sits among picturesque mountains in southeastern Germany, near the Czech border and about a two hours’ drive from Munich. One of two R&S factories in Germany, the company chose the Teisnock factory as the location of its first deployment of a private 5G wireless network, using spectrum which Germany has

As the telecom industry works to enable 5G, virtualization and MEC for enterprise customers, they are first experimenting with how those technologies can benefit their own factories, office buildings and operations. Who’s already using these advanced technologies, where and what benefits are they seeing? Speakers:Kelly Hill, Managing Editor, RCR Wireless NewsDanny Cobb, Fellow/VP Engineering, Dell

France had a total of 22,857 5G authorized sites as of April 1, of which 12,213 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR. The agency said that all of the 5G sites have been authorized on existing cellular sites, already used by

China is forecast to reach 739 million 5G subscribers by 2025, according to a recent study by ABI Research. This figure would represent nearly 40% of the global market share in the 5G segment. In terms of the annual mobile data consumption, the 5G annual data traffic in China is forecast to reach 782 exabytes

325 megahertz of low- and mid-band spectrum to be made available Hong Kong’s Communications Authority (CA) confirmed that it expects to award a total of 325 megahertz of spectrum in various frequency bands in the fourth quarter of this year. CA stated the sale will provide 220 megahertz of new spectrum in the 600 MHz,

Total 5G subs in Korea nearing 14 million South Korea ended February with 13.66 million subscribers in the 5G segment after a net addition of 792,118 subscribers during the month, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT. SK Telecom had the largest number of 5G subscribers at 6.35

Data shows that mmWave 5G is nearly thirty times faster than public Wi-Fi According to recent Opensignal data, 5G mmWave and public Wi-Fi are nearly matched in availability. However, smartphone users experienced download speeds 30 times faster when connected to 5G mmWave than when connected to public Wi-Fi, achieving an average upload speed of 640.5

WISPA exec called the infrastructure plan ‘right on target’ On Wednesday, President Joe Biden introduced a monumental $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs package that aims to reshape the American economy. The infrastructure plan is far reaching, and includes, among many other things, $174 billion for electric vehicles, $50 billion for semiconductor manufacturing and research and $100 billion to

Many expected 2020 to be the year of 5G. Then the pandemic hit. And now there’s talk of 2021 being the year of 5G. Where does 5G really stand globally? This report explores how different regulations, spectrum availability and customer demands impact the deployment and adoption of next-generation cellular services around the world.

The most-populous market in the U.S. — New York City and its surrounds — is also the fastest, according to a new ranking of metropolitan cellular networks by Rootmetrics. New York City’s aggregate median download speed of 46.3 Mbps was the fastest in the country, bolstered by a 72.0 Mbps carrier speed from Verizon that

Globally, telecoms spent over $8 billion in 5G infrastructure last year, while in the U.S. alone operators spent more than $80 billion on 5G spectrum. The key to unlocking a return on investment will depend on how effectively telecom service providers can monetize those investments with new services.  Those services will require a 5G packet

German operator Deutsche Telekom expects its 5G network to reach 90% of the country’s population by the end of the year, the company said in a release. The telco said that its 5G infrastructure currently provides coverage to 80% of the population. By the end of March, more than 66 million people in around 5,000

In what it calls an “unquestionable first,” Signals Research Group has tested the efficiency of LTE and 5G network schedulers of Ericsson and Nokia in the Verizon and T-Mobile US networks — and concluded that, well, 5G has a some growing up to do when it comes to scheduling. SRG used the IntelliJudge and WaveJudge

GeoLinks said the mmWave spectrum will allow it to offer 1 Gbps speeds Verizon has sold a number of millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum licenses to fixed wireless internet provider GeoLinks, who will use the licenses to cover top markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Atlanta, Houston and Washington D.C., to name

Nokia has announced a new CBRS offering, partnering with newly authorized Spectrum Access System operator Key Bridge for an integrated private network solution with an emphasis on reliability and simplicity. Key Bridge received authorization from the Federal Communications Commission within the past month as a SAS operator and has both a SAS offering and an

Intel plans to invest about $20 billion to build two new fab facilities in Arizona, bolstering U.S. jobs and the domestic semiconductor supply. Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s CEO, discussed the fab investments and Intel’s strategy in an online financial and business update on the company. He said that four factors — cloud, connectivity, artificial intelligence and

Weeks after the U.S. Air Force’s Space Command issued a Request for Information (RFI) detailing its interest in using 5G for data transportation for ground- and space-based communications, Lockheed Martin, a U.S. defense contractor, announced a strategic interest agreement with satellite startup Omnispace “to explore jointly developing 5G capability from space.” Omnispace CEO Ram Viswanathan told CNBC that

How do you approach network benchmark testing so that it represents the user experience in a way that’s as reflective of real-world conditions as possible? And how do you best test the back-and-forth data transfers that determine the mobile gaming experience but aren’t necessarily captured by one-off tests of latency and data speed? Signals Research

Greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman where the 2-year-drought has ended! The editor has a question for all the TSB-reading technology innovators, implementers and investors: Why is it 2021 and we’re still having to do THIS with our TV’s? Picture-in-picture was an ‘80’s phenomenon. After 40 years we’re still hauling in the old set from the

NI announced this week that it’s joining OpenRF, a group of chipmakers and other ecosystem players that want to see an “open and interoperable ecosystem” between chipsets and the radio-frequency front end (RFFE). OpenRF was founded in October 2020 by Broadcom, Intel, Mediatek, Samsung, Quorvo, Murata and Skyworks. Other chip vendors — notably, Qualcomm —

The Federal Communications Commission this week levied its largest-ever fine against a robocalling operation: $225 million, against two companies which the agency says transmitted around 1 billion robocalls shilling short-term health insurance. The FCC said that many of the calls made in the first half of 2019 by John C. Spiller and Jakob A. Mears

In the wake of the record-breaking C Band auction, RCR Wireless News caught up with Heidi Hemmer, VP of Technology at Verizon — which, alone, spent $52.9 billion on the mid-spectrum spectrum — to find out more about the carrier’s overall approach to 5G rollouts, as well as what is in store for the remainder

Nokia warned it could cut up to 10,000 jobs as part of a wider restructuring effort designed to reset the vendor’s cost base and increase research and dvelopment investment and future capabilities including 5G, cloud and digital infrastructure. In a statement, Nokia said the planned restructure would result in an 80,000–85,000 employee organization over an

5G is expected to support transformational change across multiple industries: More efficient factories, smarter transportation, more holistic health and so on. Expectations are high, even if the exact path to such widespread shifts isn’t entirely clear. But the increased digitalization and connectedness that 5G will enable has also prompted the question of how the transition

AT&T executives emphasized the role of fiber, 5G and HBO Max as well as streamlining across its business, as it laid out its areas of strategic focus for the coming years. “Fiber underpins the connectivity we deliver, serving both wired and wireless. We believe our hybrid fixed and mobile approach will differentiate AT&T and provide

Chinese operator China Unicom revealed its 5G user numbers for the first time since the telco launched the technology in October 2019, closing 2020 with 70.8 million package subscribers. In its earnings statement, China Unicom noted that 5G customers accounted for 23.2% of its total customer base. China Unicom also announced plans to boost its

T-Mobile’s enterprise goal is to be “top of mind for every CIO across America”  Verizon laid out its grand plan to deploy C Band spectrum at an investor event on Wednesday and, the following day, executives with T-Mobile US used the new competitive guidance to strengthen their own 5G messaging while looking forward to expected