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Verizon will install c-band radios outdoors at each DoD facility, as well as a mix of 4G and 5G mmWave in certain indoor locations Verizon Public Sector has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deliver its 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) mobility service — branded as Ultra Wideband — to seven Air

PHOENIX–In 20 months unlike any others that the telecom industry has dealt with in modern times, small carriers have had to navigate the uncharted waters of a pandemic on a fraction of the budget of national carriers: Shifting to online sales and service channels when perhaps they hadn’t offered it before; making curbside service an

The two companies will give vendors an opportunity to test and optimize performance as they develop Open RAN solutions IBM Global Business Services and Airspan Networks have announced plans to launch a 5G-enabled Open RAN testbed spanning the IBM Watson IoT center in Munich, Germany and IBM’s Global Industry Solutions Center (GISC) in Nice, France.

Wells Fargo has announced a new public cloud digital infrastructure plan that taps both Google and Microsoft. The banking firm will use Azure as its primary public cloud provider, while Google Cloud provides other business-critical services. “The Wells Fargo of tomorrow will be digital-first and offer easier-to-use products and services, and all of that starts

Operators are focused on leveraging Open RAN to lower per-site TCO, according Dell’Oro Group VP Telecoms industry analyst Stefan Pongratz, vice president of the Dell’Oro Group, this week told attendees to the Open RAN Forum that as operators connect radio site total cost of ownership with savings presented by new Open RAN architectures, revenues derived

Viavi Solutions continues its efforts to support the testing needs of the developing Open RAN ecosystem, this time with Capgemini Engineering. Viavi says it has partnered with Capgemini Engineering in Portugal to deliver a 5G and O-RAN lab test capability that leveraged Viavi’s O-RAN Lab-as-a-Service (LaaS) approach. “The success of 5G open networks depends on

Nokia and Indosat Ooredoo announced the launch of commercial 5G services in Surabaya city, Indonesia, the Finnish vendor said in a release. Under the terms of the deal, Indosat Ooredoo’s customers will be able to experience new enterprise and industrial use cases enabled by the new 5G network. Nokia will supply equipment from its latest

The release of the latest iPhones is always an occasion for excitement, and this week’s announcement is no exception. Apple’s new mobile devices support the Wi-Fi 6E standard, a harbinger of transformative change we can expect in what people and organizations will be able to do online. Wi-Fi 6E is a game-changer. Announced in early

Italian operator Telecom Italia (TIM) announced the activations of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) systems in the cities of Matera and Turin following its first use of the technology in Faenza earlier this year. The European operator said the aim is to accelerate the development of 5G digital services and edge computing through the

This blog is co-authored by Jeff Shattuck, Telecommunications Consultant, and Marco Castanheira, Senior Telecommunications Consultant. As 5G quickly rolls out and expands towards the enterprise market, a more open telecom business model will spark a wave of customer-centric innovation among communications service providers (CSPs). 5G’s low latency and high throughput will pave the way for

September greetings from the Midwest and Southeast.  Pictured is one of the many “Instawalls” in Kansas City that celebrate our local football team, the Chiefs.  We are excited about our return to the City of Fountains and are anxious about the bruising schedule the Chiefs have this year.   This week, we conclude the two-part series

5G “nomadic base stations” are geared toward industrial applications Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation announced that it has exclusively won the bid for 5G nomadic base stations from China Mobile Research Institute. In a release, ZTE noted that this new cooperation furthers its commitment to 5G industrial application field. “Based on the innovative solution of China

T-Mobile US and AT&T are duking it out over performance honors in recently released network testing. Global Wireless Solutions, which released its annual national report that included testing in nearly 500 markets across 50 states, concluded that AT&T had the best national network, followed by Verizon and then T-Mobile US. But each carrier had a

Finnish vendor Nokia has been selected by US Cellular for the deployment of the latter’s Standalone 5G core network. The European vendor said that the 5G SA deployment is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. The new 5G SA network infrastructure will enable the U.S. operator to deliver the high speeds and

The role of mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) is becoming more prominent with the ongoing 5G explosion, IoT boom and e-SIM adoption The growth across the mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) industry is accelerating with the advancing technology around 5G and IoT. Current trends represent a need for demand flexibility and a wider range of

System integrators have perhaps the toughest job in the wireless business. They need to provide world-class service to companies large and small seeking to develop their own private networks — but with far fewer resources than the big service providers have. While this has been the case until now, the demand for private networks and

Forging the 5G future Standalone 5G brings faster, more reliable, and vastly more capable telecommunications than ever before. But it also presents logistical, financial, and operational challenges for network operators who have to invest a massive amount of time and treasure upgrading infrastructure and organizations to bring 5G to life.  To help manage the migration

Innovate5G, Nokia and Athonet are laying claim to making the first commercial North American call via a 5G Standalone private network in the midband at 2.5 GHz (Band n41, TDD spectrum). The partners said that they made the call using Athonet’s 5G SA core network and Nokia’s AirScale Next Generation-RAN integrated with Innovate5G’s a cloud-based

France had a total of 28,821 5G authorized sites as of September 1, of which 17,559 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR. ANFR said that the number of authorized 5G sites during August increased by 2.8% compared to the previous month.

Vodafone UK intends to deploy 1,500 of the new Ericsson radios across its network by April 2022 Ericsson last year warned in a report that 5G has the potential to “dramatically increase” energy consumption, arguing that is “an industry responsibility” to address this reality. This week, Ericsson did its part, installing a new antenna-integrated radio

Gen Mobile CEO: ‘The acquisition by Boost Mobile will provide more connectivity to more Americans’ Boost Mobile, which is part of Dish Network following the T-Mobile/Sprint merger, revealed plans to acquire Los Angeles-based Gen Mobile, a prepaid mobile service that primarily serves low-income customers. Boost will take over the Gen Mobile brand, as well as its

The hacker behind the T-Mobile hack told the Wall Street Journal their wireless data security is awful. That is a powerful statement, which painted a bullseye on the back of T-Mobile to hackers worldwide. Wireless users, whether business customers, families or individuals must be able to trust their wireless provider will protect them. After all,

Cloud-native 5G means advantage of scale The 5G Core standard defines a Service-Based Architecture (SBA) that is designed from the start for cloud-native 5G network deployment. This enables communication service providers to build and iterate network functions faster, with greater scalability and flexibility than before. Cloud-native 5G also paves the way for network slicing, so

In the wake of a major cyber attack on T-Mobile US, CEO Mike Sievert has issued an apology and an update on how the carrier is dealing with the breach. “The last two weeks have been humbling for all of us at T-Mobile as we have worked tirelessly to navigate a malicious cyberattack on our

Summertime greetings from North Carolina, Nebraska, Missouri, and California (the CoBank conference – Jim and Jennifer Fritzsche of Greenhill pictured).  As many of you already know, The Sunday Brief is moving back to the City of Fountains next week after a decade-long absence.  It will be good to reacquaint with friends, but we will miss

The Streaming Video Alliance said this week that it successfully demonstrated multi-provider interoperability of its Open Caching APIs, connecting content caches from multiple entities in a new testbed order to deliver streaming video. The testing involved Disney+ as the content origin, with Broadpeak and Telefonica implementing the Alliance’s Open Caching (OC) specs. Broadpeak acted as

Taiwan-based TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, reportedly plans to raise prices between 10-20%, impacting devices from smartphones to automobiles. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, reported that TSMC expects to raise prices on its most advanced chips by about 10% and on less advanced chips by as much as

    The need for ubiquitous, reliable connectivity was brought into sharp focus throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, funding for rural broadband has become a priority for many governments around the world. But the true burden still falls on service providers, which are now tasked with making best use of their assets and

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Chinese operators recorded a net addition of 43.71 million 5G subscribers in July, according to the carriers’ latest available figures. China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, added 28.91 million 5G subscribers in July. The carrier said it ended last month with 279.60 million 5G subscribers, compared to 84.05 million 5G customers