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Charter, Comcast see mobile growth

Comcast increases wireless revenues more than 13% YoY Cable companies Comcast and Charter Communications both reported quarterly earnings in which mobile growth was a bright spot amid customer losses in other areas of their businesses. Comcast beat analysts' expectations on...

Ooredoo Group, Nokia partner to deploy 5G private networks

Ooedoo and Nokia will work to develop and deploy 5G private networks for businesses operating across several industries Middle East telco Ooredoo Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Finnish vendor Nokia with the aim of upgrading business...

Spain already controls 6% of local carrier Telefonica

The Spanish government aims to acquire a stake of up to 10% in Telefonica The Spanish government said it had already acquired a 6% stake in domestic telecom operator Telefonica through a state holding company.  Spanish state-run company Sociedad Estatal de...

Hughes opens private 5G incubation center in Maryland

Hughes facility will serve as testing ground for private 5G solutions for enterprise and the U.S. Department of Defense EchoStar subsidiary Hughes Network Systems announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility and private 5G incubation center in Germantown, Maryland. The...

Wind River Webinar: Open RAN Moves Beyond TCO – Unpacking the Highlights 

Analysys Mason surveyed over 60 operators worldwide and found a significant positive shift in confidence and focus regarding Open RAN capabilities.  Many of the issues related to performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) uncertainty, previously the biggest barriers to...

HPE intros high-capacity Wi-Fi 7 access points to handle IoT/AI surge

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has said its new Aruba Wi-Fi 7 access points, out in July, deliver “up to 30 percent” more capacity for wireless traffic compared with standard Wi-Fi 7 gear, courtesy of the firm’s “ultra-tri band hardware...

NVIDIA to buy AI edge-cloud management platform Run:ai

News from last week; NVIDIA has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Israel-based Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based compute management and orchestration software provider. The US chip firm, which has seen its stock value spiral upwards in line with demand...

FCC reinstates net neutrality regulation of broadband

The impacts on monetizing 5G network slicing remain to be seen The Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines to reinstate Obama-era Title II telecommunications regulation of broadband services, also known as net neutrality rules. "Broadband is now an essential...

T-Mobile kicks off 2024 with strong numbers and a fiber JV

T-Mo surpasses the 5 million broadband subs milestone, makes a deal for a fiber JV T-Mobile US reported postpaid phone net customer additions of more than half a million in the quarter and added more than 400,000 high-speed internet customers,...

TCS deploys large data centers in India as part of 4G contract

Last year, TCS and ITI secured an advance purchase order from BSNL to set up 100,000 4G sites across India Indian company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is currently installing large data centers in the four regions of India as part...

Malaysia moves closer to implementing second 5G network

Last year, the government of Malaysia announced plans to implement a second 5G network in the country The government of Malaysia is moving closer to implementing a dual 5G network in the country with the announcement of the new board...

5G/Wi-Fi, IT/OT in Industry 4.0 – it’s all way too simplistic, says Cisco

It seems like you can have the same conversation about Industry 4.0 whether AI is presented as the big kahuna in the tech-mix or hardly mentioned at all, like the elephant in the room. This conversation with Cisco, taped...

Implications for DISH’s big win in jury trial verdict against its primary tower collocation provider Crown Castle

New entrant 5G facilities-based national mobile network operator (MNO) DISH Wireless selected Crown Castle to provide up to 20,000 tower collocation cell sites for a fixed monthly rental fee in a lease agreement signed November 2020. In addition to...

TDRA unveils 6G roadmap in the United Arab Emirates

The 6G roadmap disclosed by TDRA establishes a schedule kicking off in 2024 with the establishment of a committee The United Arab Emirates (UAE) telecom regulator TDRA has unveiled a strategy to spearhead research and studies concerning the advancement of...

Openvia Mobility, NTT Data to deploy private 5G in US roads

NTT Data noted that the private 5G connectivity infrastructure includes a network architecture known as neutral host, using the CBRS public radio frequency spectrum Openvia Mobility and NTT Data are currently working towards the deployment of private 5G networks for...

How to build LLMs for telco AI applications

AWS, IBM, McKinsey and Nokia on curating an LLM for domain-specific applications; bigger isn’t necessarily better and, at some point, you have to dive in If you’ve used consumer-facing generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini...

Key takeaways from AT&T’s Q1 2024

'These aren't empty calorie additions', says Stankey of AT&T's wireless customer adds AT&T continued to emphasize its steady, 5G- and fiber-led strategy in its first quarter 2024 results, which beat Wall Street expectations on customer numbers and held the line...

Digital Catapult welcomes new vendors to test O-RAN in the UK

A group of firms will use SONIC Labs’ outdoor testing site in London to explore the potential of O-RAN in a real-world environment U.K. digital accelerator Digital Catapult has announced that SONIC Labs, an initiative aiming to advance Open RAN...

Korean Air claims first comprehensive UAM operations demo

Local telco KT Corp. took part in the UAM deomonstration in South Korea Korean Air, in collaboration with Korea Telecom (KT), Hyundai Motor Company, Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) and Hyundai Engineering & Construction said it has successfully completed what...

ZTE reports revenues of $4.22 billion in Q1

ZTE said its net profits amounted to CNY2.74 billion in Q1, representing an increase of 3.7% year-on-year Chinese vendor ZTE announced revenues of CNY30.58 billion ($4.22 billion) for the first quarter of 2024, surging 4.9% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the vendor’s net profits...

Ericsson: US consumers are ‘primed’ for FWA and prefer 5G over 4G

'Convenience is the clear advantage' 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...

Abeeway takes Sequans NB-IoT/LTE-M module for new industrial IoT tracker

Actility-owned IoT asset tracking provider Abeeway is using the Monarch 2 GM02S module from Sequans for cellular IoT connectivity in the new version of its Abeeway Compact Tracker, according to the French IoT chipmaker. The Abeeway product uses the...

Swiss IoT firm u-blox eyes $100m GNSS sales to robot lawnmower makers

Swiss IoT module maker u-blox has secured “significant project wins” in the robotic lawnmower market, which it expects to generate more than $100 million of sales revenue “over time”, starting from 2024, it said. The firm has supplied GNSS...

Dell integrates Hyundai, Intel into NativeEdge platform to spur AI in Industry 4.0

Dell Technologies has expanded its edge partner ecosystem with Hyundai AutoEver, a factory IT/OT integration tool from car maker Hyundai, and Intel’s OpenVINO developer toolbox, commonly used for edge AI applications. The latter is now part of its NativeEdge...

#TBT: iPhone comes to Canada; Testing AT&T’s MediaFLO service; Does the world need a wireless web? … this week in 2008

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and...