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Key takeaways from T-Mobile US’ Q1 2024

For the first time, T-Mo looks to establish a fiber footprint T-Mobile US reported strong customer numbers and overall results for the first quarter of 2024, and raised its guidance for the full year. Perhaps most interestingly, though, the wireless...

Championing Women in Telecom with Lynn Whitcher, President of WWLF

Explore the world of telecom leadership with Carrie Charles on the latest episode of 5G Talent Talk. Joining her is Lynn Whitcher, the President of Women's Wireless Leadership Forum (WWLF) and General Counsel for MD7. Lynn shares her remarkable...

Itron deploys NB-IoT AMI system for water management in Cairns, Australia

Industrial IoT provider Itron, specialising in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, is working with Cairns Regional Council in Queensland, Australia, to deploy an NB-IoT system to manage usage, identify leaks, and lower costs in the district water...

TPG Telecom and Optus announce network sharing deal

TPG and Optus will establish a regional multi-operator core network in Australia Australia’s TPG Telecom has entered a long-term network sharing deal with Singtel-owned Optus eight months after it failed to secure one with Telstra due to regulatory hurdles. The...

Rakuten Mobile starts tests for the 700 MHz spectrum band

Rakuten Mobile also confirmed it is paving the way to launch base station using the 700 MHz band Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said it started radio frequency testing for its 700 MHz spectrum, also known as the “platinum band”. Rakuten Mobile...

Indian state telco BSNL reaches 800,000 4G subscribers: Report

BSNL has already deployed 3,500 4G sites in a number of regions across India Indian state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has reached 800,000 4G subscribers in its initial launch phase across North Indian regions of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal...

Opening up about sustainability—benefits of open networks for energy consumption (Reader Forum)

The telecoms industry is currently faced with the challenge of extending and improving connectivity and simultaneously reducing carbon emissions. The move to open and disaggregated networks is gaining momentum in the telecommunications and networking industry for the potential to...

Petronas, CelcomDigi to focus on private 5G for the energy sector

CelcomDigi said its collaboration with Petronas started with the deployment of a private 4G LTE network for Petronas Malaysian oil company Petronas and compatriot telco CelcomDigi are collaborating to accelerate digital transformation in the energy sector using 5G, the later...

SES agrees $3.1bn deal to buy Intelsat, targets ‘high-growth’ satellite comms

Luxembourg-headquartered satellite telecoms provider SES has agreed a $3.1 billion (€2.8 billion) deal to buy US-based Intelsat. SES said the combination will create a “stronger multi-orbit operator with greater coverage, improved resiliency, expanded solutions, enhanced resources”. It will...

“Good progress” – China Mobile, NTT, SK Telecom ranked top for tech-co transformation

Analyst house Omdia has ranked the top mobile network operators in the world for their various progress with ‘tech-co’ reinvention, and placed a trio of Asia Pacific (APAC) firms in the top spots in the league table, leading the...

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...