Indian telco Bharati Airtel and U.S.- based chipmaker Intel announced on Wednesday a collaboration to develop 5G network by leveraging virtualized radio access network (vRAN) and open radio access network (O-RAN) technologies in India. According to Intel’s statement this collaboration will evolve communications networks from fixed-function equipment to virtualized cloud-native deployments and enable edge-to-cloud communications to power hyperconnected world. The Indian telco will deploy Intel’s latest 3rd gen Xeon Scalable […]
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North Macedonia’s Agency for Electronic Communications (AEK) announced earlier this week that it has obtained four bids from telcos that aim to participate in a planned auction for the allocation of 5G frequencies. Makedonski Telekom, A1 Makedonija, and Bitstream Mobile have expressed interest in licenses for national coverage in the 700 MHz and the 3 GHz spectrums. Neotel’s expression of interest concerns licenses for regional coverage in the 3 GHz […]
UAE-based telco Etisalat partnered up on Wednesday with Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson through a global 5G program that is designed to help communications service providers (CSPs) accelerate 5G commercialization and monetization. Ericsson’s program seeks to foster innovation around 5G technologies between startups and Etisalat to mutually create new business opportunities in the market. Through this collaboration, Etisalat will receive a list of companies that develop services, devices, and applications […]
Gulf countries are taking their digital 2030 vision to the next level, as Zain Bahrain chose earlier this week with Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson to expand its 4G and 5G coverage and introduce 5G low-band and mid-band carrier aggregation. As the Swedish company deploys its 5G carrier aggregation service, Zain Bahrain will be able to […]
Cambridge Wireless (CW) kicked off on Wednesday its yearly conference “CW TECH 2021,” with a means to explore the up-and-coming trends of 5G private network from the engineering front. The British nonprofit aspired, through its two days virtual conference, to move past the marketing messages and learn more about the tactics in the rising technology […]
Casa Systems, Inc. a leading provider of physical and cloud-native infrastructure technology solutions for wireless, cable and fixed broadband networks, announced on Friday the general availability of its Axyom™ 5G multi-access core as a vendor validated cloud-native digital service enablement platform for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. With Casa Systems converged […]
According to “Accelerating the 5G Industrial Revolution: State of 5G and edge in industrial operations” report released by the Capgemini Research Institute, industrial 5G adoption is still at the ideation and planning stages, with only 30 percent of industrial organizations having moved to the pilot stage or beyond. This means there is a huge window of opportunity for telcos and those […]
Ooredoo Oman said it recently recorded downlink speeds of more than 5 Gbps on a commercial 5G Massive MIMO single sector, one of the first such tests in the region. Demonstrating its technology leadership, 5G Massive MIMO delivers eight times more capacity for home internet compared to 4G, and 20 times more capacity on mobile. […]
China consumer electronics maker Oppo announced on Thursday the launch of the world’s first 5G SA-Compatible eSIM smartphone, the OPPO Find X3 Pro, developed in collaboration with eSIM connectivity management company, Thales. According to a joint statement by the companies, the 5G Standalone (SA) eSIM-based OPPO Find X3 Pro will provide users with the advanced […]
Faster broadband has been dominating the news cycle in recent months, as countries, companies, and telcos around the world announce almost everyday the launch of new mobile networks. With that in mind, there are 40 countries/territories with private network deployments based on LTE or 5G or LTE or 5G-suitable private network spectrum license, according to […]
