Momentum in the RAN market is ‘losing some steam’
According to a report by analyst outfit Dell’Oro Group, the overall 2G-5G RAN infrastructure equipment market declined in the second quarter.
According to a report by analyst outfit Dell’Oro Group, the overall 2G-5G RAN infrastructure equipment market declined in the second quarter.
Rural broadband specialist Quickline Communications has teamed up with Open Ran focussed software outfit Mavenir to launch a commercialised 5G SA, cloud-based, Open RAN network in North Yorkshire.
A recently released report by the Dell’Oro Group, a telecoms market research firm, sees forecasts for Open RAN kit revenues revised upwards.
The UK government is dangling £25 million of funding in front of telcos and universities for 5G and 6G network equipment R&D, which essentially means Open RAN.
In this final episode before everyone clears off for their summer holidays, the pod is delighted to welcome special guest Mike Ferris – Chief Network Architect of Dense Air. They start by exploring the concept of neutral host infrastructure and how that could provide the solution to a lot of the coverage challenges presented by 5G. That will involve the rollout of a lot of small cells, so they move on to discuss how that is best done, before concluding with a look at the pros and cons of state intervention in telecoms.
Rakuten Symphony plans to build a new innovation lab in India designed both to increase its own presence in the market and to boost the country’s position on the global technology stage.
According to Telecoms.com’s latest survey report, 5G’s most significant capability three years from now will be URLLC, underpinned by standalone.
T-Mobile Netherlands has announced that Ericsson will be the apparently sole RAN vendor for its 5G network upgrade.
Kit vendor Nokia has signed a five year deal with Norwegian operator Ice to upgrade and expand its 5G radio network infrastructure.
Japan’s NEC has strengthened its Open RAN systems integration (SI) credentials by acquiring Aspire Technologies.
Small towns and cities will miss out on £7 billion of economic output by 2030 unless mobile operators are allowed to plonk masts wherever they like.
For 5G to achieve its true potential, operators need to assess how they maximize the efficiency of spectrum frequencies.
Spanish operator group Telefónica wants other telcos including its own operating companies (opcos) to reuse its network equipment.
UK operator Vodafone has switched on a 4G phone mast in Wales loaded with a wind turbine, solar panels and on-site battery storage.
INTERVIEW: We caught up with Geoff Hollingworth, CMO at Rakuten Symphony, who explained the dangers of ‘doing the new thing the old way’, his thoughts on OpenRAN, political pressure on telecoms, and more.
The lads are delighted to welcome special guest Geoff Hollingworth, CMO of Rakuten Symphony, this week. Unsurprisingly they start by discussing all things Rakuten, including its entry into mobile and the creation of Symphony. Everyone on the pod except Scott was at the Big 5G Event in the US last week so they move on to a review of that, before finishing with a quick look at the latest Ericsson news.
The straightforwardly titled Ericsson-Intel Tech Hub will be tasked with coming up with new cloud RAN applications to release to the market.
The RIC function introduced by the O-RAN Alliance enables CSPs to virtualise the RAN Centralized Units and Distributed Units and to deploy cloud-native control and management apps.
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Accenture have launched a training service to address the claimed open networking skills gap.
Dish is definitely, definitely, probably about to launch its 5G network in the US, and this week it revealed Samsung will supply some of the kit it needs.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) appears to be ramping up its efforts to convince more telcos that public cloud is the fut hhttps://t.co/wvA5z5bTLE
26 January 2023 @ 16:55:09 UTC
Advanced #AI services may be coming for content creators' jobs, but they will also be free to busy themselves with hhttps://t.co/HoI8m81MnR
26 January 2023 @ 14:02:43 UTC
Millicom has confirmed that it is holding talks with Apollo Global Management and Marcel Claure's investment outfit hhttps://t.co/tnzKDiWw2Y
26 January 2023 @ 13:31:20 UTC