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Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai joins Rakuten Symphony Board of Directors Rakuten Symphony, the evolution of the Rakuten Communications Platform, has an anchor client in new German market entrant 1&1, has spelled out its goal to address a $100 billion market, and hit Mobile World Congress hard this week with updated portfolio branding. In Japan, Rakuten

March 2, 2022

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Arrcus Connected Edge platform adds VMware Telco Cloud support

CSPs can dynamically direct network traffic using ACE Core-to-edge infrastructure specialist Arrcus has announced that its Arrcus Connected Edge (ACE) 2.0 platform now supports VMware’s Telco Cloud

March 2, 2022

2.5 GHz, Featured, midband spectrum, Mobile World Congress, Policy, receivers, Spectrum, spectrum sharing

‘We need mid-band deployment at scale,’ Rosenworcel says; 2.5 GHz auction ahead in July

Rosenworcel says she will propose a new look at standards for receivers as well as transmitters The Federal Communications Commission will increase the available midband spectrum

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March 2, 2022

5G, Carriers, digital divide, IoT, Open-RAN, Vodafone

Vodafone warns at MWC: 5G for innovation and digital equity

March 2, 2022

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Fastweb, Qualcomm collaborate on 5G SA mmWave FWA in Italy

Qualcomm said the platform will feature Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G Modem-RF Systems for Fixed Wireless Access Italian telco Fastweb and Qualcomm Technologies announced plans

March 2, 2022

5G, Airspan Networks, Featured, NEC, Network Infrastructure, O-RAN, Open-RAN, Rakuten Symphony, Telefonica Deutschland

NEC, Telefonica Germany claim first O-RAN small cells

Telefonica Germany had previously said it aimed to deploy pure 5G O-RAN mini-radio cells in Munich later in the year German telco O2/Telefónica Germany and Japanese

March 2, 2022

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ZTE builds efficient way to 5G-Advanced and 6G with RIS solution

02 March 2022, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile

March 1, 2022

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Bell Canada deploys core network on Google Distributed Cloud Edge

Canada’s largest telco is the first to move core functions to Google Bell Canada and Google Cloud announced this week that the Canadian telco has deployed Google

March 1, 2022

5G, Featured, Test and Measurement

Dish to test 5G in Oklahoma City

Dish Network is continuing to move forward with its work on 5G, and has been granted permission by the Federal Communications Commission to test 5G

March 1, 2022

DELL, HPE, Open-RAN, Red Hat, Vodafone, Wind River

Samsung looks to drive vRAN adoption with partner-based approach

Dell, HPE, Intel, Red Hat, Wind River working with Samsung on multi-vendor “solution roadmaps” Samsung Networks has been at the front of the push toward

March 1, 2022

Featured, JMA Wireless, Network Infrastructure, O-RAN, Open-RAN, RAN, vRAN, XRAN

JMA adds multi-operator support for XRAN platform

Carriers can join any existing XRAN-based network without touching infrastructure. Radio Access Network (RAN) software maker JMA Wireless has announced a Multi-Operator Owned Network (MOON) offering. It’s a

March 1, 2022

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Rakuten Symphony acquires Robin.io

”Easy to deploy hyperscale automation” gets a bigger canvas – Robin.io CEO Rakuten Symphony has announced plans to acquire cloud software maker Robin.io. The terms of the

March 1, 2022

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China expects deployments of 5G base stations to grow 42% in 2022

Local carriers expected to deploy nearly 600,000 5G base stations across China this year Chinese operators are expected to increase the number of base stations in

March 1, 2022

4G, 5G, Carriers, Devices, GSMA, LTE

5G to represent 25% of global mobile connections by end-2025: GSMA

A new GSMA report forecasts that the number of 5G subscribers is expected to reach 1 billion this year. 5G is expected to account for around

February 28, 2022

5G, Analyst Angle, Carriers, cloud native, Dish Network, Open-RAN

Kagan: Dish has unique, one-time opportunity entering 5G wireless

A couple years ago T-Mobile US acquired Sprint with the help of Dish Network who wanted to get into wireless themselves. Word was, Dish was