We left off in our series having looked at the virtualized and cloud-based open RAN. Now we move on to consider the orchestration part, deploying and managing these cloud-based implementations. Orchestration, or service management and orchestration (SMO), has been used in the enterprise world for some time to manage a number of virtual machines in a
Why is Synchronoss Technologies performing so well especially when we are right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic? The reason is simply this: Synchronoss
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A warm North Carolina welcome to the dog days of summer. The picture is of our pooch Abby serving as boat sentinel on a recent
Private equity-backed data analytics-based roaming and network security company Mobileum has picked up network roaming test and fraud detection company Sigos. Terms of the deal
T-Mobile US has launched a new, free robocall blocking service for its users. “Scam Shield” makes use of the STIR/SHAKEN framework for call authentication to
As if the health risks of COVID-19 weren’t enough, robocall scammers are seizing on the chaos and confusion to fleece Americans out of their personal
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Categories Carriers, Network Infrastructure, network quality survey, US Cellular, Verizon, wi-fi, Wi-Fi calling
Verizon delivers best wireless network quality according to users, says study
Higher uses of Wi-Fi calling improves user perception of wireless network performance A recent J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Wireless Network Quality Performance Study found that higher
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Categories 5G, Carriers, Huawei Technologies, Network Infrastructure, Rural Wireless Association, zte
FCC takes further actions against Huawei, ZTE
U.S. push against Huawei gaining traction in Europe The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has begun the process of drawing up a list of telecommunications equipment
Facing Huawei rip-and-replace, Vodafone needs to reallocate capital U.K. telecommunications group Vodafone has called for the U.K. government to abandon an upcoming spectrum of 5G spectrum
New report says there will be 3.5 billion gamers globally by 2024 ABI Research released a report concluding that nearly half of the global expected population
In the first two blogs in this series we discovered what a programmable fabric is and what it looks like. Now we are ready to
The partnership will tackle two small cell deployment challenges: electrical power and fiber connectivity Corning announced that it is working with stored energy solutions provider EnerSys
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Categories 5G, APAC, Business, Carriers, KT Corp, LG Uplus, Network Infrastructure, SK Telecom, Wireless
South Korean operators to invest $22 billion in 5G networks by 2022
Korean mobile operators SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus have agreed to invest a total of KRW 25.7 trillion ($22 billion) through 2022 to boost
India’s Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani confirmed that the conglomerate’s mobile Jio Platforms engineers designed and developed a “complete 5G system” from scratch. The executive said
NTIA: 3450-3550 MHz “is a good candidate for potential spectrum sharing” In its hunt for additional midband spectrum that could be cleared or shared to make