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Cisco has announced a number of initiatives to provide financing for customers in a move to try to mitigate the financial challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new Business Resiliency Program is being offered through Cisco Capital, a financing business within Cisco, and includes $2.5 billion in financing to provide organizations with access to the

April 15, 2020

5G, APAC, Carriers, China Mobile, Network Infrastructure, Standalone 5G, Wireless

ZTE secures key contract with China Mobile for 5G SA deployment

Chinese vendor ZTE announced it has secured the winning bid for the commercial 5G Standalone core network in China Mobile’s 2020 centralized procurement for new

April 15, 2020

5G, 5G Developments from Qualcomm, C-V2X, Qualcomm, Qualcomm 5G, Qualcomm 5G Blog Posts

5G C-V2X poised to make roads safer

Regulators and automotive OEMs embracing C-V2X for vehicular connectivity We’re all familiar with the futuristic vision of highways filled with vehicles driving themselves while passengers, fully

April 15, 2020

5G, carrier aggregation, mmWave, MU-MIMO, Network Infrastructure, Samsung, speed test

Samsung claims industry’s fastest 5G mmWave speeds across multiple devices

Samsung expects that in the coming years, an additional 15 nations will launch 5G mmWave services Samsung claimed that it achieved the fastest 5G speeds seen

April 15, 2020

Carriers, COVID-19, Shaw Communications, Wireless Retail, Workforce

Shaw lays off 10% of its workforce

Canadian telco Shaw Communications is temporarily laying off about 10% of its workforce, driven by the “extraordinary and unpredictable conditions” of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The

April 15, 2020

5G, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Spirent

Will 5G Change the World? Steve Douglas, Spirent

5G as a driver of industrial efficiency, sustainability Steve Douglas, head of 5G strategy for Spirent, answers questions from Marcel Proust’s famous questionnaire; differentiates between delivering

April 14, 2020

5G, 5G spectrum, China, LitePoint, Opinion, Test and Measurement, U.S.

LitePoint: ‘5G’s real opportunity for growth is in the enterprise’

LitePoint is focused on 5G spectrum, devices and scaling for the RAN Adam Smith, director of product marketing at LitePoint spoke, with RCR Wireless News about how

April 14, 2020

China, Google, Network Infrastructure, NTIA, Policy

NTIA recommends revoking China Telecom’s common carrier status

The Trump administration is continuing with actions that cut telecom ties with China, including a new filing from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration that

April 14, 2020

5G, Business, digital divide, Ericsson, midwest, Network Infrastructure, Nex-Tech Wireless

Ericsson to help bridge digital divide in Kansas with 5G

Nex-Tech Wireless will also be implementing Ericsson Spectrum Sharing technology Kansas-based wireless carrier Nex-Tech Wireless will be deploying 5G using equipment from Ericsson. Specifically, the vendor

April 14, 2020

5G, APAC, Business, Carriers, chunghwa telecom, Ericsson, Network Infrastructure, Nokia, Wireless

Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom gets approval to launch 5G services

Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom aims to launch commercial 5G services in the third quarter of 2020 after Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) approved its information

April 14, 2020

artificial intelligence, Atlantic Council, big data, Big Data Analytics, remote work

Survey predicts pandemic-driven innovation in workplace, health, big data

The novel coronavirus may drive new innovation in the workplace, healthcare and in the application of big data analytics and artificial intelligence, according to a

April 14, 2020

5G, Altiostar, Cisco, Network Infrastructure, Open-RAN, Rakuten Mobile, Software, vRAN, WWT

Open vRAN ‘blueprint’ basis of integrated 5G bundle

Cisco, Altiostar, WWT creating vRAN hardware/software/services bundle to drive 5G deployment Building a virtualized radio access network built of best-of-breed components made interoperable through the work

April 14, 2020

4G, 5G, 5G NR, LTE, Metawave, mmWave, Network Infrastructure, private networks

Private 5G networks become indispensable, more evident during coronavirus quarantine

Various countries are offering licensed millimeter wave 5G spectrum directly to private enterprises, and for good reason. Wifi hotspots are overloaded and cannot scale to

April 14, 2020

5G, National Instruments, Network, Network Infrastructure, O-RAN, RAN, Test and Measurement, White Paper

National Instruments White Paper: Getting Started with 4G LTE Using OpenAirInterface on an NI USRP-2974

The O-RAN is looking to revolutionize the way wireless communications systems are built. Their core tenants of using virtualized networks, white box hardware, and standardized

April 13, 2020

big data, Big Data Analytics, Carriers, COVID-19, Verizon, yahoo

Verizon Media launches open source, big data COVID-19 search engine

The Verizon Media search engine has become a potentially life-saving COVID-19 tool Last month, the White House unveiled its COVID-19 Open Research Data (CORD-19) initiative, an