Ericsson has reached its 50th customer for Ericsson 5G Charging. Charging is a foundation for 5G monetization and service innovation for CSPs around the world, and the milestone achievement highlights Ericsson’s momentum and leadership in this crucial domain.

Much work is being done with Communication Service Providers (CSPs) globally to transform their networks and businesses to fully take advantage of 5G, monetizing their investments and opening the doors to delivering innovative and commercially sustainable service experiences.  

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To ensure that SMEs have a front-row seat to telecoms standards making, our Standards Champion, Andy Reid, attends key standards meetings to observe, participate in conversations and report back on key themes and discussion points.

Here, Reid shares his reflections on the recent ECOC event in Frankfurt.

Nokia and Lenovo are joining forces for some data centre networking and automation solutions that support ‘the massive and highly precise compute, storage and transit needs’ of AI and ML.

These data centre solutions will be a combination of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and storage and various Nokia products related to data centre fabric, IP routing, DDoS security portfolios, and network automation. The combined solutions are pitched as helping to meet the processing and network performance requirements of modern workloads, by which it largely seems to mean AI.

USCellular has entered into an agreement with Verizon to sell a portion of its retained spectrum licenses for a cool $1 billion.

UScellular will sell Verizon 663 million MHz POPs of its Cellular (850 MHz) spectrum licenses as well as 11 million MHz POPs of its AWS and 19 million MHz POPs of its PCS licenses, assuming all the usual regulatory lights go green.

Eutelsat Group has announced the launch and deployment of 20 satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO), bolstering the OneWeb constellation.

The satellites, which were built by Airbus US Space & Defense, hitched a ride on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 which lifted off last week from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

For those interested in the logistics of LEO launches, we’re told the satellites separated successfully from the vehicle and were dispensed in 10 batches over a period of 20 minutes, and signal acquisition was confirmed on all 20 of them.

• India Mobile Congress 2024 (IMC24) has opened its doors in New Delhi 
• Airtel’s Sunil Bharti Mittal joins rivals Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea to press the government for an auction of satellite broadband spectrum 
• They want a level playing field between satellite providers and traditional telcos but they might be out of luck  
• Jio is also pressing for domestic AI development and adoption as well as data sovereignty policies

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• Transatlantic partnership extends potential for capacity, speed and latency while reducing power usage on popular Europe/US route.
• Service trial spanned 8500km subsea and terrestrial route over live production network.
• 800GbE can support advanced network applications like AI data center networking, content delivery networks, and financial data hub connections.

Espoo, Finland – Nokia, Windstream Wholesale (WW), an optical technolog

Hello, I’m Professor Muhammad Ali Imran and I lead the Communication, Sensing and Imaging (CSI) Hub at the University of Glasgow’s Department of Engineering. I’m particularly interested in energy-efficient cellular systems and frugal networking solutions.

The European Commission will contribute €865 million to the development of fibre and 5G networks, among other things, over the next three years and is ready to call for proposals to spend its cash.

The pledge forms part of the Commission's ongoing CEF Digital programme whose overarching aim is to support and catalyse investment – public and private – in digital connectivity infrastructures of common European interest.