Telecoms

With the goal to foster OpenRAN orchestration and management automation (ROMA) product & solution maturity, a functional testbed, consisting of Foxconn’s RU, Capgemini’s CU/DU, and 5GC (both running on Dell servers), has been set up in the TIP Community Lab in Meta’s Menlo Park Campus.

BT Group and SPL look to the stratosphere to deliver 4G and 5G coverage to hard-to-reach areas of the UK.

Written by Juan Pedro Tomás.

South Korea announced the K-Network 2030 strategy with the aim of boosting private-public cooperation to develop future 6G technologies.

Written by Nick Wood for Telecoms.com

UK incumbent BT has the UK delivery sector in its sights with its new IoT national roaming SIM.

Written by Mike Dano for LightReading.com

The US government is plowing $1.5 billion into the open RAN industry in the hopes of cultivating domestic suppliers for 5G. But it's not exactly clear how that money will be spent.

New Delhi, India – Nokia today announced in its annual Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report that mobile data traffic in India has risen 3.2 times over the last five years.

Nokia Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report finds mobile data traffic in India jumped 3.2x in the last five years, reaching over 14 exabytes per month.

Written by Mark Jackson for IPSReview.co.uk

Written by Ray Le Maistre of TelecomTV

Vodafone has put Juniper’s RAN intelligent controller (RIC) through its paces

We are delighted to announce Nick Johnson today joins us as the Director of UKTIN. Johnson brings a wealth of telecom experience, and strong engineering and commercial expertise to the UKTIN team.

Prototype is built on a Raspberry Pi chipset.

Written by Mary Lennighan for Telecoms.com

Big telcos will spend on average US$1 billion each on network cloud transformation in the next few years, according to new forecasting from Capgemini.

Written by Andrew Wooden for Telecoms.com

Elon Musk’s satellite telecoms operation Starlink has reportedly sent out emails pitching a ‘global roaming service’ for $200 a month.

The five solar farms will generate a total of 216 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity, every year, saving more than 53,000 tonnes of CO2e.

Vodafone gets access to clean, high-quality and affordable renewable electricity for 10 years.

The UK Government is committed to diversifying the telecoms supply chain, but diversification can cover a multitude of principles, and different players in the ecosystem will have varying viewpoints on what diversification means for them.

Written by Stephan Broszio of Deutsche Telekom

The innovative team behind a global project which proved the portability of a flexible, private 5G ‘network in a box'.

mmWave small cell player confirms a trial with Verizon, and says the operator is also a strategic investor.