As the Federal Communications Commission considers T-Mobile US’ proposed $4.4 billion acquisition of UScellular, the latter company’s executives recently sat down with FCC representatives to make the case in favor of the merger. The picture they painted was of the largest remaining regional mobile network operator hemmed in by intense competition with...

Samsung said that the O-RAN deployment for Japanese telco KDDI will start next year Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has been selected by Japanese operator KDDI as a main vendor to provide 4G and 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for their O-RAN deployment in Japan, Samsung said in a release. […] The...

NTT Docomo noted that this initiative marks the first step in realizing its vision of 6G as a ‘network for AI’ Japanese telco NTT Docomo has launched a new project, dubbed ‘6G Harmonized Intelligence,’ aimed at advancing the future of 6G communications technology. In a release, the company noted that this initiative marks the first […] The post NTT...

Recently, the US mobile operators’ trade association CTIA released data from its annual survey of members. Its headline focused on a very large number – 100 trillion megabytes – which CTIA claims was the total amount of mobile data traffic in the US in 2023. Unsurprisingly, CTIA then pivots to talking about obtaining more mid-band […] The post US mobile...

Learning from the past to predict the future and optimize the present—AI can match RAN resources with customer demand and, in turn, optimize for energy efficiency At roughly the midpoint of the 5G cycle, communications service providers (CSPs)  are navigating a macro environment marked by the need to more effectively monetize existing network-enabled...

Nokia is putting major R&D focus on the mining industry, having won a number of deals for private 4G/5G infrastructure in the sector. Its research arm, Nokia Bell Labs, is working directly with Brazil-based mining company Value to create a “cognitive monitoring network service” to match production data from industrial OT systems to connectivity...