5G Advanced – Stakeholder Collaboration Essential To Maximise ROI For Operators
With more than 230 5G networks deployed worldwide serving 1+ billion end user devices, 5G has become the fastest-growing cellular standard of all…
Ericsson’s Cradlepoint Launches NetCloud Private Networks Solution
Last week, Cradlepoint announced the launch of its subscription-based NetCloud Private Networks solution, an SME-type enterprise solution targeted at…
Counterpoint Research Forecasts Private Networks Market To Reach $21.8 billion by 2030
Counterpoint Research forecasts that the global LTE/5G private networks infrastructure market will increase from approximately $2.5 billion revenues…
Huawei’s “ONE 5G” Concept Centre Stage at Global MBB Forum
Although efforts are underway to sunset 2G and 3G networks, many CSPs will need to operate multiple base station types across 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G for…
MWC-22 Las Vegas: Samsung Networks Makes Breakthrough In US Cable Market
Samsung Networks hit the headlines at MWC in Las Vegas with news of its first major contract with a US cable operator. The Korean vendor will provide…
Qualcomm On Track To Launch Open RAN 5G Macro Base Station Portfolio
Qualcomm is in the midst of developing a suite of open RAN-based 5G infrastructure products. Two years ago, the vendor announced a new line-up of…
Dish Gets Ready To Launch Boost Infinite Post-Paid Service
With its first FCC milestone reached last quarter, Dish announced that its 5G network comprised 5,000 cell sites at its 2Q 2022 earnings call last…
5G Infrastructure Vendors – Are They Immune To Recession?
Nordic vendors Ericsson and Nokia had a good second quarter. Ericsson reported a 13.7%* growth in revenue to $6 billion with net profit jumping 19.2…
UK Operators Face Tight Deadlines to Roll Out Shared Rural Network
Ensuring all citizens have access to mobile and fixed networks is a priority for many governments around the world. However, providing connectivity…
Dish Clears 1st FCC Hurdle, Launches in 120 US Cities
Dish launched commercial services in its first market, Las Vegas, in early May. Known as Project Genesis, the service costs $30 per month for…
Rakuten Mobile – Time To Show Disruptive Networks Can Deliver Disruptive Profits?
With only 310,000 new users added during the 1Q 2022 (slightly more than Q4) Rakuten Mobile’s most pressing challenge is to boost subscriber growth.…
Incumbent Vendors Reveal Early 5G Monetization Trends
Both Ericsson and Nokia showed continued growth in their top-line revenues during the 1Q 2022 although profits and margins were adversely affected by…
Nokia and Kyndryl Partner To Target Campus Wireless Market
Enterprise revenues today constitute a very small proportion of any incumbent infrastructure vendor's total revenues. However, all vendors are…
Subscribers and Network Roll-Out Key Focus for Rakuten, Dish and Drillisch
With three greenfield operators - Rakuten, Dish and 1&1 Drillisch - at various stages of deploying their open RAN, cloud-native 5G networks, 2022…
Open RAN: Again A Hot Topic At MWC in 2022
As expected, open RAN turned out to be a hot topic at MWC again this year with around 46 demos of O-RAN technology. On the operator side, there were…
Chip Vendors Showcase Open RAN Merchant Silicon Solutions at MWC-22
All open RAN deployments to date have used COTS server hardware based on Intel's FlexRAN architecture with or without hardware acceleration. While…
Monetizing 5G Will Be The Challenge For Incumbent Vendors in 2022
Nordic duo Ericsson and Nokia both had a good 2021. With strong cash generation from its core networks business, Ericsson had one of the best years…
Leveraging AI-driven RAN Intelligence to Maximise Network Potential
The RAN is a critical part of a cellular network as it manages a CSP’s most important asset: its spectrum. Yet despite investing billions of dollars…