November 18, 2021
5G SA Core and Enterprise To Drive Growth at Nokia and Ericsson?
Although both Nokia and Ericsson reported good third quarter financial results, top-level growth at their RAN businesses is likely to be challenged…
November 3, 2021
Cloud RAN – Waiting For A Viable Business Case?
There has been a lot of interest in cloud RAN amongst established MNOs in recent months with several of the biggest MNOs planning to launch fully…
September 15, 2021
Rakuten’s Future – Operator, Vendor or Something Else?
August was a busy month for Rakuten. The Japanese company announced its first major vendor contract with German Internet company 1&1 Drillisch,…
July 23, 2021
Mixed Fortunes for Ericsson and Nokia in China 5G RAN Tender
As expected, domestic vendors Huawei and ZTE were awarded the largest contracts in China Broadcasting Network (CBN) and China Mobile's recent joint…
June 18, 2021
Open RAN Cheerleader Vodafone Plays Safe With Incumbent Vendors
Last year, Vodafone announced plans to deploy open RAN across 2,500 rural sites in the UK, in what would be the largest commitment yet by an…
May 27, 2021
Dark Clouds Loom in China for Ericsson – and Nokia?
Ericsson and Nokia continue to benefit from the absence of their Chinese rivals in many markets. Nokia recently surprised the market with…
May 4, 2021
Open RAN Radios – Chinese Vendors Set To Dominate An Emerging Market?
Counterpoint Research recently completed its first survey of the open RAN radio market. Entitled, "Open RAN Radios - Product Availability Study," the…
April 30, 2021
Dish To Run 5G Network on AWS Cloud
Last week, Dish Network announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) whereby AWS will become Dish’s preferred cloud provider.…
February 25, 2021
Tough Year Ahead for Nokia as Ericsson Extends Market Share
Ericsson and Nokia reported 4Q 2020 and full-year 2020 results recently. Ericsson reported healthy financials which shows that it is continuing to…
January 28, 2021
Ericsson – Ready For an Open, Cloud-Native 5G World?
With 124 commercial 5G agreements and 79 live networks announced to date, Ericsson is the leading 5G vendor in terms of contract wins and is…
December 2, 2020
First O-RAN Private Network in Germany?
As the largest industrial market, Germany is leading the charge in advancing Industry 4.0 transformation in Europe. The German regulator BNetzA has…
November 4, 2020
Ericsson Profit Surge Driven by 5G Sales in China
Ericsson last week reported a higher than expected 38.5% YoY increase in its Q3 gross profit on revenues of SEK 57.5 ($6.5 billion), driven by a…
October 8, 2020
Nokia’s Revival: Is the Finnish Vendor Already Benefiting from Huawei’s Absence?
Nokia is one of the pioneers of the mobile industry but it has been struggling in recent years. The company's mobile access division still dwarfs its…
October 1, 2020
Ericsson Bets on Future With Cradlepoint Acquisition
Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson, on September 18, announced that it had acquired US-based vendor Cradlepoint for $1.1 billion. After the…
July 29, 2020
5G MEC Ecosystem: Stakeholders Partner in Mad Rush to the Edge
5G Multi Access Edge Computing or 5G MEC has generated a significant amount of hype in recent years promising to deliver low latency and improved…
July 15, 2020
Nokia: First Incumbent to Offer O-RAN Compliant Interfaces?
Although all the incumbents have developed cloud RAN product portfolios, only Nokia and Samsung have commercial deployments. Recently, Nokia went a…
June 25, 2020
5G MEC – Deployment Options and Challenges for Mobile Operators
One of the major promises of 5G is low latency, with target levels of 1 millisecond being specified for the air interface in 3GPP’s Release 16…
May 22, 2020
Microsoft Gets Serious About Telco Cloud With Metaswitch Acquisition
Hot on the heels of its acquisition of Affirmed Networks in April, Microsoft last week announced that it was buying UK-based Metaswitch Networks.…