Radio Access Network

Mickey Mikitani, Chairman and CEO of Rakuten Group: Picture credit, Rakuten Group

Open RAN

Rakuten plays a hybrid tune with its Symphony, spies $100B+ market

Open RAN

German operator 1&1 to build brownfield Open RAN network with Rakuten

Access Evolution

What’s up with… Lumen, Mavenir & Triangle, 6G in the UK

Open RAN

Mavenir selected by Triangle Communications for full Open RAN virtualized network

6G R&I

Research powerhouses join forces to maximise global potential of 6G next generation mobile technology

Altiostar Networks CEO Ashraf Dahod

Open RAN

Rakuten acquires Altiostar at $1B+ valuation

Open RAN

Rakuten Group to acquire mobile industry innovator Altiostar

Open RAN

Rakuten launches Rakuten Symphony to accelerate adoption of cloud-native, Open RAN-based mobile networks worldwide

Open RAN

1&1 and Rakuten agree far-reaching partnership to build Europe's first fully virtualized mobile network based on new OpenRAN technology

Hesse's first smart 5G street light in operation in the mobile network of Telefónica Deutschland / O2: Picture credits, Abel Mobilfunk

5G

What’s up with…. Telefónica Deutschland, STL, Orange & SES Networks

Open RAN

STL collaborates with Facebook Connectivity to develop Evenstar radio units for the Open RAN ecosystem

5G

Nokia achieves first 5G carrier aggregation call in standalone architecture with Taiwan Mobile

5G

Huawei and CommScope are the market leaders in ABI Research’s Cellular Base Station Antenna competitive ranking

5G

What’s up with… Ericsson in China, Eutelsat, Iliad

6G R&I

SoftBank outlines 12 challenges for 6G

5G

Anritsu in collaboration with Qualcomm verifies industry first Dual Connectivity test for 5G New Radio Standalone mode

via Flickr © Nathan O'Nions (CC BY 2.0)

5G

Sizing the private 4G/5G opportunity is harder than it looks

Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark during the vendor's Q2 2021 earnings conference call

5G

Wham! Bam! Thank you, TAM! – Nokia CEO

Open RAN

Parallel Wireless and Neptune Communications - First Mission Critical Band 14 Open RAN based Networks Providing Broadband Connectivity in the Caribbean

5G

Samsung Electronics Announces Second Quarter 2021 Results

Access Evolution

Nokia fixes its sights on further growth after strong Q2

Open RAN

Mavenir appoints Bejoy Pankajakshan to newly created role of Chief Technology and Strategy Officer

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger: Picture courtesy of Intel Corp.

Digital Platforms & Services

What’s up with… Intel, Verizon and Samsung, US 5G capex

5G

Levelling-up Britain, one 5G private network at a time