MPEG LA and Unified Patents have just launched their Alium patent pool program that seeks to license 4G LTE and 5G standard-essential patents (SEPs) for a minimum charge of $10 per Open RAN Radio Unit (RU). Previously, attention to licensing and royalty charges for cellular SEPs has been overwhelmingly on […]
Year: 2021
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau settled investigations into carriers’ adherence to the agency’s 911 reliability rules. The probes concerned network outages that occurred last year. To resolve the cases, each company — AT&T, CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies), Intrado Safety Communications, and Verizon — agreed to make a settlement payment and implement […]
The zero-touch network is a cloud that takes care of itself using automation, AI, and ML. But does it deliver? 5G delivers transformational technology because it works in the cloud. Cloud-native operations make Communication Service Providers (CSPs) more beholden than ever to automation to help manage operational cost and maximize […]
DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) and FreedomFi, an open 5G networking company, will collaborate on a pilot program intended to provide DISH’s current and future wireless customers with access to what the companies claim is the world’s first community-driven, neutral host CBRS hotspot network. This collaboration extends DISH’s position that the next […]
Using carrier aggregation, the companies achieved an upload peak rate of 986 Mbps in a live 5G demo Telstra, Ericsson and Qualcomm are claiming their third record-breaking data speed of late. In 2015, they broke the 1 Gbps barrier on 4G, followed by a new 5G download record in January 2021, and […]
DigitalBridge Group (NYSE: DBRG) announced yesterday that funds affiliated with DigitalBridge Investment Management, the firm’s investment management platform, have completed the combined acquisition of two of Iceland’s largest tower portfolios from Sýn hf. (Sýn) and Nova hf. (Nova), the leading Icelandic mobile network operators, to create ÍslandsTurnar. ÍslandsTurnar is the […]
5G paired with MEC is already driving enterprise innovation, and the sky is the limit Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) places compute and storage resources closer to the consumer or enterprise end user. 5G, coupled with a MEC infrastructure, enables a fundamentally new era of low-latency data communications which can enable […]
New Street Research telecom analysts believe recent statements by the FCC and FAA give them more confidence that carriers will begin transmitting 5G on C-band in January. New Street Policy Advisor Blair Levin said in a client note that analysts interpret last week’s FAA statements as the agency “stepping away […]
5G connections grow 28% to reach 56.5 M in North America Global 5G Connections Reach 438 M in Q3 2021: up 19.6% from Q2 185 5G Commercial Networks Deployed Worldwide BELLEVUE, Wash. – December 14, 2021 – Global wireless 5G connections have reached 438 million by the third quarter of 2021 and are on pace […]
States reported that 72% of 911 calls received in 2019 came from wireless phones—but the FCC thinks it’s probably more Each year for the past 12 years, the Federal Communications Commission has gathered information from states and territories about their 911 fee collection, distribution and general operations and put it […]