Optimizing Open RAN RIC for EE network performance British Telecom (BT) and Nokia on Wednesday announced a new Open RAN trial in the city of Hull. BT will install Nokia’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) across a number of sites. The goal of the project: to optimize and scale Open RAN […]
Year: 2022
On Tuesday, January 18, SpaceX launched 40 more Starlink satellites into space from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to Metro, this brings the total to more than 2,000 satellites in orbit for SpaceX. “1,469 Starlink satellites active. 272 moving to operational orbits. Laser links activate soon,” SpaceX founder […]
Complements managed VMware SD-WAN service VMware has announced that British Telecom (BT) is offering VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to its customers as a global managed service. The offering builds on BT and VMware’s SD-WAN managed service, which is already in place. The new service is available from a global […]
When Windy City Tower Techs, LLC suffered an unfortunate fatality incident on September 3, 2021 at a monopine telecommunications tower in Olympia Fields, IL, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) followed with a comprehensive investigation into the incident. Even though the investigation included on-site and aerial drone footage, OSHA […]
Oracle bundles OCI, core network services and apps for CSPs Oracle is “redefining the telco market” with its new Oracle Cloud for Telcos offering. That’s the word from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Executive Vice President Clay Magouyrk. Magouyrk outlined the company’s plans in a recent blog post. Magouyrk noted the exceptional […]
So, here’s the FCC-FAA argument over 5G on which Inside Towers has reported extensively. The FAA and major U.S. airlines have taken issue with the FCC allowing the wireless carriers to use C-band frequencies in the 3.7-4.2 GHz range, especially that portion allocated for 5G use in the 3.7-3.98 GHz […]
U.K. carrier Vodafone announced it has switched on what it claims to be the first 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) site in the country, the telco said in a release. The site installed in the city of Bath is the first of 2,500 5G and 4G O-RAN sites that Vodafone committed […]
UPDATE AT&T and Verizon modified their plans to turn on 5G transmissions using their C-band licenses today. That’s in response to the last-minute plea on Monday from representatives of airlines and cargo shippers asking for a third pause. The carriers on Tuesday agreed to temporarily defer turning on some wireless […]
New 5G Americas white paper provides comprehensive overview update for 5G and 4G LTE networks BELLEVUE, Wash. – January 18, 2022 – With 5G global connections now exceeding 438 million, 5G networks are well on their way towards becoming the dominant global standard for wireless cellular communications. Today, 5G Americas, […]
Ericsson files new suits against Apple in patent-friendly Western District of Texas Ericsson and Apple are back in court in Texas, months after firing a volley of lawsuits against each other in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Ericsson picked a different venue to file two […]