Today, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) and Project Kuiper, an advanced low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network from Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced a strategic collaboration to develop connectivity solutions for unserved and underserved communities. As part of the collaboration, Project Kuiper and Verizon have begun to develop technical specifications and define preliminary commercial models for a range of connectivity services for U.S. consumers and global enterprise customers operating in rural and remote locations around the world.
Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3…
5GRuralDorset leads world in 5G satellite backhaul research
Having bagged the top spot in three categories at Connected Britain, the now multi-award-winning project has gone on to demonstrate satellite backhaul from a 5G standalone network – the only known example of this in the world.
Connected through a satellite link back to the Satellite Application Catapult’s core network in Westcott, two sites in Portland now benefit from both satellite and terrestrial connectivity…
Telstra agrees $1.6bn purchase of Digicel Pacific to curb Chinese influence
Back in July, rumours had begun to circulate that Telstra was in talks with the Australian government discussing financial and strategic support for a potential takeover bid for Digicel Pacific. The deal, which was estimated at around A$2 billion, would be largely financed by the government in an effort to stop geopolitically important communications infrastructure in the Pacific falling into China&rsquo…
5GRuralDorset leads world in 5G satellite backhaul eesearch
Having bagged the top spot in three categories at Connected Britain, the now multi-award-winning project has gone on to demonstrate satellite backhaul from a 5G standalone network – the only known example of this in the world.
Connected through a satellite link back to the Satellite Application Catapult’s core network in Westcott, two sites in Portland now benefit from both satellite and terrestrial connectivity…
Being the agent of change for cloud native network architecture
The term ‘cloud native’ is something that the telecoms industry has been gradually coming to terms with in recent years, but for the term remains loosely defined and somewhat ambiguous.
For Inbar Lasser-Raab, chief marketing officer at DriveNets, cloud native networks can be defined by three key factors, each with their own clear benefits for the operator.
1. Disaggregated hardware and software – By decoupling the hardware and software, and allowing the latter to run on standardised, ‘white box’ network equipment…
T-Mobile delays 3G sunset for three months
Back in August, T-Mobile accused Dish of ‘dragging their feet’ regarding the operator’s slow transition of customers off of CDMA (i.e., 3G) services and onto their. Now, T-Mobile is delaying their own CDMA shut down by an additional three months, perhaps in an effort to give Dish some wiggle room…
Nokia deploys 5G standalone core network for Taiwan Mobile
The timely deployment includes Nokia’s voice core, cloud packet core, subscriber data management, signaling, network exposure, policy controller, cloud infrastructure, and security management for radio transport. With a 5G standalone core network, Taiwan Mobile can readily provide the most advanced 5G services such as network slicing and smart city solutions that require ultra…
Belgium crawls towards 5G auction in 2022
Belgium’s journey in allocating 5G spectrum has been highly problematic, with numerous delays caused not only by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic but, more generally, due to disagreements between federal and regional governments.
By July 2020 an agreement between the various stakeholders had still not been reached…
The emerging customer experience in telecoms
The last year should have been a golden year for European telecommunication (telecoms) companies. Tens of millions of people were forced to work from home in response to Covid-19 and have become increasingly reliant on robust residential broadband and mobile phone networks to do their jobs and entertain themselves. Demand for the industry’s most important product — connectivity — has never been higher.
With the advent of significant mergers and acquisitions in the UK telecoms sector, such as Vodafone’s move to split off its telecom tower business into a separate company to handle the business of constructing, owning and operating its communications towers and Telefónica’s decision to merge its O2 business in the UK with Virgin Media, the race is on to acquire customers and secure market share. At the same time, organisational need to deliver a superior brand and customer experience to retain customers has never been as vital…
TIM adds to its Open RAN coverage with Saluzzo deployment
At the start of 2021, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone all signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreeing to collaborate and jointly focus on developing Open RAN technology. Not to be left out, TIM became the fifth signatory of the MoU just weeks later and since then has been advancing steadily with its Open RAN drive…