China is in the news again – for positive reasons, this time, with the GSMA, the organisation representing mobile operators and organisations across the mobile ecosystem and adjacent industries, suggesting it will be the first country to reach one billion 5G connections.
At Mobile World Congress 2023, Karim Benkirane, Chief Commercial Officer of UAE operator du, presented the relationship between fibre and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) in his Keynote speech.
Kazakhstan’s Kcell has launched its first 5G trial with 12 sites now live across the cities of Almaty and Shymkent.
Fifteen months after conducting 5G pilot testing in the country, MTN Côte d’Ivoire has announced that its 5G services will be available by the start of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), scheduled for January in that year.
Indian ISP Netplus Broadband has tapped Nokia for its Multi-Access Gateway Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) application.
Malaysian content and entertainment company Astro has chosen Airties, a supplier of managed Wi-Fi solutions for service providers globally, to deliver a portfolio of smart Wi-Fi software and services to support broadband subscribers across its fibre footprint in Malaysia.
With 5G rollout well under way in much of the country, an Indian industry group has suggested that most telecom towers still need fiberisation, a vast number still need to be deployed and that recent amended Right of Way (RoW) rules are not being met by some Indian states.
Two Saudi service providers have signed deals with Rakuten Symphony as they look towards their next generation of mobile networks.
Intracom Telecom has signed a new deal with Sudanese ISP Maxnet to supply its WiBAS wireless access systems.
Ericsson has signed a reseller agreement with South African service provider Comsol to provide the Ericsson Private 5G solution; this will enable Comsol to expand its enterprise business within South Africa’s mining industry.
AALTO HAPS, an Airbus subsidiary, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enter a strategic partnership with STC Group, the Saudi digital enabler in the region, that will involve introducing high altitude platform station (HAPS)-based solutions to Saudi Arabia.
The Board of Directors of the World Broadband Association (WBBA), a multilateral, industry-led association, providing leadership for digital broadband across the next decade, recently held its first meeting in Barcelona. At that meeting Li Zhengmao, former CEO of China Telecommunications Corporation, was elected as the Chairman of the Board.
MWC 2023 may almost be over but there’s still time for at least one more major show announcement involving giant vendor Nokia – this time with Indonesian telecommunications provider Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH).
At MWC 2023 operator Singtel and vendors Ericsson and Qualcomm have announced the successful achievement of a maximum upload speed of 1.6Gbps on 5G millimetre wave. Achieving this upload speed is described as an industry first.
Ooredoo Group has selected Nokia to upgrade its existing radio access networks (RAN), as well as deploy new sites in Algeria and Tunisia.
At Mobile World Congress 2023, NEC affirmed its focus on 5G and its belief that open RAN is the technology to power it – in emerging markets as well as developed ones.
iBASIS, a provider of communications solutions for operators and digital players worldwide, and Sequans Communications, a developer and provider of 5G/4G chips and modules, have announced during MWC 2023 that Actility, a leading provider of IoT connectivity platforms, has chosen iBASIS and Sequans to roll out programmable cellular IoT solutions with eSIM and iSIM.
NVIDIA, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) computing, is developing a new AI-on-5G solution that combines 5G vRAN, edge AI and digital twin workloads on an all-in-one, hyperconverged and GPU-accelerated system. Built with NTT DOCOMO, Fujitsu and others, the all-in-one solution enables telcos to deliver immersive graphics, metaverse applications and computer vision from a single server.
New figures from GSMA Intelligence, announced during MWC 2023, show that 5G connections are expected to double over the next two years, expedited by technological innovations and new 5G network deployments in more than 30 countries in 2023 alone. Of the new networks to be deployed in 2023, it is expected that 15 will be 5G standalone networks.
Intracom Telecom, a global telecommunication systems and solutions vendor, has announced the launch of its new millimetre wave (mmWave) MU-MIMO Terminal Station, the WiBAS G5 GigaConnect. The company is displaying the product at its stand during MWC 2023.
MTN South Africa (MTN SA) has selected Nokia as one of its 5G radio access network (RAN) equipment providers.
Network software provider Mavenir has introduced its Virtual Cell Site Router (vCSR), at MWC 2023. It’s a solution that moves the cell site routing functionality into a containerised virtual function inside the Open RAN DU server (running on COTS hardware).
Operator Ooredoo Qatar has selected the ASSET 5G planning solution from TEOCO, a provider of analytics, assurance, planning and optimisation solutions to over 300 operators worldwide, to optimise its 5G network.
Etisalat by e& will use Nokia’s IP solution to upgrade its IP core capacity and enable transport slicing capabilities, ensuring a superior and more resilient 5G experience for its customers.
