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Rudradeep Biswas February 22nd, 2016 6:27 PM 0 COMMENTS

Cisco, Ericsson and Intel to develop world’s first 5G router

Cisco, Ericsson and Intel have joined hands to develop and trial the industry’s first 5G (fifth generation mobile networks) router. These players are collaborating with US telco Verizon within an ecosystem to accelerate the pace of critical 5G innovations. The companies expect the next-generation 5G router to enable business and residential customers to achieve significantly faster networking speeds, lower latency, and the ability to handle exponentially more Internet-connected devices. “Today’s... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 21st, 2016 1:38 AM 15 COMMENTS

Airtel transforms mobile backhaul transport capabilities across India

Bharti Airtel,the country's leading telecom operator, has selected ECI Telecom's Neptune (NPT) family of products to expand its mobile backhaul transport capabilities across India to support the increasing demand for bandwidth, as it migrates its mobile networks from 2G to 3G to 4G, and eventually to LTE-A. Airtel has chosen ECI's Neptune solutions for their 'state of the art' Evolved Packet Transport (EPT) Network. The Neptune (NPT) solutions will be... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 19th, 2016 5:26 PM 10 COMMENTS

Vodafone, Ericsson collaborate on 5G technologies

Vodafone Group is partnering with Ericsson and a number of other partners to research 5G technologies and prepare its networks for a transition towards the new mobile standard. As part of the global research effort to develop 5G, Vodafone will work with its partners to define industry standards, establish technical guidelines and prepare product roadmaps. Vodafone and its partners will evaluate which 5G technologies will be introduced as industry standards.... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 18th, 2016 6:26 PM 55 COMMENTS

Jio 4G launch to squeeze market share of Airtel, Vodafone, Idea

Reliance Jio Infocomm’s launch of 4G LTE services will intensify competition which will squeeze the market share, EBITDA margins and credit metrics of incumbents, according to India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra), which said that voice revenue are likely to remain moderate in FY17 on stagnant minutes of usage (MoU) and further competition in call realisations. The agency expects data revenue to remain stagnant on a 30%-40% decline in data realisations/megabyte... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 18th, 2016 2:03 PM 0 COMMENTS

Nokia says to help telcos transform with data center, cloud transformation services

Finish telecom gear maker Nokia said that it is expanding its cloud wise services portfolio with the launch of three professional services, helping operators transform to the telco cloud and implement a data center infrastructure to run their cloud-based enterprise and telco functions. Nokia Data Center services take a DevOps (Development and Operations) based holistic approach to agile service delivery for multivendor cloud environments. This lets operators take full advantage... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 17th, 2016 2:31 PM 78 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio 4G network delivers 17.34 Mbps downlink, 3.34 Mbps uplink speed: OpenSignal app data

Reliance Jio 4G LTE network appears to be considerably slow in the country, even during the ongoing testing phase. The network, which is just available to its group employees, is delivering an average 17.34 Mbps downlink and 3.34 Mbps uplink speed in the country, according OpenSignal app data. The test results are captured from around 141 Reliance Jio users, who have downloaded the OpenSignal app. “Take those numbers with a... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 17th, 2016 12:47 PM 0 COMMENTS

Sharing of active telecom infrastructure gets DoT nod

After giving a nod to allow sharing of spectrum among telecom operators, the India government has now allowed sharing of active telecom infrastructure like antenna, feeder cable and transmission systems. The move is aimed at lowering costs for telecom operators, and will also lead to faster rollout of networks in the country. The telecom department (DoT) has amended the Unified Licence to allow active infrastructure sharing. The amendment is effective... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 17th, 2016 12:38 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel makes top level changes in Africa, introduces new organization design

Bharti Airtel has made top level changes for its Africa operations to enable faster decision making as well as speed to market. It has elevated Christian Defaria, MD & CEO, Airtel Africa to the position of Executive Chairman, and has appointed Raghunath Mandava as Chief Operating Officer of the African business. The telco has created a new organizational structure which is aimed at enhanced empowerment at the operating level as well... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 16th, 2016 7:10 PM 1 COMMENTS

Gemalto launches leading edge M2M LTE wireless module with 2G, 3G fall-back

Gemalto has launched a leading edge M2M Category 1 (Cat 1) LTE wireless module, which enables fall-back to 2G in Europe Middle East Africa and to 3G in North America for areas where LTE connectivity is not yet fully available. "Available in different variants, the new M2M module extends our fast growing portfolio of next generation LTE products for global use," said Axel Hansmann, Vice President Portfolio & Strategy M2M... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 16th, 2016 5:37 PM 1 COMMENTS

TCS brings VoLTE solution for virtualized networks

IT solutions provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said that it has launched a solution to enable Voice over LTE for virtualized networks using TCS’ Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Concerto platform. The company has tied-up with Brocade, Metaswitch, Intel and Ixia to demonstrate the deployment and verification of Voice over LTE service in virtualized networks, which will help in creating new business opportunities, simplifying product development, and helping customers deal confidently with... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 16th, 2016 3:25 PM 50 COMMENTS

Airtel, RCom, MTS object to Trai broadband speed directive

Bharti Airtel, along with Reliance Communications and Sistema Shyam Teleservices (MTS India), in their submission to the Trai, have objected to the telecom regulator's recent directive that fixed broadband operators ensure a minimum 512 kbps download speed at all times, media reports said. The Indian telecom regulator, had last month, in a draft direction on boosting transparency in delivery of internet and broadband services, asked fixed broadband operators to ensure... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 16th, 2016 11:57 AM 15 COMMENTS

RCom, Aircel merger deal unlikely to be concluded within 90 days: Report

The merger deal between RCom and its smaller rival Aircel may run into debt hurdle, and it is unlikely to be concluded within the 90 days, LiveMint reported today. The report said that unless RCom manages to sell its tower assets and Aircel sells some of its spectrum, both the telcos can’t reduce their debt to less than Rs.10,000 crore, which was the condition for the merger of their wireless... Read More