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Kripa B February 27th, 2025 10:40 AM 7 COMMENTS

5G Yet to Create New Revenue Streams for Telecom Operators, Says Airtel Executive: Report

Even after three years since its launch, 5G has yet to generate new revenue streams for telecom operators in India or elsewhere in the world, with speed being its only differentiator from 4G, according to a senior executive at Bharti Airtel. This comment comes just after Airtel announced on Tuesday that it had closed a 5G Core equipment deal with Ericsson to transition Airtel's non-standalone (NSA) network to a 5G... Read More

Srikapardhi February 27th, 2025 12:00 AM 0 COMMENTS

MediaTek Unveils M90 5G-Advanced Modem With AI and Speeds Up to 12 Gbps

MediaTek is introducing a new 5G-Advanced cellular modem at Mobile World Congress 2025, aligning with 3GPP Release 17 and the upcoming Release 18 specifications. The company said the M90 can deliver downlink speeds of up to 12 Gbps and achieve up to 20 percent greater uplink speeds with 3GPP Release 17 2T-2T Uplink TX switching. This modem supports both sub-6 GHz (FR1 with up to 6CC-CA: six carrier aggregation) and... Read More

Srikapardhi February 26th, 2025 10:56 PM 0 COMMENTS

NBN Co and Ericsson Achieve Over 1 Gbps at 10KM in 5G mmWave Fixed Wireless Trials

Australia's NBN Co and Ericsson have successfully conducted live field trials of the latest 5G millimetre wave (mmWave) technology in parts of the nbn Fixed Wireless network, achieving wholesale download speeds exceeding 1 Gbps and wholesale upload speeds of more than 100 Mbps at a distance of approximately 10 kilometres. Also Read: NBN Co to Launch Multi-Gigabit Speeds for Broadband in September 2025 5G mmWave Field Trials These trials are... Read More

Srikapardhi February 25th, 2025 8:01 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bell Canada Expands 5G Partnership with Nokia, Advances Cloud RAN Deployment

Bell Canada and Nokia have announced an expansion of their 5G network infrastructure partnership. The expanded partnership aims to modernise Bell's network with Cloud and Open RAN capabilities, improving agility, scalability, and efficiency, Bell Canada announced on Tuesday, February 25. Also Read: Globe Tests Nokia’s Network Exposure Platform to Enhance Security in Financial Services Cloud RAN and Open RAN As part of a multi-year contract extension, Bell Canada will deploy... Read More

Srikapardhi February 25th, 2025 12:18 PM 4 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Partners with Ericsson to Transition to 5G Standalone in India

Bharti Airtel and Ericsson have expanded their long-standing partnership with a new collaboration to deploy Ericsson's 5G Core network solutions in India. This move will accelerate Airtel's transition to a full-scale 5G Standalone (SA) network, enhancing connectivity for millions of customers and enterprises, Bharti Airtel announced on February 25. Also Read: Airtel Fully Ready With 5G SA FWA, Can Launch When Required: CEO Airtel's 5G Monetisation Strategy Ericsson's dual-mode 5G Core... Read More

Srikapardhi February 24th, 2025 6:12 PM 0 COMMENTS

Eutelsat Completes First 5G NTN Trial Over OneWeb LEO Satellites

Eutelsat Group said that it has become the first satellite operator to demonstrate the 5G air interface working on a commercial satellite fleet. Eutelsat in collaboration with MediaTek and Airbus Defence and Space, has conducted what the companies call the world's first 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) trial over OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Also Read: ESA and Telesat Achieve 5G NTN Connection via LEO Satellite Key Technologies and Partners... Read More

Srikapardhi February 24th, 2025 2:33 PM 3 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Migrated 5G FWA to Dedicated Network Slice; Europe Severely Lags in 5G SA Rollout: Ookla

In India, Reliance Jio has migrated its 5G FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) traffic to a dedicated network slice. Network slicing is one of the key features of 5G Standalone (5G SA) architecture, and as Jio has deployed 5G SA, the largest telco is delivering fixed wireless broadband using a separate network slice to provide an optimized experience, TelecomTalk previously reported. Meanwhile, Europe severely lags behind other major regions in 5G... Read More

Tanuja K February 24th, 2025 1:10 PM 0 COMMENTS

TRAI’s New Proposal Around Private 5G Could Make Telcos Very Unhappy: Report

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is considering allowing the enterprises and businesses in India to set up their own private 5G network. This is not possible as per the current rules. However, TRAI has a new proposal for the private 5G network setup in India which could make it possible, only if the government approves. This would allow many major enterprises and organisations in India to set up... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 24th, 2025 11:21 AM 22 COMMENTS

Jio Delivered Fastest 5G SA Speeds Globally in Q4 2024: Ookla

Reliance Jio, the only Indian telecom operator that has deployed 5G SA (standalone) network is actually delivering the best download speeds globally where SA networks are concerned. The data comes from Ookla's latest report for Q4 2024. In the report, Ookla mentioned that in terms of 5G SA availability, these were the top nations in the world - China (80%), India (52%), and the United States (24%). In terms of... Read More

Srikapardhi February 22nd, 2025 3:24 PM 0 COMMENTS

Smart Mobile Labs to Roll Out Private 5G Networks for Deutsche Bahn Facilities

Smart Mobile Labs (SML), a Boldyn Networks (Boldyn) company, has signed a multi-million euro framework agreement with Deutsche Bahn to deploy 5G campus networks across the German national railway operator's facilities, the company announced on February 21. Also Read: Boldyn Completes Acquisition of Cellnex’s Private Networks Business 5G Campus Networks Across Railway Facilities Under the agreement, SML will plan, deliver, construct, and operate private 5G networks for Deutsche Bahn's maintenance... Read More

Srikapardhi February 20th, 2025 10:22 AM 0 COMMENTS

Telstra and Ericsson Partner to Roll Out Programmable Network with 5G Advanced Capabilities

Telstra is set to become the first communications service provider in the Asia-Pacific region to deploy a high-performing, programmable 5G Advanced network, following a four-year partnership with Ericsson, according to an announcement made on Thursday 20. With this deployment, customers of the Australian communications service provider (CSP) Telstra will benefit from the enhanced network capabilities. Also Read: Telstra Achieves 516 Mbps 5G SA Uplink Speed with Ericsson and Qualcomm AI,... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur February 20th, 2025 6:55 AM 0 COMMENTS

Jio AirFiber Max Most Expensive Plan Benefits Detailed

Reliance Jio, India's largest telecom operator, has expanded the reach of its AirFiber service or FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) service to almost every part of the country. To promote the service, the company, is in fact, running offers such as free installations. Further, YouTube Premium is only offered by Jio to the customers in India as an added beenfit on purchasing services. Today, we will take a look at the... Read More