The 5G race is officially on as vendors release the first of their Release 15-compliant gear. Of course, most if not all vendors have already gotten their foot in the door with existing customers by Read more…
BARCELONA (Reuters) – The telecoms world is gearing up for 5G, the next generation wireless technology that promises to go beyond phones and link up everything from vehicles to household devices, or anything else with Read more…
The rise of 5G, IoT and digital transformation in general is good news for the test and measurement sector for fairly obvious reasons. T&M will be crucial to mobile operators making sure that their networks Read more…
The GSMA is declaring last week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) as a huge success, despite a drop in attendance. In possibly unrelated news, the Spanish government is reportedly paying 165 million euros in subsidies to Read more…
Begun, the 5G Vendor Wars have. Well, not exactly – the 5G battle has been ongoing for some time and is really an extension of the ongoing decades-old competition to supply the world’s mobile networks. Read more…
Network transformation continues to be a hot topic in the mobile sector, whether you’re talking about the RAN, the core or everything in between. That brings us quickly to Mavenir, which knows a little something Read more…
MWC18 news from Day 4: SAP adds payments, mapping and logistics; Telkomsel and Huawei launch CloudAIR 2.0; Singtel and Ericsson launch IoT network; Mastercard and Messenger; Comviva and mobile money; Sandvine and Mobily. SAP adds Read more…
Welcome to our top picks of GSMA news from MWC in Barcelona: a new dawn; a new mobile day; broadband for all; towards the end of poverty; the World Bank; ICANN; identity and authentication and Read more…
This year’s Mobile World Congress wasn’t all about 5G hype – there was plenty of hype around artificial intelligence as well. At least in the press releases. On the exhibition floor and in the conference Read more…
Blockchain has plenty of potential game-changing uses that telcos can capitalize on, either by creating their own services or enabling others. But they’ll need to educate themselves, dive in and get their hands dirty on Read more…
China Telecom and Huawei have established a Business Joint Innovation Center (BJIC) to jointly develop differential, innovative products and solutions by treating them as dynamic interactive systems that can be mixed up in the style Read more…
One of the tropes of digital transformation is that traditional telcos must copy the corporate culture of OTT players like Facebook or Google. But it’s not that simple, says the chief of Red Hat – Read more…
As cyber security threats continue to escalate, McAfee’s CEO urged the mobile industry to take security far more seriously by making it a quality-control metric – and they can start by learning a lesson from Read more…
It is perhaps unfair to say this mid-show, but it seems as if more and more people are looking for excuses not to visit MWC this year. This very accusation could possibly be levelled at Read more…
MWC18 news from Day 2: Huawei launches AUTIN for complex environments; Ericsson teams with Chunghwa and FarEasTone; Jio taps Samsung for IoT; and is Ooredoo winning the race to 5G? Huawei launches AUTIN to help Read more…
The theme of this year’s Mobile World Congress is ‘Creating A Better Future’ – and according to the traditional opening keynotes by top cellco executives, creating that better future will involve fairer regulation, public-private cooperation Read more…
BARCELONA (Reuters) – The chief executive of Huawei said on Monday the pace of commercialization for next-generation 5G wireless networks is picking up as the Chinese telecom equipment maker has begun pre-commercial development with more Read more…
Finally MWC has stopped wanting to be CES and is instead reclaiming its identity as a show all about phones and the boxes that connect them to the world. Sunday saw the release of 4 Read more…
Huawei launched a new network product at Mobile World Congress 2018 on Monday that aims to convert SDN networks into “intent-driven” networks. That may sound like Huawei attempting to coin an industry term based on Read more…
MWC18 news from Day 1: Sterlite launches the ‘BSS of the future’; LTE data roaming hits tipping point; Vodafone hearts Netcracker; ZTE’s new 5G base stations; and Tmall integrates iStaging’s VR capture. Sterlite introduces the ‘BSS Read more…
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