Orange and Samsung have released some details on the conclusion of a field trial of Samsung’s Open vRAN in a pilot network in South West France. The trial saw Samsung provide its vARN software and ...

Adoption of Cellular-V2X (C-V2X) as the technology to enable connected vehicle use cases is growing. But the business models backing C-V2X’s complex ecosystem are still evolving. Despite that trials ...

Vodafone and O2 have traded midband spectrum to give each other more useful spectrum holdings in the 3.4-3.8GHz bands. The trade follows the completion of the second stage of the midband in the UK, ...

This week in Incheon, Korea, 1500 people are attending 3GPP’s first official Workshop for 6G – many of them having flown straight out from MWC Barcelona. The workshop is more of a showpiece than a ...

Nokia has officially evolved its MantaRay product family into MantaRay SMO. The evolution sees Nokia commit to opening up its MantaRay SON portfolio to act as a non real time RIC (non-RT RIC) with the ...

Fran Heeran, who headed up the Product and Engineering unit within Nokia’s Cloud and Network Services group, has been recruited by Red Hat to head up its global telecommunications business. Heeran, ...

AI-RAN looked like it would be a big strategic topic at MWC – and so it proved over Day 0 and Day 1. Nokia made AI-RAN a key part of its pre-MWC press conference on Sunday, lining up three operator ...

SOLID, in partnership with 1&1 and Rakuten, is delivering a step change in the football experience at Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany the famous home of the mighty Borussia Dortmund and their ...

TMN has learnt that four Chinese airlines are close to announcing that they will deploy air-to-ground (ATG) 5G services for in-flight connectivity. Liu Weiwei, General Manager of ATG Products at ZTE, ...

Mobile World Congress Americas 2018 starts on 12 September, and there have been a host of “5G First” announcements in the two days leading up to the event. Most of these have come from or via the US ...

The size wars are on, and smaller is better. Two days after Ericsson announced that it had a 64T64R Massive MIMO antenna radio unit that weighs just 20kg, Huawei announced at MWC Shanghai that its ...

Vodafone currently has a tender out for a refresh of its base station estate, which it has said is 170,000 base stations, across its European and African operations. The tender has created a stir not ...