As expected, the FCC voted today to prevent wireless carriers that receive money through the Universal Service Fund (USF) program from using that money on equipment and services from Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE. According to the commission, equipment from…
The FCC will vote next month on a proposal to ban equipment from Chinese manufacturers Huawei and ZTE from networks operated by service providers that receive support from the Universal Service Fund (USF). The move is driven by concerns that…
Swiss carrier Sunrise said it has achieved speeds of up to 3.67 Gbps using 5G technology from Huawei in 100 MHz of C-band spectrum. The high speeds are particularly notable in that the C-band lies between 4 and 8 GHz…
Avaya, Cisco, and Microsoft are ranked as the leading unified communications vendors, while Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Google, Huawei, NEC, and Unify and Mitel are “major players” in International Data Corporation (IDC)’s new ratings of the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market….
As the U.S. gets set to ban certain Chinese manufacturers from selling telecom equipment to U.S. service providers, CoBank is warning that rural Americans’ access to communications services could be damaged if insufficient funding is available for rural service providers…
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation that would provide up to $700 million in funding for carriers who may need to replace Huawei gear in their network. The issue has taken on increasing importance thanks to an…
The Department of Commerce has given U.S.-based Huawei suppliers 90 days to continue to supply parts to the Chinese manufacturer. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a prepared statement that this move will give network operators time to “make other…
Smartphone shipments dropped 6.6% year over year in the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC). The smartphone shipments drop continues a six-quarter trend, attributed to consumers’ holding onto their phones longer in…
The top three 5G radio access network (RAN) vendors will be closely bunched in 2023 when measured by the worldwide percentage of subscribers served, according to a new 5G RAN market share forecast from Strategy Analytics. Those three firms will…
Global smartphone shipments fell 6% on a year-over-year comparison, totaling 376 million units in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to Strategy Analytics. The research firm added that the global smartphone shipments drop for the full year of 2018 was…
5G has the potential to dramatically realign smartphone market share and threatens the dominance of major manufacturers in this market, according to Strategy Analytics. Indeed, the firm has created new nomenclature for two groups of companies it sees challenging traditional…
A ban on equipment from certain manufacturers, under consideration by the FCC, would put some rural carriers out of business, argued Huawei in a letter to the commission this week. China-based Huawei is one of the companies that recipients of…
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