Comcast has chosen another key wireless network vendor. The company selected Nokia’s 5G standalone core networking software, including packet core, to support the Xfinity Mobile and Comcast Business Mobile networks nationwide. Nokia also will provide consulting services. The company previously announced…
Dish said that Samsung open radio access network (O-RAN) radios and 5G virtualized RAN software are live on the Dish 5G network. A Dish spokesperson confirmed in an email to Telecompetitor that the company until now had relied on Fujitsu…
Worldwide tablet shipments rose 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, reaching 45.7 million units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. The report also showed that…
Verizon, which is more than halfway to its goal of rolling out 20,000 virtual radio access networks (vRANs) by 2025, has begun deploying devices from Ericsson. Radio access networks link mobile devices to the core network. Virtualizing the RAN —…
Comcast has chosen Samsung to provide radio access network infrastructure for the 5G network it will be building. In a blog post on the Comcast website, Comcast Senior Vice President of Wireless Strategy Tom Nagel said the company has licenses…
Dish said today that it has launched its 5G wireless service, dubbed Project Genesis, in more than 120 markets. The markets are primarily in Tier 2 cities such as Tuscaloosa, AL; Midland, MI; Boise, ID and three Springfields — Massachusetts,…
Verizon and Samsung have conducted an end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session over C-band spectrum over a live network, according to the carrier. The demonstration anticipates the carrier’s use of C-band spectrum it recently acquired. Virtualization decouples the hardware and…
Verizon has rolled out 5G vRAN (virtualized radio access network) technology from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The technology aims to help create more programmable networks that dynamically allocate resources. Verizon is also deploying Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) from Samsung. DSS…
More than a billion streaming TV and video devices are now in use worldwide, according to streaming TV market share research from Strategy Analytics. Researchers track devices in 27 countries. With a 17% market share, Samsung is the leading streaming…
Wireless equipment provider Samsung expects the International Telecommunications Union to begin work on defining the next generation of wireless technology to be known as 6G in 2021. But the company already has some ideas of its own about what 6G…
AT&T has launched its 5G network in 137 additional US markets, bringing the company’s total number of 5G markets to 327 covering more than 160 million people. In addition, the company, like some other carriers, gained a more affordable 5G…
A Comcast spokesperson confirmed that Xfinity Mobile 5G service, announced today, will run on the Verizon network through the MVNO agreement between the companies. The Verizon 5G network is available in parts of 34 markets nationwide. Where it isn’t available,…
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