TELECOM – THIS WEEK (2146)
1.??????Nokia associates with Vodafone Idea to trial 5G services using E-band
Nokia announced its partnership with Vodafone Idea to trial 5G services through E-Band in areas where fiber is challenging to deploy. "We are delighted to partner with Vi in trials to deliver 5G services by connecting smallcells and macrocells with fiber-like speed through E-Band, in areas where fiber is challenging to deploy," the company said in a tweet.
2.????AT&T and Verizon delay 5G rollout due to airplane safety concerns
Wireless carriers?AT&T?and?Verizon?are postponing the planned December 5 rollout of the new 5G spectrum as concerns about potential interference with cockpit safety systems are addressed, per The Wall Street Journal.
3.????Viasat and Inmarsat to Combine, Creating a New Leading Global Communications Innovator
Viasat Inc., a global communications company, and?Inmarsat, a leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which?Viasat?will acquire?Inmarsat. The combination will create a leading global communications innovator with enhanced scale and scope to affordably, securely and reliably connect the world. The complementary assets and resources of the new organization will enable the availability of advanced new services?in mobile and fixed segments, driving greater customer choice in broadband communications and narrowband services (including the Internet of Things or "IoT").
4.????Vodafone strategic partnership agreement with Telekom Srbija
Vodafone and Telekom Srbija today announced a new partnership agreement covering Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through this strategic partnership Telekom Srbija will benefit from Vodafone’s global knowledge and experience as well as procurement capabilities.?The relationship will enable Telekom Srbija to leverage Vodafone’s leading position in digitalising its consumer product and service offerings. Through the partnership with Vodafone Procurement Company, Telekom Srbija can access category insights and strategy coaching, consultancy or end-to-end sourcing execution, resulting in cost optimisation and value creation.
5.????BT turns to robots for FTTP efficiencies
It’s certainly not the most glamorous part of the broadband industry, but, for network operators, civil engineering is one of the most important and expensive steps in delivering high-speed connectivity services to customers, which is why BT has invested in what it says is the “first dedicated telecoms civil engineering robotics test facility in the UK.”?
The test lab, a 5000+ sq. ft. robotics research facility that is part of the BT Labs at Adastral Park, Suffolk, will focus on developing “robotics solutions to speed the deployment of essential infrastructure, working with the university sector and other utilities to trial a new range of UK-developed robotics which are applicable to telecoms and utility sector civil engineering challenges worldwide.”
BT says the lab currently has about eight?researchers working across various different projects, “with the potential to expand as BT broadens its sphere of interest. In addition, we are working with six universities and two industrial partners that we will be hosting for trials and demos – maybe up to 10 people at a time,” according to the operator.?
6.????Digital Realty selects Ciena to drive scalable cloud interconnectivity across Asia Pacific
Digital Realty, the largest global provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions and Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, have a signed an agreement to deliver an open, secure and dynamic cloud-based interconnectivity to customers across Asia Pacific. As a key milestone on Digital Realty’s roadmap for open interconnection, the new connectivity options further enable connected data communities on?PlatformDIGITAL??through the integration of Ciena’s DCI solution. PlatformDIGITAL??is a first of its kind global data center platform designed to enable customers to scale digital business. The collaboration with Ciena represents a significant milestone to enhance open interconnection, unlock trapped value and remove legacy barriers to digital transformation as outlined earlier this year in Digital Realty’s open letter to the industry. Digital Realty and Ciena will combine expertise to tackle the challenges of data gravity head on and focus on laying the physical and virtual foundations through Ciena’s DCI solutions and Digital Realty’s Metro Connect service, that aims to truly enable connected data communities and support transformative outcomes for customers across all industries.
7.????Altice USA prepares to take on Verizon with mobile, broadband bundle
Altice USA is looking to level the playing field as it battles Verizon in the New York metropolitan area, plotting the launch of a new Optimum Mobile offering which will allow it to match its rival’s double play bundle. Speaking on the operator’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Dexter Goei noted Altice has been feeling the heat from Verizon in areas where its Optimum products compete with the latter’s Fios brand. He attributed Verizon’s advantage in part to its ability to package strong fixed and mobile products together.
8.????Euro telco giants unveil Open RAN labs in Germany and France
In Germany, a consortium comprising the country’s three biggest network operators – Deutsche Telekom (lead role),?Telefónica Deutschland and Vodafone Deutschland?– and a group of vendors, researchers and test specialists have set up and are funding a new ‘open’ lab, dubbed i14y, that aims to accelerate the development of Open RAN and other disaggregated network architectures.
In France, the?Orange Open RAN Integration Center, based at?Orange Gardens in Chatillon,?near Paris,?has a host of vendor partners but doesn’t involve any other network operators: It has been granted Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) status by the O-RAN Alliance.?
9.????Telia Company launches 5G SA core network in Finland – the first commercially available 5G SA network in the Nordic and Baltic region
Telia is launching its 5G SA core network in Finland, the first commercially available 5G SA network in the Nordic and Baltic region. With the new 5G SA core architecture, applications in the network are provided with required capacity and latency needs, allowing for the creation of private networks, implementation of applications for remote control and further industry automationn for enterprise and public sector customers. The new network architecture also sets the foundation for new innovative consumer applications requiring the functionality provided by 5G SA. Telia will also utilize the 5G SA core network to offer its residential customers in Finland broadband connections with guaranteed speeds.
10.?Ericsson jumps into the Omniverse for 5G rollout
Ericsson and Nvidia are working together on accurate simulations of 5G network deployments using the latter's Omniverse platform.
But while the likes of Microsoft, which is busily showing off its version of the metaverse through the medium of avatars, and Facebook's "new" parent Meta are presenting viable but future-gazing use cases, its refreshing to see that Ericsson and Nvidia have found a real-world application that makes sense today.
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Ericsson is using Nvidia's Omniverse Enterprise, a real-time virtual world simulation platform, to build city-scale digital twins to help it design 5G networks for its telco customers. Essentially, that means building an accurate virtual model of any given city to test out antenna placement, signal strength and so forth. Nifty.
11.?Canada’s Telus is on track to retire its copper network by early 2023
Canadian operator Telus inched closer to a full-fiber future, revealing only 12% of customers within its footprint are still served by copper. During the operator’s Q3 earnings call, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle stated it has just over 200,000 lines remaining on its copper network. EVP and Chief Customers Officer Tony Geheran added it expects the migration of its copper customers to fiber to be “substantially completed by the end of 2022, early 2023.”
12.?What service providers should expect from SASE — Raynovich
Unless you live under a submarine cable, you’ve probably heard about secure access service edge?(SASE), the hot new buzzcroynm in the cybersecurity and networking technology markets. In recent months, the SASE market has been gaining real momentum, and it pays to understand why.?End users want more consumable networking and cybersecurity technology. As cloud-based security services such as Cloudflare, Okta, and Zscaler have taken off, it has become clear that the cloud consumption model is the desired end goal for cybersecurity.?On the enterprise networking side, software-defined?wide area networking (SD-WAN) services were the starting point for connecting networks and branches to the cloud. Now, these two arenas of cloud-based networking and security are merging. SD-WAN is expanding into SASE.?
13.?Korean telcos reap the rewards of their digital drive
You don't have to dig very deep into the third quarter numbers from SK Telecom and KT Corp. to see that their ambitious push into 5G and new digital services is paying off. Both operators this week reported healthy top-line growth, driven by the continued strong uptake of 5G and value-added services, and encouraging developments in their new lines of business.
14.?For every 5G 'Pacesetter' there are four also-rans a long way down the field, finds Ericsson
A new report from Ericsson ConsumerLab (“The Voice of the Consumer”), claims to be the first and only study to incorporate a consumer perspective when shedding light on the four stages of 5G maturity and to uncover what sets the most successful service providers apart from the rest of the players in the market. “5G Pacesetters” says CSPs falling under that top heading are twice as likely to grow revenue than their rivals.?
15.?TSMC and Sony sign the agreement to build a factory in Japan of 7,000 million dollars
It’s official now?TSMC announced its partnership with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation?(Sony) to build a new chip factory in Japan valued at?$ 7 billion. With this investment, the company will not increase its wafer production with cutting-edge manufacturing processes, since it will prevail to manufacture chips much more used and demanded in the consumer industry to manufacturing processes of?22nm and 28nm.
16.?Lava becomes first Indian brand to launch 5G smartphone
Lava?has launched its first 5G mid-range smartphone in India, which is being called Agni. It features MediaTek’s new 5G chipset, a 90Hz display, and a 64MP quad rear camera setup, among others.?The device will be seen competing against the Realme 8s 5G, Redmi Note 10T 5G, and other devices. The Lava Agni 5G price in India is set at Rs 19,999. The company is offering the device in only one variant, 8GB RAM + 128GB internal storage. Those who pre-book the phone before November 17 will be able to buy the Lava Agni at a discounted price of Rs 17,999. It should be noted that one will be required to pay Rs 500 in advance to?pre-book the smartphone on the official Lava site.
17.?Oracle partners with India's Airtel in boost for cloud business
Cloud service provider Oracle?on Wednesday said it was partnering with Indian telecoms group Bharti Airtel's?data centre unit in an expansion push that will widen the U.S. company's customer access in one of its fastest-growing markets.
The partnership with Airtel Nxtra will help Oracle, which runs a cloud region in financial capital of Mumbai and another in the southern tech hub of Hyderabad, expand the capacity of its India West region, said Garrett Ilg, President, Oracle Japan and Asia Pacific.
18.?Vodafone and VMware extend strategic partnership to accelerate release of new network features using one scaled platform
Vodafone has extended its strategic partnership with VMware to accelerate the roll-out of new digital services, using one scaled platform for networks and IT systems, across Europe. This allows Vodafone to quickly implement and manage new software, applications, and processes across any mobile infrastructure and any cloud. The first application for the common platform will be the provision of 5G standalone (5G SA), giving Vodafone the ability to automate and orchestrate new applications based on this technology in multiple countries at the same time. Other new services will quickly follow, like enriched voice services over data, the connection of many more Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and next generation video conferencing and Virtual and Augmented Reality.
19.?Indonesia, UK discuss future technology and cybersecurity
5G and 6G are technology standards for new cellular phone networks. We are also launching a new joint working group on counterterrorism and a cyber dialogue as well, Truss said. The British foreign secretary also met with President Joko Widodo and discussed closer cooperation in vaccines and biotechnology, the presidential palace said. Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, is Truss last stop in a weeklong visit to Southeast Asia to deepen economic and security relations.