TELECOM – THIS WEEK (2437)
1.???? SNS: RAN automation spending to hit $700M by 2027
SNS Telecom & IT’s?recent report?on radio access network (RAN) automation predicts that the cellular industry will spend about $700 million on automated open RAN software by 2027, up from under $100 million today.
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2.???? 5G neutral host private networking gains prominence in the U.S.
Neutral host private networking is gaining prominence in the United States, as some major operators and large enterprises are starting to move to this more inclusive private networking model.
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3.???? Op-Ed: The killer app for 5G gets unveiled with iPhone 16
Apple will be introducing a new service along with iPhone 16. ?Tim Cook recently said that he sees “generative AI as a key opportunity across [Apple] products.” We interpret this to mean that Siri will be extended to support interesting use cases. People will search for items in photos. They’ll analyze video content. Eventually, the AI assistant will be navigating and auto-filling online forms for the user. Can I get Siri to do my taxes for me? Oh,?H&R Block?is working on that app.
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4.???? Reliance Jio crowned world’s biggest data company
Jio of India is one of the most remarkable telecoms success stories of recent times. In just eight years, Jio has grown to such heights that it is now the world’s biggest data company, carrying 8% of global data over its networks and, on the way, has transformed India (now the most populous country on earth), into the world’s largest data market. The company is having an immense impact across the sub-continent.
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5.???? Ericsson and Telstra advance mobile connectivity
Ericsson and Telstra announced a groundbreaking, world-first achievement in mobile connectivity with the deployment of Ericsson’s 4th generation of Radio Access Network (RAN) purpose-built compute platform, paving the way?for a consistent 5G Advanced platform for Australia.
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6.???? TDC NET selects Blue Planet to build an OSS foundation for the digital era
Danish network provider?TDC NET?is transforming its Operating Support System (OSS) using automation software from?Blue Planet, a division of?Ciena. Blue Planet Inventory (BPI), supported on Blue Planet’s?Cloud Native Platform, will give TDC NET an accurate, unified view of its current mobile and fixed network resources and services.
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7.???? GenAI is driving private cloud demand that could stall public cloud growth
If you ask Amazon Web Services CEO?Matt Garman, the public cloud has plenty of runway. Speaking at a?Goldman Sachs conference?this week, Garman said only 10-20% of workloads have moved to the cloud, meaning the “vast majority” are still there for the taking. But despite Garman’s optimism that the public cloud will be the primary beneficiary, an emerging trend toward private cloud offerings could throw a wrench in hyperscalers’ plans.
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8.???? Cyta selects Netcracker for a full-stack BSS and OSS deployment
Netcracker Technology?announced that Cyta, the leading telecommunications provider in Cyprus, has chosen Netcracker to deliver a full-stack IT deployment as part of a large-scale digital transformation. Cyta, which provides a wide range of services to residential and business customers, has built an island-wide 5G network and made a significant investment in fiber, necessitating the upgrade from a legacy IT infrastructure to a modern BSS/OSS platform in order to monetize its network and deliver exceptional experiences.
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9.???? Nokia and Team Telecom Armenia bring 25G PON commercial services to customers across Armenia
Nokia announced that Team Telecom Armenia deployed its 25G PON fiber solution, making it one of the first operators in the Caucasus and Central Asia regions to provide some of the fastest internet speeds commercially available. The 25G PON deployment intends to cover B2B subscribers and offer real 20 Gb/s symmetrical broadband speeds crucial for emerging applications and business services fueling the digital economy.
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10.? Telefónica, Ericsson and Matsuko integrate holographic calls into smartphone dialler
Integrating holographic calls directly into dialer apps would allow users to access and utilize this advanced communication technology seamlessly without the need for additional applications.? Telefónica, Ericsson and MATSUKO, in close collaboration, have successfully completed one of the most complex demonstrations of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) Data Channel technology to date. This groundbreaking Proof-of-Concept (PoC) showcases the potential of IMS Data Channel to revolutionize future 5G and 6G voice services with innovative applications, including holographic communication.
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11.? Wi-Fi 7 surges as WLAN market shows signs of recovery in Q2 – Dell’Oro
According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, there was a glimmer of hope in the enterprise class Wireless LAN (WLAN) market as revenues increased Q/Q to $2.2 B.? The adoption of Wi-Fi 7 accelerated, with Huawei shipping over half of the world’s units.
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12.? AWS unveils ￡8bn investment plan for the UK
US public cloud behemoth Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a hefty five-year ￡8bn investment plan for the UK – by 2028 – for building, operating and maintaining datacentres. It’s a welcome boost to the UK treasury. According to AWS estimates, the multibillion-pound investment will contribute ￡14bn to the UK’s GDP over the five-year period and support some 14,000 jobs annually in local businesses. This number includes jobs spread across the hyperscaler’s datacentre supply chain.
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13.? T-Mobile US sends first smartphone emergency alert via LEO satellites
T-Mobile US underlined its lead in the country’s nascent satellite-to-smartphone market after it successfully sent and received a wireless emergency alert (WEA) via satellite, which it claimed was the “first ever” of its kind.?Using the low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation of Starlink, an Elon Musk SpaceX company, T-Mobile US hailed the WEA as a technology “breakthrough” and one that “opens up the 500,000 square miles of lightly populated, mountainous and/or uninhabitable land across the country to critical, life-saving emergency alerts”.
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14.? BT spots 2,000 signals of potential cyber-attacks every second
BT identifies more than 2,000 signals of a potential cyber-attack every second – over 200 million per day – as it defends critical networks across the world, according to new data pointing to an accelerated cybersecurity threat.
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15.? ZTE and Smartfren achieve breakthrough with native-AI-based RAN computing commercialisation
ZTE Corporation, a global leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, together with Smartfren, a leading telecommunications and ICT player in Indonesia, has successfully implemented a commercial deployment of Native-AI-based RAN Computing, achieving a 15% improvement in user experience and a 5% increase in network traffic.?
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16.? Ericsson leads top operators in new global API venture
Talk about a coup. The wireless industry has been trying to make a business out of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Ericsson just corralled some of the world’s largest telecom operators to create a new venture designed to make it all happen. The new company will combine and sell network APIs on a global scale, with the mission being to spur innovation in digital services.?