UAE – The First 5G Market in MENA
Unlike many other countries in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, 5G services are already available in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Etisalat and Du, UAE’s only two operators, are both deploying 5G on the 3.5 GHz frequency band. In M...read more
2020 – The Year of 5G in Thailand
Thailand is making good progress in its goal of launching commercial 5G service in 2020. The recent auction of frequencies in the 700 MHz band, the agreements between operators and telecom equipment suppliers, as well the development in academia and ...read more
5G vendors report earnings
5G vendors report earnings The top five vendors selling 5G network infrastructure have now reported 3Q19 earnings. Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung each reported public earnings data allowing a breakout of revenues to telcos. ZTE provided its usual in...read more
Long way to 5G in Indonesia
Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, is expected to face an uphill battle to enable 5G. Reasons include its complex geography, unavailability of core 5G frequency band (i.e. C-band 3.3 to 4.2 GHz), and dwindling operator revenues. The...read more
Vodafone Idea to work with Red Hat on distributed cloud platform
Vodafone Idea to work with Red Hat on distributed cloud platform On October 21, Red Hat announced that it would help Vodafone Idea "transform its distributed network data centers to open standards, open interfaces based ‘Universal Cloud.’" V...read more
5G – Need for Harmonized Spectrum
Optimistic 5G forecasts assume that telcos’ spectrum needs are met Ericsson recently predicted that by 2024 5G subscriptions will reach 1.9 billion, 35 percent of traffic will be carried by 5G networks and up to 65 percent of the global populati...read more
5G to follow a politicized path in developing markets – telcos beware
Huawei has dominated telecom news since the arrest last December of the Chinese vendor’s CFO in Vancouver. Since then, the US Commerce Department has restricted Huawei’s access to US-built tech components, including Google’s Android ecosystem. ...read more
Reliance Jio’s aggressive cloud push with Microsoft fret Amazon and Google in India
After taking the Indian telecom scene by storm to reach the pinnacle (by subscriber base) in just three years of commercialization, Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio) is all set to spread its wings into the booming Indian cloud market. In a 10-year deal wit...read more