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France Telecom & Vodafone team up to challenge Telefonica in Spain’s FTTH/High Speed Broadband Access market
France Telecom (FT)/Orange and Vodafone will invest up to up to 1 billion euros (=$1.3 billion) in the joint development of a fiber optic network in Spain, Vodafone-Spain’s Antonio Coimbra told Reuters on March 13th. The Financial Times reports that Vodafone and FT/Orange plan to offer their own high speed broadband services to customers, in addition to… Read more
ETSI M2M interoperability demonstrated by 13 organizations in France
ETSI successfully demonstrated the interoperability of products based on its new M2M standards at the recent ETSI Machine to Machine workshop held in France in October. Five comprehensive demonstrations, organized by ETSI’s Technical Committee for Machine to Machine communications (TC M2M), showcased how the interoperability of standards-based solutions in M2M products is key to market success…. Read more
LightSquared Announces Opening of Developer Sandbox in Mt. View, CA
At Thursday’s Telecom Council’s TC3 Conference, upstart wireless wholesaler LIghtSquared announced the opening of a “Sandbox” or innovation center for 3rd party developers. Located in Mt View, CA, the Sandbox is being hosted by Nokia Siemens Networks, one of LightSquared’s wireless infrastructure vendors. This new “playground for developers” was said to be the first to offer three… Read more
8 Telcos to test "cognitive" wireless technology from xG Technology (Comment on IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard)
A group of eight telecom providers will begin field testing a mobile technology that relies on unlicensed spectrum and frequency hopping to optimize broadband connectivity. The carriers, which are located across the country — in states ranging from California to Florida — will build on an earlier VoIP trial of xG Technology’s “cognitive” wireless platform,… Read more
CLEAR 4G WiMAX Innovation Network is Now Open for Developers in Silicon Valley
In an exclusive article, Clearwire details logistics, goals and objectives for the "4G" CLEAR Developer’s Network in Silicon Valley. Largest 4G WiMAX "sandbox" for developers covers more than 20 square miles in Santa Clara, Mountain View and Palo Alto, California. At the September 17th Telecom Council Carrier Connections conference, Clearwire’s Allen Flanagan provided an overview… Read more
AI Meets Telecom: Automating RF Plumbing Diagrams at Scale
By Chode Balaji with Ajay Lotan Thakur In radio frequency (RF) circuit design, an RF plumbing diagram is a visual representation of how components such as antennas, amplifiers, filters, and cables are physically interconnected to manage RF signal flow across a network node. Unlike logical or schematic diagrams, these diagrams emphasize signal routing, cable paths,… Read more
Agentic AI and the Future of Communications for Autonomous Vehicle (V2X)
by Prashant Vajpayee (bio below), edited by Alan J Weissberger Abstract: Autonomous vehicles increasingly depend on Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications, but 5G networks face challenges such as latency, coverage gaps, high infrastructure costs, and security risks. To overcome these limitations, this article explores alternative protocols like DSRC, VANETs, ISAC, PLC, and Federated Learning, which offer decentralized,… Read more
Deloitte and TM Forum : How AI could revitalize the ailing telecom industry?
IEEE Techblog readers are well aware of the dire state of the global telecommunications industry. In particular: According to Deloitte, the global telecommunications industry is expected to have revenues of about US$1.53 trillion in 2024, up about 3% over the prior year.Both in 2024 and out to 2028, growth is expected to be higher in… Read more
FCC to investigate Dish Network’s compliance with federal requirements to build a nationwide 5G network
In a letter to Charlie Ergen, the chairman and co-founder of network operator EchoStar, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr wrote that the agency’s staff would investigate the company’s compliance with requirements to build a nationwide 5G network as per the terms of its federal spectrum licenses. EchoStar owns both Dish Network and Boost Mobile’s… Read more
KDDI unveils AU Starlink direct-to-cell satellite service
KDDI-owned AU [1.] launched Japan’s first direct satellite service, connecting 40% of remote island and mountain populations in Japan that terrestrial networks cannot now reach. The new service, called AU Starlink Direct, is also available to subscribers of Okinawa Cellular, a KDDI-owned company serving the group of islands located in southern Japan. KDDI and Okinawa Cellular… Read more