NTT DOCOMO, NEC onboard 5G core with AWS
NTT DOCOMO and NEC have launched a proof-of-concept (PoC) testing to run NEC's 5G core network (5GC) service in a hybrid cloud environment that leverages the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud using end-to-end cloud- native network architecture. Through the PoC, DOCOMO,...
Verizon Business expands global managed services portfolio with VMware
Verizon Business has announced the addition of VMware to the global managed Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN) service portfolio. This new solution, built for cloud-ready global enterprises, bolsters Verizon's partner ecosystem in delivering managed SD-WAN...
Econet and Ericsson launch 5G in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has partnered with Ericsson to launch 5G services in Harare. Ericsson will support Econet with its latest energy-efficient and high-performing Radio Access Network (RAN) and 5G Evolved Packet Core (EPC) solutions...
Ericsson 5G portfolio adds energy efficiency
Ericsson has added to its radio access network (RAN) portfolio with solutions that address the 5G rollout and sustainability goals of communications service providers. The new portfolio additions will deliver sizeable energy savings and up to ten-fold capacity...
Nokia launches Intelligent RAN Operations
Nokia has launched its new Intelligent RAN Operations solution designed to manage the increasing complexity of 5G networks through machine learning (ML). The framework and its underlying products enable mobile operators to boost 5G network quality, efficiency, and the...
Dell accelerates modern, open carrier network deployments
Dell Technologies has introduced new telecommunications solutions and services to bolster the open telecom ecosystem and help communications service providers (CSPs) affordably ramp their transformation to open, cloud-native networks. The telecommunications industry's...
Infinet Wireless displays interconnect solutions
Infinet Wireless is exhibiting solutions for the ever-present connectivity at Mobile World Congress 2022 (MWC). The core Infinet Wireless product is the company's diverse Point-to-Multipoint solution InfiMAN Evolution, which is both universal and flexible, with...
Nokia introduces evolved managed operations portfolio for CSPs
Nokia has announced two new managed services offerings to help communication service providers (CSPs) deliver a better customer experience and realize faster returns on their 5G investments by better utilising intelligence from their network data. Operations...
Now for the nuts and bolts of non-geographic number porting
Many corporates, SMEs, NGOs and others with 0800, 086 and 087 phone numbers are no doubt looking forward to being able to move their usually heavily-advertised contact numbers to more innovative providers from 7 March without losing those valuable digits. After 16...
The economic impact of connectivity in SA
As the world moves towards an increasingly digital future, expanded connectivity infrastructure has become a defining feature of a modern economy. By Steve Briggs, chief sales and marketing officer at Seacom It allows people and businesses across the globe to connect...
Why is non-geographic number porting a critical economic enabler?
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) recently proclaimed regulations to enable businesses to port their non-geographic phone numbers (0800; 0860; 0861; 0862 and 087) away from Telkom and to any other telecommunications provider of their...
COMRiC takes aim at telco industry crime
South Africa's leading telecommunication operators, including MTN SA, Vodacom, Telkom SA, Cell C and Liquid Intelligent Technologies have joined forces to establish a non-profit organisation, the Communication Risk Information Centre (COMRiC), which seeks to better...