Huawei’s Tech4All project in Africa wins GSMA award
At MWC 2022 held in Barcelona earlier this month, Safaricom, Close the Gap and Huawei received the Global Mobile GLOMO Award in recognition of the Tech4All DigiTruck project's outstanding contribution to the UN's sustainable development goals. The DigiTruck project...
Huawei launches FTTR solution
At the 2022 Mobile World Congress (MWC), Huawei launched innovative gigabit fibre-to-the room (FTTR) solutions. The solutions extend fiber to every room and aim to build an all-optical base for smart homes and digital enterprises, enabling gigabit Wi-Fi 6 coverage in...
MTN, Rakuten Symphony sign MOU for OpenRAN trials
MTN Group and Rakuten Symphony signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conduct live 4G and 5G OpenRAN proof of concept (PoC) trials in South Africa, Nigeria, and Liberia based on Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). RCP assists telcos worldwide with the...
Paratus Telecommunications gets go-ahead in Botswana
The Competition and Consumer Authority of Botswana has unconditionally approved the acquisition of 100% of Broadband Botswana Internet (BBi) by Paratus Telecommunications. Both Paratus and BBi are licensed to provide a range of network and data management solutions...
Nokia debuts SaaS services in analytics, security, monetisation
At Mobile World Congress 2022, Nokia announced two new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) services in the areas of security and analytics, as part of its strategy to give communication service providers (CSPs) and enterprises a more flexible and cost effective way for...
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...