Nokia has officially evolved its MantaRay product family into MantaRay SMO. The evolution sees Nokia commit to opening up its MantaRay SON portfolio to act as a non real time RIC (non-RT RIC) with the ...

The narrative around telco operations is this: as more technology layers got added, things got very complicated, with lots of vertically integrated, vendor-specific, domain-specific systems.

Why so quiet? But despite these demos, there was a notable lack of hype and presence aroud 6G – probably less even than two years ago.The vast majority of stand designs, the banners and the vast ...

Vodafone and O2 have traded midband spectrum to give each other more useful spectrum holdings in the 3.4-3.8GHz bands. The trade follows the completion of the second stage of the midband in the UK, ...

AI-RAN looked like it would be a big strategic topic at MWC – and so it proved over Day 0 and Day 1. Nokia made AI-RAN a key part of its pre-MWC press conference on Sunday, lining up three operator ...

Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, who leads the JOINER project and is already well-known in UK circles for her work at Bristol University, tells TMN, “We made a very big case that quite a lot of what we ...

Putting a dent in Nokia’s first quarter results was the unwelcome news that it had taken a EUR120 million charge on an existing contract with a (presumably quite major) customer.. On the upside, the ...

Ericsson’s first 64TR massive MIMO antenna-radio was the AIR 6468, released in 2018. Depending on spec, it weighed up to 60kg. Last year’s release, the AIR 6449, weighed 37kg.

A second demo, AI-on-RAN, developed by Supermicro, Radisys, NVIDIA, and Fujitsu, showed how an AI application can sit on the vRAN compute infrastructure.The example given was a computer vision ...

Mark Atkinson is SVP, Head of Radio Access Networks at Nokia, a post he has held since January 2021. The role means he has overall Product Line Management responsibility for the company’s radio access ...

Vodafone currently has a tender out for a refresh of its base station estate, which it has said is 170,000 base stations, across its European and African operations.

Manoj Prasanna Kumar, Head, Enterprise Platforms, at Singtel, discusses with TM Forum's Inform the company’s enterprise service ambitions, how it’s partnering with global enterprise software vendors, ...