Washington DC-based Omnispace, which wants to operate a global 5G satellite-to-cell phone service, has written to the FCC complaining that a rival system from T-Mobile and Starlink will “constantly” interfere with its own plans. SpaceX is currently looking to combine its Starlink low Earth orbiting satellites with T-Mobile’s terrestrial wireless network and expanding space-terrestrial services […]
CommScope and Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG) have completed one of the UK’s first large-scale neutral-host centralised radio access network (C-RAN) deployments, supporting small-cell and 5G networks, transforming mobile connectivity for residents, businesses and visitors in Birmingham, UK. CommScope collaborated with WIG, utilising key positioned streetscape assets to create a scalable and sustainable multi-operator, multi-technology mobile […]
Dish Network wants to delay paying $3.59 billion (3.3bn) it agreed with T-Mobile for 800 MHz licences for its proposed extension to Boost Mobile. The agreement covers a valuable nationwide slice of 13.5 MHz within the 800 MHz band. Dish was an important party to the deal struck when T-Mobile merged with Sprint. A buyer […]
Japan’s mobile service revenue is poised to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.2 per cent from $65 billion (€59.8m) in 2023 to $87.9 billion in 2028, mainly supported by the mobile data service segment, forecasts GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s Indonesia Mobile Broadband Forecast (Q2-2023) reveals that mobile voice […]
According to data from the Atlas VPN team, Latvians and Finnish people use the most mobile data per month among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. In addition, each Estonian has about 2 mobile broadband subscriptions. Latvians lead in mobile data usage, averaging nearly 42 gigabytes per month per mobile broadband subscription. […]
SpaceX wants to start supplying connectivity for a ‘direct-to-handset’ cellular service. The trouble is that Globalstar is already licensed by the FCC for its iPhone service for Apple and its permission is near-exclusive. The SpaceX applications to the FCC started back in September last year and asked for a modification to its existing operating licence […]
BBC Studios have partnered with Budge Studios to launch the first-ever Bluey mobile app game, Bluey: Let’s Play which is available now from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore, Bluey: Let’s Play is based on the Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning global TV show that follows Bluey, a loveable, inexhaustible, Blue Heeler dog, […]
The Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy has launched a public tender procedure for the financing of media projects using 5G and 6G technologies for the production and distribution of content. The initiative aims to introduce new products and services in the production, distribution, and use, by users, of more accessible and attractive audiovisual […]
BT and Ericsson have successfully demonstrated the transmission of 5G services in a wideband FDD (frequency division duplex) radio carrier (over 20MHz) within a sub-3 GHz spectrum band. The breakthrough trial demonstrated the benefits of configuring a wide carrier bandwidth of 50MHz (50MHz downlink + 50MHz uplink) in EE’s 2.6GHz band and performing downlink aggregation […]
Streaming services experienced a surge in daily engagement per user in the first half of 2023, reversing the downward trend that started in 2021, as competition between services began taking a toll on the amount of time that consumers can spend on each streaming platform. That is the main conclusion of video streaming SaaS specialist […]