ZTE, Others Complete First Pre-commercial Trial Of VR Service
By Ifeoma Asika ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet,...
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Qualcomm Collaborates With 15 Global Operators To Deliver XR Viewers
By Cyber Era Senior Correspondent A subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., at Augmented World Expo (AWE), has celebrated...
Burkina Faso: MainOne Partners Government, World Bank To Deliver Connectivity Services
By Precious John West Africa’s premier connectivity and data center solution provider, MainOne has been entrusted by the State of...
T-Mobile Teams With Google For RCS Boost
Mobile US partnered with Google to speed an expansion of rich communication services (RCS), allowing the former’s customers to use...
Nokia Joins The Open RAN Policy Coalition
By Ifeoma Asika Nokia has announced that it has joined the Open RAN Policy Coalition to help enable a comprehensive...
Wilson To Become Official Game Ball Of Basketball Leagues
By Chinedu Nwosu The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Wilson Sporting Goods Co. announced a multiyear global partnership that will...
Telefonica, Liberty Global Agree Massive UK Merger
Telefonica and Liberty Global agreed a blockbuster deal to merge UK mobile operator O2 with fixed provider Virgin Media and...
African Energy Chamber Signs On To Equal By 30 Campaign
By Ifeoma Asika The African Energy Chamber has become a signatory to the Equal by 30 Campaign which calls for...
Operators, Tech Companies Form Open RAN Lobby Group
A group of 31 big name operators and technology companies sought to bolster technical work on open RAN by teaming to promote government programmes favouring research and adoption of the approach. The Open RAN Policy Coalition includes AT&T, Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Rakuten Mobile, Samsung Electronics America, Telefonica, Verizon and Vodafone, among others. However, traditional equipment vendors including Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei were noticeably not on the membership list. Diane Rinaldo was appointed executive director. She previously headed the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration...