Japan's NEC becomes the latest company to pull back from the market for 4G and 5G network gear. ...

5G, despite being overhyped, showed that the mobile industry can deliver where it matters most. Recon Analytics reviews the three clearest victories and three most consequential disappointments of 5G's first five years. ...

Cohere Technologies and its capacity-boosting software have long been praised by Vodafone, which has now made a funding move. ...

Amphenol is getting the CommScope brand after closing its deal to purchase CommScope's Connectivity & Cable Solutions unit. What's left of CommScope is becoming Vistance Networks, with its access unit rebranding as Aurora Networks. ...

The Board of Directors of Ekinops (Euronext Paris - FR0011466069 – EKI), a leading supplier of optical transport, branch routing and cybersecurity SASE solutions for telecom operators and enterprises, today announces the appointment of Lionel Chmilewsky as Chief executive Officer (CEO), effective January 12, 2026. ...

India's rapid 5G rollout is impressive, but legacy 2G and 4G networks remain essential, making a nationwide only-5G scenario by the end of 2026 impractical. ...

CIMPOR, a multinational cement and industrial materials producer, in partnership with Vodafone Portugal and Ericsson, has completed the activation of a Mobile Private Network (MPN), leveraging Ericsson Private 5G across its three cement production units in Portugal....

Nokia today announced it has signed a multi-year patent license agreement with Hisense covering the use of Nokia's video technologies in the consumer electronics maker's televisions. Under the agreement, Hisense will make royalty payments to Nokia. The agreement resolves all patent-related litigation between th...

1&1 has achieved certain targets for its 5G network, but 2026 starts with uncertainty for all four German MNOs over spectrum licenses acquired in 2019. Also, could M&A be on the cards? ...

Italy's two biggest operators Fastweb+Vodafone and Telecom Italia agree to share 5G radio access networks to expand coverage to 15,500 sites and 60% of the population. ...

Ekinops , a leading supplier of optical transport, branch routing and SASE solutions, today announced that MuniNet, provider of a publicly owned fiber optic network for the communities of Western Kentucky, has adopted Ekinops' advanced 400G optical transport technology to significantly upgrade its network infrastru...

The technical trial of the ultra-fast 50Gbit/s XGS-PON fiber broadband technology aims to prepare the Singtel network for the surge of new, bandwidth-intensive cloud and AI applications expected within the next three to five years. ...

From 6G's path forward to Huawei's AI ambitions, here are five trends that will shape Asian telecoms in 2026....

SoftBankand Ericsson Ericsson, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, have successfully conducted a field trial of low-latency communications using several 5G and 5G Advanced technologies – including Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) – on SoftBank's 5G Standalone (5G SA) commercial network ...

Fixed wireless access made another big dent in the broadband industry in 2025. A big question ahead is whether there's enough capacity to go around to expand the scale of FWA as data demands rise. ...

India's telecom sector heads into 2026 focused on satcom connectivity, FWA expansion, higher ARPU, digital infrastructure investments and more. ...

AI was a common and growing theme in Ericsson news output as the company documented continuing evidence of technological prowess, industry leadership, 5G and global connectivity strength, sustainability. Here's the first of our 2025 Year in Review from January to June. ...

As we head into 2026, the federal government's BEAD program appears poised to finally start leading to some actual broadband builds. But BEAD – the artist formerly known as the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program – ends the year as a different beast than when it began. ...

Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN), a global leader in real-time communications technology and IP optical networking solutions, today announced that Aircall, the leading AI-powered voice platform for growing businesses, is deploying a suite of Ribbon solutions in the AWS cloud to enhance its global communication...

This year has seen Openreach and VMO2 fixed customer bases shrink, but altnets are still struggling in a UK market that seems over-ripe for consolidation....