Andrea Caldini

Interesting development with T-Mobile acquiring US Cellular. This move will surely bring changes to the industry landscape. It will be important to watch how this merger impacts both companies and their customers and their suppliers. #telecom #merger

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Your fiber plant faces constant challenges from maintenance, restoration, weather, and time-related changes. Read how Ciena Services' Fiber characterization testing helps determine if the fiber plant supports the network design and enables efficient service deployment.

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Ugh - not good news for the #ucaas ecosystem. Another writedown for Vonage, as the synergies for Ericsson to help carriers sell API-led applications and solutions to enterprises aren't happening, at least fast enough. Actually, this has minimal impact on #ucaas, but the game plan here is based on Vonage having a strong installed base for comms solutions to pave the way #network and #wireless services. UC Today #ucoms

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Since 2000, the number of fixed telephone line subscriptions has declined by 50%. As telecom technology continues to move to wireless and internet-based services, many legacy systems are left behind during annual service upgrades. Although the industry is moving away from them, it’s not uncommon to find customers who are STILL PAYING for those systems after a migration to new tech. This is just one of the errors my team often uncovers during a #telecomaudit. If your organization has followed this trend, but your bills are still rising, give me a call! S2K Consulting would be happy to review your telecom bills and see how we may reduce your organization’s monthly telecom spend. #TelecomSavings

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As long as antennas remain the bottleneck in wireless broadband networks, the need for spectrum will grow along with the growth in network traffic

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Very interesting and he has made some good observations with what is going on in the industry today.

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I enjoyed the discussion and insights from GSMA and others on Private 5G deployment use cases and what it takes to drive adoption.

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More accolades for T-Mobile from the latest Open Signal report! We swept EVERY category for overall network experience, with upload speed experience more than 2x faster than AT&T and over 1.5x faster than Verizon. Download speed experience is over 3x faster than Verizon and 2.7x faster than AT&T. We also won in #5GExperience categories including download speed and #5G availability, with our users spending over 5x more time connected to 5G than AT&T users and over 8x more than Verizon. See the full list of the latest wins: https://t-mo.co/4cKOO2W #5GConnectivity

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More accolades for T-Mobile from the latest Open Signal report! We swept EVERY category for overall network experience, with upload speed experience more than 2x faster than AT&T and over 1.5x faster than Verizon. Download speed experience is over 3x faster than Verizon and 2.7x faster than AT&T. We also won in #5GExperience categories including download speed and #5G availability, with our users spending over 5x more time connected to 5G than AT&T users and over 8x more than Verizon. See the full list of the latest wins: https://t-mo.co/4cKOO2W #5GConnectivity

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Heading to D.C. for the Federal Communications Commission Technology Advisory Council quarterly meeting tomorrow 6/21. We are midway through the year and will provide an update alongside Brian Daly on #6G developments as part of our charter. We have explored the recently concluded first 6G workshop in 3GPP, interacted with IEEE 802.11 working group(s) to expand the horizon beyond cellular to unlicensed and #WiFi and looked at the state of the art and requirements for 6G of #URLLC applications in the automotive sector. The breath of technologies being investigated ( #ISAC, #RIS, #metasurface, #nativeAI, #quantum, #security ) will need motivating use cases and spectrum needs will tie it together. Look forward to updates from the spectrum sharing and AI working groups as well. Tune in on www.fcc.gov/live starting at 10 AM ET. https://lnkd.in/eeU38TJx

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Did you know T-Mobile for Business has the only nationwide #5G standalone #network in the U.S.? 5G Standalone is a "100% 5G network," built entirely on the latest 5G technology—without depending on older 4G systems like non-standalone 5G does. Standalone 5G is faster and more efficient than our 4G systems. And you need 5G standalone for innovations like: ✅ Network slicing ✅ Ultra-low latency ✅ Private 5G networks Discover how 5G standalone can take your business further: https://t-mo.co/4bKYfiT

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Did you know T-Mobile has the only nationwide #5G standalone #network in the U.S.? 5G Standalone is a "100% 5G network," built entirely on the latest 5G technology—without depending on older 4G systems like non-standalone 5G does. Standalone 5G is faster and more efficient than our 4G systems. And you need 5G standalone for innovations like: ✅ Network slicing ✅ Ultra-low latency ✅ Private 5G networks Discover how 5G standalone can take your business further: https://t-mo.co/4bKYfiT

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Rakuten Symphony is so appreciative to AT&T for being included in its network simplification transformation program. Thank you to all the AT&T executives who have given us this chance to be part of an industry-changing program. Mike Dano's article captures so many aspects of what is required to be successful in an undertaking like this. It starts with the fundamentals of using different words to describe what is being done. "I think the word 'cell site' goes away," AT&T's Todd Zeiler said. "I think this pivots to a world of CU, DU, RU. Servers and access points." Before we built mobile networks. Today we start building distributed data center operations where the primary user is a mobile network. We see so many parallels between how AT&T is approaching this and how Rakuten Symphony already approached it. The hope is we can discover an industry blueprint that can make sense for the whole of telecom to be able to follow and accelerate the change to being a truly software-driven cloud-native operation. From Mike Dano's below article when describing the vendors involved "One is Japan's Rakuten Symphony. According to The Mobile Network, AT&T counts roughly 7,000 users of Rakuten Symphony's Site Manager software within its own and its contractor construction teams. The software automates parts of AT&T's site deployment processes." To listen to the full discussion between Yigal Elbaz and Sharad Sriwastawa at MWC BCN this year click here https://lnkd.in/e5ErFYJg To learn more about Rakuten Symphony Site Management solution click here https://lnkd.in/eq8Bsx27

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With Open RAN come rApps, applications designed to run on RAN Intelligent Controller. We need rApps to create different RAN management and optimization use cases in a new, automated way. rApps help with network evolution, deployment, optimization and healing. Openness of rApps is a game changer for open, multivendor environment, as developers can focus on development of automation applications and there isn’t any need to worry about the underlying application platforms.

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It is good to see more CSPs getting serious about RAN programmability. #rApp #RIC #OpenRAN #Automation #Optimization #5G

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U.S. needs three things at the federal level in order to catch up: 1) More licensed, full-power spectrum (which goes hand-in-hand with restoring the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to auction spectrum), 2) an “aligned approach to innovation” across the government as well 3) as more alignment across the tens of billions of dollars in funding that is available for infrastructure, in the hopes of bridging the digital divide.

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Will T-Mobile become an open fiber operator? As of February 2024 T Mobile was offering fiber fixed Internet in 13 markets in the states of Florida, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, California, and New York by partnering with fiber providers Tillman FiberCo, Intrepid Fiber Networks, SiFi Networks, and Pilot Fiber. Last week, T-Mobile has announced a new fiber broadband initiative called "Lumos" that aims to reach 3.5 million homes with fiber by 2028. This fiber network buildout is part of T-Mobile's broader strategy to expand its broadband offerings beyond its existing 5G wireless network. The Lumos fiber network will be built and operated by Lumos Networks, a subsidiary of T-Mobile, and will focus on both urban and rural areas. T-Mobile plans to leverage Lumos' existing fiber infrastructure as well as build new fiber assets to reach the 3.5 million home target over the next 5 years, in a similar fashion to AT&T's Gigapower, with the help of the private equity EQT. Would T-Mobile have plans to exploit an open fiber infrastructure business? #competitiveadvantage #strategicplanning

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5G is still rolling out and the conversations around 6G are heating up. Is 6G necessary and will it bring any valuable upgrades to consumers? Read on to find out: https://hubs.ly/Q02vpbbW0

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