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Telecom Spectrum and Security
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North America National Telecom
Rogers’ 8 July Outage: What the Public Record Can—and Cannot—Prove
Rogers’ 8 July 2022 outage is a useful resilience test precisely because the public record is uneven: it records a regulator’s investigation notice and Rogers’s reported explanation and response, but does not, in the preserved sources, independently establish the failure chain or…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
VodafoneThree puts Ericsson 5G core live
VodafoneThree has activated Ericsson's cloud-native 5G core as the merged UK operator moves from shared infrastructure towards a single core platform.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Tencent Cloud, U Mobile partner on 5G and AI
Tencent Cloud and U Mobile will develop and test enterprise 5G and AI applications in Malaysia through U Mobile's Enterprise Innovation Platform.

North America National Telecom Trends
FCC lines up spectrum auctions after C-band
Upper C-band has auction rules and a deadline, while the 1.6GHz, 2.7GHz, 4.4GHz and 7GHz bands remain at different identification and study stages.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Hutchison Telecom corporate revenue rises 43%
Local service revenue stayed flat even as 5G penetration reached 64%, leaving corporate services and roaming to provide much of Hutchison Telecom's growth.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus outage tests emergency-call failover
A 76-minute hardware failure disrupted voice calls and left 46 Triple Zero calls unable to connect. The unanswered question is whether emergency camp-on worked as intended.

Global National Telecom Trends
6G plans shift towards reusing 5G spectrum and radios
Early 6G designs favour reusing 5G infrastructure, which could reduce opportunities for operators to switch suppliers.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
European telcos push EU on consolidation
European telecom CEOs want merger rules to give more weight to scale and investment as Brussels rewrites its competition framework.

North America National Telecom Trends
FCC opens five-year rural wireless test zone in Iowa
Iowa State's ARA testbed can now run wireless experiments across Ames and surrounding farmland under a five-year FCC Innovation Zone designation.

North America National Telecom
Cricket launches 5G home internet on AT&T network
Cricket has launched fixed wireless home internet over AT&T's 5G network, extending the prepaid brand into broadband without building a separate access network.

Global National Telecom Trends
GSMA: 3.1bn still do not use mobile internet
GSMA says 3.1 billion people live within mobile broadband coverage but do not use mobile internet, with handset affordability the biggest reported barrier.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Vietnam shuts down 2G, exposing VoLTE gaps
Some older 4G phones may keep mobile data but lose voice calls after Vietnam's 2G shutdown unless VoLTE is supported and enabled.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
NTT DOCOMO deploys Nokia baseband in Open RAN
NTT DOCOMO is using Nokia's latest baseband with radios from other suppliers in its commercial LTE and 5G network.

North America National Telecom Trends
Samsung and Verizon test 5G crowd sensing in Dallas
Samsung and Verizon used a virtualised 5G network and 40MHz of CBRS spectrum to map crowd density in near real time without separate radar equipment.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Wind Tre unions call overtime restrictions through 12 October
Restrictions on overtime, supplementary work and on-call availability run to 12 October, while planned night work is excluded from the action.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SoftBank tests HAPS service ahead of 2027 launch
A Sceye platform crossed the Pacific and carried calls, messages and data over SoftBank's network, moving the project beyond earlier airborne demonstrations.

Africa National Telecom Trends
Nigerian operators complete 70% of network-site upgrades
The NCC says 8,526 of 12,179 committed site deployments or upgrades are complete, while fibre cuts remain a separate source of disruption.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Kyivstar's Odesa 5G pilot puts LTE relief first
The fifth trial location adds a way to move traffic off the existing mobile network, under existing tariffs. Its business case needs evidence from the customers who remain on 4G as well as those trying 5G.

North America Institutional Trends
Next G Alliance puts spectrum timing on the 6G investment agenda
A new set of industry recommendations focuses attention on the steps between identifying airwaves and using them commercially. For network investors, that sequence matters more than a headline total.

North America Institutional Trends
Minneapolis airport puts airfield operations on private 5G
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is using a dedicated Ericsson 5G network to keep cameras, staff devices and airport vehicles connected across its five-square-mile campus.
