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Nokia launches in France the 5G Innov Lab platform to test and integrate future 5G use cases 24 June, 2022

Nokia launches in France the 5G Innov Lab platform to test and integrate future 5G use cases

Paris, France. 21 June 2022 – Nokia has announced the launch of the 5G Innov Lab platform as part of the France Recovery plan. The Nokia-led platform has the objective of testing and integrating 5G industrial uses, using an open and transversal approach; and brings together various entities, including Airbus Secure Land Communications, Augmented Acoustics, Digital Immersion, IMT, SNEF Lab, Nokia Bell Labs, and Paris-Saclay Hardware Accelerator.

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UScellular and Ericsson team up on drone connectivity to test 5G network performance at altitude 24 June, 2022

UScellular and Ericsson team up on drone connectivity to test 5G network performance at altitude

22 June 2022 – Initial visual line of sight trials were conducted in Beloit, Wis., using a drone that was flown between two of UScellular’s commercial 5G towers. The drone was outfitted with a 5G smartphone and RF measurement equipment designed to capture performance metrics such as signal strength and quality, upload and download speeds, and latency throughout the flights at various altitudes. Data was gathered using both low and high band spectrum, and the goal of the initial trial was to gather and analyse network connectivity and speed data in the air, compare it to the speeds experienced on the ground and ultimately understand what is required for the future use and success of 5G connected drones.

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Orange Egypt collaborates with Ericsson to provide its customers with an exceptional user experience 24 June, 2022

Orange Egypt collaborates with Ericsson to provide its customers with an exceptional user experience

Ericsson has been selected by Orange Egypt to deliver antenna products for building a 2600 MHz network that will ensure superior and exceptional user experience as well as completion of rollout plans and license obligations.

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Quectel announces high performance 5G smart module SG560D to unleash the full potential of AIoT 24 June, 2022

Quectel announces high performance 5G smart module SG560D to unleash the full potential of AIoT

Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, has announced the launch of the SG560D, an Android Smart module integrating 5G New Radio (NR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Featuring a powerful CPU and GPU, the SG560D will satisfy complex application scenarios that require both high data rates and computing capabilities such as in-vehicle infotainment, industrial handheld devices, smart gateways, industrial cameras, monitoring devices and more.

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1NCE now provides NB-IoT coverage maps at a single price 24 June, 2022

1NCE now provides NB-IoT coverage maps at a single price

1NCE, the only provider of connectivity and software for IoT at a global flat rate, announced at Embedded World Nuremberg a significant expansion of its global IoT network coverage. The company has doubled its footprint of Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) coverage and now has NB-IoT coverage maps, available at a single price worldwide.

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Capgemini and Orange announce that Bleu will start engaging with customers by the end of 2022 24 June, 2022

Capgemini and Orange announce that Bleu will start engaging with customers by the end of 2022

Paris, France. 22 June 2022 – Capgemini and Orange confirmed that Bleu, their future joint venture that will provide trusted cloud (“Cloud de Confiance”) services to address the needs of specific French organisations, is expected to start supporting clients in preparing for their migration by the end of 2022 (date being subject to regulatory approvals). Bleu’s services, including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, will be operational in 2024.

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VanillaPlus Issue 4 2022: CSP focus turns to generating revenue from enterprises 23 June, 2022

VanillaPlus Issue 4 2022: CSP focus turns to generating revenue from enterprises

As 5G arrives, private networks start to gather momentum and new applications enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and software-based network control transform telecoms. VanillaPlus caught up with Sam Barker, the head of analytics and forecasting at Juniper Research, to understand where the opportunities lie for communications service providers (CSPs).

Inside this issue:

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  • TALKING HEADS: Juniper Research’s Sam Barker reveals where the new revenue opportunities lie for CSPs as 5G, private networks and new applications enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning transform telecoms
  • MESSAGING AND VOICE: Mobile authentication is driving increased business messaging volumes, reports Juniper Research
  • CSP REVENUES: George Malim assesses how CSPs are engaging in new revenue opportunities as voice telephony loses relevance
  • AUTOMATION AND ORCHESTRATION: VMware explains why effective automation and orchestration are the tickets to network modernisation and monetisation
  • ANALYST REVIEW: Analysys Mason’s Caroline Gabriel explains why artificial intelligence is critical to CSPs’ bids to reduce energy consumption in the 5G era in our 7-page analyst review
  • 5G AND WI-FI: Markus Nispel debunks the myths of 5G and Wi-Fi as he delves into the technologies’ complicated relationship
  • PERSONALISATION: Sharifah Armirah explains how CSPs are using behavioural science to drive relevance and increase revenues

Editor’s Comment

Pay-per-ping over the cracks

New models demand new thinking, not just new names for the same old line items, writes George Malim.

With great excitement, the long-awaited massive part of massive IoT looks to be emerging into reality and communications service providers (CSPs) are avidly observing as however-many-million or billion new connections are added to their networks. They recognise not all of these are good things and many in fact permanently roam without paying the premium that consumers do. They also understand that this won’t be a permanent state and specific IoT connectivity services will be charged for.

Regrettably, for CSPs, each massive IoT device won’t have its own monthly cellular subscription in the same way as consumers. Certainly, a sensor in a truck won’t be topping up so it can Netflix and chill this evening. It’s also definite that the business case won’t stand having hundreds of thousands of devices paying consumer-style fees. I haven’t even mentioned whether a combine harvester can experience bill shock or not.

That’s because it’s well understood a new market that uses the network in a different way to the old market has different requirements that should be costed and billed for differently. This doesn’t mean a give-away rate for IoT any more than it means consumers will subsidise machine connections. Instead, it means learning to tie the provision of connectivity infrastructure to the value of the service it enables.

This means low latency, high speed connectivity for high value tasks that can bear the cost of this and best effort, non-prioritised connections for those that can’t. This is less divisive than it sounds even though there will be multiple classes of customer. It’s more a case of: ask not what the network can do for you but what you need – and can pay for – from the network.

To this end, models such as tracking devices that are provided on a pay-per-ping model don’t really move the needle for CSPs. Yes, it’s an interesting model for organisations that want to track their assets, people and cargo and they can set the frequency of pings and even the data covered in each ping. However, for CSPs to get properly excited they need far more than a million devices saying ‘Here I am and temperature here is 18 degrees’ to move on their revenue generation to an enhanced level. Any excitement about this is simply an attempt to paper over the cracks of lost voice revenues and commoditised data earnings in the consumer markets.

This issue is all about where the new revenues for CSPs will be. I hope you find our contributors’ searches interesting. Enjoy the magazine! George Malim

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BeammWave has been approved as an ETSI member 23 June, 2022

BeammWave has been approved as an ETSI member

Sweden-based BeammWave AB is now an ETSI member, after being approved via the member online application poll. This was held from June 1 to 21, 2022.

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Silicon Labs announces new bluetooth location services with advanced hardware and software 22 June, 2022

Silicon Labs announces new bluetooth location services with advanced hardware and software

Austin, United States. 21 June, 2022 – Silicon Labs, a provider in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world, announced its new, bluetooth location services solution using accurate, low-power bluetooth devices to simplify angle of arrival (AoA) and angle of departure (AoD) location services.

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Altice selects Netcracker cloud BSS for next-generation revenue management 22 June, 2022

Altice selects Netcracker cloud BSS for next-generation revenue management

Waltham, United States. 21 June, 2022 — Netcracker Technology announced that Altice has selected Netcracker cloud BSS and professional services to deliver a SaaS-based solution with optimised revenue management capabilities for its affiliates in Portugal, France, Israel, the U.S. and the Dominican Republic.

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