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25 November, 2019Is 5G worthy of the hype? We’ve seen commercial deployments (in trial and in reality) this year, says Mikaël Schachne, chief marketing officer and vice president of mobility and IoT at BICS, including a significant one from China earlier this month in which all three of the country’s state-backed operators roll out the new mobile service. (more…)
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11 November, 2019An industry progressive step in 5G has taken place in Switzerland on October 31 when the first over-the-air, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) 5G data call was successfully carried out by Ericsson, Swisscom, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated. (more…)
31 October, 2019Matrixx Software, a company specialising in transforming global commerce, has introduced what it says is the industry’s first 5G digital commerce platform including a 5G 3GPP-compliant Converged Charging System (CCS). (more…)
12 September, 2019The present head of Network, IT & Operations is to take over as CEO of Swisscom Broadcast following the retirement of Jean-Paul de Weck, who has been at the helm of Swisscom Broadcast for twelve years. Dominik Müller will commence his new role on 15 November 2019. (more…)
28 August, 2019Mainframe replacement is a phrase that turns the blood to ice in the veins of most telecoms IT professionals but these ambitious projects are starting to happen with greater regularity as mainframes reach their fourth – and sometimes fifth – decade of operation and the cost of operating them starts outstrip the risk associated with replacement. VanillaPlus managing editor George Malim recently interviewed Markus Tschumper, the head of general IT services at Swisscom, to learn about the communications service provider’s recent migration of traditional mainframe workloads to the cloud, running on a software defined mainframe from LzLabs.
23 July, 2019The call, made on July 1 between Ericsson’s office in central Bern and Swisscom’s office in the nearby town of Liebefeld, is the latest tech milestone for the Swiss service provider’s 5G network rollout since it became the first in Europe to switch on a commercial 5G network – fully powered by Ericsson – in April this year. (more…)
19 June, 20195G continues to climb up the hype side of the inflated expectations curve and extravagant claims are being made about early deployments, says freelance technology writer, Bob Emmerson. (more…)
17 April, 2019Ericsson and Swisscom, the telecommunications service provider in Switzerland, have switched on the large-scale commercial 5G network in Europe to support commercially available smartphones. (more…)
10 April, 2019Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated and Swisscom, together with device manufacturers including Oppo, LG Electronics, Askey and WNC announced the arrival of commercial 5G services in Europe with the launch of Swisscom’s 5G network. (more…)
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