Samsung Electronics, with Vodafone and Orange, two of the largest operators in Europe, announced the companies completed the first 4G calls over-shared commercial networks in rural areas of Romania based on Open RAN in a pilot project. By leveraging Samsung’s virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN), the two operators can take advantage of the greater flexibility…
Qualcomm and its partners offer first smartphone demo of iSIM technology
Qualcomm Technologies, Vodafone, and Thales have joined forces to demonstrate a working smartphone, featuring iSIM (based on the ieUICC GSMA specification), a new technology enabling the functionality of a SIM card to be integrated into a device’s main processor. This milestone paves the way for commercialization of the technology, which could be rolled out in…