Today’s telecom news includes announcements on e& UAE, Comcast, Ericsson, Cellnex Poland, Deutsche Telekom, among others.
e& UAE Launches 350 MHz Upper-6GHz 5G-Advanced Network with 10 Gbps Peak Speed
e& UAE has activated an Upper-6GHz mobile network using 256TRX Giga-MIMO, moving the technology from trials into live 5G-Advanced service. The deployment uses 6425–6775 MHz, providing as much as 350 MHz of continuous bandwidth. e& says single-user peak performance can reach 10 Gbps downlink and 1 Gbps uplink, while single-cell throughput exceeds 50 Gbps when combined with commercial TDD bands. The 256-transceiver architecture significantly increases antenna capacity compared with conventional 64TRX 5G equipment. Importantly, e& says the higher-frequency layer can achieve site-for-site coverage comparable with its existing 3.5 GHz C-band infrastructure, while providing additional capacity for dense urban areas and establishing network architecture relevant to future IMT-2030/6G evolution.
Comcast Deploys Fiber Sensing to Strengthen Network Reliability
Comcast has deployed fiber-sensing technology that uses vibrations traveling through fiber lines to detect and pinpoint activity around its network in real time. The technology can identify potential threats such as construction equipment operating near buried cables or subway activity, allowing Comcast teams to receive early warnings and respond before damage causes outages. Comcast is also exploring the integration of fiber sensing with AI, data analytics and automated technologies, including potential drone deployment for inspecting network damage, vandalism, wildfires and accidents. The initiative builds on Comcast’s broader investment in software, telemetry and AI across its network, with the company aiming to improve visibility, automation, resilience and service reliability across its fiber infrastructure.
Ericsson Wins Cellnex Poland 5G RAN Modernization and Expansion Contract
Ericsson has been selected as one of the suppliers for Cellnex Telecom Poland’s 5G Radio Access Network modernization and expansion programme. Ericsson will supply radios, RAN compute modules, microwave transmission equipment, antennas and enclosures. The infrastructure supports mobile services delivered by Polkomtel under the Plus brand and covers both urban and rural areas. Ericsson says its latest equipment, incorporating Ericsson Silicon, is designed to reduce energy consumption, physical footprint and tower loading compared with earlier generations while expanding coverage, speeds and reliability. The contract is significant because it covers multiple layers of the radio-site architecture rather than radios alone, combining RAN processing, antennas and wireless backhaul as Cellnex upgrades infrastructure used by one of Poland’s major mobile networks.
Deutsche Telekom Moves Fixed and Mobile DNS Infrastructure onto Horizontal TelCo Cloud
Deutsche Telekom has deployed Titan.ium’s cloud-native Infrastructure Domain Name System on its Horizontal TelCo Cloud, advancing the operator’s core-network transformation. The microservices-based deployment consolidates infrastructure DNS functions serving both fixed and mobile networks onto a common horizontal cloud platform instead of maintaining separate domain-specific implementations. Deutsche Telekom says the architecture simplifies operations and should enable faster introduction of network capabilities across both fixed and mobile domains. The deployment is significant within the broader shift toward horizontal telco-cloud infrastructure, where operators run multiple network functions on shared cloud-native platforms rather than maintaining dedicated hardware stacks for individual services. It also provides another practical example of Deutsche Telekom moving core-network functions toward software-defined, cloud-native architecture designed for greater automation and operational efficiency.
