BROWSING: 5G
Indian telco Jio launches 5G-based FWA offering
Jio initially launched its 5G FWA service in eight cities across India
Indian telco Reliance Jio Infocomm announced the launch of its 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) service in eight cities across the country.
The new offering, dubbed JioAirFiber, will be initially available in the cities...
How can enterprises simplify private network integration, network management, and monitoring?
No two private networks are exactly alike, as each is configured to serve different network environments and industries. In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, businesses increasingly focus on modernizing their enterprise systems to do more for their business. This focus creates more resilient systems...
AT&T touts API access, ties it to 5G monetization
"True growth (aka monetization)" of the network depends on easier API access for developers, says AT&T's Igal Elbaz
AT&T sees its network as the killer 5G app—and monetizing it means exposing more of the network to developers through standardized and reusable APIs, says Igal Elbaz,...
Ericsson partners with Malaysia’s DNB for 5G RedCap deployment
Ericsson said the RedCap tests on the DNB network have been carried out on the time division duplex (TDD) 3500 and frequency division duplex (FDD) 700 layers
Swedish vendor Ericsson said it has successfully carried out tests on Malaysia’s 5G network deployed by Digital Nasional...
Singapore launches project to empower its civil defense with 5G
The project is supported by IMDA’s 5G Innovation Program, which helps enterprise adopt and commercialize 5G technologies
Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) announced a new 5G project, which it is collaborating on with Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), the Singapore Civil Defense...
India forms working group to promote telecom exports
Some of the working groups announced by the government of India will seek to promote exports of 4G, 5G and future 6G systems
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has formed eight working groups with the aim of positioning the country as a leading exporter of...
Standalone 5G monetization requires charging system modernizationÂ
As operators face a pressing need to monetize 5G services, Mavenir is focused on a converged charging system to bridge the gap between 4G, NSA 5G and SA 5G
As operators navigate the numerous technological and business model evolutions needed to deliver the full 5G feature...
AT&T, Comcast join 5G Open Innovation Lab
AT&T and Comcast are joining 5G OI Lab as founding partners
5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) announced that U.S. operators AT&T and Comcast have joined its innovation ecosystem as founding partners.
The two companies join the 18 founding and corporate partners, 5G OI Lab...
Orange Belgium inks connectivity deal with Flemish government
Orange said that 75,000 SIM cards and 9,500 cards for machine-to-machine and IoT services will be activated for Flemish administrative offices
Orange Belgium has signed an initial five-year agreement to provide mobile connectivity and IoT services to the Flemish government, the telco said in a...
Vodafone UK highlights potential losses for NHS if 5G rollout slows
Vodafone UK noted that 5G networks will enable more patient care to be delivered remotely
The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) could lose up to £1 billion ($1.24 billion) a year if 5G is not rolled out quickly across the country, according to a new...
Eutelsat, Enensys to showcase live DVB-NIP over 5G
Eutelsat and Enensys will be hosting a live demo of satellite contribution to 5G networks at IBC 2023 in Amsterdam using the DVB-NIP standard
Enensys Technologies, which is a media delivery solution provider, has signed a partnership with satellite operator Eutelsat aiming to enable streaming...
Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft launch 5G private networks offering
Deutsche Telekom tested the new private 5G network solution with Microsoft in a lab environment in Bonn
German carrier Deutsche Telekom launched its new "Campus Network Smart" solution, which will be delivered in collaboration with Microsoft, the operator said in a release.
Deutsche Telekom noted that...
Tata Consultancy Services aims to sell 5G gear in the US market
Tata Consultancy Services noted that Tejas' N78 5G radios are compatible with 3.3 GHz spectrum
India's largest IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is considering plans to start selling its locally-developed and manufactured 5G radio network gear to other markets, particularly to the U.S.,...
Germany considers five-year extension for spectrum rights usage
Germany aims to extend the usage of spectrum in the 800 MHz, 1,800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands
The German Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur, has launched a consultation process with the aim of evaluating a potential five-year extension for the provision of spectrum in the...
Thai telco AIS to lease RAN equipment to National Telecom for 5G
Under the terms of the agreement, AIS will lease 13,500 base stations which the carrier expects to deploy over the next two years
Thai carrier Advanced Info System (AIS) has signed an agreement to lease Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment to state-run operator National Telecom...
Proximus tests warehouse management using 5G, drones and AI
Proximus is working with its partners, ID2Move and Phoenix-Tech and its subsidiary Proximus Ada
Belgium operator Proximus and several of its partners recently unveiled a 5G project with the aim of testing warehouse management using 5G coupled with drones and artificial intelligence (AI).
The carrier noted...
Jio urges DoT to expand uses of E-band spectrum
Jio has already deployed its 5G service in 7,543 cities across 36 states in India
Indian carrier Reliance Jio Infocomm Reliance asked the country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to widen the scope of E-band spectrum usage to include access services along with backhaul, local newspaper...
Huawei explains 5.5G and how it could transform industries
Huawei has been lately increasing efforts and resources to boost the adoption of 5G technology in a number of verticals such as manufacturing, ports, airport, healthcare and mining, among others.
The company is seeing significant opportunities for the telecom industry to start monetizing investments in...
Entel completes final phase of its 5G rollout in Chile
As of the end of June, Entel had 1.20 million active customers in the 5G segment
Chilean operator Entel said it has completed the second and final phase of its 5G rollout project.
Entel claimed to be the first carrier in Chile to fully complete the...
Telekom Malaysia, SK Telecom to boost MEC adoption in Malaysia
Telekom Malaysia aims to offer its customers in Malaysia and the region with multi-access edge computing from all its data centers in the country
Telekom Malaysia (TM) and Korean carrier SK Telecom inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop the Multi-Access Edge Computing...
American Tower aims to sell part of its Indian business soon: CFO
American Tower's CFO said the company was in the final stage of negotiations to sell a majority stake in its tower unit in India
American Tower is confident of finalizing the sale of its towers business in India soon, the company’s CFO, Rod Smith, said...
Qualcomm, Apple extend 5G modem agreement for three years
Qualcomm also makes money from Apple as a result of a lawsuit over royalties that was settled in 2019
Qualcomm this week announced that it will supply Apple with 5G modems for smartphones through 2026, despite previous suggestions that Apple would likely begin using an internally developed 5G modem...
The 5G and Wi-Fi symbiosis
Wireless communications have transformed nearly every application space, from smart home security and personal computing to mobile phones, audio, and video streaming, and factory-floor automation. Benefiting from decades of rapid innovation, almost every electronic product on the market today is a connected device.
The technologies...
Deutsche Telekom demos 5G network slicing
Deutsche Telekom noted that slices are implemented as a dynamic and automated end-to-end service offering that is activated in minutes across the 5G network
Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Mavenir and Blue Planet (which is a division of Ciena) said they have jointly demonstrated the benefits of...