BROWSING: 5G

Helium, the company in charge of the crowd-sourced Helium non-cellular IoT and cellular 5G networks, has rebranded as Nova Labs, and announced $200 million of Series D funding from New York-based investment company Tiger Global and Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Besides...

Nokia has signed a deal with telecoms operator E&, formerly Etisalat Group, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to deploy 5G private networks for enterprises in Abu Dhabi. The pair will target “various industries, including ports, oil and gas, government and critical infrastructure”, they...

On January 19th 2022, Verizon and AT&T activated their C-band 5G networks, finally changing up the dynamic in which T-Mobile was the only U.S. carrier using large swaths of mid-band spectrum for 5G. To get a sense of how this development has impacted the...

Operators in mainland China have already deployed over 1.4 million 5G base stations China is expected to reach 892 million connections in the 5G segment in 2025, according to a report published by the GSMA. According to the ‘The Mobile Economy China” report, GSMA expects 5G...

The Petasus 5G MEC solution combines SK Telecom’s 5G MEC solution and Dell PowerEdge servers Korean operator SK Telecom, along with partner Dell Technologies, announced that it has launched an enterprise 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) solution named "Petasus". The Asian carrier noted that MEC enables...

Dataport and O2 Telefónica have agreed on a cooperation package for the construction and operation of Dataport's 5G lab   German telco O2 Telefonica said that compatriot IT service provider Dataport is commissioning the first private 5G Standalone campus network in Hamburg for its new 5G...

It is a silly headline, and an opt-in competition, but the World Economic Forum’s list of ‘lighthouse factories’, acknowledged for their use of Industry 4.0 kit, now stretches to 103 manufacturing facilities, and includes at least six sites that have been separately acclaimed for...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has added 13 new smart factories to its ‘global lighthouse network’ of flagship sites for advanced manufacturing; its total network, proclaimed for their use of “Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies”, now stretches to 103 manufacturing facilities and “value chains”. Besides,...

5G offers communications service providers more range in the types of services their networks can efficiently support -- but that flexibility also means some additional complexity comes along. Jason Elliott, head of CSP portfolio and partnership marketing at Nokia, likens 5G to a...

Cisco took time out with Enterprise IoT Insights at MWC a couple of weeks back to discuss its late entry into the private 5G market, plus its channel strategy around system design and network support, and partner strategy around radio access network (RAN) components....

Maybe it is just the way we ask the questions, but… test and measurement company Keysight Technologies has sought, effectively, to dispel any rumour and disquiet in the ranks about delays with industrial-grade 5G devices to go with industrial-grade private 5G networks. The US-based...

Celona said that the proceeds will be used to accelerate the firm’s worldwide expansion, channel growth and R&D efforts   California-based Celona announced that it has closed a $60 million Series C financing round led by DigitalBridge Ventures, the venture capital initiative of DigitalBridge Group. The financing...

Nokia will provide equipment across 4,000 5G sites across Taiwan Nokia has signed a two-year agreement with Taiwanese Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) to enhance its 5G network across Taiwan’s central and southern regions. Under the terms of the deal, Nokia will provide equipment from its latest energy-efficient...

The operator pack, as one would expect, is dividing in two around the Industry 4.0 market, suggests UK-based BT, with serious-minded enterprise-geared providers restructuring their sales operations in order to ‘prime’ the pumps, and switch on a new flow of private 5G, industrial IoT,...

As part of the deal, Virgin Media O2 will implement VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure U.K. carrier Virgin Media O2 has selected VMware for the modernization of its network and to enable the continued rollout of its 5G network. In a release, Virgin Media O2 said it...

Rogers began the rollout of its 5G standalone core in December 2020 Rogers Communications said that has become the first operator in Canada to launch a national, commercial 5G Standalone (SA) network in the country and one of the first in the world. A 5G...

Beyond foundational 5G IP, Arm focused on collaboration, ecosystem development If you were to look inside many of the base stations and handsets that support 5G wireless communications, you’d likely encounter componentry built using Arm intellectual property. With its IP based microprocessor technology near ubiquitous...

NTT Docomo started using the JTower’s infra-sharing solution for its 4G network in 2016 JTower and NTT Docomo have decided to enter into a master transaction agreement with the aim of promoting infra-sharing of the latter's existing towers. The contract will enable the companies to make...

Integrated Access and Backhaul provides scalable and easily-migrated wireless backhaul in 5G mmWave deployments.

The art project suggests that Verizon might to be trying to improve the poor curb appeal of 5G cell sites Verizon and the Susquehanna Art Museum (SAM) in Harrisburg, PA unveiled a new 5G cell site that sports custom artwork designed by local artist Stephen...

The executive said that Airtel will not aquire equipment from Chinese vendors for its 5G network deployment Indian operator Bharti Airtel expects to deploy its 5G network using equipment from European vendors as well as Open RAN equipment, local press reported, citing the company’s CTO...

Release 17 completion dates were initially expected in 2021 but the process was delayed due to the pandemic Together with enhancements aimed at existing use cases such as mobile broadband, industrial automation and vehicle-to-everything, 3GPP Release 17 introduces support for new ones including public safety,...

Carriers will be able to carry out verification of vRAN at its R&D center in Yokosuka Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo recently announced that it has begun allowing overseas mobile operators to access its Shared Open Lab, located in its R&D facility in Yokosuka, Japan, to...

Another late entry from the MWC files, this time from a discussion with IBM; but another one, again, where the talk is somehow timeless, at least in a 2022/3 timeframe, and also sometimes abstract. “Sure, it is a ramble; but, then, nothing is certain,”...