BROWSING: 5G

Barcelona based IoT antenna company Ignion is promising to reduce IoT antenna design “from days or weeks to minutes”, following the release of its new design and simulation platform on AWS. The platform, it said, will allow developers to integrate its so-called ‘virtual antenna’...

Nextivity is committed to supporting important partnerships with carriers and has successfully completed the rigorous approval process for its Cel-Fi line of in-building cellular coverage solutions by more than 200 carriers around the world.   Since the launch of the Cel-Fi QUATRA 4000 multi-carrier active...

AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon all expanding 5G FWA to capture consumer and enterprise businesses Last week during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Qualcomm announced an update to its 5G Fixed Wireless Access Platforms to include support for Standalone 5G using mmWave frequencies, introduction of its...

The '5G City' project involves implementing wide 5G coverage for the city of Curitiba, the capital of Parana state TIM Brasil and Huawei have signed a collaboration agreement to develop a "5G City" initiative in the country, the Chinese vendor said in a release. The initiative,...

South Korea aims to award frequencies in the 28 GHz band for private 5G networks   LG CNS, the IT division of South Korea's LG Group, has applied for government permission to become the second domestic operator of a private 5G network, Korean news outlet Aju...

The regulator said it will award 5G spectrum in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 2,600 MHz, and 3,500 MHz bands The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) confirmed that its much-anticipated auction of 5G spectrum is expected to start on March 8. This auction process...

Upgrade or disconnect? This is the stark choice facing 3G connected device users. The once-revolutionary mobile network is currently being rolled back across the world to make way for new and improved iterations. In doing so, however, millions of older devices face permanent disconnection. This...

Telefónica is working with La Marina de València, the maritime district in the southeastern port city of Valencia in Spain, to ‘digitise’ electricity and water supply for boats, including with various IoT, 5G, cloud computing, analytics and blockchain solutions, it has said. The firm’s...

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) must monetize their investments in 5G infrastructure while simultaneously managing the increasing demands of their customers. Designing a webscale-class cloud packet core network that meets the needs of CSPs today and in the future, starts with a 100% cloud-native architecture....

Are subscribers getting the user experience that 5G promises? Plenty of reports tell us how impressive the speed and latency of the 5G RAN can be. But the subscriber experience can be less than stellar – or at least less uniform. Subscriber experience is...

In Saudi Arabia, Ericsson carried out a proof of concept which will allow local telco stc to accelerate the introduction of the 2.3 GHz 5G band Ericsson and Saudi Arabian operator stc have successfully completed a TDD-TDD 5G Carrier Aggregation proof-of-concept (PoC) to support stc’s...

The two countries committed to share information on their respective policy approaches seeking to build a more competitive global market for telecoms equipment The governments of Japan and the U.K. have agreed several joint initiatives to support efforts to reduce the global overreliance on a...

Verizon Business said that the strategic partnership will focus on leveraging its On Site LTE and 5G network with Celona’s 5G LAN products   Verizon Business announced a new turnkey private networking solution with Celona, with the aim of accelerating the use of private 5G to...

This might seem like a cop-out, but the irresistible narrative from MWC over the week, that the grand-standing on the show floor masked (and revealed) a battle between three industries for the soul of 5G, is not quite right. The idea that the traditional...

C-Band to cover 175 PoPs by year-end, significant expanding reach of 5G fixed wireless access service Verizon was first to market with a 5G-backed service in 2018 with the launch of its then-pre-standard mmWave 5G Home fixed wireless broadband service. Now, as it rapidly deploys...

The global digital economy is witnessing rapid growth with the development of the next-generation information technology. In 2020, the added value of the digital economy totaled USD 32.6 trillion in 47 countries, including China, the United States, and Germany, accounting for 43.7% of the...

FWA, MEC, and private networks are key to Verizon 5G monetization plan As discussions among operators turn to monetizing massive investments in 5G networks, Verizon today held an investor event that laid out in detail how it sees its network creating new service revenue in...

Samsung said they expect to start providing commercial private 5G networks in Japan in the second quarter of 2022 Korean vendor Samsung Electronics announced it has been selected by Japanese operator NTT East, to jointly expand the private 5G network business in Japan, the former...

VMware announced a collaboration with German research institutes for future 6G technologies VMware unveiled its vision for Automating Life during Mobile World Congress 2022 as part of the firm’s path to future 6G technologies. The U.S. company said this vision is underpinned by the fusion of...

KDDI recently claimed to have turned on the world’s first commercial 5G SA O-RAN site in Japan Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that Japanese telco KDDI is using the HPE ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus Telco server for the commercial network operation of O-RAN compliant 5G...

Open RAN trial also includes Accenture and Tech Mahindra Rakuten Symphony kept the playing the hits today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, announcing a three-country Open RAN trial with operator MTN. Throughout the week, Rakuten Symphony has discussed its Symworld and Symware portfolios, announced...

5G has changed the calculus for how broadband is delivered, and now the speed and quality of wireless broadband is competing successfully against traditional fixed services. Tier 1 operators are adding tens of thousands of new FWA customers each month, and operators of all...

NTT-owned IoT MVNO-enabler Transatel has introduced a private LTE/5G extension for its IoT roaming SIM to enable connected devices to switch between public and private cellular networks. It described the new feature as “critical given the massive adoptions of private 5G in factories and...

5G-data-AI synergies spark intelligence to ease O&M challenges, spur digital transformation The emergence of 5G – one of key technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution – has spawned networks with digital, cloud-based and micro-service features. These networks foster a wide array of new services and...