BROWSING: 5G

5G monetization hinges on partners, ecosystem, and delivering business outcomes For a deep dive into 5G monetization strategies and considerations, access the 5G Monetization Forum on-demand. Operators have invested billions in designing and deploying 5G networks but, to date, meaningful new service revenues have proved...

  UK enterprises are looking to 5G to help alleviate immediate business pressures brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and related global events, according to a new study by EY. The EY Reimagining industry futures study revealed that 80% of respondents say the impact of the global...

The government of South Korea has postponed an auction to award additional 5G spectrum as local mobile operators SK Telecom and KT have complained about the process, Korean news agency Yonhap reported. In December, South Korea’s Science and ICT ministry said it would open bidding...

Australian operator Telstra’s 5G network reached 77.5% of the country’s population as of the end of last year, the carrier’s CEO Andrew Penn said in the company’s earnings release. Penn said that Telstra’s 5G network was now more than twice the size of Telstra’s next...

KDDI worked with partners Samsung and Fujitsu to turn on the Open RAN site in Japan KDDI is claiming to have turned on the world's first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) site in partnership with Samsung and Fujitsu. Powered by...

Ericsson portfolio update aligns with goal to help operators break the energy curve with sustainable 5G infrastructure and operations Ericsson announced today seven new RAN products the company billed as delivering "sizeable energy savings and up to 10-fold capacity increases with minimal or no added...

Qualcomm inline accelerator card tapped for Open RAN virtualized distributed units Along with the gaining traction of commoditized telecom hardware and disaggregated Open RAN architectures, HPE is leaning into the telecom market with the creation of a Communications Technology Group and development of its Open...

The Nokia survey found that only 11% of CSPs have sufficient BSS in place to meet the needs of 5G-enabled business models One of the most pressing questions around 5G is how to monetize it, and according to new research released by Nokia, communication service...

Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea says that it has successfully demonstrated 5G Voice over New Radio (VoNR) in partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia. The telco said that the demo was part of the ongoing 5G trials in the city of Gandhinagar, in Gujarat. Once deployed, the...

  Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica and partner Unmanned Life have designed a new solution for managing autonomous drone fleets from a single centralized platform to carry out security, surveillance, event verification and critical infrastructure maintenance tasks. Telefonica said that this innovation will be presented during this...

Keysight Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Samsung Research to advance research and development of 6G technology, the former company said in a release. Keysight noted that future 6G systems are expected to be built on technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI),...

The energy division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi has launched a new line of 5G-enabled routers for smart cities, oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, and utility customers. Its upgraded TRO600 series routers work in hybrid 5G systems, attaching to private and public cellular infrastructure,...

Network vendor Nokia is working with New York-based managed infrastructure services provider Kyndryl, separated from IBM late last year, to jointly sell and develop private networking and edge computing solutions for the Industry 4.0 market. The partnership has emerged from a joint private 5G...

Your community suffers from insufficient broadband capabilities, and you are eager to make a difference in closing the digital divide this decade while taking advantage of new available funding. Whether you are a service provider, policy maker or other stakeholder in the Digital Divide...

Verizon sees 5G fixed wireless access, mobile edge computing, and private networks all driving revenue growth Verizon Business Group CEO and Executive Vice President Tami Erwin this week joined Arden Media's 5G Monetization Forum to discuss how the carrier is leveraging its network to...

T-Mobile US says that it has expanded the availability of its 5G-based home internet service across new locations totaling 62 cities and towns in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. In those states, T-Mo says its T-Mobile Home Internet is now an option for nearly 5 million...

Juniper Networks announced that it is working with Vodafone and Parallel Wireless, conducting a multi-vendor Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller (RIC) trial for tenant-aware admission control use cases. The trial, initially running in Vodafone’s test labs in Turkey and with plans to move into its...

German telco Deutsche Telekom said that a total of over 63,000 antennas are already transmitting 5G across the country, providing coverage to over 90% of the population. In a release, the operator said that it had activated 159 new 5G locations in Germany during January. The...

The global value of the cellular IoT market will almost double to $61 billion by 2026, from $31 billion in 2022, according to Juniper Research. The growth will be driven by high-end 5G and, in particular, low-end NB-IoT and LTE-M, it said. These opposite...

Carrier says that FirstNet users at the game used twice as much data as fans, on average AT&T says its customers set a new usage record of 13 TB of data over LTE and 5G before and during the Super Bowl, an increase of 28%...

U.K. operator Virgin Media O2 announced that its 5G network infrastructure in the city of London has reached 64% of the population. In a release, the telco said that the expansion in its 5G footprint in London and other cities across the U.K. was chiefly...

Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica announced the successful validation of its new Open RAN 5G Standalone small cell. In a release, the European carrier said that the demonstration was carried out by Node-H and Askey in Telefonica’s Technology & Automation Lab. Telefonica noted that this demo is...

Telecom networks are at one of their great technology junctures as Communications Service Providers make the leap to end-to-end, Standalone 5G: New, cloud-native networks that demand service assurance that is both fluid and resilient, granular and scalable. But what does “cloud-native” mean, and how do...

U.K. operator Vodafone has selected Oracle Communications for the provision of cloud-native network policy management for its Standalone 5G network. In a joint release, Vodafone and Oracle noted that the supply of Oracle's cloud native network policy management solution will enable the European telco to...