BROWSING: 5G

Indian telecommunications firm Reliance Jio confirmed that it has completed the 5G coverage planning for 1,000 cities across the country. This coverage planning will enable the operator to roll out 5G services quickly once the government awards 5G spectrum later this year. “5G coverage planning has...

As businesses in the UK look to recover from the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, 5G and advanced network technologies will become more important to businesses than ever. Recent figures from Vodafone suggest 5G could boost output in the UK by £150 billion; a...

Netherlands-based lighting firm Signify is to integrate LTE and 5G into a new range of ‘broadband luminaires’ for the smart cities market. Signify has signed a deal with smart-city broadband provider Siklu to bundle the Israel-based firm’s ‘multi-haul’ ‘multi-gigabit’ hardware (branded ‘MultiHaul’). The new...

Nokia and Korean telco SK Telecom said they have successfully completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) and demonstration of what they call the world's first 5G 64TRX wireless-based cloud Radio Access Network (vRAN) in Korea. Both companies plan to start field testing a vRAN in 2022. The demonstration...

Finland's University of Oulu said it is cooperating with Jio Estonia OU, part of Reliance Industries, in the research of future 6G technologies. The partners say they will combine expertise from industry and academia in aerial and space communication, holographic beamforming, 3D connected intelligence in...

Telstra has leveraged Ericsson private 5G to provide its enterprise customer AgriFood Connect, an Australian not-for-profit organization, with an on-premise, dedicated 5G network that utilizes a single-server 5G dual-mode core, which facilitates both LTE and 5G Standalone (SA) simultaneously. “The combination of a dedicated network...

On a watt/bit basis, 5G is more power efficient than 4G When the conversation turns to 5G’s potential to be a “greener” technology than previous generations, the subject of power usage is one of the first that comes up. Most often, it is framed...

According to the latest Opensignal 5G experience report, Verizon remains the sole winner of the experiential measures, which include the gaming and voice app experience, but T-Mobile US “dominates in both the speed metrics and in the two measures of a network’s extent.” Further,...

Many would reflect on 2021 with mixed feelings. On the positive side, there were significant developments in the telecoms industry such as wider scale deployments of 5G by CSPs and the increased availability of enterprise licensed spectrum, opening the door for campus deployment of...

Nordic carrier Telenor signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help expand its 5G core transformation, the telco said in a release. The telco said that the new deal will allow it to deliver new 5G and edge services to enterprise...

Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 26.9 million 5G subscribers in December, according to the carriers’ latest available figures. China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, added a total of 12.5 million 5G subscribers during the last month of 2021.The operator...

AT&T says C-Band is 'turbo-boosting our 5G'; Verizon says 2022 will be 'most important year in the history of Verizon' Verizon and AT&T celebrated the long-awaited turn-up of their first operations in C-Band spectrum yesterday, after weeks of delays due to concerns about aviation altimeters...

Lord knows what Red Hat does, exactly, if you’ll excuse the language, but Christ knows it is good to talk to. And clearly, on the interplay between cellular networking and cloud computing at the enterprise edge, it should be listened to – as the...

U.K. carrier Vodafone announced it has switched on what it claims to be the first 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) site in the country, the telco said in a release. The site installed in the city of Bath is the first of 2,500 5G and 4G...

Research company Dell’Oro Group noted in a new forecast report that growth in the global mobile core network markeT (MCN) was being impacted by slow deployments of 5G Standalone (SA) by mobile carriers. According to the report, worldwide MCN 5-year growth is forecasted to grow...

T-Mobile US was the shining star in Ooka’s latest wireless rankings, taking home the gold in nearly every category, while Verizon and AT&T flip-flopped between second and third place. According to Ookla’s findings, T-Mobile US was the fastest mobile operator in the United States...

This webinar aims to address one of the biggest questions around 5G: How do you monetize it? Thanks to technological advancements, spectrum access liberalization and changing user habits and demand, there are emerging opportunities — and challenges — for operators to transform their business...

  German telco Deutsche Telekom said it will install two new cell towers to support a 5G campus network at PCK refinery in the coming months. The telco noted that the connection to a redundant and secure power supply will guarantee 5G  coverage for the employees....

An airline group has predicted that flight impacts will be 'incalculable' AT&T and Verizon both confirmed this morning that they have gone ahead with their planned activation of the use of C-Band spectrum, amid dire warnings from the an aviation industry group earlier this week...

Japanese telco NTT Docomo announced that it has developed an antenna system capable of creating a high-frequency mobile communication cell when a small piece of plastic is placed on top of a dielectric waveguide. In a release, the carrier said that the solid plastic cube...

As a Wireless Analyst, I have followed the wireless industry and all the challenges and hurdles it has faced and overcome for decades. The way 5G C-Band technology may interfere with aircraft altimeter controls is just the next step in this journey. So, what...

Telefónica Tech, the digital services arm of Telefónica, has signed a deal with Spanish engineering services company Grupo Álava, to launch a predictive analytics solution for the Industry 4.0 market that also leverages private 5G, cloud and edge computing, and big-data ‘AI’ analytics from...

Eighteen months ago, in the middle of the first COVID-19 wave, we launched a study to learn more about how businesses were using IoT. We sought to discover if IoT was helping them cope with the unprecedented challenges caused by the global pandemic. The...

As more people worked remotely during the early stages of the pandemic, operators shifted investment to fixed infrastructure underpinning home broadband connections. Looking to 2022, we’ll see renewed focus on the growth of 4G and time spent on evaluating the most pragmatic ways to add capacity and capability into 5G deployment plans. We see three major trends in the market...