BROWSING: 5G

Ericsson will buy Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal Network equipment and services provider Ericsson will acquire enterprise cloud services company Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal, which it touts as fundamental to creating a cloud-focused platform centered on "open innovation" and the ability for...

In a blog post, mobile cloud provider now.gg referenced a 2020 IDC report to claim that 60-70% of phones worldwide aren’t suited for gaming. The company uses this to support the idea that if a gamer uses the hybrid cloud to run a game,...

Chinese vendor Huawei is in talks with almost all Brazilian operators that secured 5G spectrum in a recent spectrum auction, with the aim of selling 5G equipment, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported. According to the report, Huawei could potentially find advantages in serving the Brazilian...

Ericsson and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) have announced an initial three-year research and development (R&D) partnership focused on three research projects aimed at advancing telecommunication networks with innovative technologies. In a release, the Swedish vendor said that the partnership aims to...

Hyperscalers, with only varied and newly acquired in-house 5G knowledge, are outpacing telcos, with 40 years in the game, at private 5G, according to new research from Omdia. The analyst house has named Microsoft as the ‘top innovator’ in the field, ahead of AT&T...

Amid anticipation for the freshly passed $65 billion in funding for broadband expansion, a new report from CTIA estimates that 5G Fixed Wireless Access broadband could serve nearly half of rural households in the U.S. According to the report, Accenture reckons that 43% of rural...

ABI Research forecasts that approximately 90% of 5G cell sites in emerging markets will be operating with support for a combination of sub-6 GHz bands by 2026. In a release, the consultancy noted that sub-6 GHz bands will provide optimum coverage while catering for sufficient...

A new report, published by European carriers Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone, and based on findings from research firm Analysys Mason, called upon policymakers, EU member states, and industry stakeholders to collaborate and urgently prioritize Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN). “Open, intelligent,...

It is a good question, and maybe the only question for mobile operators going into the Industry 4.0 space. Camille Mendler, a chief analyst at Omdia, asked it of Google Cloud in a recent webinar, which went under the same header, about why mobile...

    Japanese operator SoftBank and compatriot car maker Honda announced they have started a use case-based verification of technologies to reduce collisions between pedestrians and vehicles using a 5G Standalone mobile communication system and a cellular V2X communication system. Using SoftBank's 5G SA experimental base station...

Canadian operator Rogers and the University of British Columbia (UBC) announced a new partnership for 5G research. Under the extended partnership, researchers at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses and Rogers will seek to develop, explore and test new 5G capabilities in areas such as wildfire...

Equinix will provide digital infrastructure services to support Dish’s cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network. As a result, Dish will have access to the infrastructure company’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers across the U.S. “Dish is taking the lead in delivering on the promise of...

UK telecoms integrator Colt Technology Services is leading a private 5G consortium including Accedian, ADVA, Airspan, and Athonet to test end-to-end private cellular in a real estate environment in France. The setup uses a disaggregated architecture, and has a bearing on related verticals, notably...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) unveiled plans to more than triple the number of 5G base stations over the next four years, targeting a total of 3.64 million by end-2025, local newspaper China Daily reported. Under this plan, China aims to have...

Cloud gaming represents a great opportunity to show off what 5G and MEC are capable of With cloud gaming revenue predicted to come in at over $1 billion for the first time this year — about double what it was raking in last year —...

Nokia announced that it is conducting a 5G Standalone (SA) network trial with Chubu Telecommunications (ctc), a subsidiary of KDDI in Japan. For the trial, Nokia is supplying its latest AirScale product portfolio and Compact Mobility Unit (CMU) to support both 5G indoor and outdoor...

Private network specialist Athonet is telling enterprises to ‘bring your own RAN’ with the introduction of a facility in its network management system to select from a combination of radio products according to “the needs of the mix of applications” in their edge environments. The...

We envision a world where virtually all devices are much more intelligent, simplifying and enriching our daily lives. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is delivering enhanced experiences and new capabilities to our society in more ways than ever. AI not only provides the ability for...

Recent FCC rules establishing the commercial use of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum within the 3.55 to 3.7GHz range (band 48) is driving enterprise interest in the use of cellular technology to enable connectivity for many digital initiatives that demand predictable performance,...

MFA (MulteFire Alliance) has launched a new ‘network identifier’ scheme to provide enterprises with a unique global public land mobile network (PLMN) ID for their private LTE and 5G networks. The facility allows them to create “unique and distinguishable” private networks, so only authorized...

Diversification and the market moving towards mobile make “the time of Qualcomm right now” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon’s message to investors at an event in New York City today was crystal clear. “This is the time of Qualcomm right now. We’re truly diversifying. The market...

  Haier, China’s largest consumer electronics and home appliance producer, collaborated with Huawei and China mobile to apply innovative manufacturing solutions combining 5G and mobile edge computing in its smart factories. Developed at a joint-innovation base established in February, the solutions integrate 5G edge computing with...

T-Mobile said that its Ultra Capacity 5G network now reaches 200 million people in the US, with 300 expected by the end of 2022.

Swedish vendor Ericsson announced a partnership with Korean communications firm SK Telecom, with the aim of supporting 5G Standalone networks through the deployment of a cloud-native dual-mode 5G Core. Ericsson and SK Telecom had initially unveiled next-generation cloud-native 5G Core networks technology, architecture, implementation and...