BROWSING: 5G

One of the biggest challenges facing communication service providers (CSPs) is finding a way to monetize the huge investment required by 5G. That said, multiple interested parties are just as eager to cash in on capabilities the new technology could bring to enterprises. Some...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, commercial real estate (CRE) owners and operators used cellular, IoT and AI technologies to offer tenants new, connected amenities to drive up net operating income (NOI) while attracting and retaining lessees.Before the COVID-19 pandemic, commercial real estate (CRE) owners and...

China Broadcast Network (CBN), China's newest mobile carrier, has launched a tender for the radio access portion of its national 5G network, Chinese press reported. The tender, which seeks the provision of a total of 480,400 5G macro base stations in the 700MHz band, is...

Taiwan is expected to reach a 5G penetration rate of nearly 30% by the end of this year, local new site Digitimes reported, citing industry sources. According to the report, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) currently leads the Taiwanese 5G market, with nearly 1 million subscribers. The...

Nokia is to deploy a private 5G network at industrial robot and automation specialist maker KUKA’s ‘smart’ production and development centre in Augsburg, in Germany. Nokia’s compact ‘digital automation cloud’ (DAC) private LTE and 5G solution, geared for quick-fire local-area deployments, will support product...

Our latest 5G technology demonstrations for Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2021 This year, Mobile World Congress is taking place virtually and in Barcelona, Spain. Undoubtedly, it is one of the most important events of the year for the entire mobile industry. To showcase the progress...

THOR is suitable for hard-to-reach or hard-to-navigate environments and situations As part of its collaboration with the Department of Defense through NavalX and the SoCal Tech Bridge, Verizon Frontline unveiled a Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response (THOR) vehicle at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar. The...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, commercial real estate (CRE) owners and operators used cellular, IoT and AI technologies to offer tenants new, connected amenities to drive up net operating income (NOI) while attracting and retaining lessees. Post-COVID, with work from home a potentially permanent shift, CRE...

Austrian operator Drei started trials of a 5G standalone network in capital Vienna, the telco said in a release. Drei claimed to be the first of the three telecommunications providers in Austria to start tests for this technology. The operator is carrying out these...

5G is extremely complex and has widespread impacts throughout the network. This introduces many challenges but also provides many new business opportunities. For instance, it will allow more devices to connect at faster speeds with lower latency than ever before. This will enable companies...

VIAVI: The Philippines has surpassed South Korea in third place for number of cities covered by 5G According the latest iteration of VIAVI’s “The State of 5G” report, 1,662 cities across 65 countries now have 5G services, with 2021 already seeing a more than 20%...

The private LTE/5G bandwagon rolls on with system integrators (SIs) in Germany. Further to the report yesterday, that Ireland-based Druid Software has teamed up with IT specialist Becon in the home of Industrie 4.0, US radio equipment vendor Airspan Networks has announced a deal...

ArcelorMittal has cut the ribbon at a new ‘digital lab’ in Dunkirk, in France, adjacent to its largest Europe-based steel production site. The new lab, which opens in September, will host manufacturing partners, start-ups, and universities, and be the epicentre of the company’s digital...

The importance of ‘vertical’ domain expertise, obtainable through partnership with industry-specific system integrators, has been a feature of the developing go-to-market strategies of private LTE and 5G players in recent months. It has been the case in Germany, in particular, where the government’s move...

Intel Corporate Vice President Dan Rodriguez, general manager of the Network Platforms Group, discusses the complementary relationship between 5G, AI, edge and cloud computing. Rodriguez also discusses the work Intel is doing with operator and enterprise partners to enable meaningful digital transformation at scale.

Telefonica Deutschland German operator Telefonica Deutschland/O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, is currently reaching 80 cities with its 5G technology, the operator said in a release. The telco said that its current 5G network coverage is being provided by a total of approximately 2,000 5G...

Low-band 5G SA will provide outdoor and indoor coverage Nokia and Australian carrier TPG Telecom announced that they have switched on a live 5G standalone (SA) network in Australia on the 700 MHz spectrum band. The two partners said that this launch represents the first launch...

French operators are deploying 5G in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz, and 3.5 GHz bands France had a total of 26,084 5G authorized sites as of July 1, of which 19,002 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information...

The U.K. government launched a £30 million ($41.6 million) competition to fund R&D projects with the main aim of accelerating the adoption of Open RAN (O-RAN) in the country. Funded by the U.K. Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Future RAN Competition (FRANC)...

Nokia has introduced new software to enable operators and enterprises to remotely manage cellular IoT devices with embedded and integrated SIM (eSIM and iSIM) functionality. The software works with standard consumer devices, as well, but eSIM and iSIM technologies make most difference in the...

Amy McCune, the head of managed services for Ericsson North America, delivers insight into what CSPs think about AI and offers her own perspective on why it’s a must for managing 5G networks. She also shares some of the silver linings of being one of the only women in the room, like shorter bathroom lines at tech conferences.

By 2026, over three-quarters of enterprise small cells will be deployed and operated by private network operators or neutral hosts, according to Small Cell Forum (SCF). Deployments in shared spectrum will overtake those in licensed bands in 2025, it reckons. The latest market report from...

French rail company SNCF, in partnership with Orange and Nokia, has extended a state-sponsored industrial 5G testbed utilising the 26 GHz millimeter wave band at a train station Rennes, in the northwest of France, to two new industrial complexes in the city. The strategy...

South Korea ended May with a total of 15.84 million 5G subscribers, local newspaper Korea Herald reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT. 5G subscribers at the end of May accounted for 22% of the total 71.45 million mobile subscriptions in the...