BROWSING: 5G

Wireless connectivity and mobile are inseparable. Mobile gaming, compute productivity, wireless XR are among the many mobile applications that rely heavily on fast, responsive, and reliable wireless connections. In turn, those connections translate directly to perceived quality of a device, alongside processor and RAM....

Building an open ecosystem to power innovation and digital transformation for the telecommunication industry's future. The global telecommunications opportunity at the edge The edge opportunity is tremendous and will transform every industry – powered by the confluence of connected devices and systems, highly distributed compute and...

Ericsson report finds that more than 160 CSPs have launched 5G services The latest Ericsson Mobility Report predicts that by the end of 2021, 5G mobile subscriptions will exceed 580 million by the end of 2021, and by 2026, the new technology will hit 3.5...

The Canadian government kicked off on June 15 an auction of 5G frequencies, a process that had been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The tender will award licenses to operate spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band. The spectrum auction, initially scheduled for June 2020,...

Join experts from Electro Rent and EXFO for a webinar on 5G Fronthaul Validation. This webinar will cover the steps for Fronthaul link validation using an EXFO test module. In this course, we will discuss Connector Performance, Fiber Characterization, Backhaul Link Validation, CPRI/eCPRI Link Validation, and Transceiver...

Cisco has announced a new portfolio of industrial 5G routers for edge networking setups, with support also for LTE, WI-Fi 6, as well as the open Wi-SUN (‘wireless smart utility network’) mesh protocol, which Cisco is promoting for indoor IoT-style sensor networks. The new...

Finnish phone manufacturer HMD Global, which licences the Nokia brand for smartphones and is mostly run by former Nokia execs, has signed deals with network vendor Nokia (itself) and IT consulting firm CGI, both also based in Finland, to bolster its enterprise IoT services...

Anterix has followed deals with Motorola and Nokia with a third contract for LTE equipment for private network deployments in the utilities sector, this time with Swedish vendor Ericsson. The New Jersey based firm holds 900 MHz spectrum in the mainland US, as well...

Last week, Qualcomm released a glut of IoT solutions, variously offering Wi-Fi and 5G connectivity for enterprise and industrial IoT applications. The firm, compelled by rising demand for higher-grade IoT units as a consequence in part of changing Covid-era work practices, has released seven...

WLAN is a cable-less technology for data communications typically using Ethernet over a local area. The first IEEE 802.11 standard regulating WLAN technology, released in 1997, supported only the 2.4 GHz band, but in 2020 the WLAN technology has begun supporting the 6 GHz...

Spanish operator Telefonica awarded contracts to roll out its 5G Standalone (SA) radio networks to Nordic vendors Ericsson and Nokia, local business newspaper Expansion reported. According to the report Chinese vendor Huawei, was excluded from 5G SA contracts. The newspaper reported that the decision to award...

For the first time, Verizon gave the keynote address at E3, one of the biggest gaming expos in the world Advanced technologies like 5G and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) are making it possible to take graphic-heavy AAA games and online multiplayer games on the go,...

Telenor Norway and Ericsson have entered into a joint innovation cooperation to create new 5G-powered opportunities in areas such as entertainment, autonomous transport, smart factories and remote healthcare. “5G is more than a new network, it is a bridge into the future. 5G will have...

As networks become increasingly complex and costly to operate, communications service providers (CSPs) around the world are looking for ways to efficiently manage their networks. Automation harnessing the power of Artificial intelligence (AI) is a clear choice. But scalability and flexibility of solutions remain...

Household appliances and electronics manufacturer Arçelik Global, owners of the Beko and Grundig brands, is to deploy the first private celluar network in Turkey, as an LTE-based setup with a 5G-upgrade option. It has engaged with Nokia and Türk Telekom on the project to...

Samsung will provide 5G equipment for 2,500 rural sites in the south-west of England and Wales Samsung has made significant headway in the European telecommunications market with its new Vodafone partnership, its first large-scale deal with a European operator. The British carrier selected the vendor...

UK-based carrier Vodafone has selected Dell, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Wind River, Capgemini Engineering and Keysight Technologies to jointly deliver the first commercial deployment of Open Radio Access Network (RAN) in Europe. Vodafone said its initial focus will be on the 2,500 sites in the U.K....

Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has recently announced that its commercial 5G virtualized RAN (vRAN) now supports its latest C-Band Massive MIMO radios. In a release, the company also said it achieved a 5G vRAN speed exceeding 1.5 Gbps on C-Band spectrum. With these results –...

In 2021, positive forecasts of the Open RAN market start gaining ground in the industry. It is predicted that the total RAN market will reach 10% by 2025 compared to less than 1% today. Undoubtedly, Open RAN lab trials and live deployments help close...

IBM expects unprecedented 5G hypergrowth to begin around mid-decade, and the decisions made by CSPs today are critical The cloud hyperscaler dominance over legacy media companies has been making headlines lately, heightening the pressure on Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to avoid the same fate. The...

German operator Deutsche Telekom said that its 5G service based on 3.6GHz frequency is already available in around 50 cities across the country, where the telco already deployed over 1,800 antennas. Some of the cities where the telco offers 5G via 3.6GHz spectrum are Aachen,...

The number of announced 5G devices has surpassed 800 for the first time and now stands at 822 announced 5G devices, according to the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). This is an increase of 8.7% over the last month and 62% of all announced 5G...

Previously, Telenor Bulgaria had only conducted 5G trials On Thursday, Telenor Bulgaria officially launched its 5G network in more than 60 locations across the country, living up to its previous promise of getting the network up in June. The capital city of Sofia is one of...

Verizon Business CRO describes private 5G and MEC as like "peanut butter and jelly" Today Verizon Business announced its new private 5G network offering, On Site 5G, which is being marketed to large enterprises and public sector customers. When combined with related technologies like the...