BROWSING: 5G

Verizon is launching a blitz of advertising and deals aimed at getting consumers and small businesses to upgrade to 5G devices and plans. Touting 5G mmWave coverage in parts of 75 cities, 13 airports and dozens of venues plus Dynamic Spectrum Sharing-based 5G availability...

Swedish vendor Ericsson has introduced a new plug-and-play style private 4G and 5G product for manufacturing, mining, and energy companies, alongside the ports, airports, and other industrial sectors. The solution for cloud-based private cellular management looks to simplify telecoms for industry and industry for...

Finnish telecoms vendor Nokia has partnered with Norway-based system integrator NetNordic to strike an eight-year supply deal with energy company Equinor to deploy private 4G and 5G networks across its global oil, gas, and wind production plants. Equinor is to manage the installations. There...

Suntory Beverage & Food, the soft drinks division of Japanese drinks company Suntory, has recruited Hitachi to deploy its Lumada-branded IoT platform and IoT analytics applications at its newly opened water plant in Omachi, in the Nagano Prefecture in Japan. Separately, HItachi has announced...

South Korea ended April with a total of 15.15 million 5G subscribers, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT. 5G subscribers at the end of April accounted for 21.25% of the total 71.27 million mobile subscriptions in the...

Accedian's Chief Strategy Officer: 'There is immense opportunity in 5G, the cloud and edge, for both customers and service providers' RCR Wireless News spoke with Accedian’s Chief Strategy Officer Richard Piasentin about what service providers need to do to ensure that they are well-positioned to...

By all accounts, 5G is off to a great start in 2021. Adoption has accelerated four times faster than previous LTE technology, resulting in 229 million 5G subscriptions worldwide as of December 2020. Yet even as users embrace the promise of 5G, the increasing...

This week, I'm joined by Dominique Lazanski, a consultant who deals mostly in international Internet governance and cybersecurity policy. Dominique talks about China's push to create a less centralized global internet based on native products that reflect China’s policy agenda, and critically, where 5G...

Verizon has turned on 5G mmWave coverage in Niagara Falls, the Jersey Shore and Ocean City Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, Verizon announced that its 5G Ultra Wideband service, the carrier’s millimeter wave (mmWave) network, is now available at popular tourists destinations including...

Private networking firm Anterix, holder of the largest share of 900 MHz spectrum in the US, has signed twin deals with Nokia and Motorola Solutions to combine its ‘beach-front’ spectrum with their different private LTE radio and core networking offerings for US utilities. It said...

Canadian operator Bell Mobility announced the expansion of its 5G network to 23 new markets across Québec, Ontario and Manitoba. Bell 5G's reach has expanded in Manitoba (St. Andrews and Stonewall), Ontario (Barrie, Burlington, Clarington, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, McNab/Braeside, Moravian, Pickering and Waterloo)...

Finnish pair Edzcom and Signal Partners have signed a deal to combine private LTE and 5G networks and industrial LTE and 5G devices for customers in Europe. Their plan is to cater to the “growing digitalization and automation needs of heavy industry”, they said....

Is 2021 the year of the highly anticipated device "supercycle", when consumers upgrade their devices in large numbers in order to get access to 5G? T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert has said that for Apple devices, it's already here. Both Gartner and more recently,...

Nokia and Belgian operator Proximus turned on what it claims to be the world’s fastest fiber access network in Antwerp, Belgium. Operating over existing fiber and Nokia equipment deployed in the Proximus network, the first 25G PON live network connects the Havenhuis building in the...

Vodafone Germany said its 5G network is now available to more than 25 million people across the country. In a release, the telco said it plans to continue to expand the mobile network through more than 7,000 construction projects, including 3,000 5G projects to activate...

The 5G solutions developed by Ericsson and Leonardo will support more advanced use cases and mission-critical services Ericsson is sharing R&D capabilities and cyber security, 5G and service evolution competences with global technology company Leonardo to improve operations and security in public safety and industrial...

  U.S. wireless infrastructure provider Mobilitie has inked a deal with global event producer ASM Global as sports and entertainment venues worldwide begin to return to live events at full capacities. ?ASM Global creates memorable live events every night worldwide and we are committed to providing...

Hub One, the digital tech subsidiary of ADP (Aéroports de Paris), has appointed Italy-based network software provider Athonet to provide an LTE core across three airports in Paris. The new deployment will share existing radio access network (RAN) infrastructure from Ericsson at the sites...

  South Korean telecom operator KT has signed an agreement with the country’s top science and technology university to establish a research institute for artificial intelligence (AI) and software development, local news agency Yonhap reported. Under the terms of the agreement, KT will cooperate with the...

Ericsson said that the decision by the Post and Telecommunication Authority (PTS) to exclude Chinese vendors’ products from 5G network rollouts in Sweden may negatively impact the company’s business in the Chinese market. In a financial filing, the Swedish company noted that the “ongoing geopolitical...

Movandi installed a 5G mmWave repeater inside a car that drove around high-density service areas in San Jose Earlier this week, Movandi announced a successful demonstration of 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) repeaters inside a moving vehicle, advancing vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications for the next generation of...

Deutsche Telekom told Private Networks Forum yesterday that its role is not to dictate to enterprises about spectrum and technology, but to support every variation of these, and steer enterprises along the way. Decisions about new digital-change tech should be guided by use cases,...

The projections for a robust retail segment this year are good. The National Retail Federation is forecasting retail sales in the U.S. could grow anywhere between 6.5 percent and 8.2 percent this year; and 50 million square feet of new retail space is anticipated...

The telecoms sector has come in for a pasting in these pages recently as the industrial set have laid into it about its approach to industrial 5G. The argument goes that traditional operators and vendors are trying to solve industrial challenges with telecoms solutions,...