BROWSING: 5G

ZTE reports slight revenue growth in H1 2023

ZTE said its net profits in H1 climbed 19.9% year-on-year Chinese vendor ZTE announced total revenues of CNY 60.70 billion ($8.32 billion) for the first half of 2023, representing an increase of 1.5% compared to the year-ago period. In its earnings statement, ZTE said its net...

Bharti Airtel completes minimum 5G rollout obligations

Airtel said its 5G services are now available in over 3,500 cities and towns across India Indian operator Bharti Airtel said the company has completed the minimum rollout obligation of launching 5G services on the 26 GHz spectrum band in all 22 telecom circles, in...

Nokia secures new 5G deal in Canada with Eastlink

Nokia noted that the first 5G site using its technology is expected to go live in August Finnish vendor Nokia and Canadian cable TV and mobile telephony operator Eastlink announced a multi-year strategic access network partnership with the aim of modernizing Eastlink’s mobile network. Under the...

Maxis launches 5G in Malaysia via network access deal with DNB

Maxis announced 5G plans for both prepaid and postpaid users Malaysian mobile operator Maxis has become the last of the country’s major carriers to launch 5G services. In a release, Maxis said that it is launching 5G for end-users via the network operated by local state-run...

Indian telco Jio reaches nationwide 5G target ahead of schedule

Jio has already deployed its 5G service in 6,258 cities across 36 states in India Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm announced that it has completed the nationwide deployment of its 5G service ahead of schedule. In a release, the telco said that it has completed its...

Optus tests Ericsson’s RedCap software to enable 5G wearables

Optus said this test paves the way for the use of 5G wereables on the telco's network Australian operator Optus, Ericsson and chipset maker MediaTek have announced what they say is Australia’s first over-the-air data-call using Ericsson’s pre-commercial Reduced Capability (RedCap) software on Optus’ 5G...

Canada lays out future spectrum plans

The government also said it will be making more 5G spectrum available in the future, including through non-competitive local licensing The government of Canada announced an outline detailing how it plans on releasing spectrum for mobile communications services between 2023 and 2027, and the spectrum...

Qualcomm and BT partner on 5G lab in UK

According to Qualcomm and BT, the lab will focus on enabling the faster deployment of 5G tech and services BT Group and Qualcomm have put together a new 5G laboratory in the U.K., located at Qualcomm Technologies' offices in Farnborough, United Kingdom. The 5G test...

Telstra, TPG won’t appeal block of asset transfer deal

The tribunal had found that this proposed agreement would provide Telstra with substantial commercial and competitive benefits Australian operators Telstra and TPG Telecom said they will not appeal the country's competition tribunal's decision to block an asset transfer deal between the two companies. In a statement,...

Verizon secures full access to C-band licenses

Verizon dominated the 2021 C Band auction, spending $45.45 billion for 3,500 licenses Verizon revealed this week that it now has access to the total amount of 5G C-band spectrum awarded at auction in March 2021, four months earlier than expected. According to the carrier, it can...

Ericsson, Telkomsel expand 4G/5G partnership in Indonesia

Telkomsel said that upgraded 4G/5G network will support its efforts in realizing the development of services for B2B and B2C segments Indonesian operator Telkomsel and Ericsson will be working together to expand and bolster their existing 4G/5G networks footprint in the Asian country. Ericsson said it...

China Mobile ends H1 with 393 million 5G subscribers

China Mobile reported a net addition of 130 million 5G subscribers during the first half of 2023 China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, ended the first half of the year with a total of 393 million 5G subscribers, up 49.7% year-on-year,...

5G FWA mmWave: A revenue game changer for telcos (Analyst Angle)

mmWave infrastructure deployments are starting to gain traction as operators increasingly recognize the technology’s high-speed data throughput and low-latency capabilities. One standout application is 5G FWA mmWave, a promising alternative to traditional fixed line broadband. Although initial drawbacks have limited mmWave deployment, advancements in...

Kagan: The FCC wants to jump-start wireless 5G TV growth

We all know how Cable TV is on the decline. It is slowly switching over to other technologies including wireless pay TV. In recent years, we have seen AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon try to deliver pay TV wirelessly. However, these early efforts have not...

New Zealand to award spectrum in the 24-30 GHz range

The government of New Zealand said that the spectrum will be available for long term use around May 2026 New Zealand's Radio Spectrum Management agency (RSM) has unveiled its high-level allocation decisions for the 24-30 GHz radio spectrum range, following a consultation process in 2021. In...

Ericsson, MediaTek showcase RedCap interoperability for 5G SA

The interoperability development testing (IoDT) took place at an Ericsson lab in Sweden Ericsson has teamed up with chipset maker MediaTek to perform 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) data and 5G voice calls on both frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) spectrum bands,...

Huawei returns to growth in H1 2023

Huawei said its net profit margin was 15% during the period, up from 5% in H1 2022 Chinese vendor Huawei recorded revenues of CNY310.9 billion ($43.1 billion) in the first half of the year, an increase of 3.1% compared to the same period the previous...

Will 5G Change The World? Will Townsend, Moor Insights & Strategy (Ep. 57)

Will Townsend, vice president and senior analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, discusses 5G hype vs. reality, the ongoing transition from Non-standalone 5G to Standalone 5G, and what T-Mobile US is doing with network slicing. Townsend also discusses his interest in how bridging the...

The unwavering promise of America’s wireless future (Reader Forum)

If the White House’s $42.5B investment in Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) signals anything, it’s this: While the 5G journey may — at the moment — appear to be slowing, our nation’s digital expansion is not. Estimations of the global market potential remain robust:...

Qualcomm claims 5G SA download record

The record was achieved using the Qualcomm Snapdragon X75 chipset Qualcomm has claimed a new record, achieving a download rate of 7.5 Gb/s in sub-6 GHz bands using a Standalone (SA) 5G network configuration, four-channel carrier aggregation (4CA) and its Snapdragon X75 chipset. The record was...

Airtel launches 5G services via 26 GHz spectrum in India

Airtel has already launched 5G services in approximately 5,000 towns and cities across India Indian operator Bharti Airtel has launched 5G services across all 22 telecom circles in the country, using frequencies in the 26 GHz band. The telco stated that this deployment adheres to the...

NEC said its 5G base station RU gets O-RAN certification

NEC said this O-RAN certification has been issued by Japan OTIC Japanese tech company NEC said it has obtained O-RAN certification from Japan's Open Testing & Integration Center (OTIC) for its 5G base station radio unit (RU). The company said that this 5G base station...

Airtel completes 5G tests using 26 GHz, 3.3 GHz bands

Bharti Airtel said the 5G tests were carried out in West Bengal region Indian telco Bharti Airtel has successfully tested 5G services and data speeds on both the 26 GHz and 3.3 GHz spectrum bands, local newspaper The Economic Times reported. The 5G tests were carried...

Korean telco KT inks private 5G deal with HFR

HFR's my5G solution is a pre-integrated private 5G system Korean ICT solutions provider HFR announced a collaboration with compatriot operator KT n to advance technology development, expand private 5G use cases and support digital transformation for small to medium-sized enterprises, local governments and public enterprises. This...