BROWSING: 5G

5G reached 58.12% of Spanish population at mid-2022

The report noted that this 5G coverage was reached by Spanish mobile operators using spectrum in the 3.5 GHz and 700 MHz bands Spain ended the first half of 2022 with a 5G coverage of 58.12%, according to a report by the country’s Ministry of...

BSNL already offering 4G in limited areas across India: Report

BSNL expects to cover all telecom circles in India with its 4G services by the end of March 2024 Indian state-owned telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) has already launched 4G services in a few locations across India and expects to expand its 4G footprint...

Vodafone Idea equips Indian factory with private LTE network

Vodafone Idea noted that the private LTE PoC is based on technology from Nokia Indian telco Vodafone Idea Limited and L&T Smart World & Communication (SWC) have inked a partnerhsip to establish a use case of private LTE enterprise network in India. Under the terms of...

Digital Catapult, Ofcom unveil O-RAN testing facilities in the UK

So far, 15 vendors and 36 O-RAN products have collaborated with SONIC Labs U.K. digital accelerator Digital Catapult, working with telecommunications regulator Ofcom, has announced the opening of its new Open RAN (O-RAN) testing facilities as part of the SONIC Labs program. SONIC Labs is...

Nokia to enable transport network slicing for DoCoMo’s 5G network

Nokia said that Docomo deployed the vendor's 7750 SR-14s core routers as part of this project Finnish vendor Nokia announced it will enhance Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo’s nationwide IP core backbone and enable transport network slicing as it rolls out new 5G mobile services. Nokia noted...

LitePoint: 5G at an ‘inflection point’

LitePoint's Adam Smith on observations of trends at MWC While anticipation for the shiny new 5G tech on the block was the driving theme for the previous several years of Mobile World Congress Barcelona shows, this year there was a shift, arguably one with...

Cisco works with Indian telcos to boost 5G private networks: Report

Cisco said that the initial use cases and trials are starting to emerge in India Cisco is working with telecom operators in India for the monetization of 5G use cases, primarily private 5G as a service model, local newspaper The Economic Times reported, citing Anand...

China ends 2022 with 1.84 billion cellular IoT connections: GSMA

The GSMA report also forecasts that licensed cellular IoT connections in China will reach 3.6 billion by 2030 China ended 2022 with 1.84 billion cellular IoT connections in 2022, a GSMA report showed, citing figures from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). According to...

Editorial Webinar: Blueprint for the 5G-Connected Intelligent World

With global 5G deployments accelerating, industries from healthcare to manufacturing to mining are in midst of a digital metamorphosis. They are all trying to compete and innovate through the usage of wireless 5G, and of other disruptive technologies like AI, Cloud, and IoT. The...

China to reach 1 billion 5G subscribers by 2025: GSMA

GSMA said that the number of 5G base stations in China exceeded 2.3 million at the end of 2022 China is forecasted to reach 1 billion 5G subscribers by 2025, while the number of 5G users by 2030 is expected to reach 1.6 billion, according...

Bharti Airtel reaches 500 cities with 5G, launches 5G in Kolkata

Last week, Bharti Airtel announced the launch of unlimited 5G data for its customers with the aim of encouraging them migrate to 5G services India’s largest telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel said its 5G service is available to customers in 500 cities in the country after...

Terago deploys 5G private network for Industry 4.0 R&D in Canada

Terago said this 5G private network will allow researchers to test and develop new advanced manufacturing technologies Canadian provider Terago says it has have deployed Canada's first 5G mmWave private network dedicated to Industry 4.0 research in McMaster's new Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) in Hamilton,...

What $140bn of network gets you – AT&T proclaims five-year milestones

AT&T has marked five years of network building in the US with a press note about what $140 billion of infrastructure investment gets you – in terms of best-of awards for coverage, reliability, and support for emergency services, and how higher-performance fiber and cellular...

Airtel aims to cover all urban areas of India with 5G in September

Bharti Airtel said it will reach 4,000 cities across India with 5G by June Indian operator Bharti Airtel aims to cover all urban areas across India with its 5G by September 2023, ahead of its earlier target of March 2024, local newspaper The Economic Times...

5G FWA subscriptions to reach 72 million by 2027: ABI Research

ABI Research also highlighted that North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific regions are driving 5G FWA deployments 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) subscriptions are forecast to reach 72 million by 2027, representing 35% of the total FWA market, according to a recent report by...

China Mobile to reduce 5G capex in 2023

China Mobile ended February with 639.1 million 5G package subscribers after the telco added a total of 16.6 million 5G subscribers during the month China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, will reduce its 5G capex this year, according to its...

In the move to sustainable 5G, operators should focus on QoE

Traditional network KPIs need to be realigned as the importance of sustainable 5G becomes top of mind From the advent of cellular networks until present, the majority of operators have focused investment and analysis on network key performance indicators (KPIs) that speak to the ability...

Far EasTone to decommission 5,000 Asia Pacific Telecom base stations: Report

Far EasTone Telecommunications had announced it would merge with Asia Pacific Telecom in a stock-swap deal last year Taiwanese operator Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) said it is seeking to axe at least 5,000 base stations currently operated by Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) to avoid coverage...

Jio already deployed 50,000 5G base stations in India: report

Reliance Jio had started to deploy its 5G standalone (SA) network in October 2022 Indian operator Reliance Jio has already deployed 50,000 base stations and 300,000 cells to support its 5G service, local paper The Economic Times reported, citing the carrier’s CTO Shyam Mardikar. “We want...

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: Interactivity test for new 5G use cases

5G is more than just higher data rates. The main advantage lies in the scalability of the network slices to support different critical applications. These network slices can be tuned for extremely short latencies, especially for reliable connections and peak transport rates. Learn how...

Yes, vRAN and O-RAN are coming, just more slowly than we thought (Analyst Angle)

Watching the evolution of telco carrier RAN networks feels like viewing a sports replay in slow motion. It’s interesting to see, and there are often angles and perspectives that crop up that aren’t immediately apparent. In the end, however, you still know where things...

Enabling the metaverse with a device-edge-cloud continuum

No single company, network or technology can build the metaverse. Instead, the industry will have to tap into every available foundational technology across the ecosystem, from the very edge of the network all the way to the devices themselves. 5G and Wi-Fi, high-powered cameras...

Unlocking the upper mid-band on the path to 6G

Qualcomm focusing R&D efforts on Giga-MIMO to support future spectrum deployments The early vision of 5G, which has come to life based on global operator-led deployments, involved a mix of low-, mid- and high-band frequencies to strike the right balance between coverage and capacity. Looking...

5G Advanced and the path to 6G

Qualcomm SVP of Engineering talks 5G, AI and IoT at Mobile World Congress 2023 In addition to its long-standing leadership in smartphone and other mobile devices, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a driving force in the research and standards work that has defined 5G New Radio, 5G...