BROWSING: 5G

Bharti Airtel will cover all towns in urban regions as well as key rural areas in India by March 2024 Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel is currently testing 5G Standalone (SA) technology with the aim of using it to cover certain uses cases for enterprises,...

In France, mobile carriers are currently providing 5G services through spectrum in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands France had a total of 36,868 authorized 5G sites as of October 1, of which 27,854 were declared technically operational by local carriers, according...

Deutsche Telekom said that the semi-automation with the help of 5G technology should increase the capacity of the cranes   German carrier Deutsche Telekom announced the start of the construction of a 5G field test at the port of Duisburg. The telco explained that the initiative stipulates...

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...

The C-band auctions raised a staggering $81.17 billion in 2021 On the back of two important product releases — the ADXV DAS C-band solution and the SDRX C-band repeater — Advanced RF Technologies’ Chief Operating Officer Arnold Kim caught up with RCR Wireless News to...

Partnership is continuing with Drei Austria and ZTE commercializing 5G Standalone Internationally-recognized mobile network performance benchmarking firm Ookla has recognized Hutchinson Drei Austria as having the fastest 5G network in the country for three consecutive quarters. In the latest period, Ookla speedtests found that the...

Okay, so not a new use case, as such; it is just another connectivity-in-manufacturing case. But still, it is process manufacturing… at a giant paper mill! Swedish pulp and paperboard company Holmen Iggesund has commissioned local system integrator Combitech to deploy a private 5G...

Virgin Media O2 launched services in June 2021 as a JV between Liberty Global and Telefónica in the U.K U.K. operator Virgin Media O2’s 5G network reached 800 towns and cities across the country as of the end of the third quarter of the year,...

Israeli private cellular security startup OneLayer has opened a network security lab in Tel Aviv for telecoms and security companies to test threats to private LTE and 5G networks, currently rolling out in enterprises across the globe. The firm has invited solution providers to...

ABI Research highlighted that the U.S. is currently driving the number of 5G FWA connections with major carriers aggressively expanding their FWA business 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology will reach 58 million subscriptions globally in 2026, according to ABI Research. The analyst firm noted that...

We are still discovering how 5G will transform our lives. With unprecedented speeds and decreased latency, society will benefit from innovative connected experiences, the Internet of things, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. While many have the luxury of reacting to 5G, communications service providers (CSPs)...

US system integrator Kyndryl has published a nice-looking blog post, complete with videos, on its headline work, announced at the start of the year, to deploy private LTE for Michigan-headquartered Dow Chemical Company, manufacturer of plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. The post puts focus...

Testing looks at "high C-Band" transmissions in the upper portion of the band Concerns over potential interference between legacy radar altimeters in aircraft and new terrestrial 5G deployments in the C-Band spectrum sparked several federal testing and evaluation efforts. Amid the open question of whether...

Last month, Bharti Airtel had launched 5G services in eight Indian cities Indian operator Bharti Airtel announced that it has already reached 1 million unique 5G subscribers in less than 30 days since it had commercially launched this technology in certain areas of the country. Last...

Vodafone said that its 5G Standalone network is currently available to nearly 20 million people across Germany Vodafone Germany said its 5G network is already providing coverage to 60 million people across the country. In a release, the telco said it has already deployed a total...

Unlocking the path to autonomous networks Rakuten Symphony offers a new yet proven approach to automated, end-to-end service assurance. It gives operators a way to reduce today’s operational costs, and also a future-proof solution able to support the journey from today’s 2G/3G/4G mobile and fixed...

According to JCMR, 5G FWA was valued at $296 million in 2021 In a new report, JCMR market research concluded that global 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) rеvеnuе will rеасh а vаluе оf UЅ$ 21,710 billion іn 2029. FWA, which is emerging as a primary...

Nedaa’s network already utilizes Nokia's infrastructure and can support many of the requirements for mission-critical networks   Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nedaa, the security network provider of the Dubai government. In a release, Nokia said that the...

Telefónica said it expects to cover the country’s overall population with 5G by the end of 2025 German telecom operator Telefónica Deutschland/O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said its 5G network is operating over 18,000 antennas in the country. The telco said that this network infrastructure...

It has been a few years since I last discussed how 3GPP contribution counting is a flawed practice and why it should not be used to evaluate a company’s leadership in technology innovations. The key point is that 3GPP specifications are not based on the direct acceptance...

New millimeter-wave 5G devices and chipsets have made significant progress in power use and compared to earlier iterations, according to new benchmark testing by Signals Research Group. SRG looked at the devices' electrical current drain in relationship to bandwidth consumption for both uplink and...

Huawei said that this technology will deliver home broadband speeds of 10 Gbit/s What Huawei is calling "Ultra-Broadband 5.5G" is expected to radically transform areas like smart homes, smart campuses and industrial internet by 2030, according to David Wang, Huawei's executive director of the board...

AI, ML and cloud computing will be the focus of the new facility, which the federal government is helping to fund Test and monitoring solutions maker EXFO announced Monday that it has received CAD$15.9 million from the federal government of Canada to advanced 5G telecommunications in the...

Bharti Airtel will deploy Aviat's all outdoor WTM 4800 E-Band and Multi-Band solutions Indian carrier Bharti Airtel has inked a commercial contract with Austin-based company Aviat Networks under which the latter will supply its wireless multiband radios. As part of the contract, Airtel will deploy...