BROWSING: 5G

Vodafone Idea’s 5G launch depends on use cases, demand: Report

Vodafone Idea secured midband 5G spectrum in 17 circles and millimeter-wave spectrum in 16 circles across India Indian telco Vodafone Idea said that the launch of 5G services in the country will depend on several factors such as the evolution of use cases, customer demand...

What will be the main features and potential use cases of 6G?

According to Samsung, 6G will be characterized by ultra-wideband, ultra-low latency, ultra-intelligence and ultra-spatialization, which will support "extreme" communication performance A wide range of technologies such as AI, advanced sensors, optics, cloud computing, high-speed digital, satellite and robotics will undergo rapid advancement in the next...

Telco trends around cloudificaton and edge move market to Zayo

Zayo CEO sees edge as requiring data center capacity, networking and other service support Multiple mega-trends impacting how telecommunications operators strategically evolve their own businesses while delivering solutions for the digital transformation of their customers depend on access to fiber optic infrastructure. Whether that’s network...

Samsung headlines five private 5G gigs in South Korea as part of Industry 4.0 ramp-up

South Korean tech firm Samsung has announced a tranche of new private 5G deployments in its home country, including with three public sector agencies and two private sector hospitals. All the deployments utilise the newly-liberated 4.7 GHz and 28 GHz bands in South Korea,...

AT&T and Nokia deploy private LTE network at APM Terminals port in Yucatán, Mexico

AT&T in Mexico has installed a private LTE network from Finnish vendor Nokia at the APM Terminals port in Puerto Progreso, in the Yucatán in Mexico. The pair are billing the new LTE installation as “industrial grade”. It uses Nokia’s Digital Automaton Cloud (DAC)...

The question is always the same: ‘Can we trust you?’ – NTT on its big-ticket 5G wins

NTT is making waves in the private 5G market right now; deals with BMW on a test installation at its production site in Dingolfing in Germany and with local airport operator Fraport on a major commercial engagement at Frankfurt Airport (which followed a parallel...

Virgin Media O2 activates first commercial O-RAN sites

Virgin Media O2's O-RAN deployment is initially taking place in the Northamptonshire region U.K. telco Virgin Media O2, NEC and Rakuten Symphony have announced that their joint multi-vendor Open RAN deployment is entering the field phase, starting with the activation of the first live sites...

Bharti Airtel set to launch 5G in October: Report

Airtel will start the deployment of 5G in large cities and will gradually deploy the technology across India Indian operator Bharti Airtel expects to launch 5G services in the domestic market in October, local press reported. “5G has started to take root in western world …...

M1 to provide 5G SA offshore coverage in Singapore

M1 had launched 5G SA services in Singapore in July 2021 Singaporean carrier M1 Limited (M1) said it will carry out a multi-year project that aims to provide ubiquitous 5G Standalone (SA) offshore coverage for the southern coast of Singapore, including the surrounding waters of...

AT&T on bridging the digital divide: Access, affordability, adoption

AT&T commitment to fiber deployment prompts major manufacturing investment by Corning AT&T is working to deploy fiber at a massive scale with plans to cover 30 million locations by 2025. Fiber manufacturer Corning, based on a commitment from AT&T, today announced it will open a...

Private 5G rocks, says private 5G provider – with bigger savings, returns than Wi-Fi 6

More research from a private cellular network provider into the business value of private cellular networks says… private cellular networks rock, compared to enterprise Wi-Fi. Well, of course they do – the findings echo previous total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) calculations, from Nokia and others (and they...

What will the coexistence between 5G and 6G be like?

The Next G Alliance believes that 6G and 5G will coexist for a long period of time, as future 6G systems will be an evolution of 5G and not a replacement technology It’s widely accepted by the industry that once 6G systems emerge near 2030,...

Reliance Jio plans $25B Indian 5G buildout

The company is also working with Google on an “ultra-affordable” 5G handset, said its chairman  With its 5G spectrum auction behind it, the government of India is putting the pressure on regional Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to quickly spin up 5G service for Indian consumers...

ZTE’s H1 revenues up 12.7% year-on-year

ZTE's profits for the period were up 12% year-on-year Chinese vendor ZTE reported operating revenues of CNY 59.82 billion ($8.65 billion) in the first half of the year, up 12.7% compared to the same period last year. In its earnings statement, the Chinese company said that...

Deutsche Telekom expands 5G, LTE network infrastructure

Deutsche Telekom said it expected 99% of households in Germany will access the carrier’s 5G network by 2025 German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it has expanded its mobile services at 1,104 locations nationwide in the past five weeks, while it added 5G capacity at 72...

Microsoft applying cloud security principles to Open RAN networks

In disaggregated 5G networks, “the attack surface area has increased dramatically,” Microsoft Azure for Operators CTO writes In its purest form, 5G is described as “cloud-native,” meaning that network workloads traditionally performed in purpose-built boxes are now run as software instances in centralized and decentralized...

Qualcomm CFO: ‘Everything is trying to connect to the cloud’

Qualcomm is looking to leverage growth of cloud to expand reach of connectivity, processing and AI portfolios Since CEO Cristiano Amon took the helm at Qualcomm, the company--traditionally associated with smartphone technologies--is expanding its focus in an effort to grow total addressable market to $700...

Ericsson, China Mobile to use 5G for natural disaster management

Ericsson and China Mobile combined their respective emergency communication practices, digital twin use cases and network slicing technologies Ericsson has signed a partnership with China Mobile Zhejiang and other partners to deploy 5G technology for public-safety-focused natural disaster management in China. In a release, the Swedish...

Indian carriers to launch 5G services on October 12: Report

The government said it expected that 5G technology will reach every part of India in the next two to three years India’s telecommunications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw confirmed that local mobile operators are expected to launch 5G services on October 12, according to local press reports. "We...

The top 10 industry sectors for private 5G

A California-based research firm, called TECHnalysis Research, has polled 400 US-based organisations either using or interested in using private cellular networks, and come up with a handy (regional-anecdotal) snapshot of the state of the market, with some decent figures to consider. Among them, it...

Nokia reportedly in talks with Adani to deploy 5G private networks

Adani Data Networks had secured 400 megahertz of spectrum in the 26 GHz band   Finnish vendor Nokia is in talks with Indian company Adani Data Networks to deploy private 5G using the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band, Indian newspaper The Economic Times reported, citing a...

Dell highlights telco and edge customer wins in Q2 earnings report

Dell Technologies is supporting T-Mobile US and Dish 5G efforts Dell Technologies has been tracking the move of data creation and processing out of centralized data centers and to the various edges, and adapting its products and services to address this market shift for some...

How will Open RAN inform the development of 6G?

The Open RAN RIC will bring CI/CD processes to telecom Although 5G still has a long tail of innovation left as it advanced to 5G Advanced with Release 18, there’s already material work happening focused on framing what its predecessor, 6G, will look like. One...