BROWSING: 5G

How investment in 5G will play out in government, education — Part 1 (Reader Forum)

Three sectors are perfectly primed for expanded investment in 5G: government, education and manufacturing Today's enterprises are increasingly distributed and dynamic, with the need to connect remote workers, branch offices and mobile assets — and turn the data from billions of endpoints into actionable business...

How will sidelink bring a new level of 5G versatility?

As the journey toward intelligently connecting virtually everyone and everything to the cloud continues, the need to create innovative wireless technologies that enable high-performance connectivity is paramount. Current 5G systems operate primarily on a network-to-device communication model, on which all data transmissions flow between the...

AT&T’s Stankey talks inflation, fiber and market position

Inflationary pressures continue to affect AT&T's business, but the company is seeing strong wireless growth and CEO John Stankey said that there is no single factor enabling this, but instead a multitude of them, from its FirstNet contract to its focus on fiber. Stankey...

Amdocs unveils 5G-native charging platform

The new convergent charging solution combines Amdocs and Openet expertise, said the company This week, Amdocs unveiled Amdocs Charging, a new charging solution that the company says will help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) get a faster return on their 5G investments. The company says the new...

Ericsson, AERPAW test 5G drone tech for smart agriculture

Ericsson and AERPAW used 5G drone technology to monitor a field of cattle for information on grazing patterns Ericsson today announced a collaboration with Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW), funded by the National Science Foundation and a consortium of industry partners,...

Verizon aims to deploy over 20,000 vRAN cell sites by end-2025

Verizon also highlighted that it is beginning to deploy 100 megahertz of C-band spectrum in many markets across the U.S. Verizon said it has already deployed over 8,000 virtualized RAN (vRAN) cell sites with a goal of deploying over 20,000 by the end of 2025,...

NTT DoCoMo taps Nokia for RF planning

Nokia said that the AI RF capacity planning solution is part of Nokia’s AVA software offering Nokia announced that it has deployed its artificial intelligence (AI) radio frequency (RF) capacity planning software for Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo with the aim of improving the efficiency of...

Zero1 launches 5G MVNO in Singapore

The operator launched 5G via a MVNO agreement with local carrier Singtel Singaporean firm Zero1 has become the first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to offer 5G services in the country. Zero1 on launched 5G services to its customers on September 9 and says that it...

DT replaces Huawei with Mavenir for its 5G core

The partnership 'creates the foundation for 5G SA,' says Mavenir CEO In response to pressure from the U.S., Deutsche Telekom (DT) has, like many other European operators, been working to replace Huawei equipment within its 5G network, and this week, finally revealed that relatively new...

Why partner ecosystems are key for monetizing 5G — and how operators can build them (Reader Forum)

Many hands make light work. It is an old saying that takes on significant new meaning for mobile operators looking for new markets to recoup their multi-billion-dollar investments in infrastructure and 5G spectrum. That will not be easy. In its first two years of commercial...

‘Start of an IoT mega-cycle’ – Silicon Labs talks Matter, Amazon Sidewalk, Wi-SUN

As US IoT chipmaker Silicon Labs opens the (virtual) doors to its third Works With event (September 12-14), and readies a rush of new product releases (coverage incoming), Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ross Sabolcik, the firm’s general manager for industrial and commercial,...

AT&T, Lockheed Martin demo high-speed data transfer using private 5G

The pair transferred Black Hawk data to the 5G.MIL pilot network using AT&T's 5G private network AT&T partnered with Lockheed Martin to test helicopter data transfer at the aerospace and defense company’s headquarters in Stratford, Connecticut. The companies transferred data from a Sikorsky UH-60M Black...

Actility, Milesight partner to facilitate LoRaWAN deployments

Actility noted that Milesight LoRaWAN gateways are ideal for interconnecting and relaying messages between various sensors and the network server efficiently and reliably   Chinese IoT solutions provider Milesight has signed a strategic partnership with French firm Actility, a provider of IoT connectivity solutions, with the...

Verizon, Newlab reveal results of 2022 5G Studio testbed

The 5G Studio was launched by Verizon and Newlab in 2020 Verizon and Newlab have announced the results of the fourth cohort of startups in the 5G Studio. The 5G Studio was launched by Verizon’s new business incubation team and Newlab in 2020. The studio supports...

Verizon Consumer CEO on 5G mobility and home broadband: ‘We need to double down’ 

Verizon sees 5G fixed wireless access starting with market education and awareness Speaking last week at the Bank of America Securities Conference, Verizon EVP and Consumer Group CEO Manon Brouillette discussed how changing consumer and economic dynamics are shifting the traditional logic of subscriber acquisition...

5G shakes up RAN architecture and demands more from technicians

5G calls for fundamental changes in network architecture and technician knowledge, as well as the deployment of fiber deeper into the network. To make sure those changes are successful and 5G transformations are done right the first time, operators and contractors need to revamp...

Neutral host networks to revolutionize indoor cellular, says Celona (Reader Forum)

A long-time pain for many businesses has been dealing with poor indoor cellular coverage. Fortunately, recent advances in cellular technology have given rise to a more modern approach to improving in-building cellular coverage. The emergence of new shared cellular spectrum options, such as Citizen’s Band...

Canadian telcos ink deal to guarantee network reliability

The government also announced additional steps to improve the reliability of telecommunications networks in Canada Canadian mobile operators have reached a formal agreement to ensure and guarantee emergency roaming and other mutual assistance in the case of a major outage, the government said in a...

Singtel, Intel to establish 5G MEC incubator to boost 5G adoption

The Asian telco noted that the new 5G incubator will be powered by Intel’s 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors   Singaporean operator Singtel announced its collaboration with Intel to establish a 5G Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) incubator to boost the adoption of 5G in the enterprise...

Nokia, Telia launch 5G SA network with network slicing for FWA

Nokia said it will upgrade Telia’s entire 5G radio access network infrastructure to enable 5G slicing Finnish vendor Nokia and Telia Finland have launched what it claims to be the world’s first commercial 5G standalone (SA) network with network slicing for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)...

‘It’s about scale’: Ericsson on what makes gaming a killer 5G use case

In a recent report, Ericsson concluded that cloud gaming is expected to reach 99 million North American 5G subscribers over the next decade A few weeks ago, Ericsson’s strategy consulting arm inCode published a 5G cloud gaming report in which it concluded that cloud gaming is...

Hyundai Motor, KT boost partnership on future mobility tech

Hyundai Motor and KT plan to form and operate a committee to promote future new projects and advanced research Korean car maker Hyundai Motor Group said it will expand its strategic partnership with compatriot telecom operator KT Corporation (KT) to further collaborate in the future...

T‑Mobile US expands 5G internet service to six Northeastern states

More than nine million additional homes now have the option to subscribe to the T-Mobile US 5G Home Internet service When T-Mobile US launched its 5G Home Internet service a little more than a year ago, it did so with a “5G for all”...

Bharti Airtel to cover key Indian cities with 5G by the end of this year

Bharti Airtel aims to reach all urban regions in India with 5G coverage by the end of 2023 Indian operator Bharti Airtel expects to cover large Indian cities with its 5G network by the end of the year, the telco’s CEO Gopal Vittal said in...