BROWSING: 5G

NEC and Mavenir said that the technologies have been deployed at the Orange Gardens campus in Chatillon NEC and Mavenir have deployed massive MIMO (mMIMO) on Orange's 5G Standalone (SA) experimental network, the companies said in a joint release. As part of the deal, Mavenir's...

Samsung is also suppling 4G solutions to the operator's existing network in select locations to help enhance its network services Samsung Electronics and Spark New Zealand first turned on 5G in select parts of Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2021. The pair have...

In France, mobile carriers are currently providing 5G services through frequencies in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands France had a total of 35,797 authorized 5G sites as of September 1, of which 26,455 were declared technically operational by the local mobile...

Nokia has released a couple of notable upgrades to its Mission-Critical Industrial Edge (MXIE) system to afford channel partners and enterprise customers the facility to host legacy non-cloud OT workloads and contemporary third-party Industry 4.0 apps in the platform, to plug into Nokia’s private...

In May, EE said that its 5G network had already surpassed 50% population coverage in the U.K. U.K. telco EE says it has turned up 2.1 GHz frequencies on its network across 14 towns and cities to support the latest 5G smartphones. EE said in a...

Qualcomm powers Samsung, Sharp and Sony devices featuring 5G Standalone Dual Connectivity compatible with NTT DoCoMo network Japan's NTT DoCoMo in December activated a 5G Standalone (SA) network using both mmWave and mid-band frequencies. Users with compatible devices can now use 5G NR Dual Connectivity...

5G networks are setting a generation of improvements in motion for both consumers and businesses with a wide range of new use cases from gaming and the metaverse, to driverless cars, robotics and Industry 4.0. Customers are demanding a lot: ultra-low latency, dynamic bandwidth, intelligent...

Russian press reports indicated that some managers were relocated to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Chinese vendor Huawei decided to relocate part of its staff from Russia to central Asia amid fears of potential sanctions from the United States, according to Russian press reports. Huawei began relocating Chinese...

Taiwan-based mobile operator Chunghwa Telecom is to deploy an outdoor 5G-based open RAN private network in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, according to a report on local news site DigiTimes. Chunghwa Telecom said the new private 5G network will operate in the 4.4-5 GHz frequency band....

Luxembourg-based 5G IoT satellite operator OQ Technology has secured €13 million ($12.9 million) of new investment in a Series A funding round to develop its own tech solutions, acquire more spectrum, and expand its satellite constellation, the company has said. The funding round was...

Ian Wong, director of RF and wireless architecture at Viavi Solutions, said that future 6G systems should focus more on delivering new applications rather than just increasing the capacity for services already enabled by 4G and 5G Although 5G is still very much a...

Celona has introduced a new device certification scheme to reassure customers that certain user equipment will work without a hitch on its local-area (LAN) private LTE and 5G systems. The scheme is for “cellular-native private wireless devices”, it said; it is the first of...

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) face common evolutionary challenges on the path from LTE to 5G and long after, like how to implement widespread coverage while managing unpredictable demand, and how to monetize the considerable investment they’ve already made and will continue to make in...

Vodafone is looking to offer enhanced satellite positioning to locate IoT devices and autonomous vehicles within centimetres, rather than with standard metre-range accuracy, as with straight GNSS services. It is working with US-based GNSS system developer Topcon Positioning Group to test the new service...

Some time back – actually months back, ahead of Hannover Messe 2022 – Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Sven Hamann, chief executive at Bosch Connected Industry to discuss the interplay between 5G connectivity, IoT sensing, and AI analytics as a developing Industry 4.0...

Research groups have already begun discussions on 6G use cases and necessary technologies Although 5G is still very much a work-in-progress with a good deal of continued evolution ahead of it, a range of stakeholders are already discussing and testing components and systems that very...

The city of Dar es Salaam will receive the first 5G sites, with coverage expanding to 230 locations across the country later this year Vodacom Tanzania, part of Vodafone Group, has launched the first 5G mobile network in Tanzania. The city of Dar es Salaam...

Telstra has also deployed the Ericsson Local Packet Gateway in Telstra’s commercial 5G network Australian telco Telstra and Ericsson have deployed an automated standards-based network slicing service orchestration capability in Telstra’s commercial network using Ericsson Orchestration and Ericsson Inventory solutions. In a release, the Swedish vendor...

Ericsson says Radio 6646 is capable of doing the job of nine radios, while cutting energy consumption by 40% Ericsson has launched the Radio 6646, a new triple-band, tri-sector radio that the company claimed is capable of doing the job of nine radios, all while...

After all the time and money that goes into deploying a new 5G network, network operators need to know that their investment will pay off quickly. Once the network has been deployed and turned up, the prospect of ‘rip and replace’ to add features or...

According to Ericsson, the number of 5G subscribers at a global level reached 690 million as of the end of Q2 Nearly 70 million new 5G subscriptions were added globally during the second quarter of 2022, the latest update to the Ericsson Mobility Report reveals. The...

Harmoni Towers said that the combined company will own and operate towers across 41 states in the U.S. Harmoni Towers, which is owned by investment company Palistar Capital, announced that it has agreed to acquire Parallel Infrastructure from funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global...

Verizon this week entered into new long-term lease agreement with American Tower American Tower Corporation's U.S. Division has long-term facilities leasing deals with all four U.S. carriers with Verizon this week entering into a new arrangement to support its ongoing 5G deployment. Speaking earlier...

Rome wasn’t built in a day. The same can be said of cloud-native, AI-optimized 5G open radio access networks (O-RANs), which are fundamentally different from any previous mobile generation. They are not just evolutionary, but a step change in how radio networks are designed...