BROWSING: 5G

Ericsson launches energy-efficient, triple-band 5G radio

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...

How to ensure 5G will pay off from day one (Reader Forum)

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...

Carriers add nearly 70 million 5G subs globally in Q2: Ericsson

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 to acquire Parallel Infrastructure

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...

American Tower sees US carriers ‘building through’ economic downturn

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...

Only industry collaboration can unlock the true potential of 5G O-RAN (Reader Forum)

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...

IoT gateway market to jump 20% per year with cellular sunsetting, industrial demand

Snap IoT analysis just in from ABI Research; the US-headquartered firm has run the rule over the post-coronavirus market for IoT gateways and concluded, because of industrial IoT takeup among other factors, that total global revenues from the sale of IoT gateways will jump...

Verizon, American Tower sign long-term lease deal to support 5G rollout

Verizon and American Tower Corporation have announced a long-term lease agreement designed to support the carrier’s 5G network deployment across the tower company’s U.S. communications sites. According to the pair, the deal will “provide a simplified and efficient leasing process through a contractual framework...

Sequans set for ‘big’ China debut – via licensing deal with unnamed partner

IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications has gained entry to the Chinese market, via an unnamed partner—and it expects the results to be very, very big. The firm announced that it has struck a five-year strategic licensing deal that gives the Chinese partner...

Nokia launches industrial-grade 5G field router in Japan

Nokia said that the new offering will chiefly benefit ports, manufacturers, energy, transportation, warehousing and logistics companies Finnish vendor Nokia announced it is extending its industrial portfolio of ruggedized devices with the launch of an industrial 5G fieldrouter certified for the Japanese market. In a release,...

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...