BROWSING: 5G

Rakuten Mobile is carrying out joint R&D activities with the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile announced the opening of a lab in which the telco says it utilizes all the technologies and experiences it has gained through...

Spark noted that Mavenir, AWS, Nokia and Oppo took part in the 5G SA trial New Zealand operator Spark said it has completed what it claims to be the first end-to-end 5G Standalone network trial in the country. In a release, Spark said it has created...

Vodafone Indea secured frequencies in a recent 5G auction   Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea is focusing on potential partnerships with the aim of expanding its enterprise solutions following the acquisition of 5G frequencies, local newspaper The Economic Times reported. “The 5G ecosystem is still evolving. Our...

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 well could be included in what comes next--6G. At a high-level, there's a...

As the modern-day enterprise continues growing in complexity, so too does the data used within it – both in nature and usage. This is especially true of businesses employing IoT networks. Connected devices are becoming increasingly more sophisticated in terms of their functionality and...

According to Ericsson, cloud gaming is expected to reach 99 million North American 5G subscribers over the next decade According to a new 5G cloud gaming report published by Ericsson’s strategy consulting arm inCode, cloud gaming is expected to reach 99 million North American 5G...

According to Keysight Technologies, there is great interest from governments globally to kickstart 6G research Although global deployment of 5G is making solid progress and 3GPP Releases 17 and 18 will certainly enable more advanced 5G applications and use cases in the coming years, numerous...

Network design and services firm Betacom is helping logistics company Teltech Group to deploy a private LTE/5G network to automate its 200,000 square-foot warehouse in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. The warehouse will be a “showcase for warehouse automation and Industry 4.0 IoT capabilities”,...

The DoT has recently invited applications from enterprises that are willing to set up private networks in India   Indian company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) aims to help companies and organizations across different verticals to set up their 5G private networks, Indian newspaper The Economic Times...

China Mobile recorded a net addition of 12.7 million subscribers in the 5G segment last month Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 23.4 million 5G subscribers in July, according to the carriers’ latest available figures. China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers,...

Singtel had acquired Trustwave in 2015 in a transaction valued at $810 million Singaporean telecom operator Singtel is considering whether to sell its cybersecurity business Trustwave Holdings, Bloomberg reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. The report revealed that the potential transaction will enable Singtel...

There is a temptation to view this deal as symbolic, somehow, suggests Enterprise IoT Insights; that with the purchase of cellular IoT champ Sierra Wireless, Semtech is stepping beyond the enduringly fragmented, slightly disjointed, vaguely dysfunctional unlicensed low-power end of the wide-area (LPWA) IoT...

Picocom President: “We need a healthy ecosystem of semiconductor vendors in the Open RAN world selling chips that are freely available to anyone that wants to buy them.”  The RAN Intelligent Controller is seen as a key way that Open RAN can provide operators with...

LoRaWAN operator and system provider Senet has said it has approved gateways from China-based Milesight, which majors in analytics-based IoT solutions to run on LoRaWAN and 5G networks. The pair called it a “partnership to qualify Milesight LoRaWAN gateways and sensor-enabled end devices for...

The deal creates “a national ICT champion” for Hungary, said Vodafone’s CEO. Vodafone Group on Monday announced that it’s reached a deal with Hungarian system integrator 4iG and state-owned holding company Corvinus Zrt to sell its Hungarian business in a cash deal worth HUF 715 billion (US$1.8...

ABI Research said that the deployment of outdoor 5G small cells is forecast to reach 13 million by 2027 A total of 13 million outdoor 5G small cells will be deployed at a global level by 2027, according to a recent report by technology intelligence...

The government of India recently issued 5G spectrum assignment letters India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has officially allocated spectrum to telecom operators, with the issuance of a spectrum assignment letter for 5G networks. Meanwhile, the country’s Telecommunications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has requested that telecom service providers...

Adani Data Networks, a subsidiary of Adani Group, recently secured 400 megahertz of spectrum in the 26 GHz band   Indian company Adani Data Networks, which is a subsidiary of local conglomerate Adani Group, has applied for a universal license in six geographic regions across India. According...

Optus has been testing 5G Standalone tecnology for nearly one year Australian operator Optus has recently launched its 5G Standalone network after nearly a year of testing, Lambo Kanagaratnam, Optus’s VP of networks, said in a blog post. The executive noted that the 5G Standalone network...

Mobile operators are expected to add a total of 600,000 base stations across China during 2022 Chinese operators have already deployed over 1.97 million 5G base stations across the country, local news agency Xinhua reported, citing data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. All...

The U.S., U.K. and Europe have all seen complexities and challenges arise from the initial lack of supply chain diversification in 5G network hardware. Most controversially the early dominance of Huawei led to U.K. and U.S. government concerns that the China-based firm posed a...

FreedomFi provided Nova Labs with the expertise in telecommunications that it needed to make the Helium Network successful Nova Labs, the founding team behind the peer-to-peer, decentralized Helium Network has acquired FreedomFi. FreedomFi is already integral to the Helium Network as it currently provides software...

Research council members will work with the U.S. and Canadian governments as well as private-sector 6G research communities ATIS’ Next G Alliance announced the formation of the Next G Alliance (NGA) research council and publication of its 6G research priorities. The entity noted that these actions...

The Malaysian government established an August deadline for operators to accept the stake in DNB or else lose 5G spectrum access Malaysia’s transition to 5G has been plagued by a significant bottleneck stemming from the government’s decision to forego a spectrum auction and instead launch...