BROWSING: 5G

The private 5G network will support advanced tools like autonomous robots, artificial intelligence and digital imaging Vodafone has deployed a 5G private network at a Bayer greenhouse in Monheim, Germany to improve its research into insecticides. The network will support advanced tools like autonomous robots,...

Huawei said that revenues from its Carrier Business Group grew 4.24% to CNY 142.7 billion in the period Chinese vendor Huawei reported overall revenues of CNY301.6 billion ($44.7 billion) in the first half of the year, down 5.9% year-on-year. In the first quarter of the year,...

Verizon looks to “make the market” in combining 5G and mobile edge computing Sowmyanarayan Sampath, the new head of Verizon Business, this week discussed what he sees as three technology trends that, when coupled with the operator’s 5G network, can grow total addressable market by...

AWS said the private mobile network makes use of CBRS spectrum, while it currently supports 4G LTE and will support 5G in the future   Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Private 5G, a managed service that helps enterprises set up and...

SK Telecom recorded a net addition of 1.81 million 5G customers in H1 SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the second quarter of the year with a total of 11.68 million subscribers in the 5G segment, up 51.8% year-on-year, the carrier said in...

Standalone (SA) 5G gives operators new agility and scale, unlocking the full range of 5G services. Challenges abound ranging from technical to operational. But operators globally have been slow to deploy 5G SA networks - they remain very much the exception, not the rule. Going...

Bharti Airtel said that contracts for private 5G networks will represent a large portion of the carrier's future 5G revenues   Indian operator Bharti Airtel is currently having talks with a number of local enterprises with the aim of deploying private 5G networks, local newspaper The...

The Next G Alliance said that this new agreement adds to recent similar 6G agreements with Japan’s Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium and Korea's 5G Forum ATIS’ Next G Alliance and Europe’s 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

MEC makes the metaverse move by lowering latency and minimizing bandwidth While the metaverse is dependent on many cloud technologies to function, the ability for the metaverse to operate at the performance and scale required is firmly rooted in the physical world, not the cloud. Mobile...

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in the French capital. The two trial streams will be open, respectively, to public mobile...

China Tower’s net profit in H1 climbed 22.2% year-on-year to CNY4.22 billion China Tower ended the first half of the 2022 with a total of 2.05 million towers under management, after a new addition of 11,000 sites during the period. In a release, the company said...

Ericsson noted that a condition monitoring solution requires a network that can manage high connection density and transfer data in real time with extremely high reliability   Ericsson said it has identified condition monitoring of critical assets as one of the leading use cases driving the...

KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, Rakuten Mobile and Softbank have all deployed mmWave 5G Right now mmWave 5G deployments are focused on adding capacity to congested network hot zones, places like stadiums, music venues, shopping malls, transit hubs and dense central business or downtown areas. In addition...

5G communication technologies are becoming an important engine for promoting the digital transformation of the industry. With the wider application of 5G network construction, new products, new business models of 5G services are emerging continuously. In order to meet a variety of industry needs...

The number of authorized 5G sites across France during July increased by 2.2% compared to the previous month France had a total of 35,311 authorized 5G sites as of August 1, of which 26,093 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to...

The 2022 Commonwealth Games, an international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, was held in Birmingham, England. This year’s event featured more than 5,000 athletes from 72 nations, 19 different sports and a private network provided by BT. Partnering with the...

Further, 48% intend to upgrade to 5G 'as soon as possible,' Ookla reported India recently concluded a 5G spectrum auction in which the country’s operators spent a total of total $19 billion for spectrum across 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz,...

The education sector will be the first area of focus for the Kajeet and Samsung collaboration   Private wireless and IoT company Kajeet said it is currently collaborating with Samsung Electronics America to deploy Kajeet's private 5G platform with Samsung’s Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) solutions. With...

US private cellular Ondas Holdings, parent of Ondas Networks, is to buy Israeli drone system and platform developer Airobotics in a $15.2 million merger acquisition. The new business will be combined with American Robotics, its other drone subsidiary, acquired by Ondas Holdings for $70.6...

Swisscom's midband "5G+" service uses frequencies at 3.5 GHz Swiss operator Swisscom said it has turned up its midband-spectrum-based "5G+" service on 2,230 antennas in 985 locations. During the first half of the year, Swisscom added a total of 255 midband-enabled antennas nationwide. The telco’s 5G+ service...

The company’s EV chargers also support a number of IoT and telecommunication applications   U.K. firm Connected Kerb says it has been selected to deliver on-street electric vehicle (EV) chargers for a pilot project in New York. This project is part of the DOT Studio, which is...

It's the first time 4CCA has been tested outside a lab in Europe, the companies claim BT announced Monday that it has successfully tested four component-carrier (4CC) carrier aggregation on a 5G Standalone (SA) network in commercial frequencies. Using EE’s live network, BT said it and...

The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) has for the first time included an update on satellite connectivity in its Industrial Internet Networking Framework (IINF), its guide to help IoT application developers to design, deploy, and operate industrial networking solutions. It has also joined with the...

Quickline said it has been testing its own fully cloud-native O-RAN solution for the last two years Rural broadband provider Quickline Communications, which is working with Mavenir, claims to be the first internet service provider in the U.K. to commercially deliver a cloud-based 5G Standalone...