BROWSING: 5G

The 6G white paper was elaborated by vivo Communications Research Institute Chinese tech company vivo has released a white paper in which the firm explores a potential framework and enabling technologies for as-yet-unstandardized 6G systems. Qin Fei, president of vivo Communications Research Institute, said: “At...

In June last year, American Tower had closed the first tranche of the acquisition of Telxius Towers, comprised of nearly 20,000 communications sites in Germany and Spain American Tower Corporation (ATC) ended June with nearly 30,000 telecommunications sites across its European footprint, the company’s President...

China Broadnet had officially launched 5G services on June 27 China Broadnet, the country's new telecom carrier, recently rolled out its commercial 5G services in nine provincial-level regions across China as part of a trial program, local state-news service Xinhua reported. According to the report, these...

Major Tier 1 operators are using Samsung’s cloud-native vRAN, including Open RAN, in greenfield and brownfield networks From distributed, to centralized and now to virtualized RAN, operators are re-architecting radio networks to set the stage for dynamic, software-centric operations. And based on commercial deployments from...

Hans Vestberg touts Verizon success with FBI, Virginia International Terminals While it's weathering a rough second quarter, Verizon still sees material revenue opportunities from delivering private 5G networks, mobile edge computing and other services into the enterprise and government sectors. Speaking on an earnings call...

The cell satellite service will leverage Nokia’s AirScale products Nokia announced this week a five-year deal with AST SpaceMobile, the Texas firm with ambitions to build a space-based cellular broadband network accessible by standard 4G and 5G smartphones. Nokia isn’t flying into space with AST SpaceMobile, but...

Rohde & Schwarz noted that the first global specification of 6G is expected within the next six to eight years Rohde & Schwarz announced it will take part in 6G-ANNA, a so-called "lighthouse" project to advance 6G technology in Germany. The three-year 6G-ANNA project was launched...

Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 28.2 million 5G subscribers in June China ended June with a total of 927.44 million subscribers in the 5G segment, according to the carriers’ latest available figures. Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 28.2 million 5G subscribers in...

Earlier this month, Bell started to offer its 5G+ offering following the deployment of frequencies in the 3.5 GHz band Canadian operator Bell announced the commercial availability of its "5G+" service in southern Ontario, the carrier said in a release. Earlier this month, Bell started to...

Orange Spain is currently offering 5G services through frequencies in the 3.5 GHz and 700 MHz bands Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 1,222 towns and cities in 51 provinces across the country, the carrier said in a statement. According to the European...

At the end of March 2022, all countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council region had launched 5G services commercially, according to Nokia 5G subscriptions in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region are expected to reach 263 million by 2026, according to a new research...

Sunderland City Council and the University of Sunderland in the UK have appointed BAI Communications (BAI), already engaged on a 20-year deal with the city council to build and operate a 5G network to support municipal services and the local manufacturing sector, to also...

While there are clear challenges associated with the propagation characteristics and cost of densely deploying 5G using millimeter wave frequencies, the high-band spectrum offers unique advantageous. In addition to providing multi-Gbps user experiences, 5G mmWave allows operators to add huge amounts of capacity in...

The agreement also includes end to end support services with Ericsson network orchestration and automation Swedish vendor Ericsson has been selected by Italian telecom operator Windtre to deploy a container-based, dual-mode 5G core for Standalone on cloud infrastructure, the former said in a release. Ericsson said...

The Circuit of The Americas (COTA), a 1,500-acre motorsports and entertainment venue, is in Austin, Texas   Infrastructure company ExteNet Systems announced it would provide new 5G cellular and private wireless metwork infrastructure to improve coverage and capacity at the Circuit of The Americas (COTA), a...

Qualcomm and Samsung extend patent licensing agreement through 2030 Qualcomm revenues are up across the company’s handset, RF front-end, IoT and automotive businesses based on Q3 earnings released this week as the firm executives on its strategy expand total addressable market to $700 billion in...

Samsung Networks held its mid-year analyst day last week, giving an update on their progress on the vRAN/Open RAN front, Dish deployment, and the opportunities they see in the Private Networks space. I was among a few key analysts they invited to their offices...

Canada’s competition bureau has put on hold Rogers’ proposed purchase of Shaw, as it believes the deal will negatively impact competition in the domestic telecom sector Rogers Communications has delayed the deadline for its CAD20 billion ($15.56 billion) acquisition of rival Shaw Communications to December...

Telefónica said it has already deployed nearly 6,000 5G antennas in the 3.6 GHz frequency German telecom operator Telefónica Deutschland/O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said its 5G network is operating around 14,000 antennas in the country. The telco said that this network infrastructure is enabling...

Some new light on the murky, creeping digital change taking place in the automotive sector, long-considered the flashiest venue for Industry 4.0 (but highly secretive and deeply conservative), and specifically at one of its blue riband manufacturers, in the original home of Industrie 4.0; German...

AT&T expects its 5G network infrastructure to reach 25 new cities across Mexico before the end of 2022 AT&T Mexico launched 5G services in five new cities across the country, the telco said in a release. The carrier now offers its 5G technology in parts of...

The U.K. will also invest £1.6 million in a joint-funded competition with the Republic of Korea to collaborate on a R&D project to accelerate the development of O-RAN technology The U.K. government has invited universities and telecoms firms to apply for up to £25 million...

Download speeds on 'premium' 5G networks were roughly three times faster than low-band AT&T and Verizon 5G speeds, and 1.36 times faster for T-Mobile Opensignal’s latest report digs into the mobile experience when connected to the top three U.S. carrier’s premium — or enhanced, as...

Vodafone said that its 5G network is expected to be available to 60 million people by 2023 Vodafone Germany has deployed 13,000 antennas for the provision of 5G services since the beginning of the year, the telco said in a release. Including this recent deployment, more...