BROWSING: 5G

China ended May with a total of 899.3 million subscribers in the 5G segment Shipments of 5G mobile phones in China increased by 6% year-on-year to nearly 17.74 million units in May, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported, citing data from the China Academy of...

The government of India recently confirmed that some 5G frequencies will be reserved to enable enterprises to deploy private mobile networks Indian enterprises view 5G as the key enabler of their digital transformation, according to a recent research conducted by Omdia for Ericsson in India. According...

The wake-up signal was first introduced in 3GPP Release 15 In 3GPP Release 15, a paging signal sent over the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that “wakes up” a user device from an idle state so that can prepare to receive data was first introduced....

Skoda Auto noted that the 5G research network allows data to be locally transmitted securely in real time   Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto has launched a mobile private 5G network in cooperation with mobile operator Vodafone at its Mladá Boleslav site, the former said in...

This week's guest, Donna Johnson, the SVP of Marketing at Cradlepoint, discusses the evolution of SD-WAN over the years and how it is adapting to support 5G networks. She also details the progress of private cellular networks and the importance of having empathy in...

Vodafone is working with Hugh Lowe Farms to use IoT to deliver 1.5 million strawberries to Wimbledon, the UK grand slam tennis championship, which started in London this week. The 2022 supply of strawberries are sustainably produced, efficiently delivered, and the best-tasting, said Vodafone,...

As part of the smart buildings deal, Accenture will assist Johnson Controls by implementing edge technologies on the OpenBlue platform   Smart buildings specialist Johnson Controls and Accenture are collaborating to deliver and operate two new OpenBlue Innovation Centers, the former said in a release. The new...

China Broadnet, previously known as China Broadcasting Network, had secured a 5G license in 2029 China Broadnet has become the fourth mobile operator in China to offer 5G services in the country, according to Chinese press reports. The new player’s cheapest monthly plan, at CNY118 ($17.60),...

CHT is in process to upgrade mid-band 5G base stations in an estimated 2,000 sites in Taiwan Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the largest telecoms company in Taiwan, has begun upgrading its installed Ericsson base of mid-band Massive MIMO radios, the latter said in a...

Spending on IoT-based asset tracking solutions, for monitoring goods in transit, will reach $45 billion globally by 2027, according to Juniper Research. The total spend will jump from $16 billion in 2022, representing growth of 184 percent over the five-year period. It said the...

Ireland-based Druid Software has announced a deal to supply private LTE and 5G componentry to German critical comms system integrator Hytera Mobilfunk (HMF). HMF has developed a “brand new private 5G radio solution”, called 5G Smart Box, which will utilise Druid Software’s Raemis system...

Whatever Vodafone’s intention when polling 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and whatever its conclusion from their responses, one thing is also clear: business is hard in this economic climate. What also seems apparent, reading between the lines of Vodafone’s enterprise...

The 5G autonomous driving test used infrastructure deployed by TIM, Magenta and Deutsche Telekom   The 5G-CARMEN project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Bruno Kessler Foundation, demonstrated the outcomes of an autonomous driving pilot that connected low latency, autonomous and assisted driving...

Rogers and Shaw last week agreed to sell Freedom Mobile, the cellular business owned by Shaw, to Montreal-based Quebecor Canada's competition bureau is expected to ask Rogers Communications to sell Shaw Communications’ cellular unit Shaw Mobile to overcome competition concerns presented by the proposed merger...

Ericsson said that more than 20 5G SA networks were already operational globally by the end of 2021 The number of 5G Standalone (SA) networks at a global level could reach nearly 40 at the end of 2022, according to the latest edition of the...

In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington DC, and Paris rounded out the top 10, meaning Europe and Asia Pacific contributed...

Viasat President: '5G has the potential to enhance the warfighter’s ability to produce and make sense of mission-critical data' Viasat has received a four-year research award from the Department of Defense (DoD) to run 5G experiments in support of the U.S. Marine Corps operations and...

New spectrum options and technology present enterprises with private network challenges and opportunities.

The Government of India expects to award 5G frequencies during July 5G is projected to account for almost 40% of mobile subscriptions in India – 500 million – by the end of 2027, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. According to the Swedish vendor, even...

SoftBank said it aims to realize a next-generation network for autonomous driving in Japan by leveraging its expertise in vehicle communications with May Mobility's autonomous vehicle technology   Japanese operator SoftBank and U.S. autonomous vehicle technology company May Mobility have entered into a partnership agreement to...

The survey showed that 45% of surveyed businesses are planning to make investments in 5G by 2023 A survey carried out by UK5G, which focuses on accelerating the adoption of 5G in the U.K., found that 70% of the surveyed businesses are now using 5G...

SpaceX says that if 12 GHz spectrum is used for terrestrial 5G networks, it could result in outages for its Starlink space-based internet service as much as three-quarters of the time and render the service "unusable for most Americans." The company submitted new technical analysis...

Manufacturers seeking better operational efficiencies, with reduced downtime and higher yield, are at the leading edge of the Industry 4.0 transformation. With mobile system components and reliable wireless connectivity between them, flexible manufacturing systems can be reconfigured quickly for new tasks, to troubleshoot issues,...

Critical Communications World (CCW) in Vienna this week (June 20-23) told the now-familiar story of how an influential industrial sector, which has existed in a horizontal tech vacuum until now, is coming to terms with its future as an extreme vertical in a broader...