BROWSING: 5G

Signal repeaters can offset the need for new 5G base stations, adding network density without additional infrastructure Increasing network capacity is critical for achieving the coverage and speeds promised by 5G; but obstacles like cost, time and community objection make building out the necessary number...

Dish launched its new greenfield 5G service in Las Vegas. Customers will need a Motorola Edge Plus until other phones are qualified.

Amdocs had previously announced the expansion of its 5G Value Plane offerings Amdocs has opened its new Americas 5G Experience Lab in Dallas, Texas. In a release, Amdocs said that the new 5G lab will enable organizations to create innovative services leveraging the power of 5G...

Ericsson exec: 'Private cellular networks are principal catalysts for the utilities sector' Ericsson has opened a Global Utilities Innovation Center at its facility in Plano, Texas that houses a purpose-built operating lab and demo environment locations designed for utilities to experiment with 4G and 5G use cases...

Orange said it expects its 5G network to reach 1,500 localities by the end of 2022 Spanish operator Orange ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 1.11 million 5G subscribers after adding 228,000 in the period, the telco said in a...

Dell Technologies’ Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab Solution Integration Platform brings together telecom hardware, software, ISVs, enterprise IT and cloud providers Even if you take Open RAN out of the mix (but why do something crazy like that?), Standalone 5G is very much an exercise in...

  Despite the increasing adoption of IoT and 5G by firms operating in the utility sector, these technologies will enable more innovative use cases in the future compared to the initial use cases under implementation at the moment, Sameh Yamany, CTO of VIAVI Solutions, told...

Nokia said that 5G carrier aggregation allows compatible 5G smartphones to receive multiple 5G frequency bands in parallel Nokia, Optus and Samsung Electronics Australia announced that they have achieved a data session using three-component-carrier (3CC) Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology over a 5G Standalone (SA) network...

The MDT solution taps user equipment (UE) to collect field measurements Introduced in 3GPP Rel-10, Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) is a standardized mechanism designed to enable operators to use user devices in a network to collect mobile network data, and thus, reduce the need...

Carriers face a number of operational challenges as 5G continues to evolve and mature, both in terms of deploying and running new 5G networks as well as in managing the relationship of those new networks to existing 4G networks. In a Test and Measurement...

This MoU is the first to be signed between the Beyond 5G/6G related organizations from Japan and Europe Japan’s Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium (B5PC) and Europe’s 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost cooperation on next-generations networks. The...

The FCC has cleared AST SpaceMobile to test its satellite-based service, which it says will work with regular cell phones.

The EU is in grave danger of “throwing out the baby with the bathwater” in its prospective attempts to reform SEP licensing with interventions for the purported benefit of European Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in IoT.  Europe was once preeminent in cellular communications with...

It is well understood that communications in high mobility environments — such as high-speed rail — suffer from severe Doppler spreads, which deteriorate the performance of the widely adopted orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation in current 4G and 5G networks. This issue was a topic...

DoD said that the 5G program seeks to increase the efficiency and fidelity of naval logistic operations The Department of Defense (DoD) 5G-NextG Initiative has recently inaugurated its 5G smart warehouse network at Naval Base Coronado. The objective of the 5G smart warehousing project at Naval...

Local regulator TRAI has recommended a cut in the base price of 5G spectrum by nearly 39% compared to the initial recommended price The government on India may further reduce the base price of 5G frequencies for the upcoming auction, local press reported Telecom Minister...

ENDC has been described as a bridge between 4G LTE and 5G cellular technologies ENDC, or E-UTRAN New Radio - Dual Connectivity, is a Non-Standalone (NSA) feature that makes it possible for mobile devices to access both 5G and 4G LTE networks at the same...

Dish Network also said that it is currently testing its 5G network using the Samsung Galaxy S22 Dish Network has selected Samsung to provide its 5G Open RAN-compliant virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions and radio units across its U.S. markets. The Samsung radios — some of...

5G networks were activated at a rate of almost two cities per day during 2021, according to Viavi Solutions 5G continues its deployment momentum around the world, while the shift toward Standalone is picking up, according to newly released figures from Viavi Solutions. As of...

Ceragon Networks said this week that DISH Wireless has picked its IP-50 platform to provide 5G transport services.

Michael Dell: The combination of edge and 5G is “a huge catalyst for…growth” Dell Technologies Founder, Chairman and CEO Michael Dell this week opened Dell Technologies World 2022 in Las Vegas with a reflection on how the “twin engines of human inspiration and technology” foster...

US-based Federated Wireless, offering shared spectrum services in the CBRS band, has raised a further $14 million in Series D funding, to go with its $58 million Series D announcement in February. It brings its total Series D round to $72 million, with “affiliates...

Comcast activated the first 5G radios during the first quarter  Comcast expects to launch an employee field test of 5G in June, the company’s president and CEO Brian Roberts said during a conference call with investors. The executive also noted that Comcast had lit the first...

One of the O-RAN principles stipulates open disaggregation, allowing elements of the RAN to be sourced from different suppliers The U.K. government announced a set of principles for the development and deployment of Open RAN (O-RAN) equipment. In a statement, the government noted that there is...