BROWSING: 5G

Utilities are starting to benefit from initial 5G use cases: Telit

The Telit executive said that artificial intelligence can transform utilities customer engagement as well as their operations   Companies operating in the utility sector are starting to see the benefits of certain initial use cases enabled by 5G technology, Jitender Vohra, director of carrier relations at...

Editorial Report: 5G telco cloud transformation: Aligning people, process and technology

This report, a companion to the Telco Cloud Forum, aggregates, analyzes and contextualizes the wide-ranging discussions from expert speakers, including technology buyers, sellers, policy makers and innovators bringing the scale, economics and operational practices of the hyperscale world into the telecoms sector, which is...

5G Base Station Conformance Test Series

Join us to learn about the latest designs in signal analysis to overcome your basestation transmitter testing challenges and ensure compliance and maximumaccuracy within 5G NR specifications.

Why is beam management key to 5G?

5G New Radio (NR)'s massive MIMO and beam management support are both essential to 5G mmWave carrier deployment strategies.

Deutsche Telekom increases its stake in T-Mobile US

Deutsche Telekom now holds 48.4% of T-Mobile US Deutsche Telekom has increased its participation in T-Mobile US after it paid $2.4 billion to Japanese operator SoftBank Group, according to a report by Bloomberg. With this move, the German operator is closer to its goal of...

5 key technology inventions in 5G NR Release 17

Qualcomm’s leading role in driving advanced wireless technologies into the 3GPP global 5G standards I first wrote about the five Qualcomm wireless inventions that defined the 5G NR Release 15 foundation in 2016, and it was a time when 5G was only a vision. With...

1NCE upon a time in the West – how 1NCE brought order to the global IoT game

Yes, we have done the Leone analogy before, kind-of (see: 1NCE upon a time in America), but the original Spaghetti Western title works even better to tell the story, briefly, of how cellular IoT rode into town on a horse called 1NCE, and brought...

What is the 5G multimedia priority service (MPS)?

Multimedia priority service (MPS) allows priority access to system resources to Service Users, creating the ability to deliver or complete sessions of a high priority nature According to the 3GPP, the response to emergency situations (e.g., floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks) depends on the communication...

Samsung Electronics, Virgin Media O2 deploy 4G, 5G sites in the UK

Samsung said that the companies also completed the first 5G data call on Virgin Media O2’s commercial 5G network Samsung Electronics and Virgin Media O2 announced they have successfully completed the deployment of multiple live 4G and 5G sites in the U.K. In a release, Samsung...

Digi Brochure: Go-To 5G Connectivity

Cellular router size may seem insignificant in comparison to the footprint of most production plants, factories or warehouses, but at Digi we understand the physical fit of a router is critical to the success of your connectivity solution. Our engineers designed Digi EX50 5G...

Dell Technologies Webinar: Bring the Power of Edge to CSPs

As telecom networks disaggregate and move toward delivering powerful infrastructure and applications at the edge, the number of components to deploy and manage across geographic locations grows exponentially. At the same time, Communications Services Providers (CSPs) are looking to transform their networks to monetize...

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: Emerging Trends in Wireless Infrastructure

5G is a transformational technology designed to provide significant flexibility and support for a variety of use cases. In this white paper, we describe the emerging infrastructure trends of wireless networks for 4G, 5G, and beyond 5G. Such trends include: Spectrum trendsDensification & coverage extension...

5G could be a game changer for the utilities sector: Ericsson

Ericsson believes that the real promise of 5G for a utility is the introduction of lower network latencies   The adoption of 5G technologies could be a game changer for utility companies, Per Wahlen, vice president and head of Business Development at Ericsson North America, told...

Deutsche Telekom expands 5G, LTE networks nationwide

Deutsche Telekom's 5G network currently reaches 91% of Germany's households German carrier Deutsche Telekom has expanded its mobile network at 1,055 locations nationwide over the last five weeks, the telco said in a release.  In addition to the approximately 350 5G locations that transmit at 3.6...

Vodafone boosts 5G infrastructure in the UK

As of March 2022, Vodafone provides 5G in 380 locations across Europe, of which 141 are in the UK Vodafone has switched on its 5G network in 12 further locations across the UK, the carrier said in a release. New locations include Coventry, Dursley, Golborne, Keynsham,...

Digital Locations expands small cell site list with Bigbelly

Digital Locations adds 20,000 solar-powered waste recycling bins from Bigbelly as potential 5G small cell hosts across the U.S.

GCF joins with 5G-ACIA to ‘investigate’ industrial 5G certification needs

The Global Certification Forum (GCF) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly investigate industrial 5G certification needs. The pair said they will share information on industrial IoT use cases and related requirements for testing...

Wipro Acquires CAS Group to bolster CSP consulting

Indian IT multinational Wipro has announced the acquisition of Tier 1 CSP consultancy CAS Group. Terms were not disclosed.

Spain to reach 8.6 million 5G subscribers by end-2022: report

According to Omdia, Vodafone Spain currently offers 5G in 190 municipalities across the country Spain is forecast to end 2022 with a total of 8.6 million subscribers in the 5G segment, local paper OK Diario reported, citing information from consulting firm Omdia. According to the report,...

Hillwood offers Ericsson’s ‘Waze for wireless’ for driverless vehicle tests at MIZ test zone

Ericsson is working with US real estate developer Hillwood to offer a tool for autonomous and connected vehicle companies to access “secure and constant” 4G and 5G connectivity at the Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ) within the 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development in Fort Worth, in Texas....

What are non-public networks in 3GPP parlance? 

Non-Public Networks (NPNs) are 3GPP's term of art for private networks: "NPNs enable deployment of a 5G system for private use."

Three UK’s 5G network reaches 370 towns with 2,700 sites

The U.K. telco expects 5G will account for 35% of data usage by the end of 2022 U.K. operator Three UK currently operates 2,700 5G sites in 370 towns and cities across the country, the company said in a release. The telco noted that its...

Will 5G Change the World? Greg Mayo, NETSCOUT (Ep. 48)

Greg Mayo, NETSCOUT chief architect in the CTO office, discusses E2E service assurance in 5G systems. He looks at the complexities, both technical and business, associated with purpose-built private networks along with slicing of public networks. While Mayo doesn't see 5G changing the world...

DISH Wireless building a 5G ‘network of networks’ for enterprise transformation

DISH partnered with Dell Technologies for IT and enterprise expertise DISH Wireless is in the midst of building out a brand new, nationwide 5G network architected using cloud-native and Open RAN principles, with Kubernetes-based management at its heart. Beyond consumer mobile broadband services, DISH Wireless...