BROWSING: APAC

Ericsson and Huawei partnering with Vodafone on 5G testing Australian mobile telephony operator Vodafone announced plans to carry out lab trials of 5G technologies on its network by the end of the year, local press reported. Acting Chief Technology Officer Kevin Millroy said that the telco...

China’s carriers compete vigorously to meet strong demand for the IoT China and the internet of things (IoT) may be a match made in heaven. This week, China Telecom, the country’s leading fixed-line carrier, reported a 303% increase in IoT subscriptions in the year to June...

SK Telecom will work with the car-sharing company on connected car services Korean telecommunications company SK Telecom has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with compatriot car-sharing company SOCAR,to cooperate in the connected car business. Under the terms of the agreement, SK Telecom and SOCAR will...

Samsung takes 25.1% market share in India, which saw total smartphone shipments of 27.5M units in Q2 Smartphone shipments in India totaled 27.5 million units in the second quarter of 2016, up 3.7% year-on-year, according to a recent study by tech consultancy IDC. Compared to...

In addition to narrowband IoT, Nokia and M1 plan HetNet deployment to face increasing data demand Singapore telecom services provider M1 Limited (M1) and Nokia have signed a strategic partnership to roll out a nationwide commercial NB-IoT (narrowband internet of things) network by the first...

Nokia will deploy an optical transport network, dense wavelength division multiplexing backbone for China Mobile Nokia has been awarded more than 30% of China Mobile's project to construct a 100G optical network in support of its rollout of LTE-based mobile broadband services. The contract win is...

The Chinese vendor sees APAC, Middle East, Africa and Latin America as key small cell markets Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei expects its small cell product line to generate revenue of $2 billion in 2020, the company’s president of small cell product line, Yuefeng Zhou,...

Both companies will develop cooperative 5G and IIoT projects and carry out research activities Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation and compatriot mobile operator China Unicom have inked a strategic cooperation agreement on joint 5G and industrial internet of things (IIoT) innovation. Under the terms of the strategic...

Xiaomi and Apple see decline in Q2 smartphone shipments Chinese vendor Huawei shipped a total of 19.1 million smartphones in the local market during the second quarter of the year, climbing 15.2% compared to the same quarter the previous year, according to a recent report...

A total of 192 telcos are deploying advanced LTE technologies A total of 521 operators have commercially launched LTE, LTE-Advanced or LTE-Advanced Pro networks in 170 countries, according to a recent report focused on the state of LTE network reach released by the Global mobile...

Nokia will deploy base stations in 19 Chinese provinces Finnish vendor Nokia and Chinese state-owned China Telecom signed an agreement to expand the deployment of 4G technology in 19 provinces across China to allow the  operator to enhance coverage and capacity as well as the quality...

China Mobile operating revenue for H1 2016 grew 7.1% year-over-year; now has 1.32M 4G base stations China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator, ended the first half of the year with 428.5 million subscribers in the LTE segment, according to the operator’s latest available figures. The telco recorded...

The internet of things network currently covers 360 cities China’s second largest mobile operator China Unicom ended the first half of 2016 with more than 20 million internet of things connection, after a net addition 10.5 million connections during the period, local press reported. The Chinese operator...

Almost 98% of premises in the United Kingdom had outdoor 4G LTE coverage in May The United Kingdom ended last year with a total of 39.5 million subscribers in the 4G LTE segment, up from 23.6 million at the end of 2014, according to a...

Huawei and China Telecom plan to deliver gigabit connectivity to homes in Shenzhen Chinese ICT services provider Huawei and China Telecom Corporation signed a cooperation framework agreement to deliver gigabit connectivity to homes and communities in Shenzhen to lay the foundation for creating a smart city.  The...

Huawei said this technology improves the experience for subscribers on UMTS networks in the 900 MHz band Chinese vendor Huawei and Vodafone Spain have completed what the companies claim to be the world's first commercial implementation of dual-band High Speed Downlink Packet Access technology. Huawei said...

Singapore telco also demonstrated end-to-end low latency live video streaming over '5G' Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel and Swedish vendor Ericsson carried out what the companies claim to be the first live demo of potential of 5G technologies in Southeast Asia. The demo used Ericsson’s 5G radio...

The Singapore telco also demonstrated end-to-end low latency live video streaming over 5G Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel and Swedish vendor Ericsson carried out what the companies claimed to be the first live demo of potential of 5G technologies in Southeast Asia. The demo used Ericsson’s 5G...

The 'internet of things' network will be nationwide in 2018 Sigfox, a French provider of global communications service for the IoT, and UnaBiz, an IoT network operator in Asia, announced the creation of a global internet of things testbed in Taiwan. The testbed, which will be based...

NTT DoCoMo ended June with 143,500 LTE base stations across Japan Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo has expanded its "Premium 4G" service to 1,203 cities across Japan, according to a company presentation. The service, launched in March 2015, offers download speeds of up to 370 megabits per second using LTE-Advanced...

See which countries are leveraging the internet of things to drive business transformation A lot of vendors throw around the projection that by 2020 there will be some 50 billion "things" comprising the growing internet of things (IoT). But what about today; which countries are...

The plan is to offer LAA service starting in 2017 Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel and Ericsson said they successfully conducted a live trial of prestandard license assisted access on Singtel’s network earlier this month. The trial was completed after a two-week period of testing using multiple RBS...

The government selected 83 smart city initiatives to be implemented in 20 initial cities India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently launched a number of smart city initiatives under his government's Smart Cities Mission program. The government said 83 smart city initiatives will be implemented in 20...

Working with Nokia, StarHub will commercially launch the service by the end of 2016 Finnish vendor Nokia and Singapore telecom operator StarHub have achieved peak upload speed of 150 megabits per second over the operator's 4G network during a trial using carrier aggregation technology and the...