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  Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom selected Ericsson and Nokia as 5G RAN vendors, as the telco plans to launch commercial 5G service in July based on the non-standalone (NSA) architecture. The operator will run the next-generation mobile service on the 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz bands. In...

  Mix of 5G spectrum assets leading to operator-specific approach to venue eMBB investments Large venues like transportation hubs, arenas and stadiums have long been a focus of carrier investment not just to meet ever-increasing mobile data demands but also to showcase technological advances. The recent...

According to GSMA, North America is winning the worldwide 5G race. However, China last year, debuted what was considered by some to be the largest 5G network rollout in the world. Different regulations, spectrum availability and customer demands mean that no two 5G rollouts are...

The 5G services in Taiwan will be in the 3.5 GHz band are expected to be launched this summer Taiwanese mobile operator Far EasTone (FET) has selected Ericsson to be its 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) vendor in a deal that will span all of...

With the roll-out of 5G networks, the shrinkage of radio cells, and challenge to negotiate cell sites, lighting infrastructure presents a valuable opportunity for city operators and building owners to get smart. Netherlands-based Signify has been leading the development of smart poles to host a...

Telenor 5G services in Trondheim are being delivered on the 3.6 GHz band Ericsson and Telenor switched on Norway’s first commercial 5G services at the end of last week in the city of Trondheim as part of an ongoing partnership to develop and update Telenor’s...

  France’s cybersecurity agency, ANSSI, is expected to allow local operators to use equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei for the deployment of 5G networks in the country, Reuters reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. The sources said ANSSI had decided to approve the use...

Secured and Trusted Network Communications Act targets rip-and-replace of Huawei, ZTE network equipment President Trump on March 12 signed into law the Secured and Trusted Network Communications Act, which among other things, will provide up to $1 billion in funding to rip-and-replace network infrastructure primarily...

Ericsson says 80% of customers testing its Dynamic Spectrum Sharing solution plan to deploy in next 12 months While there's criticism around the technology's overall impact on network capacity, a number of major global operators are current or have said they will implement Dynamic Spectrum...

Deutsche Telekom expects, in most cases, to manage private networks for enterprises, even if they are deployed in privately-owned spectrum, which is not licensed directly by the operator itself. Following its deal with BMW last month to install a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’ at...

Previous generational upgrade cycles required operators to undertake the expensive, time-consuming process of spectrum refarming. But, for 5G, dynamic spectrum sharing allows carriers to side-step that process by transmitting LTE and 5G NR in the same band at the same time. DSS, coupled with the...

  China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, has launched a tender for the second phase of its 5G network rollout, according to a report by China Securities Journal. According to the report, the Chinese carrier has already completed the first phase...

  Japanese wireless carrier SoftBank announced it expects to launch its 5G services on March 27, becoming the first of the country's three major mobile carriers to release details of its next-generation telecommunications service. NTT Docomo and KDDI Corp. are also expected to soon unveil plans...

Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in February is the major venue and the key date for the telecoms industry. Yes, the cards have been dealt, but the show works as a useful barometer of its high mood. It kick-starts the season, effectively, after...

  Samsung Electronics announced it has signed a commercial agreement with New Zealand’s largest mobile carrier, Spark, to take part in building Spark’s 5G network in 2020. The South Korean vendor carrier out 5G trials with Spark last year.These trials used Samsung’s 5G end-to-end solutions to...

  Almost 90% of mobile ecosystem players in China identified edge computing as a major revenue opportunity in the 5G era, according to a new GSMA survey. The new GSMA Intelligence report, called "Edge computing in the 5G era: Technology and market developments in China" and...

Lewisville, Texas, factory producing "Street Macro" 5G base stations In September last year, Swedish network infrastructure vendor Ericsson announced it would invest $100 million in a U.S. smart factory to help facilitate rapid network deployments for domestic customers. Today the company announced it has produced...

Ericsson DSS solution takes CTO Award at GLOMOs Dynamic spectrum sharing is poised to be a key technology operators will use to quickly scale out 5G coverage, ease the transition from non-standalone to standalone 5G and, as a function of both, accelerate service revenues associated...

  Singapore telecom operator Singtel and Nokia have agreed to collaborate to develop and trial 5G network slicing capabilities, based on a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) approach, the Asian telco said in a release. Network slicing is a key 5G feature where multiple virtual networks can be created...

Deutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the project. The German operator said the deployment marks its fourth such campus installation. It has...

  Australian operator Telstra has announced plans to allow customers early trial access to millimeter wave  5G spectrum with the launch of a mmWave 5G-enabled device by mid-year, the telco said in a release. Telstra CEO Andrew Penn said internal testing of the technology had begun...

  Ericsson announced that its Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) solution is commercially available, stating that the new technology is already live in a number of 5G networks around the world. Ericsson said that its spectrum sharing solution allows both 4G and 5G technologies to be deployed in...

BARCELONA--As we're all acutely aware, Mobile World Congress 2020 was cancelled due to concerns around the spread of coronavirus. However, a small handful of largely journalists and analysts came to Barcelona anyway to try to make hay as it were, including two members of...