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  China Mobile, the world’s largest operators in terms of subscribers, added 14.4 million 5G subscribers in June, the telco said in its website. The carrier said it ended the first half of 2020 with a total of 70.2 million 5G subscribers, compared to 6.7 million...

  Mobile operators in Asia Pacific are expected to invest over $400 billion on their networks between 2020 and 2025, of which $331 billion will be spent on 5G deployments, according to the latest Asia Pacific edition of the GSMA’s Mobile Economy series. The report shows...

  China’s capital Beijing has already deployed a total of 21,086 5G base stations, Chinese news service Xinhua reported. The number of 5G users in the city has exceeded 3.1 million since Beijing officially kicked off commercial 5G services in 2019, according to the Beijing Municipal...

GSMA CMO: 'MWC will return next year' After being left with no choice but to cancel Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2020 and Shanghai 2020 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the GSMA is cutting 20% of its 1,000 person staff, as part of a wider...

  China Unicom has already deployed a total of 130,000 5G base stations across China, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. Of that total, 115,000 5G base stations were built in partnership with rival operator China Telecom. The 5G base stations provide commercial services in over 50...

Expert panel discusses 5G cybersecurity As part of the 17th annual Huawei Analyst Summit, Huawei Technologies USA brought together experts from GSMA and Royal Holloway, the University of London for an informative webinar titled: “Cybersecurity Standards and Testing in Europe.” The May 20 webinar, which...

The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic will accelerate rollout and takeup of narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), which is building a head of steam already. NB-IoT passed 100 million connections in January on the back of a continuing surge in China, according to the GSMA, and is on...

We are probably all well aware of what a SIM is. Those fiddley thin pieces of plastic we, or the phone salesperson inserts into our new cellular phone when we make a change. Over the years, SIMs have become smaller and smaller, yet, they...

All eyes now on MWC Los Angeles Following its at-the-time unanticipated but retrospectively lauded decision to cancel Mobile World Congress Barcelona in February, as COVID-19 gained a foothold in Europe, the GSMA announced it will cancel the companion event in Shanghai previously scheduled for June...

How should operators think about SLAs for complex, 5G enterprise services? As the story goes, fully-virtualized, standalone 5G networks will provide tailored slices in support of enterprise services whatever that may entail--handling huge data volumes from sensors, providing high reliability and ultra low latency for...

  5G technology will account for almost half of China’s overall mobile connections by 2025, according to a recent study by the GSMA. The 2020 China edition of the GSMA’s ‘Mobile Economy’ series, forecasts that China will have  an adoption rate on a par with other...

There will be around 13 billion new IoT connections by 2025, according to a new report from GSMA Intelligence, with smart buildings and smart homes accounting for the largest areas of growth. As the world moves into the 5G era, "IoT will be an integral...

LTE just became the dominant mobile network technology last year, but the industry is already looking ahead Mobile network operators are projected to invest more than $1.1 trillion in their networks over the next five years, and about 80% of that will be in 5G...

  IoT connections will reach almost 25 billion globally by 2025, up from 12 billion in 2019, according to a new report by the GSMA. “The business case for IoT is shifting from just connecting devices to addressing specific problems or needs with solutions to collect,...

  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...

Nine operators will collaborate on the GSMA's Operator Platform Project Nine telcos in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region said today that they are working together to develop a global edge computing framework and reference platform aimed at supporting the needs of enterprises and app developers,...

The GSMA GLOMO awards highlight those at the forefront of mobile innovation BARCELONA--The GSMA released the winners of the 2020 Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards, which call out the companies and individuals at the forefront of mobile innovation. The awards include a variety of categories, but...

Global concern over the coronavirus outbreak leads to cancellation of telecom's biggest annual event Mobile World Congress Barcelona has officially been cancelled for 2020. With high-profile vendors and carriers pulling out left and right and worried that attending the show would put their employees at risk...

Nokia, AT&T, Sprint, and multiple European carriers won't be at MWC 2020 The list of companies bailing out of Mobile World Congress Barcelona over coronavirus fears continues to get longer, with an ever-growing number of marquee names. In the past 24 hours, network equipment giant...

Mobile World Congress Barcelona is still slated to go forward in less than two weeks, but the telecom industry's largest annual event is already seeing some significant impacts as companies large and small either reduce their presence or pull out of attending altogether, due...

  South African operator Vodacom Group expects to launch commercial 5G services during 2020 by using a network being built by rival operator Liquid Telecom, Vodacom Chief Executive Shameel Joosub said. Liquid Telecom had recently announced it was building a wholesale 5G network in South Africa...

GSMA: 'RCS will create a market worth more than $74 billion by next year' At the 2019 Competitive Carriers Association Convention last September, Josh Wigginton, VP of product management at Interop Technologies, spoke about the state of Rich Communication Services (RCS), arguing, that despite a slow adoption,...

US, European device upgrades may lag compared to China and South Korea There are likely to be significant regional differences in 5G device adoption rates around the world -- and Chinese and South Korean consumers appear to be more likely to make immediate upgrades to...

Rich Communications Services are set to ramp up, and RCS may represent a chance for network operators to revamp their messaging services in the mold of some of the most successful over-the-top applications, while presenting a secure, unique vehicle for businesses to engage a...