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Karl Bream, head of strategy and portfolio, Nokia Enterprise “The market is ripe as all sectors of the global economy are embracing digitalization and are beginning to tap into Industry 4.0 and automation. We are starting to see major technology shifts in areas such as...

  Japan's communications ministry confirmed it will start accepting applications for the deployment of local 5G networks next week, Japanese press reported. Spectrum designated for local 5G will be released in Japan at the end of 2019. Companies, local governments and universities are expected to apply to...

  Canadian telecommunications services provider TeraGo announced that it will start technical trials in the greater Toronto area and greater Golden Horseshoe area in the first quarter of 2020, using fixed wireless 5G millimeter wave equipment from Nokia. The trials will be conducted on the 24...

This article, in five parts, is continued from Step 1, about spectrum and regulation; this can be found here. 2. SPECTRUM / REGULATION Another crucial part of the jigsaw-roadmap –  a clearing of the road, rather than a shortcut – is with spectrum. The lack of...

Release 17 will introduce "NR-Light" for IoT The Third Generation Partnership Project has put together its list of approved work for 5G New Radio features in Release 17, which is slated for completion in the second half of 2021. What's in the cards for 5G NR?...

WING provides managed service for global IoT network Finnish vendor Nokia has inked a contract with Brazilian telecommunications operator TIM to provide Internet of Things (IoT) services to its enterprise customers in Brazil, the former said in a release. TIM is fully owned by Italian telecommunications...

AT&T Mobility just made a major announcement. They now offer 5G wireless in 10 markets for consumers and business customers with more coming in the next few weeks before the end of 2019. I spoke with Igal Elbaz, Senior Vice President - Wireless Technology...

Nokia has won a tender with German rail company Deutsche Bahn to test and deliver standalone 5G for autonomous trains and rail operations. It will be the first time a standalone 5G system has been used for rail automation, said Nokia. The project, based in...

  Vodafone New Zealand has launched commercial  5G services in parts of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown, the telco said in a release. The operator has already installed a total of 100 5G sites across the country. As part of an initial commercial offering, Vodafone New Zealand...

Ericsson DSS product being testing by Verizon, Swisscom, Telstra As operators look to scale out 5G coverage in tandem with the availability of more and lower-priced handsets in 2020, dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) is a key feature. DSS allows LTE and 5G New Radio (NR)...

Nokia has said it is building a “strategic partnership ecosystem” to bring private LTE and 5G networks to industrial and government customers in Japan.  Spectrum for local LTE and 5G will be released in Japan at the end of 2019 for enterprise use. Nokia expects...

Digital technologies present many exciting opportunities for improving patient outcomes. Remote monitoring with medical sensors, shared access to patient records, personalized care plans, remote robotic surgery — and, the list goes on. However, something important is missing in many of these lists: rock-solid, secure (private)...

  Spanish telecom giant Telefonica has awarded part of the contract to deploy its 5G core network to Chinese vendor Huawei, Spanish newspaper Expansion reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. According to the report, the decision to award this contract to Huawei  will pressure...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! MySpace video goes...

Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system operator, has appointed Nokia to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid.  Fingrid will use the network to operate 120 high-voltage substations and control 14,600 kilometres of power transmission across the country. The...

Siemens has followed country-mate Bosch to apply for spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The firm will seek to manage its own LTE and 5G networks in at least six ‘digital’ factories, it is understood.  Klaus Helmrich, chief executive of the company’s...

Will carriers be ousted, or forced to cede ground, in the enterprise market with the rise of private networking and the liberalisation of spectrum in the 5G era? Nokia thinks the existential threat to the operator community has been overplayed. “By and large, almost exclusively,...

Facility will produce 5G equipment for LatAm market Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson announced plans to invest 1 billion reais ($238.3 million) to install a new assembly line for 5G in Brazil, Reuters reported, citing a company executive. According to the report, the future production line...

Nokia has struck a deal with the Polish city of Wroclaw to deliver new smart city services across healthcare, transport, education, security and local business incubation. Wrocław, on the Oder River in western Poland, will deploy an open data integration platform from Nokia, bundled up...

German regulators prepping to allocate private 5G spectrum Finnish vendor Nokia said it expects to provide 5G networks for small and medium-sized German companies following the opening of the application procedure for local firms intending to use 5G frequencies on industrial campuses, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported. Nokia highlighted...

This Appledore whitepaper shows how various operations functions fit together and how you can reduce the frequency of “re-invention”, by re-using both software and experience. It shows how CSPs can make 100:1 improvements in many cost and agility metrics and make agile innovation realistic. And,...

The 5G telecommunications services market has an estimated value of $2 trillion worldwide. To claim their share, service providers need to adopt new ways of working that support novel business models built around the network as a platform for value creation. They need to...

  Chinese state-owned mobile carrier China Mobile has already deployed nearly 50,000 5G base stations across the country, state news agency Xinhua reported the company’s  chairman Yang Jie as saying. China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile services provider in terms of subscribers, currently provides 5G services...

Nokia has deployed private LTE networks with more than 120 customers across multiple industries and geographies, it has revealed.  The Finnish vendor said it had deployed almost two in five (37 per cent), on average, of its total private wireless networks in Europe, followed by...