BROWSING: 5G

Amdocs and BMC to automate IT and 5G ops for telecoms and financial services

OSS/BSS company Amdocs has an alliance with enterprise digitalization software provider BMC to sell the latter’s automation, operations, and service management solutions into the telecoms industry, as well as to financial services industries. The pair are focused on automating IT and network operations to...

Telstra and Ericsson partner to offer 5G slicing for Australian firms

Telstra and Ericsson said they have finalized the build of the initial wireless capabilities for this project Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian operator Telstra announced plans to deliver 5G network slicing services for Australian enterprises as part of their existing partnership. The pair said they have...

Verizon to deploy private 5G networks across NHL arenas

Verizon Business is currently piloting private 5G wireless network in select arenas U.S. carrier Verizon and the National Hockey League (NHL) announced a multi-year sponsorship renewal under which the telco will continue to be the league’s official partner in the 5G field.   Additionally, as an...

Vodafone to power its 5G infra in Germany using renewable energy

Vodafone also deployed 2G, LTE and 5G technology to improve the operational capabilities of RWE's offshore wind farm German carrier Vodafone and compatriot energy company RWE have signed a deal to power thousands of cellular network towers across Germany with renewable energy from offshore wind...

Telstra claims record speed over 5G SA using sub-6 GHz spectrum

Telstra said the new 5G SA uplink capability combines its mid-band spectrum holdings to create a 140MHz channel for sending data from the device to the network Australian operator Telstra claimed a new global record for 5G uplink speed of 340 Mbps, in partnership with...

Telus, Samsung claim Canada’s first 5G vRAN, O-RAN network

Telus said that the commercial deployment of this technology will begin in the first half of this year Canadian operator Telus and Samsung Electronics announced that they will build what they say will be Canada’s first commercial virtualized and Open RAN (O-RAN) network. The companies said...

Virgin Media O2’s 5G network reaches half of UK population

Virgin Media O2 said its total mobile base grew to 44.9 million in full year 2023 U.K. telco Virgin Media O2 said its 5G network reached a coverage of 50% of the country’s population as of the end of 2023, the company said in its...

HFCL secures deal with Indian telco BSNL to provide 4G, 5G gear

Under this order, HFCL will provide products and services to BSNL to support 4G and 5G network requirements Indian telecom gear company HFCL has secured an order worth INR 1.79 billion ($21.55 million) from state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to supply 4G and 5G...

StarHub reaches 99% coverage in Singapore with its 5G network

StarHub had launched its 5G network in the country in 2020 Singaporean telco StarHub said its outdoor 5G network has achieved over 99% coverage nearly four years after the carrier introduced 5G technology. In 2020, StarHub’s 5G service only had 50% of network coverage across the...

InterDigital Webinar: What’s Ahead for 5G Advanced

Following the publication of the State of 5G Advanced report, written by ABI Research and commissioned by InterDigital, this webinar will introduce some of the exciting news and opportunities 5G Advanced will make for the telecoms ecosystem and on our path towards 6G. 5G...

Costa Rican court suspends exclusion of Huawei as a 5G provider

The ruling also ordered to suspend any award act to define a supplier of equipment or software to activate the 5G infrastructure in Costa Rica A Costa Rican court has issued a provisional precautionary measure that suspended the execution of a government regulation which had...

Nokia, A1 deploy 5G edge cloud network slicing solution

The 5G edge cloud network slicing solution can be used by enterprises and industries across a wide range of use cases including retail, media, utilities, healthcare and transportation Finnish vendor Nokia and Austrian carrier A1 Austria announced that they have successfully completed what it claims...

Editorial Webinar: The move to 5G Standalone and creating a cloud-native telco

As 5G marks its fifth year in commercial availability, network monetization is elusive and it seems the best is (hopefully) still to come. The shift from 5G Non-standalone to Standalone is a pivotal moment, introducing a new cloud-native core, revolutionary service-based architecture and dynamic management for...

CTIA calls for adoption of harmonized midband spectrum in the US

The report highlighted the fact that the U.S. has less spectrum than its international peers, including China Allocating harmonized mid-band spectrum for 5G technologuy can unlock approximately $200 billion for the U.S economy over the next 10 years, according to a new study by Accenture,...

The story of an Orange (network) slice—and a vocabulary lesson

Think Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny: "What is a git anyways?" The move to 5G Standalone is afoot, and operators are working out the kinks of instantiating network slices tuned to the needs of particular end user applications. In the broader move...

Cellular NTN provider Skylo raises $37m from Intel, BMW, Samsung, others

US-based Skylo Technologies has raised $37 million for its non-terrestrial cellular 5G network (NTN), including from the investment arms of Intel, BMW, and Samsung, among others. The new investment will go to expand its satellite network and business operations, as it looks to load...

Ericsson, Indian Statistical Institute sign joint research agreement

Ericsson said that the agreement with ISI will be valid for a three-year period Swedish vendor Ericsson announced that it has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) for multiple research activities, the former said in a release. The agreement, which will...

Cloud RAN is the foundation for the future of cloud-native 5G RAN

As CSPs look to increase network flexibility and scalability without sacrificing efficiency in new disaggregated radio systems, Cloud RAN will play a key role With 5G networks operating at scale, communications service providers (CSPs) stand ready to embark on the next evolution of cellular. The...

India starts process to award more spectrum this year

The government of India said that the base price for the new spectrum will be set at INR963 billion ($11.6 billion) The Indian government has officially approved the auction of 10,523 megahertz of spectrum in multiple bands, including frequencies for 5G, local press reported, citing...

Chile modifies calendar for incoming 5G spectrum auction

Under the new scheme, Subtel will announce the winners of the spectrum on March 5 Chilean telecommunications services regulator Subtel made new changes to the calendar for the spectrum auction through which it will award frequencies in the 3.5 GHz band. Under the new scheme, Subtel...

Vonage and Verizon to collaborate on advanced network APIs

The partners said that they will collaborate on developing new network APIs for developers globally Vonage and U.S. carrier Verizon have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) outlining their intention to introduce Verizon network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to the Vonage platform that will enable...

10 new 5G projects get €50m EU funds – for healthcare, public safety, logistics

Ten new projects have been selected for €50 million of European Union (EU) funding from a second call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) programme. The focus of the funding is 5G for Smart Communities’, and includes a couple of notable...

BT, Ericsson and Qualcomm partner on 5G SA network slicing

Ericsson said that the 5G demo was carried out using the vendor's 5G core and radio access network technology BT Group, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies said they have successfully demonstrated end-to-end consumer and enterprise 5G differentiated connectivity enabled by network slicing. In a release, Ericsson said...

Stage X to launch 5G network in Korea next year: Report

Stage X said it will deploy a total of 6,000 5G base stations nationwide South Korean company Stage X, which has been awarded spectrum that will enable it to be the nation's fourth mobile carrier, plans to launch nationwide mobile network services in the first...