U.K. carrier Vodafone announced it has switched on what it claims to be the first 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) site in the country, the telco said in a release. The site installed in the city of Bath is the first …
Research company Dell’Oro Group noted in a new forecast report that growth in the global mobile core network markeT (MCN) was being impacted by slow deployments of 5G Standalone (SA) by mobile carriers. According to the report, worldwide MCN 5-year …
German telco Deutsche Telekom said it will install two new cell towers to support a 5G campus network at PCK refinery in the coming months. The telco noted that the connection to a redundant and secure power supply will …
Smart buildings specialist Johnson Controls announced the launch of OpenBlue Indoor Air Quality-as-a-Service. The company claimed that the new offering is the first dedicated “as-a-service” Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) solution for buildings. “Johnson Controls believes the best healthy buildings …
Japanese telco NTT Docomo announced that it has developed an antenna system capable of creating a high-frequency mobile communication cell when a small piece of plastic is placed on top of a dielectric waveguide. In a release, the carrier said …
Honeywell and Acalvio Technologies announced the launch of a new solution designed to detect known and unknown attacks across the operational technology (OT) environments in commercial buildings. Honeywell Threat Defense Platform (HTDP) powered by Acalvio employs “active defense” and …
German operator O2/Telefónica Deutschland has activated the first mini-radio cells with Open RAN technology (O-RAN) in the city of Munich, the telco said in a statement. The telco said that these mini-radio cells will provide O2 customers with even more …
France is expected to achieve energy efficiency gains from 5G deployments in the most densely populated areas of the country from 2023, according to a study by local telecom regulator Arcep. Arcep has published a study evaluating different energy consumption …
Canadian telco Telus’ 5G network already reaches 70% of the Canadian population, the company said in a release. In a statement, the carrier said that the acceleration in 5G investments is part of its CAD54 billion ($43 billion) investment in …
Canadian smart building specialist Kontrol Technologies said it is expanding its BioCloud technology global footprint with a Japan-based trading company. ?BioCloud continues to garner international interest given the growing, ubiquitous need for creating safer spaces and monitoring of heating, …
Belgian regulator BIPT has opened the call for participation in a mobile spectrum auction planned for June this year. The spectrum auction will provide the first 5G licenses and redistribute key 2G and 3G bands, with a package of spectrum …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that Optage, a Japanese telecommunications provider, has selected HPE 5G Core Stack for its trial of a private 5G network, the former firm said in a release. Optage is testing the viability of “Local 5G” …
U.S. glass-manufacturing company View announced its smart windows will be installed at The Artise, a 605,000-square-foot Class-A office building in Bellevue, Washington. The building has been entirely pre-leased to Amazon as part of the company?s plan to bring 25,000 …
5G Advanced is expected to develop 5G to its fullest capabilities and is an important stepping stone for some of the use case capabilities that the industry wants to enable at a larger scale in the 6G era, Mikko Uusitalo, …
Shipments of 5G mobile phones in the Chinese market reached 266 million units in 2021, up 63.5% compared to shipments the previous year, local press reported, citing a report by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. According to …
Smart building solutions company Johnson Controls has completed the acquisition of FogHorn, a developer of Edge AI software for the industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. “Value is increasingly being created by applying intelligence at the edge-device …
Philippine mobile services provider Smart Communications has partnered with South Korean vendor Samsung for the deployment of the former’s 5G Standalone (5G SA) technology in the Philippines. This development follows Smart’s recent activation of initial commercial 5G SA sites in …
Vodafone Germany’s 5G network is currently available to more than 45 million people across the country, the telco said in a release. The company had previously said it aimed to service over 30 million people with 5G in Germany by …
Crown Castle International expects to put 5,000 small cells on air in 2022, a similar level compared to the previous year, the company’s CFO Daniel Schlanger recently said at Citi’s AppsEconomy Virtual Conference. The executive noted that the company expects …
PassiveLogic has secured $34 million in Series B funding from investors Addition and Keyframe, the company said in a release. The firm noted that these investors are joined by commercial real estate strategics, including RET Ventures, Brookfield Growth, and …
Indian telecom operators have submitted comments to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) asking the government to cut the reserve price for 5G spectrum, according to local press reports. Operators are saying that the reserve price for the 5G …
Vodafone Spain announced it will start to provide 5G coverage via the 700 MHz frequency in 109 municipalities in 30 provinces progressively from today, after the telco secured 2×10 megahertz of spectrum in the 700 MHz band in July. The …
German network and security specialist Lancom Systems supplied the FC Groningen stadium, in the Netherlands, with a new Wi-Fi network in collaboration with Lumiad, a wireless network technology expert. The stadium accommodates up to 22,500 spectators and, thanks to …
A total of 200 operators in 78 countries have already launched one or more 3GPP-compliant 5G services as of the end of December, according to the latest update from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). Also, 487 operators in 145 …
Chinese operators have deployed a total of 56,400 5G base stations in Beijing at the end of 2021, local news agency Xinhua reported. Local authorities have said that the number of 5G base stations in the Chinese capital is expected …
