Nearly 1,000 5G smartphone users in South Korea have expressed interest in taking legal action against the country’s three major telecom operators — SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus due to the alleged poor quality of the service, local news …
Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 298 towns and cities in 38 provinces across the country, the telco said in a statement. According to the telco, 5G coverage already reaches 23% of the Spanish population. Orange said …
Japanese operator SoftBank has launched its 5G mmWave service, using devices based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 5G mobile platforms and modem-RF Systems, Qualcomm Technologies said in a release. The chipmaker noted that the launch of 5G mmWave will allow Japanese users …
75F, an IoT-based Building Management System (BMS) company based in Minneapolis, announced a close of an additional $4.75 million, bringing 75F’s total Series A to just under $23 million. The additional funding, which was provided by a syndicate led …
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and smart buildings company Johnson Controls have announced a joint collaboration on smart buildings research. As part of the agreement, Johnson Controls will commit about S$5 million ($3.7 million) into the research program. …
Chinese vendor ZTE said it expects its first-quarter net profit to more than double year-on-year, to an estimated CNY 1.8-2.4 billion ($276.7-368.9 million), mainly driven by continued revenue growth and improving gross margins and profitability. In its 2020 earnings statement, …
Nokia warned it could cut up to 10,000 jobs as part of a wider restructuring effort designed to reset the vendor’s cost base and increase research and dvelopment investment and future capabilities including 5G, cloud and digital infrastructure. In a …
Canadian telecommunications services provider SaskTel has selected Samsung as the sole vendor to supply the company with its 4G/5G Radio Access Network (RAN) and Core, the South Korean vendor said in a release. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung …
The U.K. has completed its latest 5G spectrum auction, raising a total of GBP 1.35 billion ($1.88 billion), telecommunications regulator Ofcom said in a release. Ofcom said that local carriers EE, Hutchison 3G UK, Telefonica’s O2 and Vodafone took part …
Veea, which specializes in smart edge connectivity and computing, announced a collaboration with Innovatus Capital Partners and Wynd Technologies to offer an Air Quality Monitoring (AQM) solution for commercial office buildings. The initial deployment is in operation at the …
American Tower and Dish Network Corporation have signed a master lease agreement through which the latter company may lease space on up to 20,000 American Tower communications sites. Through the deal, Dish will secure access to American Tower’s U.S. portfolio …
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is expected to ask the country’s telecoms regulator to lower the minimum price for the auction of 5G airwaves, Indian newspaper Mint reported, citing an official with knowledge of the matter. Local carriers have been …
U.S. glass-manufacturing company View announced that its smart windows will be installed in the new 350,000-square-foot expansion of Terminal 5 at Chicago?s O?Hare International Airport (ORD). View’s smart windows use artificial intelligence to optimize the amount of natural light …
Schneider Electric France has signed a technological partnership with Wattsense to introduce a new Building Management Systems (BMS) solution, specially designed for energy efficiency and the sustainable development of small to medium-size buildings. In a release, Wattsense said that …
Belgian operator Telenet has selected Ericsson, Nokia and Google Cloud as the main partners for the rollout of its 5G network. The operator said that the process to select its 5G partners started in early 2020. “5G is so much …
The Paris Council approved a new telecom charter which will give the green light for 5G deployments in the French capital. The charter was approved with the support of right-wing officials and despite the opposition from environmentalists, who had proposed …
German operator Deutsche Telekom said it has built up 5G capacities at 892 mobile sites across Germany in the past two months. The European carrier also said that the mobile sites also provide LTE connectivity through Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) …
Chinese operator China Unicom revealed its 5G user numbers for the first time since the telco launched the technology in October 2019, closing 2020 with 70.8 million package subscribers. In its earnings statement, China Unicom noted that 5G customers accounted …
Telkonet has announced a strategic partnership with Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US (METUS), a supplier of ductless and ducted mini-split and Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) heat-pump and air-conditioning systems. Together the companies have built a native integration between City …
Finnish vendor Nokia announced plans to conduct a 5G Business-to-Business (B2B) digital platform trial for Korean operator LG Uplus. Once deployed, the B2B platform will allow LG Uplus to reduce time-to-market for launching 5G-powered services to its enterprise and …
The Danish Energy Authority has started the auction of spectrum in five frequency bands, namely the 1.5 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands. The agency also confirmed that the bidders are TDC Net, 3 Denmark, …
Smart building specialist Honeywell has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Fiplex Communications, a Miami-based company that develops in-building communications systems, the former said in a release. Fiplex?s portfolio includes bi-directional amplifiers (BDAs) that provide …
China Telecom expects to increase investments in 5G infrastructure this year with the aim of almost doubling the number of base stations in the country, the company said in its annual report. The Chinese carrier said it has earmarked a …
The U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom officially announced that the its 5G spectrum auction will start on March 12. “The auction will increase the total amount of spectrum available for mobile technology in the UK by nearly a fifth, bringing better …
Smart building tech and service company Honeywell has been awarded a contract for the installation of integrated building management systems across all Mouwasat Medical Services (MMS) hospitals in Saudi Arabia. The contract will enable MMS to optimize its energy …
