European tech company ABB says that it has supported the construction of the New Development Bank (NDB) headquarters in Shanghai by installing an intelligent and integrated building controls system to manage indoor lighting, electric curtains and windows that involve …
Finnish vendor Nokia announced a partnership with Brazil’s Telecommunications Research and Development Center (CPQD), which is an independent government-affiliated research body, to jointly develop applications and solutions based on the Open RAN-compliant near-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC). In a release, …
Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile announced that 2.5 million customers had applied for a free unlimited mobile offer by Feb. 8. The mobile unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten recorded revenue of JPY60.7 billion ($577.9 million) in the fourth quarter of …
Korean operator KT ended 2020 with a total of 3.62 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the telco said in its earnings statement. In the last quarter of 2020, the KT added around 810,000 5G customers, while total 5G additions …
China Mobile Shanghai and Huawei deployed what they claim to be the world’s first 4.9 GHz commercial LampSite network in Shanghai, China. In a release, the Chinese vendor noted that this is the first time that an aggregate …
Mexican telecom group America Movil plans to invest about $8 billion this year to boost its network infrastructure and acquire additional 5G spectrum in new markets, the company’s CEO Daniel Hajj said during a conference call with investors. Hajj said …
Smart building tech and service company Honeywell and Idemia, a specialist in augmented identity, announced a strategic alliance to create an intelligent building ecosystem. The alliance will integrate Honeywell?s security and building management systems with Idemia?s biometric-based access control …
French research institute for electronics and information technologies CEA-Leti has announced a new European Union “6G” research project for next-generation wireless connectivity.. Called RISE-6G, it will design, prototype and test smart and energy-sustainable technological advances based on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces …
Chinese vendor Huawei believes that it will be extremely unlikely that the new U.S. administration would lift the current restrictions imposed by former President Donald Trump, Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, said at a media roundtable. “I think it’s …
France had a total of 19,938 5G authorized sites as of February 1, of which 9,426 were declared technically operational by the mobile telephone operators, France’s spectrum agency ANFR reported. The agency said that all these 5G sites have been …
Verizon Business is working with Zyter, a digital health and IoT-enablement platform, to help improve sports and entertainment venue operations. The company also said that the aim of the partnership is to deliver a smarter and more immersive …
Huawei has announced the opening of an Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab in Taiyuan, in China’s Shanxi Province. The lab was opened through the combined efforts of the government of Shanxi Province, Huawei Technologies, Jinneng Holding Group, and Shanxi Cloud …
Norwegian firm Disruptive Technologies (DT), which provides commercial-grade wireless sensors, recently secured a global reseller agreement with JLL that establishes DT as a certified supplier. Under the terms of the agreement, Disruptive Technologies wireless sensors are available for …
Singapore telecom regulator IMDA recently announced a new SGD30 million ($22.5 million) fund to accelerate the adoption and commercialization of 5G solutions in the country. The fund is part of IMDA’s 5G Innovation Program and will support solution providers and …
Five Fraunhofer Institutes are cooperating to conduct research activities on “6G” technology under the leadership of Fraunhofer IIS. With the project, called 6G Sentinel, the research institutes aim to develop key technologies for the future 6G mobile communications standard. The …
Keysight Technologies announced Nemo Backpack Pro, an in-building measurement solution for benchmarking 5G New Radio end-user quality of experience in enterprise facilities, airports, arenas and other indoor environments. As advanced 5G enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine-type communications …
Italian operator TIM joined an initiative recently announced by European carriers Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone Group to promote Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) technology for the implementation of next-generation mobile networks, the telco said in a release. …
Bell Canada announced plans to invest up to CAD1.2 billion ($934.7 million) to improve its networks over the next two years, setting initial goals to double 5G coverage and expand its fiber offering to 900,000 new locations in 2021. The …
In 2020, Chinese operators accelerated the deployment of 5G SA networks across the country and now operate more than 700,000 5G sites nationwide. New, massive deployments are expected to occur this year, to further expand 5G coverage in urban and …
The Smart Building certification (SBC) said it awarded its first platinum certification to Edge Olympic Amsterdam. The building has been called the smartest building in the world since its launch in 2018, surpassing its predecessor The Edge (also …
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo agreed to cooperate with 12 companies to move toward a “5G Open RAN Ecosystem,” with the objective to globally accelerate open radio access networks (O-RAN). The firms that will cooperate with the Japanese telco are Dell …
Korean operator SK Telecom expects to end 2021 with approximately 9 million 5G subscribers, the company’s CFO Poong Young Yoon, said during a conference call with investors. The executive said that SK Telecom had 5.48 million 5G subscribers at end-2020. …
The Chinese subsidiary of Japanese tech firm Hitachi Building Technology signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Telecom Guangzhou. ?The signing of the agreement is a result of and in response to the Guangzhou government’s call to facilitate …
South Korea ended 2020 with 11.85 million 5G subscribers, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT. In December 2020, Korean operators added approximately 900,000 5G subscribers. The country’s current 5G base accounted for …
Singapore carrier StarHub started to deploy a 5G Standalone network in the last quarter of 2020 and it will be commercially available later this year, Chong Siew Loong, CTO at StarHub, told RCR Wireless News. “With 5G SA technology, StarHub …
