Orange previously said it was planning to introduce 5G Standalone (SA) services for the general public in 2023
Ericsson and Orange France have signed a five-year agreement which will make Ericsson Charging the strategic monetization platform for Orange France’s 5G subscribers.
The cloud-native Ericsson Charging solution...
Samsung Electronics had published a white paper introducing its 6G vision in July 2020
Samsung Electronics released a white paper that lays out the company’s vision for securing global frequency bands for future 6G technology.
The paper, titled “6G Spectrum: Expanding the Frontier,” discusses ways to...
For the metaverse to go mainstream, there are questions that need answering around standardization, market development, governance and UI
The metaverse isn’t a single thing. It’s a confluence of technologies, some established and some developing, that could, if a number of factors align, reshape the...
Industrial 5G, capable of meeting the exacting performance requirements of mission- and business-critical applications, is continuing to evolve as relevant international organizations finalize standards for important features.
As these standards are memorialized and then integrated into commercial products, what's the outlook for industrial 5G adoption,...
Blue White Robotics, Federated Wireless, and Intel have announced work to adapt and connect existing farm equipment, notably tractors, at a California winery into autonomous production vehicles. The trio said the test project, which includes a private 4G/5G installation in the US CBRS band,...
5G drives higher speed, lower latency and greater capacity than 4G LTE networks, making it critical across industries globally. We have just started scratching the surface of the type of new use cases that become possible through 5G’s innovation potential. While the rollout of 5G...
Ethio Telecom CEO says to expect 150 cell sites over the next year
Ethiopia’s Ethio Telecom launched a pre-commercial 5G network across six mobile stations in the capital city of Addis Ababa this week. The launch, said the company, is an important milestone in its...
Industrial 5G, capable of meeting the exacting performance requirements of mission- and business-critical applications, is continuing to evolve as relevant international organizations finalize standards for important features. As these standards are memorialized and then integrated into commercial products, what's the outlook for industrial 5G adoption,...
Vodafone has launched a new ‘edge innovation programme’ (2.0) to offer enterprise customers and technology partners the chance to co-create new applications with on-premise edge and network-based edge multi-access edge compute (MEC) resources, as well as with standard centralise cloud functions. The UK operator...
Edge: how can organizations put action into one of the biggest buzzwords? With technology advancements, 5G maturity, and accelerated IoT adoption skyrocketing the number of connected endpoints – an anticipated 70 billion active IoT devices by 2030 – bringing data to the edge can...
Nokia said the new lab will serve as a central repository for cybersecurity knowledge that will be shared across Nokia and with its operator, enterprise and government customers
Nokia announced the launch of its Advanced Security Testing and Research (ASTaR) lab in Dallas, Texas.
In a...
Rogers and Shaw said they remain committed to the proposed merger due to the long-term benefits it will bring for consumers and businesses
Canadian operators Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications said they were notifiied of the Commissioner of Competition’s intention to file applications to...
ZTE said the 5G demonstration used a SA coverage layer based on 700MHz (n28) and 1400MHz (n75) bands
Qualcomm Technologies, Three Austria and ZTE said they have successfully executed a 5G network demonstration using a standalone (SA) coverage layer based on 700MHz (n28) and 1400MHz...
Safaricom began its 5G trials in March 2021 in Nairobi, Kisumu, Kisii and Kakamega
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has reportedly allocated 60 megahertz of spectrum in the 2600 MHz band to Safaricom for its 5G network in Kenya. The decision is notable as...
When it comes to 5G and spectrum, there are a lot of complicating factors at work. While previous generations of cellular technologies typically brought new spectrum into play, 5G is making use of familiar sub-6 GHz frequencies that have been foundational to cellular networks,...
The UK telco said its 5G services reaches one third of the country's population
U.K. operator Three UK ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 2,800 5G sites in 370 towns and cities across the country, the company said in a...
The number of authorized 5G sites during April increased by 1.8% compared to March
France had a total of 33,557 authorized 5G sites as of May 1, of which 24,553 were declared technically operational by the local mobile carriers, according to the latest monthly report...
Verizon Business said the new strategy will focus on venues and stadiums in Europe and Asia Pacific
Verizon Business and Extreme Networks announced a strategic partnership with the aim of providing connectivity and network solutions for large venues and stadiums across Europe and Asia Pacific.
The...
With 5G deployments well underway around the world and the technology beginning the shift from its first, Non Standalone iteration to end-to-end 5G, the focus of standards work continues to look ahead to enhancements yet to be achieved in this generation, while researchers and...
Signal repeaters can offset the need for new 5G base stations, adding network density without additional infrastructure
Increasing network capacity is critical for achieving the coverage and speeds promised by 5G; but obstacles like cost, time and community objection make building out the necessary number...
Amdocs had previously announced the expansion of its 5G Value Plane offerings
Amdocs has opened its new Americas 5G Experience Lab in Dallas, Texas.
In a release, Amdocs said that the new 5G lab will enable organizations to create innovative services leveraging the power of 5G...
Ericsson exec: 'Private cellular networks are principal catalysts for the utilities sector'
Ericsson has opened a Global Utilities Innovation Center at its facility in Plano, Texas that houses a purpose-built operating lab and demo environment locations designed for utilities to experiment with 4G and 5G use cases...
Orange said it expects its 5G network to reach 1,500 localities by the end of 2022
Spanish operator Orange ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 1.11 million 5G subscribers after adding 228,000 in the period, the telco said in a...
Dell Technologies’ Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab Solution Integration Platform brings together telecom hardware, software, ISVs, enterprise IT and cloud providers
Even if you take Open RAN out of the mix (but why do something crazy like that?), Standalone 5G is very much an exercise in...
