Ireland is using the EU 5G Security Toolbox as a regulatory framework
The Irish government has announced a series of measures to boost the security of electronic communications, including 5G networks.
The new legislation will enable the government to exclude “high-risk” telecom providers from being used...
Singapore regulator IMDA awarded 2.1 GHz spectrum for 5G
Singapore carriers secured additional spectrum for the provision of 5G services after local regulator Infocomm Media Authority (IMDA) awarded spectrum in the 2.1 GHz band.
This spectrum is in addition to the first tranche of 3.5 GHz...
Shangdong is using 5G for applications in the media, transport and education sectors
Chinese operators have already deployed 100,000 5G base stations in Shandong Province, covering the urban areas of all its county-level areas, local news agency Xinhua reported.
Shandong is China’s second largest Province in...
German sports car manufacturer Porsche has recruited Ericsson for a private 5G network at its manufacturing production complex in Leipzig, in Germany. Porsche is using an enterprise 5G licence from German regulator BNetzA in the 3.7-3.8 GHz ‘vertical’ spectrum band. It said the deployment...
Nokia and Telia have combined to deploy a private 5G network for Canada-based Agnico Eagle Mines in Finland. The new 5G standalone (SA) setup will support above and below ground mining operations at the firm’s Kittilä mine in the Lapland province of Finland, billed...
Recently, at ZTE 5G Summit, Dr. Bai Gang, VP of ZTE, presented the topic of "Continuous Innovation advances 5G Value Growing". In his speech, he mentioned several ZTE innovative solutions which can bring significant values to 5G advancement and industrial partners. Based on key points of...
For operators to effectively monetize 5G, the thinking is that 5G networks need to be coupled with a geographically distributed mobile edge computing (MEC) infrastructureand enterprise-facing applications capable of delivering business outcomes that help a user save money or make money. That logic is...
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 43.81 million 5G subscribers in October, according to the carriers’ latest available figures.
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, added a total of 24.3 million 5G subscribers last month.
The telco said it ended last...
German system integrator (SI) Siticom has secured a contract to deploy a private 5G network at the WISTA Science and Technology Park in Berlin-Adlershof in Germany. Siticom is working with Nokia on the project; it beat at least two of the three major mobile...
JTower and NTT Docomo announced that they have formed a capital and business alliance with the aim of strengthening collaboration in the field of infrastructure sharing.
As part of the alliance, Docomo plans to acquire part of JTower shares held by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone...
According to Oracle's Director of Product Marketing Chantel Cary, there are still more questions than answers around how to best monetize 5G. Listen to this week's episode to discover how the company is helping CSPs tackle this reality.
Ericsson will buy Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal
Network equipment and services provider Ericsson will acquire enterprise cloud services company Vonage in a $6.2 billion deal, which it touts as fundamental to creating a cloud-focused platform centered on "open innovation" and the ability for...
In a blog post, mobile cloud provider now.gg referenced a 2020 IDC report to claim that 60-70% of phones worldwide aren’t suited for gaming. The company uses this to support the idea that if a gamer uses the hybrid cloud to run a game,...
Chinese vendor Huawei is in talks with almost all Brazilian operators that secured 5G spectrum in a recent spectrum auction, with the aim of selling 5G equipment, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported.
According to the report, Huawei could potentially find advantages in serving the Brazilian...
Ericsson and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) have announced an initial three-year research and development (R&D) partnership focused on three research projects aimed at advancing telecommunication networks with innovative technologies.
In a release, the Swedish vendor said that the partnership aims to...
Hyperscalers, with only varied and newly acquired in-house 5G knowledge, are outpacing telcos, with 40 years in the game, at private 5G, according to new research from Omdia. The analyst house has named Microsoft as the ‘top innovator’ in the field, ahead of AT&T...
Amid anticipation for the freshly passed $65 billion in funding for broadband expansion, a new report from CTIA estimates that 5G Fixed Wireless Access broadband could serve nearly half of rural households in the U.S.
According to the report, Accenture reckons that 43% of rural...
ABI Research forecasts that approximately 90% of 5G cell sites in emerging markets will be operating with support for a combination of sub-6 GHz bands by 2026.
In a release, the consultancy noted that sub-6 GHz bands will provide optimum coverage while catering for sufficient...
A new report, published by European carriers Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, TIM and Vodafone, and based on findings from research firm Analysys Mason, called upon policymakers, EU member states, and industry stakeholders to collaborate and urgently prioritize Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN).
“Open, intelligent,...
It is a good question, and maybe the only question for mobile operators going into the Industry 4.0 space. Camille Mendler, a chief analyst at Omdia, asked it of Google Cloud in a recent webinar, which went under the same header, about why mobile...
Japanese operator SoftBank and compatriot car maker Honda announced they have started a use case-based verification of technologies to reduce collisions between pedestrians and vehicles using a 5G Standalone mobile communication system and a cellular V2X communication system.
Using SoftBank's 5G SA experimental base station...
Canadian operator Rogers and the University of British Columbia (UBC) announced a new partnership for 5G research.
Under the extended partnership, researchers at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses and Rogers will seek to develop, explore and test new 5G capabilities in areas such as wildfire...
Equinix will provide digital infrastructure services to support Dish’s cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network. As a result, Dish will have access to the infrastructure company’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers across the U.S.
“Dish is taking the lead in delivering on the promise of...
UK telecoms integrator Colt Technology Services is leading a private 5G consortium including Accedian, ADVA, Airspan, and Athonet to test end-to-end private cellular in a real estate environment in France. The setup uses a disaggregated architecture, and has a bearing on related verticals, notably...
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) unveiled plans to more than triple the number of 5G base stations over the next four years, targeting a total of 3.64 million by end-2025, local newspaper China Daily reported.
Under this plan, China aims to have...
