Antennas: A critical element in your 5G network
The antenna has become a very complex and invaluable segment of the 5G network, and momentum is rapidly building up with 5G, particularly in light of recent announcements in the mobile service provider (MSP) world, on the standardization...
Hawaii’s governor said the new law will boost the deployment of next-generation wireless broadband infrastructure
Hawaii Governor David Ige has signed new legislation which will allow the deployment of small cells across the state in a move to support the expansion of next-generation wireless broadband...
Altice said it expects to raise $2.9 billion through the sales of stakes in its businesses in these two countries
Dutch-based telecoms and cable group Altice plans to raise 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion) through the sale of stakes in its telecoms towers businesses in...
Solar-powered, self-driving robots that charge electric vehicles: what's not to like?
Sprint and Adaptive Motion Group (AMG) are debuting a self-driving robot that will charge electric vehicles in New York City. The robot, named Mobi, can charge cars buses, cars and industrial vehicles, and is itself...
Huawei said the recent tests examined cell throughput, user experienced data rate, mobility, network latency and key 5G solutions
Huawei said it became the first vendor to pass China’s third-phase 5G research and development tests based on 3GPP's non-standalone (NSA) 5G specifications.
During this trial, Huawei...
5G tests continue on Verizon's pre-commercial 5G nodes. 5G shows strong use case for remote experts using virtual reality or augmented reality.
If there is anything Verizon’s experimental 5G node has done in the NYC Alley, it has proven that use cases for augmented, virtual,...
Platform includes maintenance reminders, preventive notifications and roadside assistance
Sprint has partnered with NXM Labs to launch a 5G-ready connected car platform.
The carrier said the platform will offer high-speed, on-demand passenger Wi-Fi with advanced vehicle health monitoring and safety. The connectivity service will be offered...
Trump may have given the Apple iPhone a hall pass around tariffs thanks to CEO Tim Cook's negotiations with Trump, according to published reports
President Donald Trump has reassured Apple CEO Tim Cook that the iPhone will not be on any of the White House's...
The 3GPP RAN Plenary meeting that is taking place in San Diego on the second week of June is expected to define the next set of 5G NR Study Items, paving the path to future Work Items that will start as early as the...
MediaTek plans to increase research into 5G and artificial intelligence.
Fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Chairman and CEO Ming-Kai Tsai said MediaTek would be investing more money in research and development of 5G and artificial intelligence technologies, according to an article in DigiTimes. The remarks were made...
SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ have secured spectrum in both 3.5GHz and 28GHz bands
South Korea has completed a tender process through which it awarded spectrum in both 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz bands for the provision of 5G services.
The government had made available...
The carrier is currently working to deploy the trials in the cities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London and Manchester
Vodafone has announced plans to carry out 5G trials in seven cities across the U.K during the last quarter of the year.
The telco said...
The quarterly 3GPP RAN Plenary Meeting in San Diego, California, marks two important milestones that will take us another step closer to our vision for 5G— a unifying connectivity fabric that will expand the reach of mobile to new services, deployments, and spectrum types:
The...
5G-ready smartphones won't start appearing until the first half of 2019, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report.
Ericsson expects the first smartphones supporting 5G to be available in early 2019, according to its June Ericsson Mobility Report. The report came out before the 3GPP...
T-Mobile CEO says combination will prompt increased 5G investment by AT&T, Verizon
As company executives work Washington D.C. circles to develop support for the proposed merger, T-Mobile US and Sprint are making their case for regulatory approval with a joint public interest statement filed June...
Senators and representatives will have meeting to reconcile the two versions of the annual defense bill
The U.S. Senate has approved an amendment to the annual defense spending bill which threatens a recent agreement between the Department of Commerce and Chinese vendor ZTE to lift...
Munich-based test equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has updated its CMW500 radio tester and SMBV100A GNSS simulator to support cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) device certification. It is the first test equipment vendor to offer a “comprehensive” C-V2X test suite for the car industry, it said.
3GPP...
“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the industrial IoT (IIoT) race has already begun.” This was the view from GE Digital...
While 5G could be deployed without Artificial Intelligence (AI) and edge compute, intelligent edge will be essential to new revenues and lower costs for 5G.
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The New York City government said awardees will have the right to use existing light and utility poles to deploy new wireless infrastructure
The New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has released a request for proposals (RFP) for firms who wish to...
3GPP finalized standalone 5G New Radio last week
Last week was big for the continued development of technological specifications for next-generation 5G networks. Meeting in a hotel ballroom in La Jolla, California, 3GPP members froze the specifications for standalone 5G New Radio six months after...
The Chinese vendor invited Australian security agencies to meet with the firm R&D specialists to better understand its technology
Chinese vendor Huawei may be prevented from taking part in the deployment of Australia’s 5G networks due to national security concerns, according to published reports.
The Australian...
Affirmed Networks benchmarks vEPC performance
Network virtualization is most certainly a process, but one that's imperative to the evolution from hardware-driven connectivity to much more flexible software control. While operators approach softwarization differently, many see deployment of a virtual evolved packet core (vEPC) as a...
Verizon's pre-commercial 5G technology runs mixed reality on 5G successfully
Imagine walking through a building that you are designing long before the structure has been built. You’re able to see what your design looks like, down to the doorknobs, and how it feels to walk...
5G entering the trough of disillusionment
The hype cycle is a tool developed by Gartner to help understand how particular technologies are regarded in terms of the reality of expectations as compared to how the technology is used over time. There are five phases: the...
