Traditionally, development kits and advanced toolsets allow designers to quickly and efficiently leverage new technologies. Integrating and aggregating In-Building wireless architectures is one of those areas where development expertise can help engineering teams rapidly and seamlessly adopt new technologies and bring them to market...
The fog of trade war continues to creep in. While The South China Morning Post reported yesterday that China’s regulatory agency the Ministry of Commerce, or Mofcom, finally approved Qualcomm’s $44 billion deal to purchase NXP, the news service Reuters said its sources close...
MNOs may boycott 5G auction over cost concerns
Italian broadcaster Mediaset and media group Cairo Communication have filed an appeal with a regional court against rules set by Italy’s communications regulator Agcom for an auction of 5G frequencies, Reuters reports, citing sources with knowledge of...
AT&T planning San Jose 5G launch in first half of 2019
Noted tech hub San Jose, Calif., certainly has the attention of AT&T and Verizon. Today both companies announced agreements with the city centered on massive build out of small cells and implementing a variety...
Diverse requirements of 5G services command co-creation beyond telecoms
Massive support for the internet of things is a major aspect of 5G. And we're not talking about consumer IoT like wearables or smart home devices; we're talking about billions of devices driving digital transformation for...
If deal goes through, the newly merged company would be the third largest operator in the Dutch market.
Concerned about reduced competition in the telecom market, the European Commission has launched a probe into T-Mobile Netherlands’ deal to acquire Tele2 AB's Dutch subsidiary Tele2 NL....
The White House said the attempt by a bipartisan group of senators to block the deal would violate the Constitution’s separation of powers
The Trump administration said it will seek to block an attempt by a bipartisan group of senators trying to reinstate a seven-year...
Microsemi and China Telecom are working prepare optical transport networks for an avalanche of 5G use cases.
Semiconductor company Microsemi and China Telecom's Beijing Research Institute are working on 5G-ready optical transport solutions, Microsemi announced yesterday.
Key to the effort is the DIGI-G5 chipset, Microsemi’s optical...
Mobile Network Operators simply cannot unleash the tremendous speed and capacity of 5G network technology on the operations infrastructure without a great deal of preparation. And with approximately a two-year window before 5G is deployed at any meaningful scale, the time to prepare is...
Ericsson, Intel, China Mobile complete standard-compliant call
Sticking to its aggressive timeline for finalization of the standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification, the 3GPP yesterday approved the details of Release 15 building on the work completed in December related to non-standalone 5G NR.
Michael Thelander, president...
Operators pursuing 5G differently in the U.S., Europe and APAC
LONDON—As with previous generations of cellular connectivity, there are many reasons for an operator to want to claim a world's-first in terms of deploying and offering a commercial service—there's inherent marketing and brand equity benefits...
Nokia said its end-to-end 5G new radio data call used the 3.5 GHz frequency band
Nokia has successfully completed an end-to-end 5G New Radio data call as part of a 5G research and development trial being carried out by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and...
NXP Semiconductors released a radio frequency front-end product line for creating massive multiple-input, multiple output (mMIMO) systems.
NXP Semiconductors announced the availability of its 5G RF front-end portfolio for massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, a key ingredient of 5G networks. This group is the most recent...
National Instruments and IP-software startup NanoSemi are collaborating to add NanoSemi’s linearizer to NI’s PXI systems to help test 5G New Radio front-end designs. The addition will streamline some of the advanced 5G testing and add machine-learning capabilities through digital pre-distortion algorithms.
The target customers...
Cellular ‘internet-of-thing’ (IoT) connections will reach 3.5 billion by 2023, from around 0.6 billion million today, with compound annual growth of 30 per cent per year, according to Ericsson, with most take-up in the industrial and automotive markets.
In total, Ericsson predicts 19.8 billion...
Senators move to reinstate ZTE ban as Department of Commerce said ZTE must replace its entire board of directors within the next 30 days
Adding a new wrinkle to the ZTE saga, a bipartisan group of senators is trying to reinstate the ban on the...
London has set out a five-point digital strategy to make it the smartest city in the world.
Among more than 20 initiatives, bucketed into five ‘mission’ themes, the plan details a new Civic Innovation Challenge to match startups with enterprises, a new London Office for...
Korea's top mobile carrier partners with drone maker DJI to add live- streaming high-def video to drones.
Korean mobile operator SK Telecom and China-based drone-maker DJI have agreed to co-develop high-performance, high-definition live video streaming capabilities for drones for use on mobile networks. A live, real-time,...
Millimeter wave cell density and building penetration
LONDON—Millimeter wave frequencies will be a central part of delivering the ultra high capacity data throughput associated with 5G, but, given its unique propagation characteristics, putting high-band spectrum to work is a challenge.
During a keynote session at 5G...
Nokia eyeing 2019 for launch of AI-powered 5G Digital Design tool
LONDON—5G is many things, chief among them complex and expensive to deploy. As operators evolve network infrastructure from LTE and, over time, to robust 5G, how do they chart a course that balances capital...
Ooredoo said it aims to upgrade 100 base stations to 5G within the next three months
Qatar-based telecommunications group Ooredoo has announced the launch of what it claims to be the world’s first live 5G home broadband devices.
The devices, which are currently being tested on...
ZTE issued an internal memo with apologies for customers and employees
The U.S government will “shut down” Chinese vendor ZTE in the United States if the engages in one more violation of U.S. trade rules, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told U.S press on...
The government also aims to award millimeter-wave spectrum in 2021
The government of Canada confirmed plans to auction key wireless spectrum for the provision of 5G service in 2020.
"We believe this puts us in a relatively strong position relative to our international peers," Canadian press...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — 3D chips are the next frontier for machine-learning chip design, said Globalfoundaries CTO of ASICs, at the IoT DevCon and Machine Learning Conference this week.
Wireless networks and equipment on them, even internet of things equipment, will likely have machine learning...
Columbia’s research team is working at Verizon’s 5G incubator in New York
Columbia University’s Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory is currently experimenting with virtual reality (VR) using pre-commercial 5G technology from Verizon to develop new telemedicine solutions.
Trials are being carried out at they Alley,...
