Trump said the Chinese vendor will need to pay a $1.3 billion fine, change its management and hire U.S compliance officers
U.S President Donald Trump said the U.S government will allow Chinese vendor ZTE to restart its business, after it pays another large fine and...
Biggest change in 5G core reflected in mission critical communications
In December the 3GPP adopted the non-standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification and, following a meeting last week in South Korea, the group is poised next month to freeze contributions to the standalone 5G NR...
ETSI's Open Source MANO (OSM) release 4.0 is lighter weight, more mature
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute responsible for European Union telecom standards, announced Release 4 of its Open Source MANO (management and orchestration) standard last week. ETSI is billing OSM 4.0 as a lighter,...
Taiwanese telco Asia Pacific Telcom said it has been authorized to deploy a 5G wireless trial network
Taiwanese telecom operator Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) has received the approval from local regulators to build a 5G wireless trial network in preparation for a commercial launch in...
Incoming 5G technologies will put industrial applications front and centre, and enable new functionalities in critical communications, according to IHS Markit.
The research house told Enterprise IoT Insights at Critical Communications World (CCW) in Berlin last week 5G will impact industrial space in the way...
A free-wheeling NI Week keynote panel discussed self-driving cars issues
A physicist, a semiconductor salesman and a lawyer all met on a stage at NI Week -- sounds like the beginning of a bad joke involving a bar. Instead it was National Instruments’ keynote panel...
Macro, small cells, fiber, data centers all part of network convergence
Summarizing the programming at the Wireless Infrastructure Association's ConnectX event in Charlotte, N.C., Jonathan Adelstein, president and CEO of the trade association, highlighted the increasing level of network convergence shaping the telecom industry's evolution...
Private, licensed networks needed to support mission critical IoT security, Full Spectrum CEO says
While initial 5G deployments are focused on enhanced mobile broadband, the two other primary 5G use cases speak to enablement of massive internet of things (IoT) deployments and ultra reliable low...
Private, licensed networks needed to support mission critical IoT security, Full Spectrum CEO says
While initial 5G deployments are focused on enhanced mobile broadband, the two other primary 5G use cases speak to enablement of massive internet of things (IoT) deployments and ultra-reliable, low-latency communications...
Sprint, T-Mo combo brings advantageous 5G spectrum position
5G is being developed to support use cases that run the gamut from NB-IoT connected smart utility meters to devices capable of delivering an immersive, mobile virtual reality experience dependent on multi-gigabit-per-second capacity and very low latency....
Westell aims to attract growth opportunities in in-building public safety, network densification, small cell and 5G
Westell Technologies, a provider of wireless infrastructure solutions, recorded revenues of $3.2 million in its in-building wireless (IBW) segment in fiscal Q4, ended March 31, down from $5.2 million...
Regulator Agcom said the 5G spectrum auction will allow the government to raise $2.9 billion
Italian telecom regulator Agcom announced plans to hold a 5G spectrum auction to award frequencies suitable for next-generation services in September. The watchdog said the sale of 5G spectrum will...
Five-year old accelerator The Fabric focusing on cloud, IoT, 5G continues to build.
Two advisors are joining The Fabric, the five-year old Mountain View, Calif.-based startup fund and “co-creation foundry." The new advisors are Pankaj Patel, former EVP and CDO with Cisco, and Alan Boehme,...
Agreement backed by a group of Nordic vendors and telcos including Ericsson, Nokia, Telenor and Telia
The prime ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have signed a letter of intent to foster the development and adoption of 5G technologies.
“The Nordic region is one...
Some people have both a front-row seat and a behind-the-scenes view of the launch of 5G. The test and engineering tool company National Instruments is one of them. Particularly Sarah Yost, a senior solutions marketer for 5G at National Instruments.
Not only is her team...
What path convoluted path will 5G take in Houston before we can call it full-blown 5G?
The city of Houston, Texas will have full-blown 5G network service by 2020, reported the Houston Chronicle on Monday. The article reassures frustrated readers who suffer slow connectivity, that...
Charlie Ergen casually made 5G announcement at Connect X
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina--During a keynote session at the Wireless Infrastructure Association's Connect X event, Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen put out the company's plan to invest a staggering $10 billion on a nationwide 5G network build.
This builds...
National Instruments accelerates its pace, adds logging and instrument studios, in preparation for 5G and automotive systems.
Expect more software, more often was the message during NI Week’s keynote on Tuesday.
National Instruments’ keynote presenters promised that they would keep up the pace of releases, vowing...
The FCC Chairman continued to quote Talladega Nights: "Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed"
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina--U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai--the guy appointed to oversee telecom- and communications-related policy decisions for the entire country--made incredibly topical and relevant remarks about 5G at the Connect...
5G trial used 28GHz millimeter wave and 3.5GHz spectrum, Shaw said
Canadian carrier Shaw Communications has completed its first 5G technical trials in Calgary, in partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia.
Other technical partners in this 5G trial were Rohde & Schwarz and CableLabs. The 5G trial...
The API (application programming interface) is where we need to concentrate to get customers hooked on 5G.
Cisco’s CTO of Mobility Business thinks the API (application programming interface) may be more important for the success of 5G than anything else.
“If 5G is going to be...
Explosive applications growth. Massive bandwidth needs. Enabling 5G network densification for both fixed and mobile wireless is a high priority for operators.
The use of millimeter microwave technologies is rapidly gaining traction to support fixed broadband connections encompassing a broad range of wireless applications related...
Densifying the networks with small cells is a key part to making 5G a reality, but the most dense small cell networks are still in 4G.
Network densification has been used in 4G LTE for a while. As the 3GPP standards committee meets in Busan,...
Mobile Edge Cloud, Mobile Edge Computing, Multi-Access Edge Computing. These are all names for basically the same concept that Wikipedia defines as, "a network architecture concept that enables cloud computing capabilities and IT service environment at the edge of the cellular network." Regardless of...
3GPP's standalone 5G NR standards may be adopted this week
Samsung Electronics is hosting 3GPP's standalone 5G New Radio (NR) standards meeting in Busan, South Korea, from May 21 to 25. This meeting, currently underway, could end with adoption of the 5G standards for 5G phase-1. Samsung...
