U.K. connectivity provider SSE Enterprise Telecom will be in charge of Three’s network transformation project
U.K. mobile operator Three has signed an agreement with compatriot connectivity provider SSE Enterprise Telecoms to pave the way for the future launch of 5G services.
In the first phase of...
Operators in South Korea and China embrace network sharing to accelerate 5G deployment
As carriers ready an initial slate of commercial 5G services, it's apparent that the next-generation of mobile networks will require major capital investment in network densification to deliver on multi-gigabit mobile broadband,...
MediaTek said it will need to obtan government permission to resume shipments to the Chinese vendor
Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek confirmed that it has suspended delivery of products to Chinese vendor ZTE, after Taiwanese authorities issued an order for all the country's companies to temporarily...
CableLabs’ accelerator UpRamp helps entrepreneurs solve sticky problems and get insider access to the industry.
Two and a half years ago, Scott Brown designed a unique startup accelerator program for CableLabs that aimed to guarantee that startups would get results: give startups a chance to...
The 5G Automotive Association which was founded in 2016 also took part in the C-V2X demo
The 5G Automotive Association, Audi, Ford and Qualcomm Technologies have carried out what they claim to be the world’s first demonstration of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) direct communications technology operating...
NTT DoCoMo said it expects to start deploying this new 5G antenna next year
Japanese telecommunications operator NTT DoCoMo has developed a 5G base station which is designed to be buried in the ground to support deployments in areas with a shortage of space, Japanese...
Charter Communications aims to to launch a MVNO through a partnership with Verizon
U.S. cable operator Charter Communications expects to launch mobile services through a mobile virtual network operator by mid-year, the operator’s chairman and CEO, Thomas Rutledge, said during a recent conference call with...
T-Mobile, Sprint have agreed to merge into a $146 billion company to compete with AT&T, Verizon in 5G. Next stop, regulatory.
Sprint and T-Mobile announced today that they are merging into one $146 billion company, setting the company up to compete against AT&T and Verizon...
Qualcomm moves closer to NXP deal. Qualcomm tenders cash for all of NXP shares and does better than expected in Q2 results.
Qualcomm Incorporated has offered to buy all of NXP Semiconductors’ shares, as part of its bid to acquire NXP, tendering 12.7% of the...
CFO Matthew Ellis said Verizon is already deploying commercial nodes in initial markets
Verizon aims to launch residential broadband services through 5G fixed wireless access in additional geographies in 2019, the telco’s Chief Financial Officer Matthew Ellis said during a recent earnings call.
The executive said...
The two partners say the new facility will allow partners across all sectors to trial end-to-end 5G capabilities
China Mobile and Huawei have jointly set up an end-to-end Open Lab in Beijing, China, which claims to be the first end-to-end open lab in China based...
How to best utilize high band spectrum, and the associated backhaul challenges that will accompany massive densification took center stage
As the final keynotes of the conference gave way to afternoon panels, the discussion became increasingly technical during the second full day of proceedings at...
New alliance, dubbed 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation" (5G-ACIA), aims to promote adoption of 5G in industrial production
A number of representatives of the automation and manufacturing industries as well as leading organizations from the ICT industry have established the "5G Alliance for Connected...
Nokia’s CEO Rajeev Suri said the vendor expects sales to be boosted by deals for large-scale 5G deployments in the U.S
Finnish vendor Nokia experienced a challenging first quarter due to lower sales in the North American region, which negatively impacted the vendor’s quarterly earnings....
China Tower currently owns and operates a total of 2.5 million telecom towers across the Asian nation
Chinese state-run telecom tower company China Tower Corp has signed a cooperation agreement with compatriot firm State Grid Corp of China (SGCC).
Under the terms of the agreement, both...
Designing for 5G New Radio (NR) means dealing with new technologies, as they’re being defined. It's easy to get lost in the buzz words as you try to focus--beamforming, over-air-testing, mmWave, numerology, and on and on. Keysight’s poster focuses on 7 things you need...
Nokia announces its AirFrame Open Edge computing server blade.
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Nokia revealed its building block for edge deployments and small data centers at the NFV World Congress yesterday. The Airframe Open Edge server is compact and uses open-source software to manage network functions.
The server...
For the past few years, CSPs and optimists have been pushing the concept of 5G internet—which purports to be fast and reliable enough to replace your home internet. Already, major providers are hinting that 5G internet will be available by the end of 2018,...
Equipment vendors envisage automated networks of a million slices
The conference portion of the Brooklyn 5G Summit began with a bit of nostalgia befitting the show’s modest, but pertinent milestone of its fifth annual gathering. The show began with Marcus Weldon, Nokia's CTO and president...
Day one of Brooklyn 5G Summit balances technical presentations with business-focused "reality check" from key tech buyers
The Brooklyn 5G Summit is a deeply technical symposium held at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering. Typically, tech events held at engineering schools tend to skew towards...
According to Ericsson's new study, service providers still lack of a clear strategy to target the IoT business opportunity
Revenue growth is currently the biggest driver for telecom service operators seeking to enter the internet of things space, but most of these companies lack of...
Deal stipulates the deployment of 170 small cells on lampposts across the city
AT&T and the city of San Jose have reached a tentative agreement to install a network of 170 small cells on lampposts by the end of the year in a move to...
Rural favorite LTE fixed wireless broadband — soon-to-be 5G —is forecast to grow 26% through 2022
The global fixed wireless broadband market will grow 30% in 2018 and generate $18 billion in service revenue, forecasts market analysis firm ABI Research. By 2022, worldwide fixed wireless...
Nokia has unveiled a new cloud-based data centre for edge computing. The Finnish telecoms vendor said the new data centre solution supports automation functions in industrial settings, as well as localised data processing in standard network architecture.
New 5G technologies will encourage operators to implement...
Experimental technology seen as having potential for AR/VR applications in ultra-dense urban and in-building environments.
Nokia Bell Labs and NTT-DoCoMo announced that they will be demonstrating technologies aimed at showing the viability of using 5G New Radio technology for operations in the 90 GHz band. ...
