In a keynote presentation this week at the Deutsche Bank 2018 Media, Telecom and Business Services Conference, AT&T SVP and CFO John Stephens likened the carrier's build out of FirstNet to building a house and leaving room to add 5G.
Stephens said the unanimous opt-in...
Braxton Carter talks 2018 priorities for network and business, and discusses T-Mobile 5G strategy
T-Mobile US CFO Braxton Carter, speaking during a keynote session at the Deutsche Bank 2018 Media, Telecom and Business Services Carter, called out competitors for 5G-related marketing claims that reflect each...
The government of Australia also announced plans to offer 5G spectrum in the 3.6 GHz band
Italy's telecommunications services regulator Agcom announced the launch of a public consultation process for the country's first 5G spectrum tender, which is expected to take place by the end...
Sprint reiterates role of massive MIMO in 4G and 5G plans
Carrier presenters at the Deutsche Bank 2018 Media, Internet and Telecom Conference made clear the race for the best position relative to 5G is very much on. Sprint CFO Michele Combes laid out the...
5G trial part of NTT DoCoMo’s efforts to research technical conditions of the 28 GHz band
Huawei has announced a collaboration with Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and Tobu Railway to trial a 5G millimeter wave system at Tokyo Skytree Town as part of a broader...
Ronan Dunne highlights experiential side of Verizon 5G fixed wireless offering
Ronan Dunne, Verizon Group EVP and President of Verizon Wireless, has a clear message relative to the carrier's 5G position. "To be really, really clear, I'm not building a PR network. I'm building a...
Intel will work with NTT DoCoMo on 5G applications including video, VR and connected cars
Although the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea just wrapped up, Intel, which worked on 5G-related projects for the international event, is already planning for the 2020 Olympic Games in...
Indian government wants commercial 5G by 2020
Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel and vendor Huawei have conducted what the companies claim to be India’s first 5G network trial achieving a data speed of more than 3 Gbps. The trial was conducted at Airtel’s network experience center...
Dynamic service assurance is needed to support IoT and 5G
In an interview with RCR Wireless News during Mobile World Congress 2018, John English, Netscout Systems product line manager, explained the challenges operators face in maintaining service assurance as they virtualize infrastructure to gradually automate...
China Mobile plans to deploy more than 10,000 5G base stations by 2020
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile telephony operator, announced plans to build what it claims to be the world’s largest 5G trial network, according to local press. The operator said it will start...
Sprint to deploy massive MIMO in six markets starting in April
Working with vendors Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung, Sprint is using massive multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) antennas to increase LTE capacity while setting the stage for a software upgrade to the 5G New Radio standard. Company...
Nokia project with the Hamburg Port Authority portends the future of 5G network slicing
Nokia dropped a massive amount of news before and during Mobile World Congress 2018. To get a high-level understanding of how the myriad operator engagements and product launches fit together, RCR...
The project aims to cover 75% of the cities of Bari and Matera with 5G by the end of 2018
Italian mobile operator TIM, together with Italian broadband provider Fastweb and vendor Huawei, have announced the activation of the first 5G antenna in the city...
In France, Huawei will initially trial 5G technology in the city of Bordeaux
BARCELONA--Huawei signed a new agreement with U.K. telecom group BT and French telecommunications firm Bouygues Telecom which will mainly focus on 5G developments.
The new agreement were announced during the Mobile World Congress,...
Under the agreement, ZTE will provide technical support, applications and terminals
Chinese vendor ZTE has signed a strategic agreement with Middle East telecommunications group Ooredoo to foster cooperation in the 5G field.
The agreement, which was signed during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, stipulates that...
The Korean telco announced it is investing in quantum cryptography to secure communications channels for autonomous cars
BARCELONA- Korean telecommunications operator SK Telecom said 5G technologies will be essential for the future development of autonomous driving capabilities, the telco’s SVP for software and R&D, Kang-Won...
T-Mo plans 5G deployments, 25K LAA small cells
T-Mobile US laid out plans to start building out 5G and "5G-ready" capabilities in 30 markets this year, pinning its 5G strategy on mobile, smartphone-based 5G services once devices are available in 2019.
T-Mobile US said that it "plans...
The Chinese vendor said it expects to ship 300,000 small cells this year globally
BARCELONA- ZTE expects to see growing business opportunities with 5G in Asian and European markets, ZTE’s SVP and president of wireless product operation division, James Zhang, told reporters.
The executive said that...
The GSMA estimates that IoT connections will total 25 billion by that year
BARCELONA- 5G networks will reach 1.2 billion connections by 2025, accounting for 14% of global mobile connections by that time, according to a recent report by the GSMA.
The report also forecasts that...
Glenn Lurie, the former president of AT&T Mobility, reckons smart cities are the single most promising new market for network operators.
Lurie, now chief executive at US-based software provider Synchronoss Technologies, told Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona that network operators should reverse the decline in...
China Unicom also announced the launch of its edge cloud service platform
BARCELONA- Chinese telecommunications operator China Unicom has announced the launch of large-scale edge cloud field trials in collaboration with a number of partners including ZTE, Intel, Baidu and Tencent.
China Unicom said that it...
Deutsche Telekom also announced a smart energy testbed connected by 5G
BARCELONA- Deutsche Telekom expects to launch 5G commercial trials in Europe during 2018, Claudia Nemat, board member for technology and innovation at Deutsche Telekom, told reporters during a press conference at Mobile World Congress...
VP of RAN and Device Design discusses 2018 5G market launches
BARCELONA—“We’ve got 12 cities we’ve committed to this year. My priority in ’18 is to get those 12 markets launched. That is absolutely our number one focus and priority.” That was the message at...
ZTE has rolled out a complete industry-leading 4G/5G convergence solution that will certainly help operators gain an upper hand and have more success in the upcoming 5G era.
From the technical development perspective, 5G is an innovation and revolution based on 4G and also a natural evolution and extension of 4G. From...
AT&T Mobility looks like it will be first out of the 5G gates at the end of this year where they will launch in a dozen cities. They say the first markets will be Atlanta Georgia, Dallas and Waco, Texas, with more announcements to...
