In the heavily populated cities of East Asia, network densification became a priority for mobile operators before it became critical for U.S. operators. South Korea's SOLiD, parent of Texas-based SOLiD Americas, is helping its American subsidiary gain experience with indoor deployments that will build...
The mobile industry is at a tipping point. In the 4G/5G era, the status quo network economics are unsustainable. The cost-per-bit models and network architectures that dictated 4G strategies will not support 5G use cases.
Let’s look at 5 critical factors, and examine how network...
Ericsson study details consumer 5G "wish list"
Enterprise and industrial use cases for 5G are fairly well-established and in line with increasing demand for capacity and latency to support things like automated robotics, drone-based services and instantaneous access to cloud services. But beyond just faster...
Arcep said it will offer temporary frequency permits for local telcos to carry out 5G trials in nine cities
French telecoms regulator Arcep said it will issue temporary frequency authorizations to develop 5G pilots in France.The regulator said it will offer spectrum in the 3.5...
Telstra said the new launch will benefit industries such as transportation and logistics, mining, manufacturing and agriculture.
Australian telecoms operator Telstra announced it deployed narrowband technology in its IoT network in major cities and many regional towns across the country.
The operator said the NB-IoT deployment...
Part of the Qualcomm strategy is a $1 billion in cost reductions
Qualcomm leaders are reaching out to shareholders ahead of a March 6 annual meeting to make the case for keeping the existing board of directors in place. Last year Broadcom made an unsolicited,...
EXFO SkyRAN combines RF and fiber monitoring for fronthaul networks
Two key factors shaping the current state of increasingly advanced LTE networks, and setting the stage for future 5G networks, are massive investments in fiber optic networks and the pooling of network infrastructure. Consider C-RAN...
Deployment of 5G presents new operational challenges for service providers, especially in the wake of network virtualization. 5G will leverage software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) running in a cloud computing environment to benefit from its dynamic, rapidly configurable set of...
Huawei signed a memorandum of understanding to develop smart city initiatives in the city of Duisburg
Chinese vendor Huawei has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the city of Duisburg, in Germany, to work together on smart city development.
Huawei said that the MoU provides...
Other firms participating in the trials are Japanese telco NTT Docomo, Nissan and Continental
Ericsson, Qualcomm, together with Japanese telco NTT Docomo and other firms including Nissan and Continental have unveiled plans to carry out their first cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) trials in Japan.
The objective of...
5G innovation doesn’t stop at design. Test and measurement solutions will be key in the commercialization cycle, but 5G requires a different approach to test than previous wireless technologies. Find out what it’s going to take to make 5G a reality.
The telco is currently trialling 5G technology in Milan with Chinese vendor Huawei
Italian telecommunications firm Vodafone has partnered with the PoliHub incubator of Milan’s Politecnico University to launch "Action for 5G," the first startup devoted to development of projects based on the 5G standard...
Planned 5G fixed wireless for residential broadband is "first slice" of Verizon's future offering, Vestberg says
With its Verizon 5G Technical Forum, and participation in the ongoing 3GPP standardization effort, Verizon has aggressively pushed to commercialize 5G services. Those efforts, for now, have resulted in...
Qualcomm highlights RF front end design at CES
In the ongoing discussion around 5G—the standard release, network infrastructure readiness, support for sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave frequencies—device compatibility is a major issue and challenge. With the 3GPP working toward a standalone 5G New Radio specification...
CES panel talks about the role of 5G in A.I., automated cars and more
Las Vegas, Nev. -- A panelist of tech leaders gathered on stage at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Wednesday for a discussion moderated by Editor-in-Chief of SDxCentral Sue Marek about what...
As 5G networks’ commercial deployment approaches, research in standardization, technologies, services, ecosystem, and deployment modes are increasingly deepening. It has been proven that services, rather than technologies, are the main driving forces of network development. Therefore, the functions and performance required for the implementation...
Ericsson working with carrier MTN to trial 5G applications and use cases
South African telecommunications group MTN has completed what it claims to be the first 5G trial on the African continent. The telco carried out the 5G trial at its headquarters in Johannesburg in partnership...
New ETSI group focuses on end-to-end network slicing
As networks become increasingly complex, operators are tapping into network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions to automate network operations. As the industry looks to the commercialize of 5G networks in the coming years, the...
5G is a "network of networks" and satellites are part of that new network
For many years satellites have been instrumental in the wide world of telecommunications, albeit, given the high barrier to entry in the market, limited largely to governmental stakeholders and major communications...
MegaFon is currently the only telco with spectrum to carry out 5G testing
Russia’s State Commission for Radio Frequencies (SCRF) has decided not to provide mobile operators Rostelecom, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and VimpelCom (Beeline) with the spectrum they had requested for testing 5G technologies, Russian...
There have been a wave of announcements from U.S. carriers in the past few weeks regarding plans for commercialization of 5G. The momentum comes as the 3GPP last month adopted the non-standalone 5G New Radio specification, and is working toward finalizing the standalone variant...
SK Telecom, KT an LG U+ aim to launch commercial 5G in 2019
South Korea’s ICT Minister Yoo Young-min had a meeting with the country’s mobile carriers asking them to speed-up the process of deploying 5G networks in the Asian nation. The official met with...
5G test designed to explore inter-vendor millimeter wave system
In a recent field test, T-Mobile US connected a Nokia base station with Intel's 5G Mobile Trial Platform using the 28 GHz band in an outdoor environment in its hometown of Bellevue, Wash. T-Mobile US called...
Planning standards-based mobile 5G deployment late this year
AT&T on Wednesday announced its plans to deliver mobile 5G services based on the forthcoming 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standard in "more than a dozen markets...by late 2018." According to the company, the mobile service will...
Cellular technology innovation has been instrumental in creating wealth in recent years and has contributed significantly to global economic growth, either directly or indirectly. Each mobile network generation, including 2G, 3G, and 4G, has transformed consumers’ lifestyles and has enabled businesses to deploy new...
