The new 5G facility will be opened in partnership with local tech park Corda Campus
Ericsson and Corda Campus announced plant to launch a 5G campus in Hasselt, Belgium. The 5G facility will be located at Corda Campus, a technology park, and will be fully connected...
The IoT facility in Northern Ireland will require a total investment of almost $36 million
U.K. telco BT has opened an innovation center in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which will focus on advanced research into the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence and data analytics for...
Building on tests, 5G fixed wireless access to support residential broadband in five markets
Throughout this year, Verizon has tested 5G fixed wireless access in 11 U.S. markets, which the company said included “several hundred cell sites that cover several thousand customer locations. Now Verizon says...
For a $500 5G NR smartphone, Qualcomm could charge up to $16.25 for access to patented technologies
The 5G NR (New Radio) standard is crystallizing and is expected to be finalized with 3GPP Release 15 in mid-2018. The result of an industry-wide collaborative process, the...
The new site will allow researchers to demonstrate advancements in 5G technologies
Canada's Communications Research Centre (CRC) and the City of Ottawa have set up a 5G test site at Ottawa City Hall with the aim of allowing technology companies and other collaborators to learn...
MegaFon and Rostelcom will create a working group to propose options for the 5G rollout
Russian telecom operator MegaFon has signed a cooperation agreement with compatriot telco Rostelecom to jointly develop a 5G network. As part of the cooperation, the two Russian telcos will develop optimal...
Fixed wireless access connection focused on VR use case
Enhanced mobile broadband is one of the three primary 5G New Radio use cases. Based on operator trials, fixed wireless access is emerging as the early delivery vehicle of eMBB, which does two things: saves operators...
The move to 5G is a long-term transition, not the flip of a switch. Much like 2G networks still exist alongside 3G and 4G networks, Long Term Evolution is expected to be just that: long term.
“5G will not replace LTE,” Rysavy Research concluded...
The third phase of 5G R&D program focuses on pre-commercial product development
China has started the third phase of 5G technology research and development tests, ahead of schedule, as the Asian nation accelerates the process to commercialize next-generation telecom services. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information...
In collaboration with the University of Bristol, the two companies will kick off a 5G PoC
A live proof of concept (PoC) based on the 5G standard is designed to test and validate smart urban applications over next-generation mobile networks, and will be deployed...
Network slicing is seen as a key enabler for future 5G networks
5G boils down to three primary use cases: enhanced mobile broadband, massive support for the internet of things and mission critical communications that require ultra-low-latency and multi-gigabit-per-second throughput. But, beneath those three broad...
Services include 5G vehicle experience, UAV, submarine and 5G-based VR cloud gaming
Chinese vendor ZTE announced plans to develop six major 5G services with China Mobile. The vendor unveiled its 5G, internet of things (IoT), smart home, smart education, big video and terminal services at China...
5G test focus includes high-speed mobility, dual connectivity and inter-cell handovers had
Korean telecom operator LG U+ has signed a partnership with Chinese vendor Huawei to complete a large-scale 5G network test in a pre-commercial environment in Gangnam District, Seoul. The vendor said this network...
Rohde & Schwarz has introduced a new testing platform designed to test the emerging 5G New Radio specification in frequencies below 6 GHz.
Millimeter-wave spectrum often garners the bulk of attention because of the large amounts of spectrum available at high frequencies. But 5G NR...
Testing and verifying designs for millimeter-wave prototypes is an ongoing challenge for the industry as it moves into 5G. Engineers need to understand how 5G mmwave prototypes will behave in a wide range of challenge propagation scenarios, which is typically accomplished through an emulation...
Public safety, enterprise and transportation comprise core of enterprise strategy
In October Chris Johnson joined Nokia as the new head of global enterprise verticals, bringing extensive enterprise IT experience with HPE and EMC to the role, which is designed to better position the network infrastructure...
Gigabit LTE is growing fast, faster than any previous 3GPP release. The ratification of LTE-Advanced Pro took place during March 2016, and it was only eight months after, in January 2017 that the first Gigabit LTE network was lit in Australia, by Telstra. Now,...
Gigabit LTE deployment inclues carrier aggregation, 256 QAM and 4X4 MIMO
In a continuing effort to boost capacity, AT&T, building on previous testing, is commercially deploying License Assisted Access (LAA) as part of its gigabit LTE network in Indianapolis, Ind., one of the cities AT&T...
Working with ZTE and China Mobile, Qualcomm marks 5G NR milestone with layer 1 data connection
As the 3GPP 5G NR standard coalesces ahead of a mid-2018 release, vendors and operators continue increasingly advanced testing scenarios to prove out next-generation network technologies. In the latest...
At a conference entitled Patents in Telecoms & the Internet of Things, at George Washington University in the District of Columbia last week, I was perturbed to hear a speaker mischaracterizing the communications standards as platforms of preexisting technologies upon which IoT innovation will...
After launching its 5G modem chip early this year, Intel has announced plans to commercialize the technology in 2019. The company said its XMMTM 8060 modem is already making 5G calls using spectrum in the 28 GHz band.
The XMMTM 8060 will support both sub-6GHz...
Leveraging 5G for vertically-focused IoT use cases is key
While its not yet standardized, 5G is most certainly the next big thing in telecom. The three primary use cases are enhanced mobile broadband, massive support for the internet of things and mission critical communications. Those...
Hype is certainly high for 5G, given that the industry is still technically in a pre-standard phase and that standalone 5G systems are still some time off. But the level of interest, and many of the results of ongoing tests and trials, are promising....
TIM Brasil to use Accedian’s SkyLIGHT virtualized solution as part of recent partnership
Accedian, a performance assurance solution specialist for mobile networks and enterprise-to-data center connectivity, announced it is teaming up with Brazilian national operator TIM Brasil. As part of the partnership, TIM Brasil will...
The 5G standard is still several weeks away, but chipmakers are already testing 5G equipment in a variety of environments, including moving vehicles. A car traveling at 30 miles per hour was able to stream 4K video in a 5G test conducted by Intel,...
