Business model development key to funding 5G network deployments
In a keynote presentation at the Wireless Infrastructure Association's ongoing HetNet Expo in West Palm Beach, Fla., ExteNet Systems CEO Ross Manire outlined the three key factors that will make or break the success of future...
Push for capacity includes focus on LTE-M and NB-IoT in addition to 5G
Ericsson and Dutch telco VodafoneZiggo announced they are working together to increase the capacity of the latter’s mobile network in the Netherlands. The agreement will initially focus on the roll-out of NB-IoT and...
A three-phase process makes the most of investments geared toward delivering on 5G and IoT
With the 5G New Radio specification, both non-standalone and standalone variants, tracking for finalization by the end of this year and mid-2018, respectively, operators around the world are coming to...
New RF SOC to support 5G, DOCSIS 3.1, test applications
Xilinx aims to support the ongoing evolution across both wired and wireless networks with its new radio frequency system-on-chip release. The company said it is is already shipping samples to customers who are working on...
The 5G trial used MU-MIMO, focused on mission critical communications use case
Although the 3GPP has yet to standardize the standalone 5G New Radio specification, global operators and vendors continue aggressive testing programs to prove out various aspects of the coming standard. In the latest,...
The Telenet innovation center will also focus on collaboration works with a number of partners
Liberty Global has opened the Telenet innovation center in Belgium’s capital Brussels with the aim of testing its new technology for connectivity, entertainment, and value added services.
The new center is...
Every once in a long while, a new technology comes along that redefines the boundaries and assumptions that came before it. While it is still being extensively tested, 5G NR mmWave is emerging as a key technology that could define the next big moment...
Qualcomm identifies gigabit LTE and 5G as 'mega technology trends'
As the 3GPP continues work on the standalone variant of the 5G New Radio standard, which is tracking for release mid-2018, the telecom industry is poised for gearing up for rapid commercialization. A big part...
Complex and powerful, 5G is truly a transformational leap forward from 4G. With 5G on the horizon, companies are already actively developing and testing designs for this next gen technology. Yet achieving the full 5G vision brings significant new challenges for the cellular industry...
AT&T sees open source software and hardware as fundamental to 5G
Working with industry consortia Open Network Foundation and Open Compute Project on sharing open source software and hardware technology, respectively, with the broader telecom ecosystem, AT&T is focused on bringing software control to passive...
SÃO PAULO –“While we are celebrating 20 years in Brazil, we should prepare for the next 20 years, in a scenario where data traffic doubles annually. Therefore, we need to reinvent ourselves to become a digital telco, looking at digitalization, big data, cloud computing,...
The new Austin facility will focus on microelectronics and will accelerate the Ericsson plans for 5G commercialization
Ericsson announced the opening of a design center in Austin, Texas, to focus on microelectronics and accelerating the path to 5G commercialization. The new Application Specific Integrated Circuit...
SÃO PAULO--TIM Brazil, a subsidiary of Telecom Italia, is engaging with startups to speed up the adoption of internet of things solutions. The carrier will have a startup internally and will create a co-working space to invite external startups to team up. In a...
While the technologies that will constitute 5G are still being worked on, the ITU-R has identified three main usage scenarios for 5G: Enhanced mobile broadband with up to 20 Gbps peak data rate, massive machine-type communications, and ultra-reliable and low latency communications. To meet...
SÃO PAULO--Network virtualization and upgrading BSS/OSS to make them ready to support the coming demands of 5G, including massive support for the internet of things, are important preparations carriers need to undertake as the next-generation network specification is developed. That was the primary message...
The Dutch telco said massive MIMO delivered 600% capacity increase
Dutch operator T-Mobile Netherlands has activated massive MIMO technology, a key path to delivering increased bandwidth and setting the stage for 5G, in the city of Amsterdam. The first antenna was installed at Leidseplein Square,...
Small Cell Forum collaborates with industry standards bodies to support densification ahead of 5G
Network densification is seen as an imperative to support the vision of 5G. This requires many things: more fiber, more cell sites--at both the macro level and major increases in the...
SÃO PAULO--America Movil’s Claro launched LTE Advanced Pro in Brazil as a strategy to get fast speeds and meet customer demand for more data traffic. The carrier is tapping three-channel carrier aggregation using the frequency 2.5 GHz, 1.8 GHz and 700 MHz bands where...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC5oIS4dvm4
At the 2017 Mobile World Congress Americas, we talked with Durga Malladi, Senior Vice President at Qualcomm about the developments of mmWave and 5G NR technologies and how to overcome the challenges of rollout.
https://www.https://youtu.be/IVRQgGaDlk4
We recently interviewed Dean Brenner, Senior Vice President, Spectrum Strategy & Technology policy at Qualcomm about the spectrum activities in the U.S., what spectrum bands are available and how 5G will utilize available and future spectrum bands.
Latest test is part of the IMT-2020 5G Promotion Group
Huawei announced it has completed the second phase of 5G technology R&D testing organized by the IMT-2020 5G Promotion Group in Beijing. Using a massive 200 megahertz channel of spectrum in the C-band, Huawei said it...
Massive MIMO trial was carried out on a commercial network in Nagasaki
Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation, together with Japanese telco SoftBank and Wireless City Planning, successfully verified the 24-stream space division multiplexing technology by using pre-standard 5G TDD massive MIMO technology on a commercial network...
The smart cities market proclaims it has reached a new phase in its evolution, at last, which is showing tangible results in terms of operational efficiencies and sustainability. With familiar terminology, borrowed from the world of software, it has dubbed this new phase ‘Smart...
Although it is still being defined, 5G is becoming a priority for telecom operators and it comes with the promise of unseen services and a broad range of new use cases and business models ranging from enabling autonomous vehicles to smart agriculture and factories....
5G is truly a global phenomenon, and 5G NR – the global 5G standard – is being designed to support all spectrum types and bands for global deployments starting in 2019. We recently sat down with Dean Brenner, SVP of Spectrum Strategy & Tech...
