Finnish mobile operator Elisa is upgrading its network infrastructure in the city of Tampere to be 5G ready with an eye of leveraging its network to support smart city projects.
As it upgrades base stations with 5G-compatible equipment, the goal is a quick commercial deployment....
5G fixed wireless access growth as a wireless alternative to last mile fiber
5G fixed wireless access is poised to be the first phase of commercial 5G deployments with major operators including Verizon and AT&T testing service delivery using high-capacity millimeter wave spectrum. Given this...
Government providing funds to operators to install new fiber optic infrastructure nationwide
The Japanese government is already working to develop better fiber optic and other technologies to meet the future data transmission demands of 5G networks, local press reported.
According to the report, these new fiber...
Siklu provided gigabit millimeter wave equipment for project
Looking for a lower-cost alternative to fiber to connect multi-tenant public housing units, as well as a nearby homeless shelter, in Cleveland Ohio, Digital C worked with millimeter wave specialist Siklu to provide a wireless option to...
The telco said it will cooperate with a number of partners from various industries in the 5G space
China Telecom said it expects to trial 5G networks in six cities across the Asian nation."We are deeply devoted to engaging in 5G standard formulation and technology...
It’s anticipated that 5G networks and services will begin to be operational by approximately 2020, but the preparations and investments in the foundational technologies are still being tackled. Virtualization and containerization are both networking architectures that use common, off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware in order to...
Nokia's transformation under Chairman Risto Siilasmaa is one of the most significant corporate turnarounds in recent history
Nokia’s transformation from industry laggard to technology leader over the past 5 years is one of the most significant corporate turnarounds in recent history. While traveling across Europe...
Dense small cell networks seen as key to 5G
While small cell technologies are being used to add capacity and coverage for LTE networks, scalable deployments have proven problematic given varying regulatory regimes and access to power and backhaul. To support larger connectivity projects, carriers...
Gigabit LTE trial completed in Antigua and Barbuda
Network infrastructure vendor Ericsson and operator C&W Communications (C&W) announced the completion of a gigabit LTE trial on the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda. The two companies also said they have started testing a pre-5G network under...
5G’s ecosystem of high-performance applications will operate over the ultimate consolidation of voice, data and video. For many RF engineers, this is uncharted territory: mastering millimeter-wave, characterizing air interfaces, measuring antenna efficiency, and solving elusive interference problems. To help you explore new ground, Keysight...
Nokia-led 5G-MoNArch focused on 5G for vertical markets including automotive, healthcare and media
Network slicing, seen as a key 5G enabler, partitions a single physical layer into multiple virtual networks. With this technology, operators can essentially provide optimal support for any type of application on...
Verizon applied 4x4 MIMO to three-channel carrier aggregation for 12 LTE data streams
As it continues to test License Assisted Access (LAA), Verizon today announced it passed the 1 Gbps mark in tests with Ericsson and Qualcomm, using the later's X20 LTE modem, which supports...
Stock transfer to Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba, among others, will raise money for 5G development
China Unicom has announced plans to issue and transfer stock to Chinese private investors and its employees in a move that will raise about CNY 77.9 billion (US$11.67 billion). The...
New mobile bearer solution to allow operators to build end-to-end 5G networks including any type of backhaul connection
Huawei said its new X-Haul product supports flexible backhaul access to the core network through IP, microwave and optical transport network (OTN) technologies, regardless of the requirements...
Researchers at CATT and NYU Wireless have built the world’s first wireless emulator suitable for 5G systems that feature massive bandwidths and hundreds of antenna elements. In this unique patented design, the solution emulates not only the wireless channel, but also the beamformers (or...
Continuing efforts to gain a better understanding of RF transmission in high-band frequencies, both Verizon and AT&T--who are already testing a fixed wireless access application of 5G using 28 GHz spectrum--have asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to keep that R&D work going.
AT&T...
InterDigital Flips platform uses NFV and SDN 'fabric'
InterDigital, a mobile technology research and development company, announced its mobile edge computing (MEC) 5G network architecture trial in Bristol, U.K., was a success.
Bistol Is Open, a collaborate smart city project run by the University of Bristol...
The telco expects to carry out 5G field trials in China over the next two years
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile telephony operator in terms of subscribers, will wait until 5G technologies and business models are more mature to determine the capex of its...
Learn how Huawei is enabling digital transformation for network operators
The way enterprises and consumers use mobile data connectivity is evolving. Video has become a key mobile service, and the perpetuation of increasingly high-quality UHD or 4K video, as well as emerging tech like virtual...
U.K. telco BT and French operator Orange are also part of the 5G PaaS initiative
Nokia Bell Labs announced it will lead a consortium of industry vendors, operators, IT companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and European academic institutions to develop the next generation platform-as-a-Service (NGPaaS)...
How to ascertain leadership in 3GPP; quality vs. quantity of technical contributions
Established in 1998, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) united seven organizational partners into one group that works on telecommunications technological specifications that broadly cover radio access networks, services and systems, and core...
The new 5G solution is being tested in Seoul, SK Telecom says
Korean operator SK Telecom has developed a 5G repeater and applied it to its 5G trial network deployed near Gangnam Station in Seoul, Korea. Reps for the telco said that the 5G repeater is...
T-Mobile US emphasizes IoT as key 5G use case
T-Mobile US made a splash earlier this year announcing it would deploy a mobile "nationwide 5G" network--as opposed to 5G fixed wireless access, which Verizon and AT&T are focused on--following its $8 billion acquisition of nationwide...
In a discussion with Oppenheimer Managing Director Tim Horan during the investment firm's ongoing Technology, Internet and Communications Conference, Verizon EVP and Group President of Verizon Wireless Ronan Dunne discussed the carrier's approach to an evolution from LTE to 5G.
Dunne said 5G services will...
John Stephens talks move from hardware to software, FirstNet, spectrum and 5G
During the ongoing Oppenheimer Technology, Internet and Communications Conference, John Stephens, AT&T senior executive vice president and chief financial officer, explained how replacing hardware with software is a key part of the carrier's...
