BROWSING: 5G

SRG: Progress on battery drain, efficiency evident in new mmWave 5G devices

New millimeter-wave 5G devices and chipsets have made significant progress in power use and compared to earlier iterations, according to new benchmark testing by Signals Research Group. SRG looked at the devices' electrical current drain in relationship to bandwidth consumption for both uplink and...

Huawei calls for joint collaboration to boost ‘ultra-broadband 5.5G’

Huawei said that this technology will deliver home broadband speeds of 10 Gbit/s What Huawei is calling "Ultra-Broadband 5.5G" is expected to radically transform areas like smart homes, smart campuses and industrial internet by 2030, according to David Wang, Huawei's executive director of the board...

EXFO plans 5G Center of Excellence in Montreal

AI, ML and cloud computing will be the focus of the new facility, which the federal government is helping to fund Test and monitoring solutions maker EXFO announced Monday that it has received CAD$15.9 million from the federal government of Canada to advanced 5G telecommunications in the...

Bharti Airtel selects Aviat Networks for 5G radios

Bharti Airtel will deploy Aviat's all outdoor WTM 4800 E-Band and Multi-Band solutions Indian carrier Bharti Airtel has inked a commercial contract with Austin-based company Aviat Networks under which the latter will supply its wireless multiband radios. As part of the contract, Airtel will deploy...

Rogers-Shaw merger mediation with competition bureau fails

Rogers said that it believed that litigation was both unnecessary and harmful to competition in the Canadian market A mediation session between Canadian operators Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, Quebecor and the country’s competition bureau failed to reach a negotiated settlement in the proposed merger between...

American Tower seeks permit to carry out 5G private network trial

ATC noted that this project is chiefly aimed at testing the performance of a private 5G wireless network inside a commercial mall in Las Vegas U.S. tower firm American Tower is seeking a 180-day authorization from the Federal Communications Commission to allow the use of...

Five Malaysian operators finalize 5G wholesale access deals

5G services will be available in Malaysia on some carrier networks as soon as tomorrow After numerous 5G setbacks related to spectrum pricing and transparency, five of Malaysia’s major service providers—Telekom Malaysia, U Mobile, Celcom Axiata, YTL Communications and DiGi Telecommunications—have finalized the terms of...

BMW tests 5G positioning with Vodafone and Nokia at Leipzig factory

Vodafone Germany has been busy with private networks for Industry 4.0. A new announcement, with Nokia, says the pair are testing high-accuracy indoor positioning (HAIP) services over a 5G ‘campus network’ (‘campus-netz’) at BMW’s factory in Leipzig, the car maker’s premier site for testing...

Telkom spins up 5G for South Africa

With rivals already deploying 5G networks, Telkom's CEO sees FWA as its key differentiator South African wireless and wireline service provider Telkom has announced the launch of its 5G service for South Africa. What’s more, the company said it’s leaning on Huawei, the Chinese telecom equipment maker...

Kagan: Huawei says wireless industry moving from 5G to 5.5G

Huawei held their Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand, last week. One of many interesting ideas they shared in the future outlook of the telecom industry is moving from 5G to 5.5G. Let’s take a closer look at what that means to...

Embracing innovation and openness in the 5G core

The 5G core presents Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with a ready platform for innovation. Changes in software design, cloud-native architecture, and scalability for 5G core services can help CSPs achieve hyperscaler-like agility and capabilities. Simultaneously achieving improved network performance and better reliability seems like a...

Metaverse-ready networks: Is there a TIPing point for operators?

The role of operators and network disaggregation in enabling the metaverse vision takes center stage at FYUZ MADRID–The three-day FYUZ event was, in some ways, three distinct but complementary things—on day one the main stage was billed as the Open RAN Summit and highlighting O-RAN...

EE deploys Ericsson radio tech to improve 5G energy efficiency

EE noted that the first deployments of the new 5G equipment are in London U.K. carrier EE, part of the BT Group, is deploying ultra-lightweight radio technology supplied by Ericsson with the aim of improving 5G energy efficiency and network performance across the telco’s footprint. Ericsson...

Chinese vendors report financial results for first nine months of year

Huawei generated $61.8 billion in revenue in the first three quarters of the year, down 2.2% y-o-y Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE have reported their financial results for the first nine months of the year. Huawei said it generated CNY445.8 billion ($61.8 billion) in revenue in...

LG Uplus unveils new AI offering as part of its digital strategy

LG Uplus noted that the new offering is part of its long-term strategy to transform into a digital platform service provider   LG Uplus, South Korea's third-largest wireless operator, recently unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI) services, local news agency Yonhap reported. The new offering is part...

Flexibility vs. speed: Networks need both (Reader Forum)

Networks have become key enablers for virtually all the important business processes throughout any organization, and as businesses grow to pursue new markets, networks are a crucial part of their success. Today, the needs of service providers in particular are evolving, and a new...

Read the Latest Wireless Tech Insights from MIT Technology Review

5G private networks promise to address critical communications needs that will enhance productivity, efficiency, and safety across many industries Download the latest wireless tech Insights from MIT Technology Review:5G Private Networks Enable Business Everywhere and learn how 5G private networks will drive innovations in many...

FAA to FCC: Mandate 5G C-band restrictions around airports

AT&T and Verizon are already on board, but the FAA is worried about smaller operators and spectrum holders When it comes to rolling out 5G C-band services, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to mandate that smaller Communication Service...

Inseego: 5G helps scale the edge

The Inseego edge solution integrates 5G, wired connections, security and networking functions Over the summer, Inseego released 5G SD EDGE, a 5G cloud solution that delivers networking and security through a 5G network fabric for enterprises, eliminating the need for complex and expensive on-premise...

AIS aims to launch mmWave spectrum in Thailand next year

AIS said that the use of spectrum will allow the telco to offers network slicing capabilities as well as low latency BANGKOK, THAILAND- Thailand’s largest mobile operator, Advanced Info Service (AIS), is planning deployment of millimeter wave spectrum in the country next year, once compatible...

Orange Spain exceeds 5G annual coverage goals

Orange Spain ended September with a total of 1.47 million subscribers in the 5G segment Spanish operator Orange already deployed its 5G services in 1,529 towns and cities in 52 provinces across Spain, surpassing its initial target for the full year, the carrier said in...

Huawei launches new set of solutions for 5G

Huawei said that its MetaAAU solution boosts performance and energy efficiency by making use of extremely large antenna array (ELAA) technology BANGKOK, THAILAND- Chinese vendor Huawei launched a new set of solutions with the aim of facilitating the evolution of all frequency bands to 5G. The...

‘Don’t promise heaven and earth’: Bosch on industrial 5G now, and a 6G future

  When it comes to industrial 5G capabilities, the technology has yet to live up to the hype, according to Andreas Mueller, head of communication and network technology in the corporate research department of Robert Bosch. Speaking at the Brooklyn 6G Summit this week and...

As Fibocom expands, it holds tight to its mission to ‘make wireless easy’

Chinese IoT specialist Fibocom is looking to grow its business globally, and in support of that effort has recently launched several new products across its robust module portfolio. RCR Wireless News caught up with Fibocom’s SVP of IoT Overseas Sales Department Dan Schieler to learn...

Vodafone, NTT Docomo ink O-RAN partnership

Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo also aim to remotely connect their O-RAN test capabilities in the U.K. and Japan U.K. telecom group Vodafone and Japanese telco NTT Docomo reached an agreement with the aim of cooperating to bring the benefits of O-RAN for operators and vendors...