The Chinese government has instructed all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within the next three years, The Financial Times reported.
The decision by Beijing would certainly impact U.S. firms including Microsoft, Dell and HP, according to the report.
The...
Operators in regions such as Europe, Asia and the United States have started the 5G race with commercial launches this year. RCR Wireless News interviewed Ignacio Contreras, director of marketing for 5G of Qualcomm, to learn more about the company's vision on the current...
South Korea expects to reach 5 million subscribers in the 5G segment by the end of the year, Korean news service Yonhap reported, citing government data.
Almost 4 million South Koreans had subscribed to 5G as of the end of October, adding 516,000 from the...
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Azerbaijani communications service provider Azercell have signed a three-year 5G Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) spanning the joint deployment of 5G projects, trials, and use cases, the former said in a release.
Ericsson and Azercell have already partnered to deliver a test...
China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) announced what it claims to be Hong Kong’s first 5G Standalone (SA) network test.
The operator said in a release that the radio cell sites supporting both 5G SA and NSA network are now installed for a trial at China...
Operadores en regiones como Europa, Asia y Estados Unidos han comenzado la carrera del 5G con lanzamientos comerciales durante este año. RCR Wireless News entrevisto a Ignacio Contreras, director de marketing para 5G de Qualcomm, para conocer mas sobre la vision de la empresa sobre...
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies announced plans to move the company’s current research and development center in the U.S. and relocate to Canada, The Globe and Mail reported the company’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying.
Ren revealed the initiative in an interview with the Canadian newspaper,...
5G seeing a strong take rate in Korea with 4M subs
South Korea’s government urged local telecom carriers to expand their 5G networks across the country, Korean press reported.
During a meeting with representatives of local operators SK Telecom, KT Corp. ad LG Uplus, officials from...
Chinese state-owned mobile carrier China Mobile has already deployed nearly 50,000 5G base stations across the country, state news agency Xinhua reported the company’s chairman Yang Jie as saying.
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile services provider in terms of subscribers, currently provides 5G services...
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce officially announced that it will extend for 90 days the Temporary General License (TGL) for Huawei and its non-U.S. affiliates which are subject to the Entity List.
The TGL authorizes U.S. companies...
ZTE, in partnership with China Telecom and China Unicom, has completed the network verification based on the "co-build co-share" mode in the commercial 5G environment, launching 5G Nonstandalone co-build/co-share sites which support 1.8 GHz/2.1 GHz/3.5 GHz in Hangzhou, China, the vendor said in a...
South Korean mobile operator KT expects to end this year with a total of 1.5 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the operator’s CFO Yoon Kyung-keun said during a conference call with investors.
According to KT’s latest earnings report, the telco ended the third quarter...
6G announcement follows major 5G network launch
China has officially started researching 6G technology a few days after state-run telecom operators launched 5G networks in the country.
According to reports by Chinese state media, government ministries and research institutes met this week with the aim of...
Korean carrier SK Telecom has reached 1.5 million subscribers in the 5G segment, representing a share of 44% in the local 5G market, the carrier’s CFO Poong-Young Yoon said on a conference call with investors.
The executive said that the company expects to end this...
China’s three state telecoms announced Thursday the launch of 5G services in the country, international press reported.
Chen Zhaoxiong, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology, officially kicked off the launch with representatives from the three carriers at PT Expo China in Beijing.
China Mobile, China...
ZTE reports net profits up more than 150% year-over-year
ZTE Corporation posted revenues of CNY 64.2 billion ($9.1 billion) in the first three quarters of the year, an increase of 9.3% compared to the year-ago period, the Chinese vendor said in a statement.
During the period,...
VIENNA, Austria- Chinese vendor ZTE is not concerned about the impact of the decision of state-run telecommunications operators China Telecom and China Unicom to share resources in the deployment of 5G infrastructure, ZTE’s President of Global Sales, Xiao Ming, told RCR Wireless News.
"With this decision...
Hong Kong’s Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA) announced that local carriers China Mobile Hong Kong and HKT secured spectrum in the 4.9 GHz band for the provision of 5G services.
In a statement, the regulator confirmed that 80 MHz of spectrum in the 4.9...
VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Chinese vendor ZTE has surpassed by far the milestone of 60 agreements with operators worldwide in the field of 5G, James Zhang, a senior VP at the Chinese vendor, told RCR Wireless News.
“We had cooperation agreements with 60 operators globally in...
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies is in early-stage negotiations with a number of U.S. telecommunications firm regarding the potential licensing of its 5G technology to them, Reuters reported, citing a company executive.
Vincent Pang, SVP and board director at Huawei, confirmed that some firms in the...
ZTE is getting ready for security assessments of its 5G products and solutions in the vendor’s cybersecurity lab in Brussels, Belgium, ZTE’s Chief Security Officer Zhong Hong told RCR Wireless News.
The announcement coincides with a recent report published by the European Commission (EC), in...
Huawei Technologies posted revenues of CNY 610.8 billion ($86 billion) in the first three-quarters of the year, climbing 24.4% year-on-year, despite a trade ban imposed by the U.S. government earlier this year.
The company's net profit margin in this period was 8.7%, Huawei said in...
Mobile operators in Hong Kong each acquired 50 megahertz of 3.5GHz spectrum in the first of three 5G auctions, raising a total of HKD1.006 billion ($128 million), the Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA) reported.
"Four bidders, namely China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited (CMHK),...
China’s three mobile operators signed up 9 million advance orders for 5G services during September, according to Beijing News.
The report stated that China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom would probably launch commercial 5G services simultaneously later this month.
China Mobile has attracted approximately 5.32...
