Italian operator Telecom Italia (TIM) announced the activations of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) systems in the cities of Matera and Turin following its first use of the technology in Faenza earlier this year.
The European operator said the aim is to accelerate the...
Dish Network is asking the Federal Communications Commission for a special temporary authorization to use 600 MHz band spectrum currently licensed to Bluewater Wireless for a three month period with the aim of carrying out 5G tests in Denver and Las Vegas using carrier...
Chinese vendor giant Huawei Technologies expects to launch 6G products around 2030, Chinese newspaper Global Times reported, citing the company's rotating chairman Eric Xu Zhiju.
According to a recent article written by Xu, not-yet-standardized 6G has a more complicated technology environment than 5G, with impact...
Finnish vendor Nokia has been selected by US Cellular for the deployment of the latter’s Standalone 5G core network.
The European vendor said that the 5G SA deployment is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.
The new 5G SA network infrastructure will enable...
The Spanish government aims to award spectrum in the 26 GHz band for the provision of 5G between the end of 2021 and the beginning of next year, Europa Press reported, citing remarks from the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Intelligent Infrastructures, Roberto...
Australian operator TPG Telecom has extended its partnership with Ericsson to include the deployment of its 5G core for a Standalone (SA) network.
TPG Telecom explained that Ericsson will deploy its cloud-native, dual-mode 5G core with the aim of covering cover 85% of the population...
Japanese tech giant NEC Corporation has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in areas that include global 5G and digital government, in support of accelerating digital transformation for customers.
In November 2020, NEC and AWS concluded a corporate-level strategic collaboration agreement, and have...
Gen Mobile CEO: 'The acquisition by Boost Mobile will provide more connectivity to more Americans'
Boost Mobile, which is part of Dish Network following the T-Mobile/Sprint merger, revealed plans to acquire Los Angeles-based Gen Mobile, a prepaid mobile service that primarily serves low-income customers. Boost will...
Vodafone Germany and Porsche have deployed a private 5G network at the latter’s Weissach Development Center.
The new 5G technology will improve the framework conditions for the strategic development of new vehicle systems and functions at the industrial facility, the two companies said.
When installing...
China’s capital Beijing aims to expand 5G network coverage in key areas including hospitals, universities and train stations, The Beijing News reported.
The Chinese city has already deployed a total of 44,000 5G base stations, while 5G terminal users in the city have reached 11.52...
Mediacom began testing CBRS applications in 2019, and spent almost $30 million for 576 licenses in the PALs spectrum auction
As the U.S. government funnels billions of dollars into rural broadband, Ericsson and Mediacom Communications have announced a partnership aimed at extending broadband services...
South Korea ended July with a total of 17.08 million subscribers in the 5G segment, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT.
During July, the country’s mobile carriers recorded a net addition of 616,000 5G subscribers.
5G subscribers at...
Earlier this year, Verizon launched On Site 5G, which allowed enterprise and public sector customers to utilize the carrier’s mmWave network
Almost a year after announcing an edge computing solution with Microsoft, Verizon has announced the availability of an on-premises, private edge compute solution called...
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) urged local mobile operators Far EasTone (FET) and Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) to accelerate the construction of 5G base stations, local news site Digitimes reported.
The Taiwanese government has recently approved FET's NT$5 billion ($179 million) investment in APT that...
C Spire's technology strategy lead: 'No one does rural broadband particularly well'
In a two-year research project of the Rural Broadband Consortium, C Spire led a group of companies that included Nokia, Microsoft, Facebook and others to explore the challenges of cost-effective rural broadband deployment,...
Singaporean telco Singtel launched a number of 5G Standalone (SA) use cases, the carrier said in a release.
Singtel said it continues to expand its 5G network, which now covers over two-thirds of Singapore, adding sites in densely populated areas like Choa Chu Kang, Punggol,...
XaaS stands for Anything as a Service. After various technologies and innovations were connected through networks and converged to become productized, the word was coined.
To deliver multiple services and reach clients, XaaS uses cloud computing rather than on-site local applications. It allows you to...
Qualcomm Technologies and Chinese vendor ZTE said they have successfully showcased features required in anticipation of 5G mmWave rollouts in China.
The two firms said they carried out trials with the aim of supporting the testing needs of the IMT-2020 (5G) promotion group for 200-megahertz...
Brazil’s Federal Audit Court (TCU) has officially approved the tender process through which the government will auction frequencies for 5G, the minister of communications, Fábio Faria, said on Twitter on Wednesday.
"The public notice goes to Anatel to be published," Faria added in the...
Taiwanese operator Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) said it expects its 5G network to reach 90% of the nation’s population by the end of this year, local paper Taipei Times reported.
According to the report, the telco expects to have a total of 9,500 5G base...
Qualcomm is one of a very few companies world-wide in the spaces of 5G, networks, handsets, wireless and connected devices. Every company, in every industry has experienced a chip shortage this past year. The good news is Qualcomm has not only held their own,...
Wind River, Intel joint development meant to give operators deployment flexibility, lower TCO of 5G vRAN systems
Operators globally are gradually undertaking the transition to standalone 5G which involves a transition to cloud-native core and virtualization of the radio access network. The implementation of vRAN, however,...
Verizon's 5G Home service is available in parts of 52 U.S. cities
Verizon has been expanding its 5G Home broadband offering across the U.S., with the service available in parts of 52 cities as of early August. According to Verizon Consumer Group’s Chief Revenue Officer...
German operator Deutsche Telekom expects to launch its 5G Standalone (SA) network in the country depending on the use cases for the technology as well as the availability of devices, the company’s CTO Walter Goldenits said in a blog post.
“If the first use cases...
