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...
Chinese operators recorded a net addition of 43.71 million 5G subscribers in July, according to the carriers’ latest available figures.
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, added 28.91 million 5G subscribers in July.
The carrier said it ended last month with 279.60...
A total of 176 operators in 72 countries had already launched one or more 3GPP-compliant 5G services, according to the latest update from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).
By mid-August 2021, 461 operators in 137 countries were investing in 5G, including trials, acquisition of...
China Mobile continues to pave the way for a share sale via the Shanghai Stock Exchange after the company was recently ejected from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
In a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange, where the Chinese carrier has its primary...
Japanese companies NEC and Fujitsu have begun developing technologies for interoperability testing between 5G base station equipment conforming to O-RAN specifications at NEC's U.K. laboratories and Fujitsu's U.S. laboratories.
Both companies are expected to build a verification environment using these technologies in their respective laboratories,...
Ericsson: 'Network slicing is the operators’ best answer on how to build and manage a network that meets and exceeds the emerging requirements from a wide range of users'
5G network slicing is a feature of a cloud-native 5G network architecture that leverages the principles...
Mavenir will provide Ligado with its complete portfolio of cloud native solutions to address mobile core, IoT and Open vRAN for 5G
Ligado Networks announced a deal with Mavenir to develop base stations as part of its plan to deploy a 5G mobile satellite network...
South Korea aims to create around 1,800 companies that specialize in new 5G services within the next five years, local news agency Yonhap reported.
According to the report, the government expects the creation of these new firms will boost the adoption of promising and innovative...
Vodacom is working with ST Engineering iDirect and Gilat Telecom to upgrade its VSAT network
Vodacom Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is migrating its very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT)-based 2G network to 3G with the help of ST Engineering iDirect and Gilat Telecom. Together, the companies...
The purchase of Wind Hellas is expected to strengthen Nova Broadcasting Group, which United Group acquired last year
Earlier this week, United Group announced an agreement with Crystal Almond Holdings to acquire one of Greece’s three mobile operators, Wind Hellas. The purchase, if approved by...
U.K. telecommunications operator Vodafone currently offers 5G services in 123 towns and cities across the country.
In mid-June, the carrier had said, its 5G coverage had reached 100 markets in the U.K.; it has expanded that by 23 in the time since.
According to the...
Sony and Mitsui aim to 'implement an effective spectrum utilization model and establish cutting-edge business and technology platforms'
Last week, Sony Group and Mitsui announced the operation of Sony’s Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) technology using Airspan 5G Standalone base stations. The Japanese companies have also...
A virtual research center, called 6G Futures, has been recently launched in the U.K. by the University of Bristol and King’s College.
The new virtual hub groups over 400 world-renowned experts in telecommunications networks, artificial intelligence, social sciences and the arts from these two universities.
“The...
