Altiostar, Intel, Xilinx among Telefónica Open RAN providers
Ahead of planned Open RAN trials later this year in Brazil, Germany, Spain and the U.K., telecoms giant Telefónica is collaborating with several ecosystem vendors to develop disaggregated radio access network solutions. The group is working off...
5G LampSite 300 MHz digital indoor system supports network sharing between China Unicom Beijing and China Telecom Beijing
China Unicom Beijing and Huawei said that they have jointly completed the world's first commercial installation of the telecom equipment provider’s small cell 5G LampSite 300 MHz...
Japanese carrier KDDI announced that it will launch its 5G wireless services on March 26 in 15 prefectures across the country.
The telco also said that it aims to expand its 5G offering nationwide in the summer.
KDDI also announced plans to install 10,000 base stations...
Smart building solution provider Johnson Controls is delivering essential products, services, and personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic, the company?s chairman and CEO,?George Oliver, said.
"At times like these, it is critically
important to reach out and let people know that we are here and that we
continue...
LG Uplus using Nokia SDN for 5G transport automation
In discussions around operator 5G capex, the radio access and core networks get most of the mindshare. However, in tandem with RAN and core investments, telcos are also investing in 5G transport in order to effectively...
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Private industrial 5G will be at the heart of manufacturing production from 2021, Siemens has said, as the industrial giant continues to move ahead with test networks at its electronics works in Amberg and automotive centre in Nuremburg, both in Germany.
Both deployments use Siemens’...
The T-Mobile 5G network uses 600 MHz spectrum
Mere days after expanding its 5G network to seven new markets, T-Mobile has announced an additional 10 new markets to the list of locations with its next-gen coverage.
The markets added last week were: Folly Beach, SC; Lonaconing,...
North America continues to have a hole in its mid-band 5G spectrum coverage
LitePoint’s Director of Product Marketing Adam Smith and VIAVI Solutions' Director of Marketing Kashif Hussain agree that mid-band spectrum, the 2.5 to less than sub-6 GHz space, is the spectrum sweet spot...
New mid-band spectrum allows operators to add capacities, enterprise to invest in private networks
A consummate theme of telecom discussions is the desperate need for additional spectrum dedicated to mobile services; in the context of 5G, that refrain tends to focus on mid-band spectrum, which...
The integration of legacy infrastructure with IoT sensors and applications, newer networks and cloud services is the key to making buildings truly smart, Apurba Pradhan, Adesto?s VP of product marketing, systems and software, told In-Building Tech.
?Though the concepts of smart buildings and the IoT...
5G services employed in fight against COVID-19 in China
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, ended February 2020 with a total of 15.4 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the telco reported in its annual report.
This compares with 6.74 million...
According to GSMA, North America is winning the worldwide 5G race. However, China last year, debuted what was considered by some to be the largest 5G network rollout in the world.
Different regulations, spectrum availability and customer demands mean that no two 5G rollouts are...
5G technology will account for almost half of China’s overall mobile connections by 2025, according to a recent study by the GSMA.
The 2020 China edition of the GSMA’s ‘Mobile Economy’ series, forecasts that China will have an adoption rate on a par with other...
Cisco: 'OpenRoaming is vital to unlocking the potential of wireless communications'
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) will assume ownership and management of OpenRoaming as a global wireless industry standard, which the alliance stated will facilitate the broad adoption of OpenRoaming by new and existing Wi-Fi...
The initial phase of the HKT 5G launch will cover 11 of Hong Kong's 18 districts
Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) has set the first of April as its 5G launch date in parts of Hong Kong, and if that deadline is met, it will be...
An
Australian consortium has secured government funding for up to AUD28 million
($16.3 million) to carry out an initiative seeking to transform how buildings
are designed and manufactured in Australia.
Monash
University, Lendlease, The University of Melbourne, Donovan Group, BlueScope,
Sumitomo Forestry and CSR, along with 23 other partners, have...
Telecoms provider and broadcaster Teracom has said it will use radio and cloud products from Ericsson as it starts to roll out LTE and 5G in the 450 MHz band in Sweden. Teracom will offer critical-grade LTE and 5G to public and private national...
NTT Docomo said its 5G service will reach 500 cities by March 2021
Beginning March 25, Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo will begin commercial 5G service in an initial 150 locations, and if that date is met, it will be the first to launch the...
Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom selected Ericsson and Nokia as 5G RAN vendors, as the telco plans to launch commercial 5G service in July based on the non-standalone (NSA) architecture.
The operator will run the next-generation mobile service on the 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz bands.
In...
Canadian company mCloud Technologies, which provides asset management solutions, announced that it is embedding advanced sensing technology from NYCE Sensors into its AssetCare solutions for Smart Facilities.
NYCE Sensors focuses on IoT solutions for commercial building applications.
mCloud
has combined NYCE's wireless CO2 sensors for air duct...
According to GSMA, North America is winning the worldwide 5G race. However, China last year, debuted what was considered by some to be the largest 5G network rollout in the world.
Different regulations, spectrum availability and customer demands mean that no two 5G rollouts are...
The 5G services in Taiwan will be in the 3.5 GHz band are expected to be launched this summer
Taiwanese mobile operator Far EasTone (FET) has selected Ericsson to be its 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) vendor in a deal that will span all of...
With the roll-out of 5G networks, the shrinkage of radio cells, and challenge to negotiate cell sites, lighting infrastructure presents a valuable opportunity for city operators and building owners to get smart.
Netherlands-based Signify has been leading the development of smart poles to host a...
