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London?s Angel Court offers indoor coverage via small cells, DAS

DAS provides multi-operator coverage over 300,000-square feet Stanhope, an U.K. property developer, investor and asset manager, and the Freshwave Group, a UK network service provider, announced that they have launched what it claims to be the U.K.'s first Multi-Operator Digital DAS based managed mobile...

Operators, enterprises face concurrent need for OT/IT convergence in the 5G era

5G transformation extends beyond the network--there has to be a shift in the workforce 5G is touted as the connectivity fabric that will fundamentally reshape our collective future. Consumers will benefit from ubiquitous, high-quality connectivity capable of serving up applications that were previously impossible. Enterprises...

Laying the Foundation for 5G With Chad Rasmussen

Listen to the podcast here If you’re in vertical telecom, you’re familiar with permitting delays and workforce shortages. Your counterparts in horizontal deployments face similar challenges: more applications than governments can handle; uncertainty with regulation, and not enough workforce to install the conduit. But fiber faces...

Telenor, Ericsson launch 5G services in Norway

Telenor 5G services in Trondheim are being delivered on the 3.6 GHz band Ericsson and Telenor switched on Norway’s first commercial 5G services at the end of last week in the city of Trondheim as part of an ongoing partnership to develop and update Telenor’s...

5G ruled safe by panel of international experts

Mobile telephone radiation guidelines from 1998 only required minor updates for 5G Fierce opposition to the deployment of the 5G infrastructure has been popping up all around the world, from California to South Africa to Sweden. Small cell towers, which must be frequently placed, are...

Microsoft creates digital twin of Singapore HQ using sensors, AI and IoT

Microsoft announced the rollout of a digital twin of its new regional headquarters at Frasers Tower in Singapore, in collaboration with Bentley Systems and Schneider Electric.  ?The workplace of the future is about embracing innovation into the very fabric of our space, so that we create multiple touchpoints of...

OnePlus commits to 5G, plans to invest $30 million in research

The investment will go towards RF circuits, antennas and multi-media A few days after confirming that its upcoming series of phones will all be 5G-enabled, Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus announced that the company is investing nearly $30 million to further its 5G research efforts, which...

UK carrier EE reaches 71 locations with 5G coverage

  EE announced that it has commercially launched its 5G service in 21 new towns and cities across the U.K. With these new cities, EE now offers 5G technology in 71 locations across the country. EE has added 5G to Bath, Birkenhead, Clydebank, Motherwell and Rotherham...

France likely to allow Huawei in non-core parts of 5G networks: Report

  France’s cybersecurity agency, ANSSI, is expected to allow local operators to use equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei for the deployment of 5G networks in the country, Reuters reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. The sources said ANSSI had decided to approve the use...

CommScope deploys fiber for Allegiant Stadium?s DAS, Wi-Fi APs

CommScope said that its fiber optic and copper cabling has been installed in Allegiant Stadium, the new 65,000-seat home of the NFL team the Las Vegas Raiders. In a release, the U.S. firm said that the 227 miles of fiber and more than 1.5...

Trump signs into law $1B for rural carrier rip-and-replace

Secured and Trusted Network Communications Act targets rip-and-replace of Huawei, ZTE network equipment President Trump on March 12 signed into law the Secured and Trusted Network Communications Act, which among other things, will provide up to $1 billion in funding to rip-and-replace network infrastructure primarily...

Rohde & Schwarz Application Card: Automated spectrum clearance in LTE and 5G mobile networks

Interference that can degrade capacity and quality of service is becoming ever more troublesome as operators roll out 5G NR using new bands that previously contained other services. This is particularly important for the rollout of 5G NR because of its demanding use cases...

CellAntenna Wireless opens new office to support in-building tech demand

CellAntenna Wireless focuses on active, passive DAS CellAntenna Wireless announced the opening of its South-Central operations center in Plano, Texas, with the aim of supporting the increase for Private LTE, CBRS, Public Safety and 5G In-Building wireless technology for current and future customers located in Texas and the...

Bharti Airtel network outperforms rivals in India: Study

Bharti Airtel achieved a median download speed of 7.4 Mbps According to a new Tutela report, Bharti Airtel’s network is stronger than its rival telecom operators in India in four of the five key tested metrics for the network connectivity. Airtel proved to have the...

ZTE works with partners to deploy 5G-based apps to help combat Covid-19

5G for remote collaboration, healthcare as Covid-19 prompts self-distancing Chinese vendor ZTE is currently working with industry partners to deploy innovative applications such as new media, distance education, and security in the 5G industry to fight against Coronavirus (COVID-19). In a statement sent to RCR Wireless...

US extends Huawei’s temporary general license until May 15

Huawei remains on Department of Commerce Entity List The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) officially announced that it will extend the Temporary General License (TGL) for Huawei and its non-U.S. affiliates which are subject to the Entity...

What’s the outlook for operator adoption of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing?

Ericsson says 80% of customers testing its Dynamic Spectrum Sharing solution plan to deploy in next 12 months While there's criticism around the technology's overall impact on network capacity, a number of major global operators are current or have said they will implement Dynamic Spectrum...

Nokia to deploy private LTE for Grand Paris Express metro network

The Société du Grand Paris (SGP), the state owned industrial company responsible for the Grand Paris Express metro project, has contracted Nokia to deploy a private LTE as part of the network extension in Paris, France. Development of the Grand Paris Express is billed by...

Deutsche Telekom expects to manage most private 5G networks at 3.7-3.8 GHz, too

Deutsche Telekom expects, in most cases, to manage private networks for enterprises, even if they are deployed in privately-owned spectrum, which is not licensed directly by the operator itself. Following its deal with BMW last month to install a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’ at...

HPE unveils as-a-service 5G portfolio

HPE honing focus on telcos with cloud-native solutions Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a new portfolio of as-a-service offerings to help telecommunications companies build and deploy open 5G networks, the firm said in a release. The company said that the new portfolio will accelerate telcos’ path...

The threat and opportunity of LEO satellites (Analyst Angle)

Terrestrial and satellite networks have progressed along their independent path, rarely intersecting. However, the new generation of low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are poised to change the economics of space-based networks. This promises new services and deployment models that could have major impact...

Editorial Webinar: Dynamic spectrum sharing: Driving 5G to scale

Previous generational upgrade cycles required operators to undertake the expensive, time-consuming process of spectrum refarming. But, for 5G, dynamic spectrum sharing allows carriers to side-step that process by transmitting LTE and 5G NR in the same band at the same time. DSS, coupled with the...

Nextivity Announces 5G Rollout for Cel-Fi Products as Carriers Upgrade their Networks

  New and Existing Cel-Fi QUATRA, Cel-Fi SOLO, and Cel-Fi GO G32 Models to receive over-the-air updates later this year, as carrier’s upgrade their existing network bands to 5G. Nextivity Inc. has announced that three of its flagship offerings – Cel-Fi QUATRA, Cel-Fi SOLO, and Cel-Fi...

China Mobile to expand 5G infrastructure via new tender

  China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, has launched a tender for the second phase of its 5G network rollout, according to a report by China Securities Journal. According to the report, the Chinese carrier has already completed the first phase...