5G

On Friday Sprint announced Günther Ottendorfer, chief operating officer of technology, is leaving the company after a two-year tenure “to join his family in Austria and pursue other opportunities. Günther helped drive new technology innovations and steadily improve the performance of …

Working with ZTE and China Mobile, Qualcomm marks 5G NR milestone with layer 1 data connection As the 3GPP 5G NR standard coalesces ahead of a mid-2018 release, vendors and operators continue increasingly advanced testing scenarios to prove out next-generation …

  At a conference entitled Patents in Telecoms & the Internet of Things, at George Washington University in the District of Columbia last week, I was perturbed to hear a speaker mischaracterizing the communications standards as platforms of preexisting technologies …

Canadian software-defined spectrum analysis company ThinkRF has racked up another big testing partnership, this time working with Viavi Solutions to produce a downconverter that extends the capabilities of Viavi’s existing 2G/3G/LTE CellAdvisor equipment into “5G” frequencies, including 27-30 GHz. “The …

Leveraging 5G for vertically-focused IoT use cases is key While its not yet standardized, 5G is most certainly the next big thing in telecom. The three primary use cases are enhanced mobile broadband, massive support for the internet of things …

Hype is certainly high for 5G, given that the industry is still technically in a pre-standard phase and that standalone 5G systems are still some time off. But the level of interest, and many of the results of ongoing tests …

TIM Brasil to use Accedian’s SkyLIGHT virtualized solution as part of recent partnership Accedian, a performance assurance solution specialist for mobile networks and enterprise-to-data center connectivity, announced it is teaming up with Brazilian national operator TIM Brasil. As part of …

ExteNet Systems added to its fiber optic holdings today with the completion of its acquisition of Axiom Fiber Networks; terms of the deal were not disclosed. Axiom owns a 20-mile, 864 strand count core network the company describes as “purpose …

The role of wireless infrastructure in the enterprise has been steadily expanding since the introduction of Wi-Fi – so for about two decades. In some Asian countries, operators have deployed in-building infrastructure in the enterprise for a long time, driven …

After taking a week to review Broadcom’s unsolicited $130 billion buy-out offer, the Qualcomm Board of Directors today announced it has “unanimously rejected” the bid. Qualcomm Incorporated Executive Chairman and Chairman of the company’s board Paul Jacobs , noting the …

5th generation (5G) wireless technology is just around the corner promising secure and ubiquitous wireless connectivity at gigabit speeds. As service providers prepare to leverage 5G, they are also faced with introducing new virtual network technologies such as software defined …

In Argentina Movistar tests 5G in 28 GHz band Continuing to work with global operators to test 5G networking technologies, Ericsson is working with Argentinian operator Movistar to understand 5G propagation characteristics in the 28 GHz millimeter wave frequency band. …

The City of London Corporation said U.K. firm CTIL has already kicked off the deployment of small cells The City of London Corporation announced plans to carry out tests of 5G technology at Guildhall, building on a new public Wi-Fi …

Analysts see growth for equipment providers regardless of FCC decision Companies from inside and outside the wireless industry are excited about the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to make more spectrum available in the 3550-3700 MHz band. Citizens broadband radio service, …

Radisys and Mavenir integrate vEPC into M-CORD as part of partnership Wireless network company Radisys Corporation alongside software-based telecom networking provider Mavenir announced they are collaborating to offer communication service providers a way to commercially launch a M-CORD (Mobile Central …

Underlying 5G tech including network slicing, virtualized RAN and end-to-end network slicing including included in TIP working groups Founded in 2016 by Facebook, the Telecom Infra Project consortium convened its annual summit this week in Santa Clara, Calif., and announced …

Deal with Spanish car maker Seat will focus on 5G for enablement of smart manufacturing processes for automotive Spanish telco Telefonica has signed an agreement with compatriot car maker SEAT to develop innovative initiatives in the automotive industry. The agreement …

Gigabit LTE joins previous Ericsson, Swisscom demos of 5G network slicing and NB-IoT Swiss telecommunications provider Swisscom has selected Ericsson for the implementation of a complete digital transformation process as well as future deployments of gigabit LTE and 5G The …

Expected 5G spectrum utilization will mean major engineering and design challenges in terms of spectrum characteristics: very high frequencies and very large channels, with high expectations for performance. Vendors, operators and government initiatives around the world are testing and trialing …

Understanding the end user quality of experience created by gigabit LTE Built on technologies 4×4 MIMO, 256 QAM and multi-channel carrier aggregation including of unlicensed spectrum bands, 41 operators in 24 countries are in varying phases of testing and deploying …

The two firms will evaluate the use of 5G for verticals including mining, transportation, health and manufacturing Finnish vendor Nokia and South African telecoms operator Vodacom have signed an agreement under which the companies will trial 5G technology in the …

Expected 5G spectrum utilization will mean major engineering and design challenges in terms of spectrum characteristics: very high frequencies and very large channels, with high expectations for performance. Vendors, operators and government initiatives around the world are testing and trialing …

Instead of a complex infrastructure deployment, latent computing resources could be used to support the edge computing needs of the IoT The data processing and storage needs of the internet of things (IoT) will quickly become more than our current …

Qualcomm is reviewing the “unsolicited” offer Other than to say it has received Broadcom’s “unsolicited” 12-figure acquisition offer, and will review with its financial and legal advisors, “Qualcomm will have no further comment until its board of directors has completed …