5G

Focus is on 5G demos, live field trials and third-party collaboration Ericsson and Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel announced plans to jointly establish a center of excellence (CoE) to facilitate 5G development and deployment in Singapore. The two partners said the …

New facility will use 5G to further test autonomous car use case Korean telecommunications operator KT has secured a license to build what it claims to be the world’s first autonomous car cluster in Pangyo, in Gyeonggi Province. KT’s plans …

78% of 50 operators surveyed in 5G trial phase “Ready or not…5G is coming, and work has started to understand the disruptive change it will bring across industries and societies. Operators have begun to respond to the challenge with creativity …

The internet is a defining element of the twenty-first century as it forever changed the way we live, communicate, and get information. This is particularly true for wireless technology. Today, more than 99 percent of Americans have access to an LTE network, …

Forecast predicts 50 million 5G connections in the region by 2025 Middle East mobile telephony operators will be early adopters of 5G technology, according to a recent study by the GSMA. The study projects there will be more than 50 million …

Projects emphasize the role of distributing compute power to the network edge, and taking a vertically-focused approach to IoT solutions development The marriage of the internet of things (IoT) with artificial intelligence-powered data analysis is the animating principle of Dell …

Innovators and inventors ‘haven’t yet begun to imagine’ everything 5G will enable Speaking at the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s HetNet Expo in West Palm Beach, Fla., AT&T Vice President of RAN and Device Design Gordon Mansfield asked attendees to, “Put your …

Business model development key to funding 5G network deployments   In a keynote presentation at the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s ongoing HetNet Expo in West Palm Beach, Fla., ExteNet Systems CEO Ross Manire outlined the three key factors that will make …

A three-phase process makes the most of investments geared toward delivering on 5G and IoT With the 5G New Radio specification, both non-standalone and standalone variants, tracking for finalization by the end of this year and mid-2018, respectively, operators around …

Ericsson shares see slight uptick following nomination announcement The Ericsson Nomination Committee has tapped Ronnie Leten, former CEO of global mining, power tool and assembly equipment Atlas Copco, to serve as the network infrastructure vendor’s new chairman of the board. …

The 5G trial used MU-MIMO, focused on mission critical communications use case Although the 3GPP has yet to standardize the standalone 5G New Radio specification, global operators and vendors continue aggressive testing programs to prove out various aspects of the …

The Telenet innovation center will also focus on collaboration works with a number of partners Liberty Global has opened the Telenet innovation center in Belgium’s capital Brussels with the aim of testing its new technology for connectivity, entertainment, and value …

  Every once in a long while, a new technology comes along that redefines the boundaries and assumptions that came before it. While it is still being extensively tested, 5G NR mmWave is emerging as a key technology that could …

Qualcomm identifies gigabit LTE and 5G as ‘mega technology trends’ As the 3GPP continues work on the standalone variant of the 5G New Radio standard, which is tracking for release mid-2018, the telecom industry is poised for gearing up for …

  Complex and powerful, 5G is truly a transformational leap forward from 4G. With 5G on the horizon, companies are already actively developing and testing designs for this next gen technology. Yet achieving the full 5G vision brings significant new …

AT&T sees open source software and hardware as fundamental to 5G Working with industry consortia Open Network Foundation and Open Compute Project on sharing open source software and hardware technology, respectively, with the broader telecom ecosystem, AT&T is focused on …

The new Austin facility will focus on microelectronics and will accelerate the Ericsson plans for 5G commercialization Ericsson announced the opening of a design center in Austin, Texas, to focus on microelectronics and accelerating the path to 5G commercialization. The …

  While the technologies that will constitute 5G are still being worked on, the ITU-R has identified three main usage scenarios for 5G: Enhanced mobile broadband with up to 20 Gbps peak data rate, massive machine-type communications, and ultra-reliable and …

Small Cell Forum collaborates with industry standards bodies to support densification ahead of 5G Network densification is seen as an imperative to support the vision of 5G. This requires many things: more fiber, more cell sites–at both the macro level …

At the 2017 Mobile World Congress Americas, we talked with Durga Malladi, Senior Vice President at Qualcomm about the developments of mmWave and 5G NR technologies and how to overcome the challenges of rollout.

https://www.https://youtu.be/IVRQgGaDlk4 We recently interviewed Dean Brenner, Senior Vice President, Spectrum Strategy & Technology policy at Qualcomm about the spectrum activities in the U.S., what spectrum bands are available and how 5G will utilize available and future spectrum bands.

Latest test is part of the IMT-2020 5G Promotion Group Huawei announced it has completed the second phase of 5G technology R&D testing organized by the IMT-2020 5G Promotion Group in Beijing. Using a massive 200 megahertz channel of spectrum in …

Massive MIMO trial was carried out on a commercial network in Nagasaki Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation, together with Japanese telco SoftBank and Wireless City Planning, successfully verified the 24-stream space division multiplexing technology by using pre-standard 5G TDD massive MIMO …

The smart cities market proclaims it has reached a new phase in its evolution, at last, which is showing tangible results in terms of operational efficiencies and sustainability. With familiar terminology, borrowed from the world of software, it has dubbed …

  Although it is still being defined, 5G is becoming a priority for telecom operators and it comes with the promise of unseen services and a broad range of new use cases and business models ranging from enabling autonomous vehicles …