BROWSING: drive testing

Dish has six months to complete drive testing to confirm its network speeds The Federal Communications Commission has confirmed to Dish Wireless that it has met its 5G build-out requirements and two of three related commitments, with one set of test results still pending...

The MDT solution taps user equipment (UE) to collect field measurements Introduced in 3GPP Rel-10, Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) is a standardized mechanism designed to enable operators to use user devices in a network to collect mobile network data, and thus, reduce the need...

Without accurate maps, it’s impossible to know what communities lack wireless  services or how much it will cost to reach them One thing that the COVID-19 global health crisis has taught us is that wireless connectivity is not  a luxury but a necessity. Millions of...

The telco urged the government to accelerate plans to allocate 5G spectrum New Zealand telecom operator Spark announced what it claims to be the country’s first live 5G mobile test site in Wellington. The 5G trial used equipment and technical support from Chinese vendor Huawei. It...

The First Responders Network Authority is planning to award a contract for a new, nationwide public safety LTE network to a commercial partner by November 1, with caveats that the service will start out as essentially a mobile virtual network operator and eventually shift...

Ahead of next week's IWCE conference in Las Vegas, Anite and Bittium announced a collaboration around public safety drive testing capabilities. Bittium's Band 14-capable, ruggedized ToughMobile smartphone has been integrated with Anite's Nemo Outdoor drive testing solution, with an eye toward serving the market for...