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KDDI worked with partners Samsung and Fujitsu to turn on the Open RAN site in Japan KDDI is claiming to have turned on the world’s first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) site in partnership with …

Korean carrier KT and Japanese tech company Fujitsu have completed a verification facility at the KT Research and Development Center in Seoul, South Korea, at which the two companies leveraged Fujitsu’s Open RAN-based 5G base station equipment to successfully test …

Japan is expected set up a wide-area experimental network as early as 2022 to experiment with 5G O-RAN networks, Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported. According to the report, the initiative will be led by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications …

Wirepas has received an additional €10 million cash injection from Estonia-based early-stage venture capital firm Karma and Finnish state-owned investment firm Tesi to accelerate development of its new mesh-based non-cellular industrial ‘5G’ technology. Both Karma and Tesi are existing investors …

Amid increased demand for bandwidth as 5G rolls out and connectivity becomes a primary focus during the pandemic, a number of network providers have announced upgrades or expansions this week. Fiber provider Zayo is working on a major deployment of …

Japanese companies NEC and Fujitsu have begun developing technologies for interoperability testing between 5G base station equipment conforming to O-RAN specifications at NEC’s U.K. laboratories and Fujitsu’s U.S. laboratories. Both companies are expected to build a verification environment using these …

The Connected Coast project aims to bring high-speed Internet to remote communities along coastal BC, Haida Gwaii and Vancouver Island Fujitsu Network Communications’ hardware and software services have been chosen by the CityWest Connected Coast Network Corporation and Strathcona Connected Coast Network …

German operator Deutsche Telekom has switched on its first Open-RAN (O-RAN) network in the country, the telco said in a release. The so-called “O-RAN Town”, which has been deployed in the city of Neubrandenburg, Germany, is a multi-vendor open RAN …

The industrial city of Kawasaki, in the greater Tokyo area, has signed with Japanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu to develop a new ‘smart city’ fabric using the latest connectivity, compute, and analytics solutions. Specifically, the city has commissioned the firm to …

Japanese imaging and electronics firm Ricoh Company has recruited country-mate Fujitsu to accelerate its IoT sensor and data usage at process manufacturing facilities in Japan, starting at a chemical plant in the city of Numazu, in the middle of the …

Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile signed two different agreements with compatriot companies Fujitsu and NEC to carry out joint efforts to develop and promote Open RAN solutions for the global market. Rakuten Mobile and Fujitsu said they will collaborate to jointly …

    Japanese ICT company Fujitsu announced a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to accelerate the digital transformation of the mobility industry. The Japanese firm said that this collaboration will enable Fujitsu to expand its business for …

Japanese companies NTT and Fujitsu Limited formed a strategic business alliance to conduct research in the mobile communications and optical transport fields, with the aim of expanding into the global market and delivering sustainable infrastructure. In a joint statement, the …

Japanese IT company Fujitsu and US-Japanese cyber security company Trend Micro have partnered to “focus on” the security of private 5G networks. The pair said they will use a simulated smart factory environment at a Fujitsu factory  in Japan to …

  Japanese company Fujitsu announced the start of of operations of a private 5G network at its Oyama plant in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. In a release, Fujitsu said that the network consists of a 4.7 GHz band SA and a …

KDDI following a low-, mid- and high-band 5G strategy with plans to spend $4 billion by 2025 Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has announced it has brought its 700MHz services on air for Japanese carrier KDDI’s commercial launch of 5G. The …

Xilinx and Fujitsu are coming together to support a more rapid rollout of 5G in the United States. The partnership, which will involve Xilinx incorporating its UltraScale+ technology into Fujitsu’s O-RAN 5G radio units (O-RUs), will allow for the interoperability …

Mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has convened with a Japanese-Thai consortium of telecoms companies, including NEC and Fujitsu, to develop an off-the-shelf private 5G system to sell to global enterprise customers. The group said it will bundle managed services on top …

Japanese company Fujitsu announced that its O-RAN-compatible 5G radio unit was selected by compatriot carrier KDDI for the construction of virtualized base stations for 5G commercial services in Japan. The base stations will be delivered in the second half of …

  Intel has signed a partnership with U.S. operator Dish Nework to supply virtualized RAN (vRAN) equipment for a standalone 5G deployment, the chipmaker said in a release. As part of the deal, Intel’s 5G infrastructure technology will create the …

  Japanese vendor NEC will play a role in the development of next-generation 5G wireless networks in the U.K., according to reports published by Japanese newspapers. In a Twitter post last week, Britain’s Department for International Trade said NEC is …

Telenor has deployed a private 5G network in localised 3.7 GHz spectrum at Swedish tool manufacturer Atlas Copco’s factory in Sickla, in Stockholm. The radio gear and core network are from fellow Swede Ericsson; Japan-based IT firm Fujitsu is also …

IT firm Fujitsu has revealed a portfolio of private 5G products and services to serve the Industry 4.0 movement. It has also set a revenue target of ¥100 billion (about $9.5 billion) from private 5G-related sales by the end of …

Speaking during IFA, Qualcomm President discusses the company’s role in the RAN Open RAN is having a big impact on the telecom space with major operators around the world embracing disaggregation of radio access network (RAN) hardware and software. The …

  The U.K. government has asked Japan to help in the deployment of 5G networks in the country, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review. The request came after the U.K. government last week decided to ban Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies from supplying 5G …