February 2021

Canadian satellite operator Telesat is joining the battle for low-earth-orbit-based broadband services, announcing today that it has selected a vendor to manufacture the nearly 300 LEO satellites that will form …

Around one-third of the global population doesn’t have access to the internet and some that do don’t have reliable access. While cable and fiber could solve this, the economics of …

65 operators around the world are investing in Standalone 5G, GSA reports Sixty-one countries around the world have 144 commercial 5G networks as of January 2021, with more on the …

Chinese vendor Huawei believes that it will be extremely unlikely that the new U.S. administration would lift the current restrictions imposed by former President Donald Trump, Huawei’s founder and CEO, …

France had a total of 19,938 5G authorized sites as of February 1, of which 9,426 were declared technically operational by the mobile telephone operators, France’s spectrum agency ANFR reported. …

    Verizon Business is working with Zyter, a digital health and IoT-enablement platform, to help improve sports and entertainment venue operations. The company also said that the aim of …

Swedish carrier Telia is offering an eSIM-based solution it reckons can save companies about 28 percent on the cost of global IoT roaming. The product allows users to remotely select …

The network will be built on the Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution Ericsson and Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS) announced plans to jointly deploy a commercial LTE/5G-ready private network at steel and mining …

Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom are bundling private cellular and edge computing into an integrated ‘campus’ networking package for enterprises globally. The pair are offering the same in Germany, already; their …

Note, this post is continued from an article called, “5G helped us through Covid’ – Lufthansa Technik on private 5G with Nokia, Vodafone”. Click here to see the previous instalment. …

Qualcomm 4th generation 5G modem-RF system sampling now; device launches potentially coming this year For several days Qualcomm reps have been teasing new product announcements, asking “What’s next in 5G?” …

2020 was a tipping point for 5G, according to a new report from Spirent Communications, when the technology moved out of the lab and into commercial reality even as the …

  Huawei has announced the opening of an Intelligent Mining Innovation Lab in Taiyuan, in China’s Shanxi Province. The lab was opened through the combined efforts of the government of …

Verizon invested more than $80 million to provide 5G, MEC to Super Bowl LV At this year’s Super Bowl, fans — both those at home and the few thousand lucky …

    Norwegian firm Disruptive Technologies (DT), which provides commercial-grade wireless sensors, recently secured a global reseller agreement with JLL that establishes DT as a certified supplier. Under the terms …

Singapore telecom regulator IMDA recently announced a new SGD30 million ($22.5 million) fund to accelerate the adoption and commercialization of 5G solutions in the country. The fund is part of …

Could smartphone usage data reveal voter insights that political polling might not catch? It’s possible, according to GWS. GWS analyzed news consumption on smartphones from an opt-in consumer panel in …

The Co-Founder and CEO of Libelium Alicia Pérez comes on the show to defend her claim that 5G isn’t the solution to all of our network and economic woes and …

The Dutch business regulation agency, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), has ruled mobile operators in the Netherlands can collaborate on radio spectrum and network infrastructure to safeguard and …

Elon Musk’s low-earth-orbit satellite-based service, Starlink, plans to provide voice and Lifeline services as well as high-speed broadband services, the company told the Federal Communications Commission. Starlink laid out its …

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 …

Five Fraunhofer Institutes are cooperating to conduct research activities on “6G” technology under the leadership of Fraunhofer IIS. With the project, called 6G Sentinel, the research institutes aim to develop …

Ericsson is to deploy a standalone private 5G network at a Ford engine plant in Valencia, in Spain. The trial installation is part of a European Union initiative to drive …

Ookla Speedtest is now offering users the ability to directly measure their video streaming experience, providing a new Speedtest that measures max resolution, buffering and loading times. It’s only available …

    Keysight Technologies announced Nemo Backpack Pro, an in-building measurement solution for benchmarking 5G New Radio end-user quality of experience in enterprise facilities, airports, arenas and other indoor environments. …