Mobile operators plan to add around 600,000 5G base stations across China this year
China is forecasted to end this year with a total of 2.9 million 5G base stations, local state news agency Xinhua reported, citing the Minister of Industry and Information Technology Jin...
As part of the deal, Bouygues Telecom’s 5G network and private network solutions will be coupled with Siemens France’s IoT solutions
French companies Bouygues Telecom Entreprises, Alten and Siemens France have signed a three-year partnership with the aim of developing solutions to boost industrial 5G...
Sorting through my notes on Mobile World Congress Barcelona last week, certain companies and announcements stood out. One of the big ones was Huawei, with their 5.5G glimpse into the wireless world of tomorrow. In fact, they may have had the biggest booth at...
Sixty percent of Super Bowl LVII attendees were Verizon customers, and together, they used 47.8 TB of data
Ahead of Super Bowl LVII, Verizon invested more than $100 million in network upgrades and enhancements in and around State Farm Stadium and the greater Phoenix area....
Airtel said its '5G Plus’ service is now available to customers in over 265 cities in India
Indian operator Bharti Airtel continues to rapidly expand its 5G footprint in the country with the launch of 5G in 125 cities across the Asian nation.
In a release,...
Orange had initially launched its 5G SA network in Spain last month
Spanish operator Orange Spain expects to reach 11 cities with 5G Standalone (SA) by the end of the year, news service DPL News reported, citing the carrier’s Director of Network Strategy Miguel Angel...
Ericsson said its Private 5G provides 4G and 5G connectivity through its single server dual mode core
Swedish vendor Ericsson has inked a reseller agreement with South African company Comsol to provide its private 5G solution that will enable Comsol to expand its enterprise business...
As the 5G Standalone transition stalls, “Carriers, because of lack of foresight, may cause themselves to miss badly”
5G Standalone is the “real” 5G, and the “real” 5G is coming. That was a refrain at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where, for the first time...
To propel Open RAN, vRAN and public and private 5G networks, Qualcomm is drawing on domain expertise in connectivity and low-power compute
Qualcomm again demonstrated the ongoing strength of its diversification push during Mobile World Congress with a number of partner announcements highlighting the semiconductor...
The ban could include components already built into networks, said German media
According to a German interior ministry paper obtained by Reuters, the country is considering a ban on certain 5G components made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE. German media further stated that this...
FCC granted Dish permission to test in Yuma, AZ
The Federal Communications Commission has granted Dish Wireless permission to test 5G in low-band spectrum at 800 MHz in Yuma, Arizona—spectrum which it has an option to buy from T-Mobile US.
Dish is using 817-824...
Deutsche Telekom said a total of 8,200 antennas are alraedy providing 5G in the 3.6GHz band
German carrier Deutsche Telekom said its 5G network already reaches 95% of the country’s population.
The European telco has said that it expects that its 5G technology could reach 99%...
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm aim to complete their 5G network deployments within the next 15 months
India will achieve 100% coverage for 5G services by the end of December 2024, local press reported, citing the country’s communications minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw.
The official said that...
Telkomsel and its partners started a 5G FWA trial with sub-6 spectrum and mmWave extended range
Indonesian telco Telkomsel announced a partnership with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies to continue with its 5G trials in the Asian nation.
Telkomsel noted that the new 5G trial will use...
In just over 18 months, T-Mobile US has secured 2.6 million 5G FWA customers
At Mobile World Congress Barcelona, RCR Wireless News caught up with Neville Ray, president of technology at T-Mobile US, to discuss 5G progress and where the carrier is seeing the greatest...
The three (not so) easy pieces of 5G service assurance—orchestration, the edge, and end-to-end visibility
Here’s a hypothetical: A manufacturing enterprise has looked at its options for gaining production efficiencies and opted to use various video analytics backed by private 5G. A partner is engaged,...
Editor’s note: Check out the first part of this story, “How can operators monetize MEC?—‘Selling shovels instead of digging for gold’”
If you take a high-level look at how mobile edge computing (MEC) is shaping up in the market, and listen to industry voices like...
Huawei said that '5.5G' networks lead to a 10-Gbps experience for users
During Mobile World Congress 2023, Huawei has highlighted the main features of future '5.5G' networks, the company's brand name for advancements in areas like integrated sensing and communication, Level 4 autonomous driving, "all-scenario...
One promise of 5G is unlocking latency-sensitive use cases, things ranging form immersive gaming experiences without jitter that takes a player out of the moment to computer vision systems deployed for access control, quality assurance, and other applications relevant to numerous verticals industries. But...
China Tower said it added a total of 17,000 new towers last year
China Tower ended 2022 with a total of 2.05 million towers under management, after a new addition of 17,000 sites during the full year. In a release, the company said that total...
According to Bharti Airtel, its 5G offering is currently active in 140 cities in India
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has reached 10 million 5G subscribers across the country, the telco said in a release, with 1 million 5G subscribers in Mumbai alone. The Asian operator,...
Indonesian operator Telkomsel and ZTE Corporation announced a collaboration to boost the use of 5G services for the enterprise segment in Indonesia. This agreement was formalized through a memorandum of understanding during the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
Wong Soon Nam, chief planning...
MWC, Barcelona—ZTE has released a 5G-Advanced solution, dubbed Cluster DFS, in partnership with Chinese carrier China Telecom. According to ZTE, the new offering will facilitate the development of specific B2B and B2C services using a single 5G network.
China Telecom claims to have deployed the...
Rakuten Symphony said the agreement stipulates the deployment of private networks in six Asian markets
MWC, Barcelona—Axiata Enterprise, which is a business solutions company owned by Asian mobile telecommunications conglomerate Axiata, and Japanese company Rakuten Symphony have inked an agreement under which the latter will...
Orange said the new financing will enable the telco to boost 4G networks in rural parts of France
French operator Orange has secured financing for a total of 500 million euro ($530 million) from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to partly finance the deployment of...
