Bharti Airtel founder and chairman Sunil Mittal said that most parts of India will be covered by 5G by March 2023
Indian telco Bharti Airtel is already offering 5G services in 12 cities across the country, according to local press reports.
Last month, Bharti Airtel launched...
SK Telecom has recently announced the launch of its metaverse platform in 49 countries and regions
South Korea’s largest telco, SK Telecom, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Asian communications technology group, Singtel, to jointly grow their metaverse businesses in some Asian markets,...
Since its commercial launch in 2019, 5G is gearing up to enter its next transformational phase, which will be driven largely by 5G-Advanced — an upgrade to The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) release that will bring about substantial improvements driven by the introduction...
The mobile experience in and around major stadiums is crucial to keeping customers happy as they browse, text, call and share their pictures and video from large sporting events or concerts. With tens of thousands of subscribers concentrated in a small area at very...
Passengers aboard flights in the EU will be able to use their mobile phones just like with a ground-based 5G mobile network
Airlines in Europe will be able to provide the latest 5G technology on their planes, now that the European Commission has updated the...
The Ericsson study noted that emerging markets could benefit from GDP growth between 0.3 and 0.46% through 2035
The deployment of 5G technology could trigger a number of economic benefits for certain emerging markets, according to a new Ericsson-commissioned study by Analysys Mason.
The study noted...
The Hong Kong government is taking comments through December 15
Hong Kong’s Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development (SCED) and the Communications Authority (CA) recently launched a public consultation on the proposed reassignment of 20 megahertz of spectrum in the 850/900 MHz bands and 90...
The move is part of China's broader initiative to widen the application of 5G industrial internet to boost the domestic manufacturing sector
The government of China has granted the first 5G private network license in the country to Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), the...
Japanese company Fujitsu is taking part in this 5G initiative
A consortium of Japanese organizations has developed open source software for private 5G networks, claiming to domestically produce a low-cost 5G core (5GC) network which brings down the cost of private infrastructure.
The organizations taking part...
Deutsche Telekom said that telecom regulator Bundesnetzagentur provided support for these 6 GHz tests with a special license
German carrier Deutsche Telekom said it tested frequencies in the 6 GHz band in the city of Bonn under real-world conditions.
The telco noted that these are...
France-based virtual operator Transatel, busily offering somehow-unfashionable local MVNO and MVNE services in Europe for two decades already, has a second (actually, third and fourth) life, suddenly, in the global IoT game – which has become even racier in recent years with its acquisition...
Both firms will bring secured Edge Cloud services backed by IBM Cloud Satellite to end customer
Colt Technology Services and IBM have launched a joint lab environment to help customers adopt Industry 4.0 technologies in the manufacturing value chain.
Under this agreement, the firms say they...
Vodafone said its new 5G FWA offering will enable customers to have access speeds of up to 1 Gbps
Spanish telco Vodafone announced it will launch 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services for homes and businesses by the end of November.
The European carrier said that...
Sony Semiconductor Israel has introduced a new dual-band low-power cellular IoT chipset solution which it claims is the “first” to combine the both LTE-M and NB-IoT in a single integrated modem. The new ALT1350 chipset also supports satellite (non-terrestrial; NTN) connectivity, plus cellular, satellite-GNSS,...
T-Mobile’s IoT developer kit includes a complete software development kit (SDK), built on the Zephyr Real-time Operating System
T-Mobile US announced the launch of its first IoT developer kit, which will enable developers to connect to the carrier’s network and create connected IoT solutions.
The kit...
China had a total of 2.22 million 5G base stations across the country as of the end of Q3
Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 24.75 million 5G subscribers in October, according to the operators’ latest available statistics.
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in...
Mobile operators in Canada already provide 5G coverage to 75% of the population
Four million smartphone users in Canada are expecting to upgrade to 5G services over the next 12-15 months, according to a recent survey carried out by Ericsson.
This figure represents 17% of...
Celcom DiGi will become Malaysia's largest telco with over 20 million subscribers
The proposed merger between Malaysian operators Celcom Axiata and DiGi Malaysia merger is now a step closer, after the boards of both companies gave their approval for the agreement.
Once the two companies are...
The EC noted that the calls aim to strengthen the cybersecurity of 5G network infrastructure by supporting secure services
The European Commission has launched an invitation to companies, government agencies and other organizations to submit proposals for "innovative" cybersecurity solutions for 5G network infrastructure, the...
Vodafone Idea's CTO said that the telco will continue to carry out O-RAN trials in the country
Indian carrier Vodafone Idea is open to carrying out additional pilots of Open-RAN (O-RAN), and would potentially consider the deployment of O-RAN networks once the technology is mature...
A session at Private Networks European Forum (PNEF) last month considered the challenges, and broader cultural shift, to bring ‘private 5G to the masses’. Koen Mioulet, secretary at the European Users Wireless Enterprise Network Association (EUWENA), and Maria Cuevas, networks research director at UK-based...
Over 4,000 major commercial buildings and key public institutions in Shanghai will have indoor 5G coverage by end-2023
China’s main financial hub, Shanghai, is expected to have more than 77,000 5G base stations by the end of 2023, Chinese press reported.
This number of base stations...
The three operators in South Korea had secured frequencies in the 3.5 GHz and 28 GHz bands in 2018
The South Korean government said it will cancel the spectrum licenses in the 28 GHz band that was allocated to local operators for 5G deployments, citing...
Over 20 Indian enterprises have applied to secure 5G spectrum to set private networks in the country
Indian carriers believe that they are better prepared for the end-to-end deployment of private 5G networks and for managing the related infrastructure compared to enterprises, local newspaper The...
Ericsson is already working with TIM competitor WindTre on 5G SA efforts
Ericsson noted Friday that Italian telco TIM has selected Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G core for its forthcoming 4G and 5G core modernization efforts. TIM will use Ericsson’s technology to modernize its current Evolved Packet Core...
