The number of 5G subscribers in South Korea reached 6.34 million at the end of April, a year after local carriers had commercially launched this technology, Korean press reported, citing government data.
This figure represents an increase of 7.8% compared to the previous month, according...
ZTE scoping out what 6G will look like
Chinese vendor ZTE expects 3D-connectivity, intelligent MIMO, on-demand topology and on-demand artificial intelligence will represent the essential enablers of future 6G networks, the company’s spokesperson Jason Tu, told RCR Wireless News.
ZTE's 6G research team also considers that...
Hong Kong’s smallest mobile operator, SmarTone, announced the launch of commercial 5G services in the territory using Ericsson’s Dynamic Spectrum Technology (DSS).
The carrier said it adopting an integrated approach of combining high, mid and low spectrum bands to build a "robust" 5G network in...
Australian carrier Telstra is already offering commercial 5G services in 47 cities across the country, ahead of its target of reaching 35 urban areas before the end of June.
Channa Seneviratne, a network engineering executive at Telstra said that the company’s 5G service already reaches...
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, has signed a 5G network sharing agreement with China Broadcasting Network (CBN), giving the market leader access to the TV provider’s 700 MHz spectrum.
The companies confirmed that they would jointly fund and deploy...
KDDI launched commercial 5G in March
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it is working with Japanese mobile operator, KDDI, in a joint initiative aimed at delivering a fully cloudified RAN solution.
The planned lab-based Proof of Concept (PoC), which will use Nokia’s AirScale All-in-Cloud BTS solution, will...
Chinese vendor ZTE and compatriot carrier China Unicom have reached an agreement for the development of "6G" technologies, ZTE said in a release.
Based on China Unicom's network, both companies will jointly explore the prospect and technical trends of 6G. According to the industry, 6G...
Huawei Technologies Rotating Chairman Guo Ping said that "survival" would be the company’s key objective for 2020 as the U.S. government recently moved to further restrict the Chinese telecom manufacturer’s access to semiconductors.
“Huawei is capable of designing some products, but we are not able...
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced plans to restrict Chinese vendor Huawei’s ability to use U.S. chipmaking equipment and software to design and manufacture its semiconductors abroad.
In a statement, BIS said that the move "cuts off...
New Japanese mobile network entrant Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, announced it will delay the launch of commercial 5G services due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a release, Rakuten Mobile said that the 5G service originally planned for...
South Korean operator KT added 360,000 5G subscribers in the first quarter of the year, the telco said in its earnings statement.
The carrier, which launched commercial 5G services in April 2019, ended Q1 with a total of 1.78 million 5G customers.
“Since the launch of...
New Japanese market entrant Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has already activated a total of 4,738 radio stations in the country, which is more than the 3,432 initially planned, Rakuten Mobile chairman and CEO Mickey Mikitani said during a conference call...
The government of New Zealand has cancelled an auction for short-term, early access rights in the 3.5 GHz band for 5G services and announced instead a direct allocation to three local carriers.
Earlier this month, the government had postponed the process due to the constraints...
5G subscribers represented 9.4% of Korean telco LG Uplus’ overall mobile subscriber base at the end of the first quarter, the telco said in its earnings release.
The carrier said that 5G subscribers amounted to 1.45 million at the end of Q1 2020, up 24.9%...
The city of Xi'an, the capital of China's Shaanxi province, aims to install a total of 25,000 5G base stations by 2022, Chinese press reported.
Xi'an will deploy 9,000 new 5G base stations in the coming months to reach a total of 13,000 by the...
SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 2.65 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the carrier said in its earnings statement.
At the end of last year, the telco had a total of 2.22...
Hong Kong is starting a subsidy program with the main aim of encouraging early deployments of 5G technology in the territory, telecoms regulator (OFCA) said in a release.
The watchdog said that the new subsidy program was launched under the second round of government funding...
Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom confirmed it plans to launch commercial 5G services in the third quarter of the year despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shui-Yi Kuo, the carrier’s President and CFO, said during a conference call with investors.
“Although the pandemic continue to...
Australian carrier Telstra has upgraded its 5G radio access network (RAN) coverage footprint across Australia, connecting a cloud-native 5G Core (5GC) network to handle new 5G standalone traffic.
Telstra used equipment from Swedish vendor Ericsson for the network upgrade.
The 5G upgrade means that Telstra already has...
The government of New Zealand has decided to postpone a process to award spectrum in the 3.5 GHZ band, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The local authorities said in a statement that updates regarding this process will be announced when further decisions have been made.
In...
Singtel and a joint venture between StarHub Mobile and M1 were awarded licenses to build two nationwide standalone (SA) 5G networks in Singapore, , local telecommunications regulator IMDA said.
The winners were each allocated 100 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band.
IMDA noted that...
South Korea tech giant Samsung Electronics expects to see a slowdown in 5G investments in the second quarter of the year due to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, JongMin Lee, VP of Samsung's mobile communications business, said during the firm’s earnings call.
“It...
The Chinese government has set new regulations for critical information infrastructure operators to buy tech equipment, which could potentially represent new obstacles for foreign vendors.
The new regulations, which were announced by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), require that domestic critical information infrastructure operators...
Japan’s largest carrier, NTT DoCoMo, expects to attract 2.5 million subscribers in the 5G segment by March 2021, the operator said in its earnings statement.
The telco, which launched 5G service last month, said it signed up 14,000 5G users at end-March.
5G coverage is forecast to increase...
