The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce officially announced that it will extend for 90 days the Temporary General License (TGL) for Huawei and its non-U.S. affiliates which are subject to the Entity List.
The TGL authorizes U.S. companies...
ZTE, in partnership with China Telecom and China Unicom, has completed the network verification based on the "co-build co-share" mode in the commercial 5G environment, launching 5G Nonstandalone co-build/co-share sites which support 1.8 GHz/2.1 GHz/3.5 GHz in Hangzhou, China, the vendor said in a...
South Korean mobile operator KT expects to end this year with a total of 1.5 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the operator’s CFO Yoon Kyung-keun said during a conference call with investors.
According to KT’s latest earnings report, the telco ended the third quarter...
6G announcement follows major 5G network launch
China has officially started researching 6G technology a few days after state-run telecom operators launched 5G networks in the country.
According to reports by Chinese state media, government ministries and research institutes met this week with the aim of...
Korean carrier SK Telecom has reached 1.5 million subscribers in the 5G segment, representing a share of 44% in the local 5G market, the carrier’s CFO Poong-Young Yoon said on a conference call with investors.
The executive said that the company expects to end this...
China’s three state telecoms announced Thursday the launch of 5G services in the country, international press reported.
Chen Zhaoxiong, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology, officially kicked off the launch with representatives from the three carriers at PT Expo China in Beijing.
China Mobile, China...
ZTE reports net profits up more than 150% year-over-year
ZTE Corporation posted revenues of CNY 64.2 billion ($9.1 billion) in the first three quarters of the year, an increase of 9.3% compared to the year-ago period, the Chinese vendor said in a statement.
During the period,...
VIENNA, Austria- Chinese vendor ZTE is not concerned about the impact of the decision of state-run telecommunications operators China Telecom and China Unicom to share resources in the deployment of 5G infrastructure, ZTE’s President of Global Sales, Xiao Ming, told RCR Wireless News.
"With this decision...
Hong Kong’s Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA) announced that local carriers China Mobile Hong Kong and HKT secured spectrum in the 4.9 GHz band for the provision of 5G services.
In a statement, the regulator confirmed that 80 MHz of spectrum in the 4.9...
VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Chinese vendor ZTE has surpassed by far the milestone of 60 agreements with operators worldwide in the field of 5G, James Zhang, a senior VP at the Chinese vendor, told RCR Wireless News.
“We had cooperation agreements with 60 operators globally in...
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies is in early-stage negotiations with a number of U.S. telecommunications firm regarding the potential licensing of its 5G technology to them, Reuters reported, citing a company executive.
Vincent Pang, SVP and board director at Huawei, confirmed that some firms in the...
ZTE is getting ready for security assessments of its 5G products and solutions in the vendor’s cybersecurity lab in Brussels, Belgium, ZTE’s Chief Security Officer Zhong Hong told RCR Wireless News.
The announcement coincides with a recent report published by the European Commission (EC), in...
Huawei Technologies posted revenues of CNY 610.8 billion ($86 billion) in the first three-quarters of the year, climbing 24.4% year-on-year, despite a trade ban imposed by the U.S. government earlier this year.
The company's net profit margin in this period was 8.7%, Huawei said in...
Mobile operators in Hong Kong each acquired 50 megahertz of 3.5GHz spectrum in the first of three 5G auctions, raising a total of HKD1.006 billion ($128 million), the Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA) reported.
"Four bidders, namely China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited (CMHK),...
China’s three mobile operators signed up 9 million advance orders for 5G services during September, according to Beijing News.
The report stated that China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom would probably launch commercial 5G services simultaneously later this month.
China Mobile has attracted approximately 5.32...
Japanese carrier KDDI has selected Ericsson and Samsung for the deployment of a next generation 5G network in Japan.
Earlier this week, KDDI said it will also work with Nokia for the deployment of its 5G network infrastructure.
Ericsson said in a statement that it has...
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo announced that it has achieved what is claimed to be the world's first 28 GHz-band 5G mobile communications between base stations (BTS) and a high-speed bullet train.
In a statement, the carrier said that the trial was carried out in collaboration...
Chinese vendor Huawei has already begun research on future "6G" technology, according to its chief executive Ren Zhengfei, CNBC reports.
Huawei’s founder told a CNBC-hosted panel on Thursday that the company began to carry out research activities on 6G “a long time ago,” and has parallel...
Japanese operator KDDI has selected Nokia as a primary partner to upgrade its 4G network to 5G, the Finnish vendor said in a release.
Under the terms of the agreement, Nokia will deploy its Airscale radio access solution, which supports both 4G and 5G operations....
Huawei Technologies is already manufacturing 5G base stations without components provided by U.S. suppliers, international press reported the vendor’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying.
From October, Huawei expects to produce 5,000 5G base stations per month, and next year it plans to manufacture...
South Korean mobile operator KT says it surpassed 1 million 5G subscribers as of September 21, according to Korean press reports.
The mobile network operator launched commercial 5G services in the country in early April. KT is the second largest carrier in the Asian country,...
Chinese vendor Huawei has denied press reports suggesting that it may partner with China Mobile in a bid to acquire Brazilian telecom operator Oi.
"Huawei has no plans or interest to acquire Oi or any other Brazilian carrier. With more than 20 years in Brazil,...
Planning a full 5G launch in 2020
Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo announced it will begin a 5G service trial in a number of Japanese services on September 20, according to local press reports.
The telco said that users in Tokyo and other major cities in...
StarHub looking beyond eMBB to 5G for URLLC
With 5G on track to launch in Singapore and 2020, the three carriers are waiting for state regulators to finalize spectrum allocation before moving forward with plans to bypass non-standalone 5G networks like those in the U.S....
