The 5G Garage provides innovation hub for Singtel and partners
AS 5G in Singapore takes shape, the state telecoms regulator has mapped a plan to provide spectrum allocations in support of at least two standalone 5G networks set to launch in 2020. For more on...
SoftBank to deploy 11,210 5G base stations by early 2023
Japanese telecommunications carrier SoftBank expects to complete  the initial phase of its 5G network two years ahead of schedule, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review.
The carrier had initially planned to install a total...
M1 details plans for 5G in Singapore
While it covers a land area of a little more than 275 square miles, the island nation of Singapore is an economic powerhouse with a GDP per capita that puts it in the top 10 globally. The country...
Chinese vendor Huawei’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has proposed selling the company’s current 5G know-how to a Western company as a way to address security concerns by the U.S. and other Western countries, according to interviews published by The Economist and The New...
The U.K. government expects to make a decision soon about whether to allow Chinese vendor Huawei's equipment to be used in 5G networks deployed by U.K. carriers, Reuters reported, citing U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.
“The government will come to its position soon. We will...
APAC carriers try to define the "killer" 5G app for the region
SINGAPORE--China covers more than 9.5 million square kilometers and contains massive deposits of natural resources that support the country's industrial base, including the high-value agriculture, mining and manufacturing verticals. Singapore is a city-state...
Chinese state-run telecommunications operators China Telecom and China Unicom inked an agreement to cooperatively build a 5G mobile network, with the main aim of reducing costs, international press reported.
Under the "co-build, co-share" deal, the carriers will work together to outline districts in 15 cities...
Huawei Technologies has shipped more than 200,000 5G base stations globally, the company said in a statement.
By the end of July, Huawei had shipped a total of 150,000 5G base stations, despite U.S. sanctions against the Chinese company.
The company had previously said that it...
Vodafone New Zealand announced the launch of a live 5G trial in Auckland. Located in and around Mangere in South Auckland, the five cell sites feature upgraded Nokia technology, including 5G-enabled antennas.
“The team is stoked to have passed this milestone," said Tony Baird, Vodafone...
Korean companies Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom announced they have carried out a successful demonstration of how 5G technology can improve motor racing experiences for fans.
The demonstration, held at the Korea International Circuit race track, was carried out using Samsung Networks’ end-to-end 5G mmWave...
5G growth in the APAC region was 3x to 4x the size of the incremental LTE growth
A recently published report from Dell’Oro Group revealed that healthy LTE growth and surging 5G investments in the Asia Pacific region added fuel to the Radio Access Networks (RAN) market upswing that began...
ZTE counted 25 commercial 5G deals
Chinese vendor ZTE reported operating revenue of CNY 44.6 billion (6.2 billion) in the six months ended June 30, climbing 13.1% compared to the same period the previous year, the company said in a statement.
The company also said that...
Huawei has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) processor – the Ascend 910 – as well as an all-scenario AI computing framework, dubbed MindSpore.
"We have been making steady progress since we announced our AI strategy in October last year," said Eric Xu, Huawei's rotating chairman....
Korean carrier SK Telecom claimed to be first mobile operator in the world to exceed the 1 million 5G subscriber mark, the company said in a release.
This milestone was achieved on August 21. The company's 5G subscribers currently represent more than 3.5% of its...
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, is likely to limit the scope of its mobile launch in October due to delays in the installation of wireless base stations across Japan, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review.
Rakuten Mobile’s plan...
China ramping for large-scale 5G deployment
More than 10,000 5G base stations will be deployed in China's capital Beijing by the end of the year, Chinese press reported, citing Beijing's municipal telecom authorities
As of July, the capital city had already constructed over 7,800 5G base...
Huawei officially unveiled its own developed operating system HarmonyOS (HongmengOS in Chinese) which can be used on a variety of devices including smartphones, smartwatches and in-vehicle systems.
Huawei’s new OS was announced at the company’s developer conference. Richard Yu, CEO of the vendor’s Consumer Business...
China Mobile, the world's largest mobile services provider, plans to leverage base station sites and transmission facilities used for 4G services to deploy its 5G network cost-effectively, Chinese press reported the company’s Chairman Yang Jie as saying.
During a press conference on the company’s quarterly...
Indian mobile carriers will require another 12 to 18 months in order to deploy 5G networks across the country, Akhil Gupta, vice chairman of Bharti Enterprises told CNBC.
Bharti Enterprises is the parent company of major Indian telecommunication operator Bharti Airtel.
The executive said that despite...
The number of 5G subscribers in South Korea hit the 2 million mark this week, four months after local carriers commercially launched the technology, local press reported citing data from the industry.
So far, SK Telecom is leading the Korean 5G market with 840,000 subscribers,...
The Chinese government told India that there could be consequences for Indian firms with operations in China if Huawei Technologies was banned from the deployment of 5G in the country, Reuters reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.
During a recent meeting with India’s...
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten expects to deploy a total of 4,000 edge servers in Japan for the launch of its virtualized mobile network, the company’s chairman and CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani said in an interview with CNBC.
The executive said that Rakuten does not have to deploy brand...
Korean carrier SK Telecom expects to reach 1 million subscribers in the 5G segment in August, the company’s CFO Poong-Young Yoon said on a conference call with investors.
The operator, which launched commercial 5G services on April 3, ended June with 530,000 5G subscribers, the...
Japanese companies NEC Corporation and Fujitsu said they started to deliver 5G equipment for compatriot telco NTT DoCoMo’s 5G deployment.
NEC said it is already supplying radio units (RU) for 5G base station equipment to the Japanese operator. NEC began shipping three types of small-cell...
