Japanese firm provided a massive-element AAS base station system supporting a 28 GHz band
Japanese firm NEC announced that it has provided a base station system for a field trial in remote medical examinations using 5G in Japan.
The trial was conducted by NTT DoCoMo under...
U.S ban on ZTE could also negatively impact China’s 5G program
Chinese vendor ZTE’s business could be heavily impacted if the company fails to reach an agreement with the U.S government over a ban which prohibits U.S companies from exporting components to ZTE for a...
5G SingleRAN Pro platforms supports 5G deployments as well as previous technologies, Huawei said
Chinese vendor Huawei has launched its 5G SingleRAN Pro, which combines 5G, 4G, 3G, and 2G capabilities across a single network.
The company said that the new solution features an automatic intelligent...
Department of Commerce says the ban on ZTE will last until March 2025
The U.S. Department of Commerce has banned American companies from selling telecommunications equipment to Chinese vendor ZTE after the firm allegedly did not live up to the terms of an agreement that...
Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are forecast to deploy 1.67 million of small cell units this year
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region accounted for 58.6% of all non-residential small cells deployments last year, according to the latest report by the Small Cell Forum. Last year, a...
Huawei said trial constitutes the third phase of China’s national 5G test plan
Huawei said it became the first vendor to pass China’s 5G non-standalone (NSA) core network test, which covers key core network technologies and service processes and marks the third phase of the...
Mobile operators in South Korea had recently announced plans to launch commercial 5G services next year
South Korean mobile operators have plans to share the costs for the deployment of a nationwide 5G network in the Asian country, according to published reports citing government sources.
The...
The Australian telco said it will use 100 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5GHz band
Australian firm NBN Co., which is currently rolling out the country’s National Broadband Network (NBN), announced plans to launch 5G trials this week in partnership with Swedish vendor Ericsson in...
The Australian operator has recently deployed 50 4G small cells in the Melbourne area
Australian telecommunications operator Telstra announced plans to rollout small cells across the country in a move to boost capacity and speed in some of the country’s busiest locations, said Channa Seneviratne,...
The Asia Pacific region led the small cell market last year, mainly due to large deployments in China and India
A total of 2.3 million small cell units were shipped during 2017 globally, an increase of 39% year over year, according to a new study...
KT will use 28 GHz spectrum for urban hot spots and 3.5 GHz band for urban and rural areas.
South Korean telecom operator KT Corp. has confirmed plans to launch its commercial 5G network by March 2019, Korean press reported. Oh Seong-mok, president of KT’s network...
The telco urged the government to accelerate plans to allocate 5G spectrum
New Zealand telecom operator Spark announced what it claims to be the country’s first live 5G mobile test site in Wellington. The 5G trial used equipment and technical support from Chinese vendor Huawei. It...
Nokia, Ericsson working with operators in Taiwan, Singapore to speed-up 5G deployments
Network infrastructure vendor Nokia has signed a number of agreements with telecom operators in Taiwan in order to accelerate their 5G commercial deployments and enhance their related 4G applications, Taiwanese press reported.
According...
Standalone 5G New Radio specification tracking for June release
Operators in the U.S. including Verizon and AT&T are promising commercial services based on the non-standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification, adopted in December 2017 by 3GPP, later this year. These services will use the LTE...
The Chinese vendor is currently investing $500 million annually in 5G research
ZTE has released what it claims to be the world’s first end-to-end 5G network slicing solution. ZTE highlighted solution is the key to the 5G network as it allows the resource of a...
As it raises billions for 5G, China Unicom focused on service flexibility for 5G
To simultaneously support 5G use cases with highly variable service-level needs, operators are slowly transforming their networks to run off of dynamic, software-defined networks that automatically provision network resources in centralized...
Telstra to launch commercial 5G services in Australia during 2019
Australian telecommunications company Telstra has opened a 5G innovation centre in the Gold Coast region. Telstra said the main aim of the new 5G center will be to test next-generation technologies to support the early...
Qualcomm, Xiaomi, ZTE, Lenovo and others partner to bring 5G NR-compliant devices to market in 2019
China is a major market for mobile devices services and that the market opportunity for the next generation of mobile has led to the creation of a multi-company consortium,...
SK Telecom said the new group currently has 200 employees
Korean telecommunications operator SK Telecom has formed a 200-member task force in order to speed up the process to launch commercial 5G services in the Asian country. SK Telecom said the task force is making all...
Under the deal, the European vendor will provide its 5G NR hardware
Finnish vendor Nokia has signed an agreement with Japanese telco NTT Docomo for the provision of 5G equipment for the operator’s future commercial launch, which is scheduled for 2020.
Nokia will support NTT Docomo's...
SK Telecom, KT an LG U+ aim to launch commercial 5G in 2019
South Korea’s ICT Minister Yoo Young-min had a meeting with the country’s mobile carriers asking them to speed-up the process of deploying 5G networks in the Asian nation. The official met with...
The Asian government plans to award 5G spectrum licenses in June
South Korean mobile operators are expected to invest more than $9.36 billion in 5G network technology in 2018, Korean press reported citing industry sources.
According to the reports, the local Ministry of Science and ICT...
The trial, which took place in Yokohama, paves the way for applications and deployment of 5G millimeter wave, according to Huawei
Chinese vendor Huawei and Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo have completed a joint field trial for 5G mobile communications over a long distance with 39...
Operator is adding 5G base stations ahead of commercial launch in 2020
China Telecom has announced the deployed a new 5G base station in Lanzhou, in China’s Gansu province, expanding its pilot project for 5G networks to six cities. The telco previously deployed 5G base stations...
