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CES 2020 drew more than 180,000 people to Las Vegas The wave of industry event and exhibition cancellations that started in late February with the scrapping of Mobile World Congress …

  Nokia and US Cellular announced a commercial deal to add 5G millimeter-wave capabilities in the 24 GHz and 28 GHz spectrum bands to the carrier’s network, the European vendor …

  German operator Deutsche Telekom confirmed that its 5G service currently reaches 3,000 towns and municipalities across the country, with nearly 30,000 5G antennas already in operation. Deutsche Telekom said …

Greetings from North Carolina, where it is seasonally hot and humid. Fortunately, our COVID-19 “stay at home” garden is yielding fantastic results.  Zucchini, anyone? The earnings season started this week …

  German operator Deutsche Telekom has selected Ericsson for a new multi-year agreement to deploy the carrier’s 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) across Germany. Under the terms of the deal, …

  China Mobile, the world’s largest operators in terms of subscribers, added 14.4 million 5G subscribers in June, the telco said in its website. The carrier said it ended the …

  South African operator Rain has launched what it claims to be Africa’s first standalone 5G (SA 5G) network, in partnership with Chinese vendor Huawei, the latter said in a …

  The U.K. government has asked Japan to help in the deployment of 5G networks in the country, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review. The request came after the U.K. …

A warm North Carolina welcome to the dog days of summer.  The picture is of our pooch Abby serving as boat sentinel on a recent float trip.  Summertime in the …

The partnership will tackle two small cell deployment challenges: electrical power and fiber connectivity Corning announced that it is working with stored energy solutions provider EnerSys to speed up 5G …

  Korean mobile operators SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus have agreed to invest a total of KRW 25.7 trillion ($22 billion) through 2022 to boost 5G infrastructure across the …

  India’s Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani confirmed that the conglomerate’s mobile Jio Platforms engineers designed and developed a “complete 5G system” from scratch. The executive said that Jio Platforms’ …

  German operator Deutsche Telekom announced that around 15,000 additional antennas will be transmitting with 5G technology in the telco’s network by the end of the week. In a release, …

  Initial “6G” networks could be deployed in 2028, while mass commercialization of this technology will occur in 2030, according to a new white paper released by Samsung Electronics. Samsung …

According to Ericsson’s Head of 5G Marketing, there are five characteristics of 5G ‘use places’ Ericsson’s Head of 5G Marketing Peter Linder authored a blog on the company’s website posing …

  Finnish vendor Nokia announced the availability of a software-based upgrade that will enable its 4G LTE radios to be migrated to 5G New Radio. These features will provide immediate …

  The U.K. government announced that Chinese vendor Huawei’s gear will be completely removed from the country’s 5G networks by the end of 2027, following new recommendations by the National …

On the first episode of Well, technically… Nokia’s Head of Dedicated Wireless Networks Jane Rygaard discusses the importance of using technology for real change, both in business and in everyday life, as well as some of Nokia’s priorities for the rest of 2020.

  Qualcomm has committed to invest INR7.3 billion ($97.1 million) in India’s Jio Platforms with the aim of supporting the Indian firm in the future rollout of 5G services in …

Indoor 5G deployment also a priority in Shanghai Chinese carriers have already deployed over 20,000 5G base stations in Shanghai, Chinese press reported, citing Wu Jincheng, director of Shanghai Commission …

Claro using Ericsson’s Dynamic Spectrum Sharing technology Brazilian mobile operator Claro, owned by Mexican telecommunications group America Movil, announced it will start offering 5G services in limited areas in Sao …

  Deutsche Telekom said that the company continues to be committed to a multi-vendor strategy for the deployment of its mobile networks. In a company blog post, the German carrier …

The findings of Viavi Solutions’ 13th annual State of the Network report can be summarized in one word: Disruption. Networks are seeing “tremendous” and “dynamic disruption” as a result of …

  Chinese vendor ZTE is seeing a rapid migration to standalone (SA) 5G network in China, because local carriers are already upgrading their 5G networks to 5G SA, Chen Qiong, …

  Saudi Arabian carrier Zain KSA announced the expansion of its 5G network to cover all the Kingdom’s regions, after it has recently included Al-Jouf and the northern borders, the …