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South Korea aims to create around 1,800 companies that specialize in new 5G services within the next five years, local news agency Yonhap reported. According to the report, the government …

The purchase of Wind Hellas is expected to strengthen Nova Broadcasting Group, which United Group acquired last year Earlier this week, United Group announced an agreement with Crystal Almond Holdings …

AT&T said it is working with the University of Tennessee (UT) to carry out research activities using 5G millimeter wave spectrum and Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) technology. The AT&T 5G+ …

U.K. telecommunications operator Vodafone currently offers 5G services in 123 towns and cities across the country. In mid-June, the carrier had said, its 5G coverage had reached 100 markets in …

Vodafone has launched a new IoT platform for UK water companies to consolidate data from disparate industrial sensors and systems into a single management plane. The solution, which wraps in …

AT&T is making sub-6 GHz 5G network access available to FirstNet customers in 10 more U.S. cites, expanding the use of High-Power User Equipment and touting the ability of the …

The state-owned Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) is coordinating a joint research and development project with Finnish network vendor Nokia and Swedish mining company Sandvik around industrial private 5G …

T-Mobile US is partnering to explore how 5G can enable enterprise applications Both before and after its acquisition of Sprint, T-Mobile US has been laser-focused on building out a nationwide …

A virtual research center, called 6G Futures, has been recently launched in the U.K. by the University of Bristol and King’s College. The new virtual hub groups over 400 world-renowned …

French mobile operator Free Mobile, a subsidiary of Illiad, said its 5G network continues to be the largest in terms of cell sites, which results from its rollout on 700 …

T-Mobile first turned on 5G in Puerto Rico at the end of 2019 on the 600 MHz band, the first U.S. operator to do so According to reports by Weekly …

DISH planning Q4 beta test of 5G network in Las Vegas; construction to be largely complete by end of Q3 In its ongoing effort to shield customers from coming 3G …

UK satellite communications provider Inmarsat is to launch a global narrowband network for IoT connectivity, targeting the aviation, maritime, and government sectors. The new service, which goes by the name …

IoT connectivity provider Kajeet has acquired network design consultancy Red Rover, specialising in supply of LTE connectivity to ‘community and educational’ outlets, to launch a new private LTE networks practice. …

Vodafone Germany said that the number of 5G-capable devices on its network has more than doubled in the last six months, with around 1.3 million customers now using a 5G …

The industry organization Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) said that it is tracking at least 370 companies around the world that have been or are investing in private mobile networks, …

IBM and Verizon are collaborating on 5G use cases and ‘management approaches’ for Industry 4.0 at IBM’s ‘industry solution lab’ in Texas, in the US. The pair are offering industrial …

China Tower net profit up 16.1% year-on-year China Tower business in the first half of the year was positively impacted by the accelerated deployment of 5G sites across the Asian …

AT&T has teamed up with Belfast-based SIM specialist Kigen, spun-out of chip design company Arm at the end of last year, to allow cellular IoT device makers to source integrated …

Dish Network expects to launch 5G wireless services in Las Vegas in a beta phase during the fourth quarter of the year, the company’s Chairman Charlie Ergen said during a …

Korean carrier LG Uplus ended the second quarter of the year with 3.73 million 5G subscribers, up 108.8% year-on-year, according to the company’s latest earnings statement. The telco added a …

Verizon has added compute and storage into its 5G network infrastructure in Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix. Its project to build-out its multi-access edge compute (MEC) infrastructure, in partnership with AWS, …

US Cellular President and CEO Laurent Therivel painted a vision of a highly competitive wireless landscape for the rest of 2021, populated with aggressive offers to entice 5G adoption among …

Telstra, Optus and TPG have all said that the National Broadband Network Co has not provided ‘timely and accurate speed information’ Three Australian operators — Telstra, Optus and TPG — …

Telstra Health, the digital healthcare business of Australian telecoms provider Telstra, has said it is poised to acquire Sydney-based medical software company MedicalDirector for $350 million. It follows the firm’s …