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Telecom-focused private equity company Grain Management says it has closed on $3.75 billion in funding in the past year, exceeding its targets for purchases of spectrum and other investments. Grain, …

Brussels Airport has announced it has successfully tested drones for inspections and surveillance using its private 5G network, installed by network vendor Nokia and network operator Citymesh. Local air traffic …

The new version of the Zeetta Networks platform, which provides a dashboard for managing multiple private enterprise networks, as a “single pane of glass”, has already been tested as well …

China is forecast to reach 739 million 5G subscribers by 2025, according to a recent study by ABI Research. This figure would represent nearly 40% of the global market share …

South Korea’s ICT ministry said it aims to boost competition in the domestic 5G market through the release of affordable mobile data plans from mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), local …

The dedicated MEC platform is fully integrated with AWS cloud services and Verizon’s 5G private network Enterprise customers interested in a dedicated, on-premises edge compute infrastructure can now look to …

American Tower, Netcracker, Palo Alto Networks latest vendors tapped for Dish 5G build Dish executives are looking toward some sort of commercial 5G service this year and, in pursuit of …

T-Mobile is shutting down their TVision pay TV service. So, what does this mean for their future? They have been talking about entering and changing the pay TV space for …

Total 5G subs in Korea nearing 14 million South Korea ended February with 13.66 million subscribers in the 5G segment after a net addition of 792,118 subscribers during the month, …

325 megahertz of low- and mid-band spectrum to be made available Hong Kong’s Communications Authority (CA) confirmed that it expects to award a total of 325 megahertz of spectrum in …

Verizon has signed its first European private 5G contract, in a deal with Associated British Ports in the UK. The US firm has been appointed to deploy private 5G at …

KDDI following a low-, mid- and high-band 5G strategy with plans to spend $4 billion by 2025 Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has announced it has brought its 700MHz services on …

Huawei reports it was up 3.8% year-over-year in 2020 with China accounting for 65% of revenues Chinese vendor Huawei reported its sales revenues reached CNY 891.4 billion (USD 136.7 billion) …

Ericsson Open Lab carrier partners include KDDI, Ooredoo, Orange, SoftBank, and Turkcell In support of the broad industry move toward cloud-based radio access networks running on commodity hardware, Ericsson and …

Sweden-based IoT operator Netmore Group, new parent of Nordic IoT Networks, has said it is building a nationwide LoRaWAN network in Ireland, starting in Dublin. The rollout is part of …

Nokia has deployed an NB-IoT network for mobile network operator Saudi Mobily in the 800 MHz band in Saudi Arabia. The pair said they have connected more than 4,000 sites, …

In its efforts to capture home internet service marketshare from major cable companies, T-Mobile US is scaling up LTE- and 5G-backed fixed wireless access. To make that service more appealing, …

Telefonica Deutschland building out 5G using 3.6 GHz; plans to deploy in 700 MHz and 1800 MHz German operator Telefónica Deutschland / O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, is currently …

This conversation will form part of the narrative in the forthcoming Enterprise IoT Insights report on industrial 5G SLAs, out at the start of April (to be available here). A …

Sweden-based Telia has launched a private LTE and 5G network solution for enterprises in Norway using its licensed spectrum, otherwise used for its public network services. It follows the launch …

Telenor’s Bldng.ai focused on IoT software and hardware for building management Norway-based telecoms group Telenor announced the creation of a new smart building subsidiary Bldng.ai as part of its plan …

Ericsson’s November Mobility Report predicted 220 million 5G subscriptions globally by the end of 2020 China and the U.S. continue to top the 5G charts, with VIAVI’s The State of …

Finnish industrial networking specialist Edzcom has deployed private 5G networks at shipping terminals in Mussalo and Hietanen in Kotka for Steveco, Finland’s largest port operator. Italy-based Athonet has provided the …

AT&T’s CTO Andrew Fuetsch is chair fo the Next G Alliance North American mobile industry standards group ATIS has announced election results for the Next G Alliance and its Steering …

Safaricom will trial 5G network with consumer and enterprise customers African carrier Safaricom activated its 5G network in Kenya, the telco said in a release. The new 5G infrastructure, which …