German carriers Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Vodafone Germany are in the process of expanding 5G coverage across the country through the use of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) technology.
Deutsche Telekom said that this expansion in 5G coverage will allow more than half of the German...
Federated Wireless has announced it has secured $13.7 million in additional Series C funding from existing investors Allied Minds and Pennant Investors.
The funding will accelerate its partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to offer connectivity-as-a-service, which has seen most business in the...
Digi International has released a new line of cellular routers for critical infrastructure and intelligent traffic system applications. The company said it wants to be the “IoT connectivity player of choice”.
The firm said it is working to “align” enterprise customers and IoT solutions in...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has said it will consider allowing the 900 MHz band in the US to be used by energy companies for private LTE and 5G networking.
The move is a response to a long-standing request by private networking firm Anterix, which...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operators in terms of subscribers, added 29.17 million 5G subscribers in the first quarter of 2020, the company said in its earnings release.
The carrier said it ended March with a total of 31.72 million 5G subscribers, compared to 2.55...
Turkcell has already virtualized 60% of its mobile core services
In March, Mavenir and Turkey’s largest mobile operator Turkcell partnered up to test and deploy OpenRAN vRAN, beginning with trials of fully containerized CU/DU and Open FH with Split 7.2 and the deployment of the...
Paris based system integrator Altran is working with London edge-cloud startup Ori Industries to promote federated multi-access edge computing (MEC) so developers can deploy Industry 4.0 solutions on private LTE and 5G networks, in any geography, and telecoms operators can serve industrial partners on...
German car giant BMW will invest €30 billion in “future-oriented” technologies during the next five years. The group has confirmed it will expand a blockchain pilot for purchasing front lights to suppliers of other car parts.
The announcements, made at the end of last month,...
Industrial services firm PK Solutions is deploying private LTE in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band in the US for the oil and gas sector. It is working with Nokia and Cradlepoint on the offer.
PK Solutions, part of the PK Companies group, is based in...
Polish energy sector company PGE Systemy has appointed Nokia to deploy a pilot version of a private LTE network in the 450 MHz band.
The 450 MHz band is being adopted across Europe for smart grid applications. PGE Systemy’s private wireless network could upport up...
Finnish private wireless provider Ukkoverkot, which has won a number of industrial LTE contracts with country-mate Nokia, has rebranded as Edzcom, and set a strategy for international growth, the company has announced.
The company already has 26 operational private LTE networks in the Nordic region,...
Russia’s largest communications service provider, MTS, has extended its partnership with Ericsson to include a large-scale network modernization of its 2G/3G/4G infrastructure over large parts of central Russia.
The Swedish vendor said the new modernization agreement will allow the Russian carrier to pave the way...
Omdia: From Q3 2019 to Q4 2019, 5G's global connections experienced a 329% growth
Fueled by the rollout of 3GPP-standard commercial networks, 5G is officially considered the fastest growing generation of cellular technology as it is now roughly 5 million subscribers ahead of pace, according...
Private industrial 5G will be at the heart of manufacturing production from 2021, Siemens has said, as the industrial giant continues to move ahead with test networks at its electronics works in Amberg and automotive centre in Nuremburg, both in Germany.
Both deployments use Siemens’...
5G technology will account for almost half of China’s overall mobile connections by 2025, according to a recent study by the GSMA.
The 2020 China edition of the GSMA’s ‘Mobile Economy’ series, forecasts that China will have an adoption rate on a par with other...
Telecoms provider and broadcaster Teracom has said it will use radio and cloud products from Ericsson as it starts to roll out LTE and 5G in the 450 MHz band in Sweden. Teracom will offer critical-grade LTE and 5G to public and private national...
With the roll-out of 5G networks, the shrinkage of radio cells, and challenge to negotiate cell sites, lighting infrastructure presents a valuable opportunity for city operators and building owners to get smart.
Netherlands-based Signify has been leading the development of smart poles to host a...
Interference that can degrade capacity and quality of service is becoming ever more troublesome as operators roll out 5G NR using new bands that previously contained other services. This is particularly important for the rollout of 5G NR because of its demanding use cases...
Huawei remains on Department of Commerce Entity List
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) officially announced that it will extend the Temporary General License (TGL) for Huawei and its non-U.S. affiliates which are subject to the Entity...
The Société du Grand Paris (SGP), the state owned industrial company responsible for the Grand Paris Express metro project, has contracted Nokia to deploy a private LTE as part of the network extension in Paris, France.
Development of the Grand Paris Express is billed by...
Deutsche Telekom expects, in most cases, to manage private networks for enterprises, even if they are deployed in privately-owned spectrum, which is not licensed directly by the operator itself.
Following its deal with BMW last month to install a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’ at...
Previous generational upgrade cycles required operators to undertake the expensive, time-consuming process of spectrum refarming. But, for 5G, dynamic spectrum sharing allows carriers to side-step that process by transmitting LTE and 5G NR in the same band at the same time.
DSS, coupled with the...
Nokia has installed a private LTE network in an underground mine belonging to NORCAT in Ontario, in Canada. The work has been carried out with Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN).
NORCAT is a technology and innovation centre headquartered in Sudbury, in...
Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in February is the major venue and the key date for the telecoms industry. Yes, the cards have been dealt, but the show works as a useful barometer of its high mood. It kick-starts the season, effectively, after...
