SK Telecom defines the key elements for 6G infrastructure evolution as ‘Cloud-Native, Green-Native and AI-Native'
Korean operator SK Telecom released its latest white paper, ‘SK Telecom 6G White Paper: View on Future AI Telco Infrastructure,’ laying out the evolution direction of the next-generation telco network...
Wireless and wireline service providers continue to make progress in repairing and restoring connectivity in the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton.
According to figures reported to the Federal Communications Commission as of Monday, 7.2% of sites continued to be out in affected areas...
e& said it used "cutting-edge" hardware and "sophisticated" algorithms like MU-MIMO to achieve this record speed
Emirati-based telco e& UAE aggregated multiple carriers across high-band and low-band over simplified architecture, reaching a new record speed of 62 Gbps. The telco said it used "cutting-edge" hardware...
Samsung said that the O-RAN deployment for Japanese telco KDDI will start next year
Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has been selected by Japanese operator KDDI as a main vendor to provide 4G and 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for...
The new collaboration seeks to boost the energy efficiency of Airtel's 4G/5G radio access network
Indian operator Bharti Airtel and Finnish vendor Nokia announced a partnership under the "Green 5G" initiative, aimed at implementing energy-efficient technologies and practices across Airtel's mobile network. In a release,...
Elisa currently covers 95% of Finland’s population with 5G
Finnish telecom operator Elisa now covers 95% of Finland’s population with 5G and has plans to expand the coverage even further in the coming years, the telco's Head of Mobile Access Tiina Höckert told RCR Wireless...
A Jio spokesperson confirmed that the company’s future investments in the 5G field will be determined by demand
Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is taking a more measured approach to its 5G network expansion due to low capacity utilization and the delayed monetization of the...
The test was conducted at KT SAT’s Geumsan Satellite Center in collaboration with Rohde & Schwarz Korea and Viavi Solutions Korea
South Korea's KT and its satellite subsidiary KT SAT announced the successful integration of KOREASAT 6 with a terrestrial 5G network, utilizing the 5G non-terrestrial...
Deutsche Telekom previously said its 5G technology will reach 99% of the German population by the end of 2025
German telecom operator Deutsche Telekom said that a total of 12,800 of its 5G antennas in 950 cities and municipalities are currently transmitting on the 3.6...
5G mobile subscribers in China reached 966 million
China had surpassed 4.04 million 5G base stations as of the end of August, according to data released by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
This figure represents 32.1% of all mobile base stations across China.
Additionally,...
BSNL has already deployed a total of 35,000 4G sites across India
Indian state-run operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) aims to have a total of 100,000 4G sites across India by mid-2025, local press reported, citing Jyotiraditya Scindia, India's Union Telecom Minister. Thirty-five thousand...
ZTE and China Mobile previously connected world’s highest UNESCO natural heritage site with 5G technology
Chinese vendor ZTE claimed that its digital solutions are helping to bring connectivity to some of the world’s most remote and underserved regions. At the United Nations Summit of the...
Nokia said that the 5G project with Viettel will cover 22 provinces across the country
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has signed a new commercial deal with Vietnamese state-run telco Viettel Group to deploy 5G equipment for the first time nationwide in Vietnam.
In a...
Currently, there are 329 commercial 5G networks worldwide, according to 5G Americas
Global 5G connections exceeded 2 billion connections at the end of the second quarter of the year, with the addition of 192 million connections during the period, according to a new report by...
Bharti Airtel ended its first fiscal quarter of 2025 on June 30, with a total of 90 million 5G subscribers
Indian operator Bharti Airtel’s 5G network currently reaches 140,000 villages, while its 4G network coverage extends to 800,000 villages across India, according to local press...
Huawei said it used three carrier aggregation (3CC) technology for this new deployment
Huawei, in partnership with United Arab Emirates telco du, has deployed what it claims to be the first indoor 5G-Advanced (5G-A) network in the Middle East. In a release, the Chinese vendor...
Nokia and SoftBank plan to conduct field testing using centimeter waves, considered a key enabler of 6G
Japanese operator SoftBank signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nokia for joint research on new communications technologies, the former said in a release. The agreement scope includes...
ZTE noted that the integration of AI into the Radio Access Network (RAN) allows the network to allocate resources based on real-time service and terminal needs
Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation has partnered with Smartfren in Indonesia with the main aim of implementing a commercial deployment...
Maxis will leverage HPE Aruba Networking Central with AI for IT operations (AIOps) in its enterprise networking offerings
Malaysian telco Maxis confirmed it has become a managed service provider (MSP) for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in Malaysia, with the aim of boosting the offering of...
Asia Pacific is leading in trials and deployments of RedCap, according to the GSMA
As of the end of June, operators in 15 countries were already investing in Reduced Capability (RedCap) technology through trials and deployments, according to Richard Cockle, Head of IoT, Identity and...
Ericsson said that this deployment lays the groundwork for forthcoming 5G-A and associated technologies
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian telco Telstra claimed the first deployment of Ericsson’s 4th generation of Radio Access Network (RAN) purpose-built compute platform in Australia, "paving the way" for a 5G Advanced...
Airtel said that the trial was conducted at its tech lab and achieved uplink speeds of 300 Mbps
Airtel, MediaTek and Nokia announced the successful completion of trials combining Time Division Duplex (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mid-band spectrum on a time basis utilizing...
RedCap is a reduced set of 5G capabilities intended for devices like wearables and low-cost hotspots
The telecom industry is already well aware of the benefits of RedCap technology for a number of use cases such as IoT and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), Jonathan Budd,...
Hughes said the demo tested remote network orchestration, wide area network (WAN) resiliency as well as secure Radio Access Network (RAN) sharing
Hughes Network Systems and Boost Mobile, both owned by EchoStar, said they successfully demonstrated multi-transport network management for the U.S. Navy.
The demonstration, which...
