New report draws sharp criticism from other industry groups, companies supporting CBRS
Amid ongoing Capitol Hill conversations about new spectrum allocations, a CTIA report attacks the efficacy of spectrum sharing and argues that the three-tiered Citizens Broadband Radio Service is struggling compared to exclusive-use arrangements....
T-Mobile US's Ultra Capacity service is offered via spectrum in the 2.5GHz band
T-Mobile U.S. said it has activated its "Ultra Capacity" 5G offering via 5G Standalone architecture nationwide.
The telco’s "Ultra Capacity" offering provides higher speeds compared to its regular 5G service and is offered...
Rakuten Mobile said its 4G network reached 50,400 base stations as of the end of September
Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile aims to start using spectrum in the so-called platinum band (800/900 MHz) in March 2024 to provide mobile telephony services in the country, the...
mmWave 5G Standalone tests saw 7.1 Gbps download, 3.6 millisecond latency
Chinese network equipment vendors CICT Mobile, Nokia Shanghai Bell and ZTE have tested the performance of mmWave 5G Standalone using devices equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System. According to a press...
India aims to allow academic institutions and the industry to obtain spectrum to test future 6G technologies
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is looking to obtain comments from the sector’s regulator to analyze the possibility to opening up spectrum in the 95 GHz - 3...
The government of Spain aims to award a total of 12 national concessions in the 25.10-27.50 GHz band, and 38 regional concessions in the 24.70-25.10 GHz band
The Spanish government announced details of a spectrum auction next month, through which it expects to award local...
Samsung said it used eight component carriers (8CC) to aggregate 800 megahertz of mmWave spectrum
Samsung Electronics announced it recently used mmWave spectrum to achieve record data rates over a distance of 10 kilometers in trials with Australian operator nbn.
The Korean vendor noted that this...
The C-band auctions raised a staggering $81.17 billion in 2021
On the back of two important product releases — the ADXV DAS C-band solution and the SDRX C-band repeater — Advanced RF Technologies’ Chief Operating Officer Arnold Kim caught up with RCR Wireless News to...
'This is good news and real progress': FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Office of Engineering and Technology announced the conditional approval of thirteen proposed automated frequency coordination (AFC) database systems in preparation for the testing phase of 6 GHz Wi-Fi operations.
AFC...
Testing looks at "high C-Band" transmissions in the upper portion of the band
Concerns over potential interference between legacy radar altimeters in aircraft and new terrestrial 5G deployments in the C-Band spectrum sparked several federal testing and evaluation efforts. Amid the open question of whether...
Huawei said that this technology will deliver home broadband speeds of 10 Gbit/s
What Huawei is calling "Ultra-Broadband 5.5G" is expected to radically transform areas like smart homes, smart campuses and industrial internet by 2030, according to David Wang, Huawei's executive director of the board...
New FCC proceeding looks at opening up to 550 megahertz of spectrum
The Federal Communications Commission is forging ahead with identifying potential new spectrum to repurpose for cellular systems and has launched a new inquiry into the use of up to 550 megahertz of spectrum...
Back in 2012, when the industry first began exploring private cellular networks, the future seemed wide open — in every sense. On one hand, we could imagine seemingly unlimited ways in which enterprises could benefit from private infrastructures running on shared public spectrum. At...
AIS said that the use of spectrum will allow the telco to offers network slicing capabilities as well as low latency
BANGKOK, THAILAND- Thailand’s largest mobile operator, Advanced Info Service (AIS), is planning deployment of millimeter wave spectrum in the country next year, once compatible...
Huawei said that its MetaAAU solution boosts performance and energy efficiency by making use of extremely large antenna array (ELAA) technology
BANGKOK, THAILAND- Chinese vendor Huawei launched a new set of solutions with the aim of facilitating the evolution of all frequency bands to 5G.
The...
Indonesia currently has a 5G penetration of 2.5% according to XL Axiata
BANGKOK, THAILAND- Indonesian telco XL Axiata expects a big boost in 5G adoption in Indonesia from 2025, once the government starts to allocate key spectrum bands for 5G services, XL Axiata...
Huawei noted that all spectrum bands can be used for the future provision of '5.5G' services
BANGKOK, THAILAND- Operators currently lack enough spectrum resources in order to be in a position to launch future ‘5.5G’ networks, Yang Chaobin, Huawei’s president of ICT products and solutions...
Rakuten Mobile has 400 MHz of mmWave spectrum, which it plans to use for fixed wireless access
Movandi is providing Japan’s Rakuten Mobile with 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) smart repeaters and BeamXR Open-RAN technology to help the operator expand its outdoor and indoor coverage...
A newly released progress report goes over the state of federal users' transitions out of auctioned bands ranging from AWS-1 to CBRS and additional midband spectrum at 3.45-3.55 GHz.
The annual Commercial Spectrum Enhancement Act report for 2021 was released earlier this month...
Accenture and CTIA identified three blocks of lower midband spectrum that they believe to have 'the greatest potential for 5G expansion'
Often called the goldilocks of spectrum, 5G midband spectrum delivers better coverage than high-band and higher speeds than low-band. It is widely accepted that...
Access to current short-term 3.5 GHz rights expires at the end of October 2022
The government of New Zealand has reached an agreement with the country’s major telecommunications network operators to accelerate the deployment of 5G services across New Zealand and improve rural connectivity, the...
Beyond RF challenges, US midband spectrum has limitations built into service rules
As demand for various wireless services has grown, however, it has gotten harder and harder for federal regulators to come up with bands that can be (relatively) easily repurposed—either the cost or the...
Cellnex plans to turn La Defense esplanade into an experimental area for companies wishing to test 5G use cases
Paris La Defense has selected Cellnex France as partner to run a 5G mmWave trial at 26 GHz in the French business district.
In a release, Cellnex...
C-band has significantly greater capacity than lower frequency 5G bands
According to a new Opensignal report, recent C-band deployments by AT&T and Verizon are helping the pair catch up to T-Mobile US, which has, on several occasions, emerged as the 5G frontrunner when it comes...
