Indian operator Vodafone Idea said it is conducting 5G trials using spectrum allocated by the government in the cities of Pune and Gandhinagar, the carrier said in a release.
The telco stated it also achieved peak download speeds of 1.5 Gbps using the 3.5 GHz...
Midband spectrum is widely recognized to be the sweet spot for 5G deployments globally, due to its combination of large amounts of available bandwidth and better propagation characteristics than millimeter-wave. In the past year, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has auctioned the 70 megahertz...
Brazilian carrier Vivo has announced the start of 5G tests in the 26 GHz band in partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia, local news site Teletime reported.
The trials will take place in Rio de Janeiro, in Vivo's laboratory in Barra da Tijuca and two sites...
T-Mo serves up the layer cake
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of three stories laying out the national mobile network operators’ plans for midband spectrum. The first, on Verizon's position, can be read here.
T-Mobile US has been building out its 2.5...
What are technical and operational challenges in the midband spectrum for companies operating networks in the United States?
In every spectrum band, there are some sort of challenges that wireless systems have to deal with: Limited channel bandwidth, passive intermodulation, propagation or in-building penetration...
Dish Network is asking the Federal Communications Commission for a special temporary authorization to use 600 MHz band spectrum currently licensed to Bluewater Wireless for a three month period with the aim of carrying out 5G tests in Denver and Las Vegas using carrier...
Midband spectrum is widely recognized to be the sweet spot for 5G deployments globally, due to its combination of large amounts of available bandwidth and better propagation characteristics than millimeter-wave. In the past year, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has auctioned the 70 megahertz...
AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission to establish rules around how much midband spectrum that a 5G service provider can hold, saying that such rules "are needed to ensure that every provider has a fair and efficient opportunity to acquire the mid-band spectrum...
ACMA is focused on low-bands for wide-area 5G coverage
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has recently opened applications for the upcoming auction of 5G spectrum in the 850 MHz 900 MHz band, ACMA said in a release.
The government agency noted that low...
France had a total of 28,821 5G authorized sites as of September 1, of which 17,559 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR.
ANFR said that the number of authorized 5G sites...
Just how much midband spectrum is needed for 5G, anyway? The default telecom answer to this type of spectrum question seems to be, “As much as we can get” – but here’s a look that offers some more specifics.
The GSMA commissioned a report from...
The 5G NR call on CBRS used the Ericsson 5G Distributed Innovation Network and a device equipped with the Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform
Ericsson and Qualcomm are claiming the first successful over-the-air 5G New Radio (NR) call on CBRS (Citizen Broadband Radio Service) spectrum,...
Mediacom began testing CBRS applications in 2019, and spent almost $30 million for 576 licenses in the PALs spectrum auction
As the U.S. government funnels billions of dollars into rural broadband, Ericsson and Mediacom Communications have announced a partnership aimed at extending broadband services...
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) urged local mobile operators Far EasTone (FET) and Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) to accelerate the construction of 5G base stations, local news site Digitimes reported.
The Taiwanese government has recently approved FET's NT$5 billion ($179 million) investment in APT that...
There have been two recent U.S. midband spectrum auctions for spectrum between 3-4 GHz: The shared spectrum of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum and the C-Band auction. How did those fall out in terms of spectrum won?
The CBRS Priority Access License (PAL)...
Qualcomm Technologies and Chinese vendor ZTE said they have successfully showcased features required in anticipation of 5G mmWave rollouts in China.
The two firms said they carried out trials with the aim of supporting the testing needs of the IMT-2020 (5G) promotion group for 200-megahertz...
Brazil’s Federal Audit Court (TCU) has officially approved the tender process through which the government will auction frequencies for 5G, the minister of communications, Fábio Faria, said on Twitter on Wednesday.
"The public notice goes to Anatel to be published," Faria added in the...
Qualcomm's Principal Systems Engineer: 'Power efficiency is necessary for 5G mobile technologies'
Power efficiency will prove vital in a 5G world as more applications and use cases are enabled by this advanced technology, increasing data rates and, subsequently, increasing power consumption. Qualcomm's Principal Systems Engineer Dr....
Taiwanese operator Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) said it expects its 5G network to reach 90% of the nation’s population by the end of this year, local paper Taipei Times reported.
According to the report, the telco expects to have a total of 9,500 5G base...
Verizon's 5G Home service is available in parts of 52 U.S. cities
Verizon has been expanding its 5G Home broadband offering across the U.S., with the service available in parts of 52 cities as of early August. According to Verizon Consumer Group’s Chief Revenue Officer...
The Federal Communications Commission is taking a fresh look at a proceeding that asks the agency to set aside a spectrum allocation for the operation of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, in the 5 GHz range.
The agency is revisiting a 2018 petition...
Korean tech company LG Electronics said it has successfully demonstrated the transmission and reception of wireless "6G" terahertz (THz) data over 100 meters in an outdoor setting.
6G systems do not technically exist because they have not yet been standardized, but terahertz frequencies -- beyond...
While the media is abuzz with the news of Samsung Foldable smartphones, being a network engineer at heart, I am more excited about Verizon and Samsung’s recent announcement about the successful completion of 5G virtual RAN (vRAN) trials using the C Band spectrum. Verizon’s...
Sony and Mitsui aim to 'implement an effective spectrum utilization model and establish cutting-edge business and technology platforms'
Last week, Sony Group and Mitsui announced the operation of Sony’s Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) technology using Airspan 5G Standalone base stations. The Japanese companies have also...
