U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, has doubled its 5G footprint in the recent fiscal year, with its next-generation offering currently available in 160 towns and cities across the country, BT said in its earnings statement.
BT also said that EE’s “5G-ready customer...
North American mobile industry standards group ATIS’ Next G Alliance announced the launch of its technical work program and the formation of the key working groups.
The entity explained that the National 6G Roadmap Working Group acts as a coordination point across all other working...
Chilean mobile operator Movistar, owned by Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, has selected Nokia to provide its AirScale portfolio to launch the operator’s 5G network in Chile.
In addition, Nokia will upgrade Movistar’s 4G and "4G+" networks to strengthen the critical network backbone across Chile’s key...
France had a total of 24,219 5G authorized sites as of May 1, of which 13,332 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR.
The agency said that almost all of the 5G...
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has authorized local carriers to carry out trials of 5G technology in the country.
In a statement, DoT said that the permits were given to Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Vodafone Idea and MTNL, which will carry out these 5G...
The Department of Defense continues to move forward with 5G and spectrum-related research and development, with a series of requests for proposed prototype (RPP) for the 400-plus members of the National Spectrum Consortium.
In its third major RPP in recent weeks, DoD is focused...
U.K. operators O2 and Vodafone have announced a new deal to trade airwaves to create more efficient blocks of 5G spectrum.
The two operators already share mast infrastructure in parts of the U.K.
The carriers noted that this new deal will enable improved coverage for customers...
Five operators have won spectrum in the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s latest spectrum auction in the 26 GHz band.
Of the 360 lots available in the auction, 358 were sold, realizing a total revenue of AUD647.6 million ($501.1 million).
Telstra secured a total of 150...
The Danish Energy Authority has announced the conclusion of the auction of 5G frequencies that began on March 11.
In a release, the agency said that total revenue from the auction will be DKK 2.076 billion ($336 million). The winners must cover 60% of the...
U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, announced that it has switched on 5G technology in 35 additional cities and towns across the country.
Some of the new cities covered by EE’s 5G network are Blackburn, Bolton, Brighton, Chester, Dundee, Exeter, Harrogate, Milton Keynes,...
The president of Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Leonardo Euler, said that the publication of the 5G auction notice would probably occur in July or August, Brazilian IT site Teletime reported.
The 5G auction's business plan was finished by Anatel on March 19, and now...
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, founded in 2007, specializes in telecom infrastructure investments including fiber networks, wireless spectrum and...
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 various frequency bands in the fourth quarter of this year.
CA stated the sale will...
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 air for Japanese carrier KDDI's commercial launch of 5G.
The use of 700 MHz spectrum in...
Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services in 298 towns and cities in 38 provinces across the country, the telco said in a statement.
According to the telco, 5G coverage already reaches 23% of the Spanish population.
Orange said it expects its 5G network to...
The Federal Communications Commission plans to hold an auction of spectrum at 3.45-3.55 GHz by the end of this year, putting additional midband spectrum in play for 5G services.
Auction 110, set to begin in early October, will offer up to 100 megahertz of...
The U.K. has completed its latest 5G spectrum auction, raising a total of GBP 1.35 billion ($1.88 billion), telecommunications regulator Ofcom said in a release.
Ofcom said that local carriers EE, Hutchison 3G UK, Telefonica’s O2 and Vodafone took part in the principal stage of...
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is expected to ask the country’s telecoms regulator to lower the minimum price for the auction of 5G airwaves, Indian newspaper Mint reported, citing an official with knowledge of the matter.
Local carriers have been insisting that the floor price...
An additional $10 billion in capex over three years. Between 7,000 to 8,000 C Band sites installed and ready to go by the end of this year. Verizon made a massive investment in buying C Band spectrum, and company executives made the case that...
The Danish Energy Authority has started the auction of spectrum in five frequency bands, namely the 1.5 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands.
The agency also confirmed that the bidders are TDC Net, 3 Denmark, and the Telia-Telenor joint venture,...
The U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom officially announced that the its 5G spectrum auction will start on March 12.
“The auction will increase the total amount of spectrum available for mobile technology in the UK by nearly a fifth, bringing better and faster services to people...
Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) gave conditional approval for Asia Pacific Telecom Co (APT) to share Far EasTone Telecommunications Co’s (FET) 5G frequencies using its own 5G network, local newspaper Taipei Times reported.
In September 2020, FET and APT had announced a partnership to provide...
Ericsson, China Broadcasting Network Corporation (CBN) and Unisoc say they have have successfully completed a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink speed test showing the enhanced network capability of the 700 MHz frequency band for 5G.
The demo used Ericsson wireless equipment and downlink four-stream technology to...
Indian telecommunications operators committed to pay INR778 billion ($10.6 billion) for additional spectrum to expand 4G across the country.
India’s latest spectrum auction ended after two days of bidding, although the 5G-suitable 700 MHz band did not receive offers due to high reserve prices.
Operators acquired...
