Saudi Arabian telco Mobily announced a partnership with Ericsson to trial 5G on the 800/1800 MHz band using Ericsson Spectrum Sharing technology.
The trial showed 5G capabilities in a real-world environment over a live network, including tests of speed and latency, the vendor said in...
Korean carrier KT has announced plans to build 5G test facilities nationwide as part of the government’s initiative to support companies developing new services using 5G technology, Korean press reported.
The KRW 28.5 billion (US$24.2 million) project is expected to be completed by 2023 and...
T-Mobile US and American Tower have signed a new long-term agreement which will enhance T-Mobile’s access to American Tower’s U.S. sites, both companies said in a release.
The deal is expected to deliver up to $17 billion in incremental revenue for American Tower.
The infrastructure deal...
Network infrastructure provider Comba Telecom says that it has teamed up with mobile operator 3 Hong Kong  to implement comprehensive 5G mobile network coverage, the former said in a release.
3 Hong Kong is the mobile arm of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited.
Under the...
Austria raised a total of 202 million euros ($240 million) in a new 5G spectrum auction, the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications (RTR) said in a statement.
In this second 5G spectrum auction, local operators obtained frequencies in the 700 MHz, 1.5 GHz...
Korean carrier SK Telecom and compatriot company Samsung Electronics announced that they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Intel for cooperation in the commercialization of an evolved 5G network functions virtualization platform.
Under the terms of the agreement, the...
Beijing has become the second city in China to achieve full coverage of 5G technology, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
As of the end of July, Chinese operators had installed a total of 44,000 5G base stations...
Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is now offering 5G service in 15 cities across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the company said in a release.
The carrier said that the 5G service is being offered via a combination of own infrastructure and an...
Chinese carriers have already deployed a total of 480,000 5G base stations, which represents 96% of the country’s target for the year of 500,000, according to government data.
China also ended August with approximately 100 million devices connected to 5G networks in mainland China, according...
South Korea's three mobile operators and the government launched a task force with the main aim of helping expand 5G coverage into rural areas of the country, local news agency Yonhap reported.
The task force has the main goal of allowing roaming network sharing among...
South Korea’s 5G users reached 7.86 million in July, up 487,190 from the previous month, according to the latest data from the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT.
5G subscribers accounted for 11.3% of the 69.8 million mobile subscriptions in South Korea.
The country’s 4G users...
Canadian operator Rogers Communications has expanded its 5G network to over 50 new towns and cities across the country, the carrier said in a release.
The operator also said it expects its 5G offering to reach more than 60 markets in Canada.
In January 2020, Rogers...
Singaporean operator Singtel has launched its 5G non-standalone (NSA) network and introduced a three-month trial for its consumer and enterprise customers.
Singtel’s 5G NSA network will use spectrum in the 3.5 GHz frequency as well as existing 2.1 GHz spectrum, while employing advanced technologies such...
Telefónica has commercially launched 5G services in Spain, the telco said in a release.
The European operator said that 75% of the Spanish population will have access to 5G by the end of the year.
“The launch of our 5G network constitutes a leap forward towards...
Nearly every company that designs and develops electronic products experiences problems related to test equipment, and more than 90% of them say that those problems cost them revenue, according to a new survey. More than half of the survey respondents said that it costs...
Sky Drone and China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) have signed a memorandum of understanding with the aim of fostering 5G connectivity of drones as part of the work of China Mobile’s 5G innovation center.
China Mobile Hong Kong has set up a 5G innovation center...
Ericsson and Finnish mobile operator Elisa have established what they claim to be the first end-to-end 5G Standalone connection in Finland, the vendor said in a release.
Ericsson also said that this milestone also represents the first 5G standalone pilot in the Nordic region and...
China Broadcasting Network Corp (CBN), a cable TV operator and a new entrant in China's telecom sector, has received investments of more than CNY100 billion ($14.5 billion) from 47 companies, including 11 new investors, Chinese press reported.
With the addition of these new Chinese investors,...
Chinese mobile operators had deployed a total of 32,681 5G base stations in Sichuan Province by July, state news agency Xinhua reported, citing an official report.
According to the report, total investments in 5G deployments in this province already reached CNY11.32 billion ($1.65 billion).
The report...
The future deployment of 5G technology in Brazil could have a $1.216 trillion economic impact and an increase in productivity of $3.08 trillion, according to a recent study by Nokia and Omdia.
ICT, government, manufacturing, services, agriculture, and retail will be the industries most impacted...
Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson said they have completed interoperability tests for 5G standalone (SA) carrier aggregation across both FDD/TDD and TDD/TDD bands.
The partners explained that 5G carrier aggregation technology allows operators to use multiple sub-6 GHz spectrum channels simultaneously to transfer data between base...
Indian digital services company Jio Platforms, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, may target West Asia, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asian regions as markets for its self-developed 5G technology kit after it tests and scales it up in India, Indian newspaper The Economic Times reported.
The...
German carrier Vodafone is in the process of deploying 5G technology to provide coverage along the country’s main waterways, the telco said in a release.
Vodafone Germany said it has already activated the first 180 5G antennas at 64 locations along federal waterways.
The operator also...
Testing, inspection and certification company Bureau Veritas announced that its Silicon Valley laboratory in Sunnyvale is now fully equipped and ready to offer 5G certification service for Global Certification Forum, PTCRB and key carrier requirements.
The new location in California extends Bureau Veritas' existing portfolio of 5G...
