Operadores en regiones como Europa, Asia y Estados Unidos han comenzado la carrera del 5G con lanzamientos comerciales durante este año. RCR Wireless News entrevisto a Ignacio Contreras, director de marketing para 5G de Qualcomm, para conocer mas sobre la vision de la empresa sobre...
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies announced plans to move the company’s current research and development center in the U.S. and relocate to Canada, The Globe and Mail reported the company’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying.
Ren revealed the initiative in an interview with the Canadian newspaper,...
Rich Communications Services are set to ramp up, and RCS may represent a chance for network operators to revamp their messaging services in the mold of some of the most successful over-the-top applications, while presenting a secure, unique vehicle for businesses to engage a...
The French government is not planning to exclude Chinese vendor Huawei from its 5G networks, Reuters reported, citing a high-ranking official.
“We do not target one equipment maker,” Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, told a French TV channel....
Trump meets with "Tim Apple" in Austin
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Apple's CEO Tim Cook to see if the company could get involved in the deployment of 5G infrastructure in the country.
“I asked Tim Cook to see if he could get Apple involved in...
U.S. company CellAntenna Wireless, a specialist in distributed antenna system (DAS) solutions, recently announced the opening of its West Coast operations center in Silicon Valley.
The new operations center, located in Hayward, California is ideally located to support the exponential increase for Private LTE, CBRS,...
Nextivity, Spry Fox Networks to facilitate in-building 4G coverage for organizations across the U.K.
In preparation for new Emergency Services Network (ESN) in the U.K., Nextivity and Spry Fox Networks are joining forces to facilitate uninterrupted, in-building 4G coverage for public and private sector organizations...
U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, announced it has switched on 5G technology in 14 new cities and towns across the U.K.
EE has added 5G to Castlereagh, Guildford, Hamilton, Harlow, Hoddesdon, Kimberley, Lisburn, Maidstone, Sydenham, Watford and Wolverhampton, and has switched on...
The French government is likely to delay the process of awarding 5G spectrum until at least March 2020, three months later than the original date, Reuters reported, citing two sources close to the matter.
The delay is mainly due to disagreements between the French finance...
Chinese state-owned mobile carrier China Mobile has already deployed nearly 50,000 5G base stations across the country, state news agency Xinhua reported the company’s chairman Yang Jie as saying.
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile services provider in terms of subscribers, currently provides 5G services...
Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton has put in an offer to buy the mobile virtual network operator back from the New T-Mobile, which must divest Boost and Sprint's other prepaid brands as part of required conditions to merge T-Mobile US with Sprint. However, Dish...
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce officially announced that it will extend for 90 days the Temporary General License (TGL) for Huawei and its non-U.S. affiliates which are subject to the Entity List.
The TGL authorizes U.S. companies...
The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to allow rural operators to continue doing certain transactions with Chinese vendor Huawei during an additional six-month period, Politico reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Huawei, which had been blacklisted by the U.S. government in May, has been...
Wireless infrastructure provider Westell Technologies experienced a sequential decline in the in-building wireless (IBW) revenue in fiscal Q2, mainly due to lower sales in commercial repeaters, RF system components, and passive DAS conditioners, the company said in a statement.
In fiscal Q2, ended September 30,...
MTN focused on 5G use cases relevant in South Africa
Ericsson has been selected by South African operator MTN as a 5G network modernization vendor, the former said in a statement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Ericsson will supply 5G products and solutions from its...
Spanish telecommunications operator Vodafone, a unit of U.K.-based Vodafone Group, announced plans to expand 5G services to five new cities in the coming months, Spanish press reported Vodafone Spain’s CEO, Antonio Coimbra, as saying.
Coimbra declined to name the cities in which the carrier plans...
ZTE, in partnership with China Telecom and China Unicom, has completed the network verification based on the "co-build co-share" mode in the commercial 5G environment, launching 5G Nonstandalone co-build/co-share sites which support 1.8 GHz/2.1 GHz/3.5 GHz in Hangzhou, China, the vendor said in a...
In-building wireless technology provider Advanced RF Technologies (ADRF), announced the deployment of its ADXV Medium Power Remote (MPR) distributed antenna system in Mexico?s Puerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR).
In a release, ADRF said that the DAS to be implemented at this Mexican airport will deliver...
German operators Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland, and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to jointly deploy mobile communications networks across the country, with the aim of expanding coverage in rural areas and along road, rail and inland waterway transport routes.
Deutsche Telekom highlighted that...
South Korean mobile operator KT expects to end this year with a total of 1.5 million subscribers in the 5G segment, the operator’s CFO Yoon Kyung-keun said during a conference call with investors.
According to KT’s latest earnings report, the telco ended the third quarter...
Boingo Wireless, which provides wireless infrastructure including distributed antenna systems, small cells and Wi-Fi, sees increasing business opportunities with its recently unveiled converged virtualized core, the company?s CEO Mike Finley said during a recent conference call with investors.
Boingo Wireless?debuted its converged virtualized core at...
RF Connect, a specialist in cellular-based wireless solutions, announced it has been chosen by VIRginia International Raceway (VIR) to be the exclusive partner to design, deploy and manage cellular networks at the motorsport resort, RF Connect said in a release.
The project will consist of...
U.K. company Virgin Media has signed a five-year deal with Vodafone UK to provide mobile services, including 5G, to more than three million mobile customers, the former said in a release.
Virgin Media’s current MVNO agreement with BT Enterprise, which has been in place since...
Boingo has 71 live DAS venues
Wireless infrastructure provider Boingo Wireless has deployed a total of two new distributed antenna systems (DAS) during the third quarter of the year, the company said in a statement.
The firm also said that the deployments were carried out in...
