Chinese vendor Huawei has dropped a lawsuit against the U.S. Commerce Department and other agencies after the government released telecommunications equipment seized in September 2017.
The suit was filed by the Chinese company’s U.S. subsidiary, Huawei Technologies USA, in June 2019.
“After a prolonged and unexplained...
Chinese state-run telecommunications operators China Telecom and China Unicom inked an agreement to cooperatively build a 5G mobile network, with the main aim of reducing costs, international press reported.
Under the "co-build, co-share" deal, the carriers will work together to outline districts in 15 cities...
German telco Deutsche Telekom announced that its 5G network is already operational in the cities of Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Darmstadt, and Munich.
5G services in these five cities is being currently offered via 129 5G antennas. Deutsche Telekom also said that it is gradually expanding...
Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has delayed the launch of its nationwide mobile services. The service was initially expected for next month, and instead the company will launch a free rial service for a limited number of customers from...
Spanish telecommunications operator Orange has selected Chinese vendor ZTE for the provision of 5G infrastructure in certain Spanish cities, local newspaper Expansion reported, citing market sources.
Under the terms of the agreement, ZTE will deploy 5G infrastructure in the cities of Bilbao, San Sebastián, Vitoria,...
Huawei Technologies has shipped more than 200,000 5G base stations globally, the company said in a statement.
By the end of July, Huawei had shipped a total of 150,000 5G base stations, despite U.S. sanctions against the Chinese company.
The company had previously said that it...
KT has completed what it claims to be the world’s first 5G low-latency multi-radio access technology test in a 5G commercial network, in collaboration with Belgian tech company Tessares.
The 5G multi-radio access technology, which 3GPP has named ATSSS (Access Traffic Steering, Switch and Splitting),...
French telecommunications group Iliad announced it has selected Finnish vendor Nokia as its strategic partner for its 5G network deployments in France and Italy.
The vendor has been working with Iliad since 2010 and has participated in the telco’s deployments of 3G and 4G networks.
"By...
Vodafone New Zealand announced the launch of a live 5G trial in Auckland. Located in and around Mangere in South Auckland, the five cell sites feature upgraded Nokia technology, including 5G-enabled antennas.
“The team is stoked to have passed this milestone," said Tony Baird, Vodafone...
Distributed antenna system OEM Advanced RF Technologies (ADRF has joined the O-RAN Alliance.
The O-RAN Alliance?s objective is to develop architectures and specifications to promote the adoption of open standards and interfaces, embedded intelligence, software-based functions, and white box hardware for radio access networks. This...
More than 20,000 AT&T wireline workers in nine Southeastern states are back to work, after a four-day strike that began last weekend.
The The Communications Workers of America union said that the strike ended yesterday at 1 p.m., and that CWA and AT&T have reached...
Deutsche Telekom announced a collaboration with Swiss company Huber+Suhner for the deployment of 5G small cell antennas across a number of cities across Germany.
Under the terms of the collaboration, Huber+Suhner has developed five small cell antennas for Deutsche Telekom that support 4G and 5G frequencies.
These 4G...
Chinese vendor Huawei is seeing a transition from traditional distributed antenna system (DAS) to digital indoor system (DIS) for in-building coverage in the Chinese market, Li Xin, CMO of DIS products at Huawei, told In-Building Wireless.
?In China, the indoor market is quite huge. It...
After weeks or perhaps months of completing the tasks needed to start your in-building distributed antenna system project there may not be anything? more irritating than having your contractor? present you with an unanticipated change order.? This is especially true if you have a...
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, is likely to limit the scope of its mobile launch in October due to delays in the installation of wireless base stations across Japan, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review.
Rakuten Mobile’s plan...
Vodafone Germany continued to expand its 5G coverage across the country, following the activation of the first 5G network in Berlin.
Vodafone said that the first antenna in Berlin is located in Germany's largest science and technology park, Adlershof.
Vodafone also said that its customers can...
Ericsson and Vodafone have launched what they claim is the first commercial 5G network in Ireland.
Vodafone initially launched 5G services in the cities of Cork, Limerick, Dublin, Galway and Waterford. The partners said they will continue expanding this 5G network throughout the country over...
French telecom group Orange expects customers in France to start testing the first 5G devices under real conditions and with network equipment soon, Arnaud Vamparys, 5G sponsor and senior vice president for radio networks at Orange, told RCR Wireless News.
“In the pre-commercial phase, Orange...
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND--Verizon is ramping up its immersive public safety tech showcase, in a major expansion of its Operation Convergent Response event.
Last year, Verizon had 105 companies involved with the event, according to Jeffrey Schweitzer, Verizon's assymetric solutions architect in its Public Safety Strategy group....
Commscope expects to take advantage of increasing growth opportunities with a portfolio of solutions, including existing Commscope products combined with Arris solutions, the company?s President and CEO Eddie Edwards said during a conference call with investors.
Commscope completed the acquisition of Arris earlier this year.
?Despite...
When it comes to spectrum, T-Mobile US could hardly have found a better fit than Sprint, according to analysis from Ookla on the spectrum position of the New T-Mobile.
Milan Milanovic, Ookla's technologist evangelist, said that particularly when it comes to PCS spectrum in major...
Wireless infrastructure provider Westell Technologies experienced a sequential growth in the in-building wireless (IBW) segment, mainly fueled by higher sales in public safety repeaters, the company said in a statement.
In fiscal Q1, ended June 30, the company recorded overall revenues of $9 million, down...
China Mobile, the world's largest mobile services provider, plans to leverage base station sites and transmission facilities used for 4G services to deploy its 5G network cost-effectively, Chinese press reported the company’s Chairman Yang Jie as saying.
During a press conference on the company’s quarterly...
Indian mobile carriers will require another 12 to 18 months in order to deploy 5G networks across the country, Akhil Gupta, vice chairman of Bharti Enterprises told CNBC.
Bharti Enterprises is the parent company of major Indian telecommunication operator Bharti Airtel.
The executive said that despite...
