The number of 5G subscribers in South Korea hit the 2 million mark this week, four months after local carriers commercially launched the technology, local press reported citing data from the industry.
So far, SK Telecom is leading the Korean 5G market with 840,000 subscribers,...
Cellular signal booster company Wilson Electronics has launched a new family of enterprise cellular amplifier, the WilsonPro Enterprise 1300/1300R and WilsonPro Enterprise 4300/4300R family.
The new amplifiers use a three outdoor-antenna-port configuration to receive cellular signal from multiple cell towers at the same time. The...
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The Chinese government told India that there could be consequences for Indian firms with operations in China if Huawei Technologies was banned from the deployment of 5G in the country, Reuters reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.
During a recent meeting with India’s...
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten expects to deploy a total of 4,000 edge servers in Japan for the launch of its virtualized mobile network, the company’s chairman and CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani said in an interview with CNBC.
The executive said that Rakuten does not have to deploy brand...
Korean carrier SK Telecom expects to reach 1 million subscribers in the 5G segment in August, the company’s CFO Poong-Young Yoon said on a conference call with investors.
The operator, which launched commercial 5G services on April 3, ended June with 530,000 5G subscribers, the...
Revenue from the distributed antenna system (DAS) segment represented 40% of Boingo Wireless' overall revenue in the second quarter of the year, up from a contribution of 37% in the year-ago period, CFO Peter Hovenier said during a conference call with investors.
DAS revenue totaled...
Gone are the days when merely having good smartphone coverage would satisfy your employees, tenants, and guests. Savvy landlords and facility managers know that enhanced 4G and 5G wireless networks are necessary to support applications that help improve operating efficiencies, cut costs, and grow...
Verizon millimeter wave-based 5G available in parts of nine cities
Verizon announced today it has activated its "5G Ultra Wideband" mobile service in parts of Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis and Washington D.C. These four cities join Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, Providence and St. Paul as nine of...
Chinese vendor Huawei recorded revenues of CNY 401.3 billion ($ 58.3 billion) in the first half of the year, climbing 23.3% compared to the same period the previous year, the company said in its earnings statement.
Huawei’s net profit margin for the first six months...
Neutral host in-building wireless project features 123 antennas
The 1933-Cincinnati-icon, Union Terminal partnered with Connectivity Wireless and Neutral Connect Networks to install an in-building wireless system throughout the multi-museum complex as part of the $228 million restoration project.
The neutral host, fiber-deep solution enables seamless cellular...
CEO discusses balance of capex and auction revenues
French operators will have enough financial resources to deploy future 5G networks as the government and telecom regulator Arcep are not looking at the upcoming spectrum auction as a way to obtain a high level of revenues,...
The U.K.’s Vodafone Group has confirmed that it will create a separate business to house its tower infrastructure in Europe.
Vodafone said the new entity, dubbed TowerCo, woill be the largest tower company in Europe. Its assets include 61,700 towers across ten markets, with 75%...
Chinese vendor ZTE launched a 5G wireless router for indoor connectivity in the Middle East.
The router was launched in collaboration with United Arab Emirates (UAE) operator Du.
ZTE said the 5G Indoor Router MC801?supports the latest Wi-Fi 6 access technology (802.11ax), which allows a maximum...
U.K. operator O2, owned by Spanish telecommunications group Telefonica, has announced plans to launch 5G in the country in October.
The telco said it aims to cover a total of 20 town and cities with 5G technology this year and a total of 50 by...
Huawei subsidiary Futurewei cut 600 researchers from US operations
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies’s revenue grew nearly 30% in the first half of the year as the company managed to secure the supply of critical components to keep production going despite U.S. technology export restrictions, Bloomberg...
U.K. telecommunications operators Vodafone and O2 Telefónica UK (O2) announced that they have agreed to share 5G active equipment, such as radio antennas, on joint network sites across the country.
The two carriers said that this network sharing agreement will allow them to speed up...
President Donald Trump has agreed to grant "timely" licensing decisions to U.S. technology firms that want to sell components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei, the White House said in a statement.
The decision was adopted following a meeting between Trump and the CEOs of...
Hong Kong’s Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA) has officially invited interested parties to take part in the auctions of 5G spectrum in the 3.3 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 4.9 GHz bands.
The Communications Authority (CA) had announced in December 2018 its decision to auction...
Mobile subscribers in South Korea are complaining about the quality of the nation’s 5G service, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Users say that the 5G services offered by the country’s three carriers have poor quality, slow connections and lack applications that use...
The bureaucratic wheels continue to turn in the process to get initial commercial deployments of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service underway. It's ... so ... close.
On Friday, a blog post confirmed that the final test reports for the first wave of Spectrum Access System...
The Italian government confirmed it will drop emergency legislation aimed at strengthening state powers to intervene in the country’s 5G infrastructure market, Reuters reported, citing Italian lawmakers.
Last week, Italy approved a decree to increase the government’s powers to intervene in the critical 5G market,...
U.K. telecommunications group Vodafone has announced the launch of 5G technology in eight additional cities across the country, the telco said in a statement.
The service is now live in Birkenhead, Bolton, Gatwick, Lancaster, Newbury, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent and Wolverhampton.
These new cities join Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff,...
French telecommunications regulator Arcep has launched a public consultation on its draft procedure for awarding licenses to use frequencies in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band in France.
Arcep said that this spectrum band had been identified in Europe as the “core” 5G band.
The regulator said that...
