Taiwan is expected to reach a 5G penetration rate of nearly 30% by the end of this year, local new site Digitimes reported, citing industry sources.
According to the report, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) currently leads the Taiwanese 5G market, with nearly 1 million subscribers. The...
Austrian operator Drei started trials of a 5G standalone network in capital Vienna, the telco said in a release. Drei claimed to be the first of the three telecommunications providers in Austria to start tests for this technology. The operator is carrying out these...
South Korea ended May with a total of 15.84 million 5G subscribers, local newspaper Korea Herald reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT.
5G subscribers at the end of May accounted for 22% of the total 71.45 million mobile subscriptions in the...
Ericsson has inked a three-year deal with Chilean operator Entel Chile which will pave the way for the launch of 5G and IoT services, the companies said in a joint statement.
According to the release, both services are expected to be launched before the end...
Brazil is expected to carry out its 5G spectrum auction in August and not in July as had been previously announced, local news site Teletime reported, citing the country’s Communications Minister Fabio Faria.
Faria, who spoke at a ministerial panel at MWC 2021, did not...
5G connections globally are forecast to reach 1.8 billion by 2025, according to a new study by the GSMA.
The study, "The Mobile Economy 2021", revealed that 5G technology will account for 21% of total mobile connections globally by that year.
Developed Asian countries and the...
German operator Deutsche Telekom has switched on its first Open-RAN (O-RAN) network in the country, the telco said in a release.
The so-called "O-RAN Town", which has been deployed in the city of Neubrandenburg, Germany, is a multi-vendor open RAN network that will deliver O-RAN-based...
Australian operator Telstra said that its current 5G coverage footprint currently reaches 75% of the country’s population.
“After starting our initial 5G rollout across major cities, a big effort has been made to extend this out to our suburbs, regional centers and rural areas. You...
There is a "significant knowledge gap relating to 5G" among U.S. business professionals, Ciena report says
Less than 20% of professional employees in the U.S. say they understand the benefits of 5G, according to new research from Ciena. These working professionals still interested in upgrading...
Japanese company NEC and Taiwanese company Microelectronics Technology (MTI), a network RF solutions provider, announced a collaboration focused on boosting the Open RAN (O-RAN) ecosystem.
The strategic partnership, the two companies said, is intended to provide a broader O-RAN product offering for telecommunications operators and...
Australian carrier Optus, in partnership with Ericsson, has carried out a trial in which it delivered coexistence of narrow band IoT (NB-IoT) and Ericsson Spectrum Sharing between 5G and 4G in 700 MHz spectrum.
Optus said that this combination of technology will enable 5G services...
The U.K. government announced the launch of a new high-tech lab designed to accelerate the adoption of Open RAN in the country.
The new SmartRAN Open Network Interoperability Centre (SONIC Labs) is part of the government's efforts to boost the adoption of Open RAN technolog,y...
U.K. carrier Vodafone launched a commercial pilot of 5G Standalone service in London, Manchester and Cardiff, the company said in a release.
The commercial pilot will focus on testing new capabilities being introduced as part of 5G Standalone technologies, such as network slicing. It will...
South Korea aims to deploy the world’s first commercial "6G" network in 2028, and announced a program to develop the core standards and technologies within the next five years, local newspaper Aju Business Daily reported.
The Korean government unveiled a five-year plan to spend some...
Japanese company NEC announced the joint development of RAN Intelligent Controllers (RIC) with compatriot firm NTT Docomo in support of intelligent Radio Access Networks (RAN).
The two companies said they are aiming to reduce RAN operational costs, improve performance and reduce power consumption through the...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, added 16.65 million 5G subscribers in May, according to the carrier’s latest available figures.
The carrier said it ended last month with 221.95 million 5G subscribers, compared to 55.60 million 5G customers in May 2020.
China...
China telecommunications infrastructure firm China Tower has deployed over 100 5G base stations in 17 competition venues for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as well as along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway and the Beijing-Chongli expressway, Chinese press reported.
According to the report, China Tower...
Nokia confirmed it will be the sole 5G RAN supplier for a Telia and Telenor joint network in Denmark. The Finnish vendor said in a release that it has expanded a partnership with the duo to cover 5G.
Nokia said that the availability of spectrum...
Dell Technologies and Dish have formed a strategic infrastructure agreement to support the latter’s Open RAN-based 5G network in the U.S.
Under this partnership, Dell Technologies will provide Dish with network and edge-compute infrastructure.
“By collaborating with Dell Technologies, we will have the hardware and software...
5G subscriptions in India are forecast to reach 330 million in 2026, according to Ericsson’s latest Mobility Report.
This technology will account 26% of total mobile subscriptions in the Asian country by that year, the Swedish vendor said.
Meanwhile, 4G subscriptions in India are forecast to...
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has opened its first Open RAN (O-RAN) Collaboration and Testing Center at its offices in Dallas, Texas.
The new facility is designed to support the development of partnerships among O-RAN vendors that will help with the verification, introduction, and...
Wilson Electronics, a specialist in cellular signal amplifier technology, announced significant growth of its enterprise cellular amplifier line, WilsonPro.
Driven by 5G demand, WilsonPro says it saw more than 200% year-over-year growth in many major vertical markets, including the health care industry.
Bruce Lancaster, CEO of...
The Canadian government kicked off on June 15 an auction of 5G frequencies, a process that had been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The tender will award licenses to operate spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band. The spectrum auction, initially scheduled for June 2020,...
Spanish operator Telefonica awarded contracts to roll out its 5G Standalone (SA) radio networks to Nordic vendors Ericsson and Nokia, local business newspaper Expansion reported.
According to the report Chinese vendor Huawei, was excluded from 5G SA contracts.
The newspaper reported that the decision to award...
