4G LTE

Korea’s top mobile carrier partners with drone maker DJI to add live- streaming high-def video to drones. Korean mobile operator SK Telecom and China-based drone-maker DJI have agreed to co-develop high-performance, …

The U.S government has recently banned local companies to export components to ZTE Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE said it has filed a request to the U.S Department of Commerce’s …

  U.K. connectivity provider SSE Enterprise Telecom will be in charge of Three’s network transformation project U.K. mobile operator Three has signed an agreement with compatriot connectivity provider SSE Enterprise …

  Nokia’s CEO Rajeev Suri said the vendor expects sales to be boosted by deals for large-scale 5G deployments in the U.S Finnish vendor Nokia experienced a challenging first quarter …

  The new entity will own 163,000 telecom towers across India and will become the world’s second-largest tower company India’s Indus Towers and Bharti Infratel agreed to merge their operations …

5G SingleRAN Pro platforms supports 5G deployments as well as previous technologies, Huawei said Chinese vendor Huawei has launched its 5G SingleRAN Pro, which combines 5G, 4G, 3G, and 2G …

Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region are forecast to deploy 1.67 million of small cell units this year The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region accounted for 58.6% of all non-residential small cells deployments …

SuperTower equivalent of 30 conventional towers Ericsson is working Boston-based startup Altaeros to demonstrate a new “SuperTower” to help operators deploy LTE in hard-to-reach rural communities using tethered aerostats. Last …

MegaFon and Rostelcom will create a working group to propose options for the 5G rollout Russian telecom operator MegaFon has signed a cooperation agreement with compatriot telco Rostelecom to jointly …

On Friday Sprint announced Günther Ottendorfer, chief operating officer of technology, is leaving the company after a two-year tenure “to join his family in Austria and pursue other opportunities. Günther helped …

Nokia’s transformation under Chairman Risto Siilasmaa is one of the most significant corporate turnarounds in recent history Nokia’s transformation from industry laggard to technology leader over the past 5 years …

Stock transfer to Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba, among others, will raise money for 5G development China Unicom has announced plans to issue and transfer stock to Chinese private investors and …

Samsung joins the GSA executive board in pushing global spectrum harmonization As 3GPP works to establish a 5G New Radio specification, vendors and operators around the world are, in addition …

A greenfield, data-centric operator model transformed LTE in India Jio, the latest entrant into the Indian mobile carrier market, employed a data-centric, sole vendor partnership to bring to life an …

The Chinese government looks to increase private investments in the telecom sector to improve competition. China Unicom said its main shareholder China United Network Communications was reviewing the firm’s ownership …

New wireless router for field area networks for smart grid, smart city and other IoT applications. Digital transformation is driving change in nearly all enterprise and industrial verticals including for …

Report: 5G technology will provide coverage to one-third of the world’s population by 2025. “5G” connections are forecast to reach 1.1 billion by 2025, according to a recent report by …

Finnish telecommunications group DNA and Ericsson announced they have carried out a “5G” test achieving a transmission rate of 20 gigabits per second. “Last spring we already achieved a 600 …

The telco expects its LTE network to reach 99% of the Italian population by the end of 2019. Telecom Italia announced plans to invest 11 billion euros ($11.8 billion) over the …

GSMA says LPWA technologies are backed by 67 global operators. The GSMA predicts low power wide area technology connections are set to exceed 2G, 3G and 4G, becoming the leading …

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to descend on Washington, D.C., in the coming days to observe President-elect Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony as well as the pomp and circumstance …

Telco demonstrated download speeds of 1 Gbps in live LTE network with Ericsson. Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel announced the nationwide deployment of LTE-Advanced services capable of supporting network speeds up to …

Australian company TPG Telecom secured 60 megahertz of spectrum for $73 million. Australian operator TPG Telecom is set to become Singapore’s fourth mobile operator after the country’s Infocommunications Media Development …

China’s three largest carriers added approximately 289 million LTE subscribers between January and October. China’s three largest mobile telecom operators ended October with approximately 704.3 million LTE subscribers, according to the …