German operator Telefónica Deutschland / O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, has been accelerating the rollout of its 5G network in the country last year and aims to further increase its 5G footprint this year. To know more about the company’s plans for 2021,...
China focused on 5G for industrial connectivity
China expects to build over 600,000 5G base stations in 2021, Chinese state news service Xinhua reported, citing Xiao Yaqing, minister of industry and information technology.
In 2021, the ministry said it aims to promote the construction of 5G...
Taiwanese carrier Taiwan Star Telecom said that its 5G subscribers already represent 5% of the company’s overall mobile base and that it will step up its efforts to push the ratio to 10% in 2021.
Taiwan Star has attracted a total of 100,000 5G users...
Chinese operators have installed around 580,000 5G base stations this year, local press reported, citing statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Wen Ku, spokesperson for the ministry said at a press conference last week that all prefecture-level cities are now covered by...
The number of 5G subscribers in Taiwan reached over 1 million after the introduction of the technology in July, Taipei Times reported, citing statistics released by the nation’s telecoms.
In June, the government of Taiwan issued the first 5G license to Chunghwa Telecom, which paved...
South China's Guangdong province has built over 110,000 5G base stations, with nearly 27 million 5G users, Chinese press reported, citing official statistics.
Ma Xingrui, governor of Guangdong, said that province has over 1,600 5G-related enterprises, accounting for about one-third of the national total.
In the...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, has already deployed 385,000 5G base stations nationwide, Chinese press reported.
Yang Jie, chairman of China Mobile, reportedly said that the carrier finished its annual 5G network build target ahead of schedule and has built...
French operator Bouygues Telecom expects to launch its comercial 5G network on December 1, the telco said in a statement.
The company also said that it expects to reach nationwide coverage with its 5G network within a year.
“Bouygues Telecom participated in the 5G auction...
China has announced it has already installed nearly 700,000 5G base stations so far this year, exceeding the country’s original target of 500,000, South China Morning Post reported.
According to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) vice-minister Liu Liehong, this figure is more...
German operator Vodafone Germany announced that its 5G network currently covers 10 million people across the country.
In a release, the carrier said that its 5G technology has been recently activated in 300 new cities and municipalities across Germany.
"We launched the first 5G network in...
Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom has built over 3,000 5G base stations nationwide as of the end of last quarter, the company’s president, Shui Kuo, said during a conference call with investors.
“In the third quarter of 2020, the number of 5G sign-ups grew as we...
China has already constructed over 690,000 5G base stations nationwide by the end of September, Chinese press reported citing information from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The government also said that subscribers using applications such as ultra-high definition video, cloud games and virtual...
China Tower’s business in the first three quarters of 2020 was positively impacted by the rapid deployment of 5G sites across China, the company said in its earnings release.
The company said that a total of 345,000 5G sites had been constructed in China as...
China's nationwide 5G network now includes more than 600,000 base stations
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) stated the country has now built more than 600,000 5G base stations and that data shows that the number of devices connecting to the network has...
French mobile operators are currently testing 5G services with a total of 483 active 5G base stations across the country, French press reported.
Orange leads in terms of 5G base stations deployments, with 353, followed by Bouygues Telecom, with 67, SFR, with 54 and Free,...
A total of 98,613 5G base stations have been built in major cities in China’s Guangdong region, Asia Times reported, citing a report published by the Guangdong province.
In the first eight months of 2020, Chinese carriers have deployed a total of 61,625 5G base...
Korean telecommunications operators SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus have ordered 28 GHz 5G base stations from compatriot company Samsung Electronics for the first time, Korean press reported.
According to the reports, these are the same base stations that U.S. carrier Verizon recently ordered from...
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo and compatriot firm NEC announced that they have expanded multi-vendor interoperability by interconnecting a new 5G base station baseband unit (5G-CU/DU), developed by NEC and Samsung Electronics and compliant with O-RAN Alliance specifications, with 5G base station remote radio units...
Chinese carriers China Unicom and China Telecom have jointly built and currently operate over 300,000 5G base stations across China, local press reported.
Wang Xiaochu, chairman of China Unicom, said the decision by the two operators to jointly deploy 5G infrastructure across the country has...
Chinese carriers have already deployed a total of 480,000 5G base stations, which represents 96% of the country’s target for the year of 500,000, according to government data.
China also ended August with approximately 100 million devices connected to 5G networks in mainland China, according...
Chinese mobile operators had deployed a total of 32,681 5G base stations in Sichuan Province by July, state news agency Xinhua reported, citing an official report.
According to the report, total investments in 5G deployments in this province already reached CNY11.32 billion ($1.65 billion).
The report...
More than 46,000 base stations supply 5G in Shenzhen
The municipal government of China’s Shenzhen announced that the city’s  5G deployment is fully completed.
This makes it the first city in China to to achieve full-scale 5G deployment.
The city had deployed 46,480 5G base stations, Mayor...
China Unicom, together with rival telco China Telecom, deployed approximately 150,000 5G base stations across China in the first half of the year, the former said in its earnings statement.
“Currently, China Unicom deployed a total of approximately 210,000 5G base stations in service, of...
Chinese operators will build 800,000 5G base stations and have more than 200 million 5G subscribers by the end of 2020, Yang Chaobin, president of Huawei's Wireless Network Solutions unit, said during an industry conference on Thursday.
The executive said that 5G subscribers in China...
