German carrier Deutsche Telekom has launched commercial 5G services in the city of Hamburg, according to local press reports.
The service is currently being offered through 18 5G antennas in the city. Deutsche Telekom expects to deploy another 40 5G sites in Hamburg in the...
German carrier Deutsche Telekom expects to end this year with a total of 450 5G base stations across the country, German press reported.
By the end of next year, the number of 5G sites is expected to climb to nearly 1,500, according to the report.
During...
Chinese state-owned mobile carrier China Mobile has already deployed nearly 50,000 5G base stations across the country, state news agency Xinhua reported the company’s chairman Yang Jie as saying.
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile services provider in terms of subscribers, currently provides 5G services...
China’s three state telecoms announced Thursday the launch of 5G services in the country, international press reported.
Chen Zhaoxiong, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology, officially kicked off the launch with representatives from the three carriers at PT Expo China in Beijing.
China Mobile, China...
China’s three mobile operators signed up 9 million advance orders for 5G services during September, according to Beijing News.
The report stated that China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom would probably launch commercial 5G services simultaneously later this month.
China Mobile has attracted approximately 5.32...
Huawei Technologies is already manufacturing 5G base stations without components provided by U.S. suppliers, international press reported the vendor’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying.
From October, Huawei expects to produce 5,000 5G base stations per month, and next year it plans to manufacture...
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...
Huawei has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) processor – the Ascend 910 – as well as an all-scenario AI computing framework, dubbed MindSpore.
"We have been making steady progress since we announced our AI strategy in October last year," said Eric Xu, Huawei's rotating chairman....
China ramping for large-scale 5G deployment
More than 10,000 5G base stations will be deployed in China's capital Beijing by the end of the year, Chinese press reported, citing Beijing's municipal telecom authorities
As of July, the capital city had already constructed over 7,800 5G base...
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...
Japanese companies NEC Corporation and Fujitsu said they started to deliver 5G equipment for compatriot telco NTT DoCoMo’s 5G deployment.
NEC said it is already supplying radio units (RU) for 5G base station equipment to the Japanese operator. NEC began shipping three types of small-cell...
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 authorities of Chinese city Guangzhou announced plans to reach full coverage with 5G technology by 2021 with the deployment of 65,000 5G base stations, according to a report by Chinese newspaper China Daily.
Guangzhou’s Bureau of Industry and Information Technology said it aims to...
Japanese operators KDDI and SoftBank have reached an agreement for the shared use of their base station assets to jointly promote the rapid deployment of 5G networks in Japan's rural areas, the carriers said in a statement.
Since 5G networks in Japan use the 28...
German telco Deutsche Telekom (DT) has kicked off the rollout of its 5G network in six cities across the country, the company said in a release.
The initial rollouts are taking place in Berlin and Bonn, which will be followed by Darmstadt, Hamburg, Leipzig, and...
China is expected to invest over $150 billion in its 5G networks through 2025, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reported, citing a note from Goldman Sachs.
According to the brief note, nearly three-quarters of this amount will be invested in 5G wireless systems.
"That's more than...
SHANGHAI--Chinese vendor ZTE expects to double the size of its business operation in the European market in one year, the company’s president of global sales, Xiao Ming, told reporters.
The executive said that growth prospects include both the network and device business segments. In Europe,...
SHANGHAI, CHINA - Chinese vendor Huawei has already signed a total of 50 contracts in the 5G field and has shipped over 150,000 base stations globally, the company’s deputy chairman Ken Hu said in a keynote presentation at Mobile World Congress 2019 Shanghai.
The executive...
SHANGHAI, CHINA - Chinese vendor ZTE has already signed commercial 5G contracts with 25 operators globally, the company’s senior vice president and president of the wireless product division, Zhang Wanchun, told reporters.
The telecom equipment manufacturer has also already shipped over 50,000 5G base stations...
SHANGHAI, CHINA- China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator, has plans to deploy 5G commercial cities in over 50 cities across China by the end of this year, the company announced on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress 2019 Shanghai.
The carrier said that it...
Alaska’s largest telecommunications operator, GCI, has selected Ericsson for the deployment of 5G infrastructure, the vendor said in a release.
Ericsson said that the deployment of 5G technology will accelerate applications for the oil, gas, mining and healthcare industries across Alaska.
GCI said it expects to...
The Japanese government announced it will allow the country’s four mobile carriers to deploy 5G base stations on traffic signals, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.
The main aim of the initiative is to reduce the cost and times necessary to deploy 5G networks nationwide by taking advantage...
Chinese vendor Huawei has opened its first 5G OpenLab in Seoul, South Korea, the company said in a release.
Through the OpenLab, Huawei aims to drive 5G and ICT development in South Korea, and provide 5G testing environments and interoperability services for SMEs and start-ups....
Korean carrier LG Uplus aims to
deploy a total of 25,000 5G base stations by June to reach a total of 50,000
base stations nationwide, Koran press reported.
The country's third-largest mobile operator is aiming for a deployment total of 80,000 5G base stations across South...
