The Italian telco carried out the 5G call in collaboration with Qualcomm and Ericsson
Italian telco TIM said it has completed what it claims to be the first European 5G New Radio video call in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson. TIM has also opened...
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a consortium of telecommunications industry companies with varying focus areas that meet regularly to implement cellular communication standards. Contrary to what some understand 3GPP to be, they do not enforce these standards, but merely create them. The...
The side effect of all the attention and hype of 5G is the close scrutiny of its standards development, and undue confusion and unfounded fear because of even benign and simple procedural updates. While the glorification of 5G is ongoing with this almost deafening...
With the promise of 5G—including higher data speeds and new services—come major challenges for operators in terms of network quality, reliability, and availability.
Mission critical applications will demand a network which cannot fail, and ensuring network quality will be at the core of deployment and...
What coverage and capacity can we expect and what are the best deployment practices?
Just last month, I had the pleasure to speak at the 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong, one of the largest wireless ecosystem events in the world, hosted by Qualcomm Technologies. It was attended...
Discussing the best practices for optimizing 5G NR network deployments.
As we march towards the first commercial 5G NR launches with smartphones in the first half of 2019, the entire mobile ecosystem is working together to address the challenges and complexities of rolling out the...
Expect non-standalone 5G NR networks in 2019, standalone potentially in 2020
The latest Ericsson Mobility Report projects 5G will achieve global scale more quickly than previous generations of cellular, reaching 1.5 billion subscribers by 2024 and covering 40% of the world’s population in the same...
5G has arrived. One consequence will be the largest volume of millimeter-wave (mmW) ICs ever produced! A radical use case evolution is happening to make ubiquitous 5G possible by harnessing mmW spectrum to increase data speeds by orders of magnitude.
Verizon launched its fixed wireless...
5G NR-U can serve operator, enterprise and industrial demands
In the context of LTE, the use of Licensed Assisted Access to aggregate licensed and unlicensed spectrum bands is key to helping operators deploy gigabit LTE. In fact, research from Qualcomm suggests that 90% of global...
5G smartphone reference design unveiled at Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit
Millimeter wave frequencies are central to realizing the vision of ultra-fast, multi-gigabit-per-second 5G mobile connections. Case in point, Verizon and AT&T are both taking 5G to market in the U.S. using high-band spectrum, albeit with an...
But flagship 5G Android devices are due out in 2019
HONG KONG—“We believe that we are poised to really transform the world, reinvent whole new industries and enrich lives with the impending launch of 5G.” That was the message from Penny Baldwin, Qualcomm CMO and...
Both scanners and test UEs will be available for field testing in 5G. In legacy technologies, scanner was best suited for coverage measurements because it can measure all cells from all networks in one go. UE is always limited to one operator and does not necessarily...
Learn about the new challenges in new spectrum and bandwidth, MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) and beam steering, OTA testing, and 5G NR coexistence with other wireless communications systems.
Find out how to address the complexities in Keysight’s new eBook, Top Considerations for 5G New Radio...
5G mobility, fixed wireless and edge will drive network ROI
Last week as Verizon announced its 5G Home service during Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles, company CEO Hans Vestberg was across the country in New York at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference explaining...
5G New Radio (NR) introduces many changes compared to the existing LTE air interface, impacting the field testing and assessment of QoE and radio network performance. This webinar highlights the 5G NR key technological concepts and explains their impact on field testing.
This webinar will...
AT&T names new 5G cities, focuses foundries on application development
Ahead of Mobile World Congress Americas, which begins tomorrow in Los Angeles, AT&T made a number of big announcements, including an expansion of previously-announced plans to deploy mobile 5G based on the 3GPP 5G New...
The physics of time-division duplexing in radio communications means 5G could, in certain frequency bands, struggle to achieve the ultra low latencies it promises. Worse, in some markets, regulatory forces have compounded the challenge with backwards rules about 5G radio operations.
As a consequence, radio...
Licensing rate capped at €3 per 5G NR device
Standardized telecommunications technologies are developed collaboratively, through bodies like the 3GPP, based on the input of stakeholders from the industry. As technology and standards develop in tandem, contributions from individual companies is often incorporated into the final...
Vehicle-based 5G NR call mobility testing is a first, Verizon says
Verizon and Nokia have successfully tested a 5G New Radio call in a vehicle moving between two sectors, the two companies said. Verizon described the testing as "the first successful transmission of a 3GPP New...
Millimeter wave modules can be put into smartphone form factor
With U.S. carriers Verizon and AT&T touting commercial 5G service launches using millimeter wave spectrum later this year, the question has lingered: what devices will there be to support the high capacity, high band spectrum?...
5G NR is coming, and the physical layer specifications are shaping up. Designed to achieve faster data rates and ultra-low latency, these specifications present new measurement challenges because of mmWave frequencies and over-the-air testing. Keysight’s new 4-part white paper will help you take the...
The quarterly 3GPP RAN Plenary Meeting in San Diego, California, marks two important milestones that will take us another step closer to our vision for 5G— a unifying connectivity fabric that will expand the reach of mobile to new services, deployments, and spectrum types:
The...
3GPP finalized standalone 5G New Radio last week
Last week was big for the continued development of technological specifications for next-generation 5G networks. Meeting in a hotel ballroom in La Jolla, California, 3GPP members froze the specifications for standalone 5G New Radio six months after...
Verizon came out on top in nearly every category of network performance in the New York City metropolitan area and Los Angeles, California in the most recent round of testing by Rootmetrics. Rootmetrics recorded a median download speed of more than 40 Mbps for...
