The Chinese vendor said it is accelerating investments in R&D
Chinese vendor ZTE’s production activities have returned to normal, following a U.S. import ban which severely impacted the firm’s business, international press reported.
The vendor also said its carrier network business is on track for growth...
The Middle East telco also announced its first customer in the 5G segment
Vodafone Qatar has announced the activation of its 5G network in the country, which would enable a wide range of new applications including remote healthcare and driverless cars, the telco said in...
Union says merger could cost 28,000 jobs
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's comment period regarding the proposed Sprint/T-Mobile US merger ended on Aug. 27, and as the clock ticked down opponents of the proposed $146 billion deal outlined their objections. Altice, Dish and the Rural...
Japan’s communications ministry will start carrying out R&D to develop post 5G standards
Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry plans to start carrying out research and development activities for a new telecommunications standard that will succeed 5G technology, Japanese press reported citing sources from the...
Qualcomm stock passes $69 per share
With the close of an initial round of stock repurchases at midnight Aug. 27, Qualcomm is set to spend $5.1 billion to buyback more than 76 million shares of common stock for "at or below" $67.50 per share, according...
5G is not just about the Radio Access Network (RAN). Next-generation wireless is going to need a lot of help from wireline technologies to deliver on its promises.
This paper defines five key wireline network improvements that are needed for a service provider to be...
In June 2018, a major landmark was hit for 5G--the 3GPP's Release 15 was frozen. The Non Stand-Alone use case was frozen in December, and the Stand Alone use case was frozen in June. Release 15 is considered the first of two major releases...
The South African telco said it is ready to launch 5G in its home market once the government assigns spectrum in the 3.5GHz band
South African telecom operator Vodacom Group has launched what it claims to be Africa’s first commercial 5G service in Lesotho, the...
Edge clouds combine radio and core functions
Reduced latency is a key feature of 5G networks, and both consumers and enterprises stand to benefit. But for operators investing billions in densifying their networks and moving intelligence out to the edge, the monetization opportunity really lies...
Nokia's new €500 million loan from the European Investment Bank for 5G research and developnent will boost the region's drive for industrial and economic transformation, as US and Asian markets push ahead.
Nokia told Enterprise IoT Insights 5G will shift the European economy up a...
Autonomous operations a key application of mission critical IoT
While operators are currently focused on early 5G use cases, enhanced mobile broadband and fixed wireless access, around the corner, as the technology develops, the next generation of cellular will support massive internet of things and...
Loan to Nokia follows $300 million in financing for Ericsson
The Investment Plan for Europe, also called the Juncker Plan after European Commission President Jean-Claud Juncker, is designed to jumpstart private investment in European business development by providing public funds via the nonprofit European Investment...
5G wireless network speeds will bring us more than just fast wireless service. It will transform other industries we use as well. Let’s take a closer look at how 5G wireless will transform the pay TV industry in the very near future.
Currently, cable TV...
The Chinese vendor said the decision by the Australian government would impact competition and fair trade
Chinese network infrastructure vendor Huawei said the decision by the Australian government to block the company from the country's domestic 5G market is politically motivated and not the result...
RAN is part of larger 5G, cloud strategy
Orange Poland is continuing with its 5G strategy most recently by working with network infrastructure vendor Nokia to test out a cloud-based radio access network. The cloud RAN trial, which ran from March to May, saw radio...
Cities vs. small cells
The deployment of 5G is very much an exercise in network densification. Coming down from the macro tower, operators are deploying small cells and other integrated radio/antenna units connected to centralized baseband resources. And while regulators like the Federal Communications Commission...
FCC planning millimeter wave spectrum auctions in 2018 and 2019
U.S. operators Verizon and AT&T are planning the commercial launch of 5G networks using millimeter wave spectrum later this year. Elsewhere in the world, operators like Ooredoo Qatar and Elisa in Finland are using the...
Cellular technologies have advanced from first generation (1G) analog technologies to advanced high performance fourth generation (4G) and fifth generation (5G) systems in just four decades. Despite the increase in complexity of wireless standards and devices, cellular technologies maintain a set of common principles...
Indoor and outdoor network densification adding complexity to test, measurement and monitoring
As operators around the world enhance and densify LTE networks while starting the task of building out 5G networks, small cells are a key technological enabler in adding mobile capacity and coverage through...
Verizon and AT&T aim to launch commercial 5G services in certain US markets before the end of this year
North America seems to be leading the race to launch commercial 5G services, according to a new study by IHS Markit.
The study revealed that 82% of...
Is new 5G SoC a first look at Snapdragon 855?
As it continues to drive device support for 5G, Qualcomm this week announced it is sampling its next-generation 5G SoC to OEMs. While the San Diego company didn't name the 7-nanometer system on a chip,...
China Unicom is also testing 5G technology in other Chinese cities such as Nanjing, Guiyang, Chengdu, Shenzhen and Fuzhou
Chinese telecom giant China Unicom's Beijing subsidiary has launched its 5G initiative with the aim of paving the way for the deployment of 5G networks, Chinese...
The next generation of cellular networks will bring a huge boost in capacity. In order to provide more capacity, mobile operators need more spectrum. To support the commercialization of 5G, telecoms regulators around the world are conducting 5G spectrum auctions. Here we take stock...
Keysight’s solutions allow users to validate the protocol signaling and radio frequency performance of 5G New Radio mobile devices in a laboratory environment
Keysight Technologies has extended its collaboration with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo by providing its 5G network emulation solutions for validating new 5G...
