As the industry waits for the Federal Communications Commission to finalize the details of spectrum licenses for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service shared spectrum at 3.5 GHz, there are three potential ways that CBRS will be used.
The three potential uses for CBRS include:
-Macro...
The government aims to provide mobile coverage in a railway line connecting Leeds and Manchester
The U.K government has launched a process to attract interested firms for the deployment of 5G connectivity on a local railway line.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said...
Elefante Group wants FCC to open 5G spectrum in 22 GHz, 23 GHz, 26 GHz, 70 GHz and 80 GHz bands
Startup The Elefante Group wants to provide wide area 5G coverage from "airships" located 65,000 feet above earth. The firm, which is working Lockheed...
5G is more than just faster wireless service. It is transformative. It will transform the way we use wireless and expand what we can do over it. Over the next few years, 5G wireless will open new doors and create a completely different experience...
Most often, we read of differences between the United States and Canada, but in one area, the people of both nations agree: neither country can get enough of mobile wireless services. Consumers devour more mobile wireless data each year, and mobile operators beg the...
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...
The two companies used a device provided by Prisma Telecom Testing for the 5G test
Nokia and China Mobile announced they have successfully completed a 5G single-user downlink test using a third-party device.
The two companies said they achieved a peak data rate of 1.4 GB/s...
For 5G, the radio is a small piece of total network investment, Verizon CEO says
As AT&T and Verizon duke it out to launch commercial 5G services this year, and T-Mobile and Sprint work on a potential merger being pushed as key to delivering a...
Cisco’s revenues for fiscal Q4 were up 6% year-on-year
Cisco foresees large investments by telecom operators in 5G technologies in 2020, the company’s CEO Chuck Robbins said on a conference call with investors.
“We expect that is still a year out before many will start ...
T-Mobile US announces "Team of Experts" customer service initiative
T-Mobile US CEO John Legere called it "the mother of all pain points," and accused service providers AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Charter of all being guilt of it—bad customer service.
Speaking at a T-Mo event in Charleston,...
5G modem based on 3GPP Rel. 15, Samsung says
In the run-up to 5G service launches in the U.S. later this year, we've seen a wave of ecosystem announcements geared toward supporting commercialization of the next-generation of cellular. For AT&T and Verizon, 2018 launches will...
After suburban lifestyles being the norm for generations of Americans, the pendulum is beginning to swing back towards urbanism: the United Nations says 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas today, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66% by 2050....
Device and network launch coming in H1 2019
Sprint is planning to launch commercial 5G services in nine cities in the first half of 2019. And the carrier has been working with device OEM LG to bring to market a compatible handset. Device technical specifications,...
5G residential broadband service comes with YouTube TV and Apple TV 4K
Sacramento, Los Angeles, Houston and Indianapolis—with the Aug. 14 addition of Motor City, those are the four locales where Verizon will launch its 5G fixed wireless residential broadband service by the end of...
The South Korean firm recently announced a large investment in AI, 5G and automotive electronics components
Samsung Electronics announced plans to invest KRW 1.5 trillion ($1.3 billion) through 2022 to finance a range of studies about future technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), internet of...
Former FCC commissioner discusses policy support for 5G
In a recent interview aired on C-SPAN, Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein boiled down what's needed for 5G: "What we need to make 5G work is more spectrum as soon as we can...
Last year, Sky Light Research wrote a paper on microwave being able to meet the requirements of 5G. That paper explored various benchmarks that microwave needs to meet for 5G to be successful - capacity, low latency, high cell densification, and flexible OAM through...
FCC taking comments on potential $59 billion combination of Sprint and T-Mobile US
Since opening up the public input period last month, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received more than 300 comments on the proposed merger of T-Mobile US and Sprint. While some...
A lot was made last week of Samsung's large investment into AI research, and a media-fueled 5G tech race between China and the United States. While wholly separate subjects, the notion that all sea change-type technology developments are a race could be especially dangerous...
British defence technology company Qinetiq, heavily involved in the UK 5G testbed project in Worcestershire, has warned next-generation 5G wireless networks will open businesses up to cyber threats.
The GSMA predicts as many as 1.4 billion 5G connections will be live by 2025, with revenue...
International revenues represented 67.6% of Deutsche Telekom's quarterly revenues
German telecom group Deutsche Telekom posted a net profit of 495 million euros ($567 million) in the second quarter of the year, down 43.4% compare to 874 million euros in Q2 2017 due to a one-time...
AT&T said this development in Texas will be one of the first connected communities in the U.S. built from the ground up with 5G technology
Frisco Station, a 242-acre, mixed-use development in Frisco, Texas, announced plans to deploy integrated connectivity from AT&T.
The future deployments will...
Ericsson investing in manufacturing and R&D for 5G
When Ericsson reported its Q2 financials last month, company executives detailed a 1% year-over-year decrease in total sales, although the networks segment saw a 2% increase year-over-year with North American (U.S.) operators investments in 5G driving that growth..
President...
As the global network infrastructure is tasked with maintaining pace with voracious bandwidth demands that continue to rise exponentially, fiber optic wireline networks are often looked at as the silver bullet that can keep up with ever-changing end-user behavior. These thin strands of glass,...
