Huawei said the 5G partnership will focus on cooperation in end-to-end 5G technical verification and cooperation with vertical industry partners
China Unicom and Huawei have signed a 5G strategic partnership agreement during Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2018, taking place this week in the Chinese city.
As...
Mobile operators in the region are expected to invest $200 billion to upgrade 4G networks and launch 5G
Asia Pacific is expected to become the world’s largest 5G region by 2025, led by pioneering 5G markets such as Australia, China, Japan and South Korea, according...
Drone flight companies give tips for inspecting towers by drone.
Telecommunications towers are inspected many times during the lifespan of a tower. Each time a tower is touched for modifications, it has to be inspected.
“If there is a modification to tower, say a new antenna...
Sprint will add NXM's blockchain security technology into its connected car module due out in fall.
Cars, like any device with chips embedded and connected to the outside word, can be hacked. It’s happened since 2015, when two engineers famously hacked a Jeep Cherokee. Since...
The Government of Canada recently confirmed plans to award spectrum for 5G services in 2020
New 5G wireless networks will contribute as much as $40 billion annually to Canada’s economy by 2026, according to a new report from Accenture.
The report, which was commissioned by the...
Who will Intel tap as next CEO? The next CEO has to continue the company's 5G and IoT push.
Now that journalists and analysts have weighed in on the angles of former Intel CEO Brian Krzanich’s departure, a couple of themes have emerged.
Although it is...
Since the proposed T-Mobile-Sprint merger was announced in late April, some pundits have expressed concern that a combination of the two firms could stifle business competition because it reduces the number of national U.S. wireless carriers from four to three.
The reality, though, is that...
The carrier is currently testing its Mobi self-driving robot using its LTE network in New York
Sprint, working with Adaptive Motion Group (AMG), is starting to deploy its "Mobi" self-driving robot -- designed to charge electric buses, cars and industrial vehicles in New York City.
Sprint...
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 German telco said the new 300 base stations will also pave the way for future 5G technology
Telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom has announced the deployment of 300 new mobile base stations across Germany to boost coverage in both urban and rural areas.
The European telco...
ST is accredited by GMSA to produce eSIMs; ST will ship pre-formated eSIMs directly to OEMs.
Semiconductor company STMicroelectronics now has accreditation from the GSMA to produce embedded SIMs (eSIMs) and load connection credentials such as certificates and operator profiles before shipping.
The eSIM is GSMA’s...
The maturity of LTE is increasingly enabling commercial mobile network operators to offer mission-critical, rather than best-effort, infrastructure and services, according to Patrik Ringqvist, principal solutions architect for Ericsson North America.
Ringqvist, who focuses on critical communications, said that he considers "mission-critical" to be "the...
The small cell live trial will be carried out in the last quarter of this year
Singaporean telco M1 Limited (M1) and Nokia have announced plans to conduct a trial of 5G-based small cells in Southeast Asia.
The partners sad the small cell trial will take...
Qualcomm engineers test Vivo's 5G mmWave antenna in commercial form factor
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo and U.S. semiconductor company Qualcomm have integrated a 5G millimeter wave antenna array into a commercial-sized smartphone and measured its performance over the air, the companies announced.
The design integrates a 28 GHz mmWave antenna array into a cellphone-sized form factor that also uses sub-6 GHz technologies,...
Antennas: A critical element in your 5G network
The antenna has become a very complex and invaluable segment of the 5G network, and momentum is rapidly building up with 5G, particularly in light of recent announcements in the mobile service provider (MSP) world, on the standardization...
Viavi Solutions has added the capability to emulate massive numbers of internet of things devices to its TeraVM offering, as the company continues to reap the benefits of its acquisition of Cobham's test and measurement operations. The new offering enables operators to investigate how their...
When new business opportunities come up, you need to be able to jump on them. Today, it’s voice over LTE (VoLTE) but in the very near future it will 5G, IoT, and whatever comes next. In all cases, that means building a dynamic network...
Huawei said the recent tests examined cell throughput, user experienced data rate, mobility, network latency and key 5G solutions
Huawei said it became the first vendor to pass China’s third-phase 5G research and development tests based on 3GPP's non-standalone (NSA) 5G specifications.
During this trial, Huawei...
5G tests continue on Verizon's pre-commercial 5G nodes. 5G shows strong use case for remote experts using virtual reality or augmented reality.
If there is anything Verizon’s experimental 5G node has done in the NYC Alley, it has proven that use cases for augmented, virtual,...
The 3GPP RAN Plenary meeting that is taking place in San Diego on the second week of June is expected to define the next set of 5G NR Study Items, paving the path to future Work Items that will start as early as the...
MediaTek plans to increase research into 5G and artificial intelligence.
Fabless semiconductor company MediaTek Chairman and CEO Ming-Kai Tsai said MediaTek would be investing more money in research and development of 5G and artificial intelligence technologies, according to an article in DigiTimes. The remarks were made...
HPE CEO on importance of edge computing: 'Data is our most valuable asset'
While there's variation in how you define the edge—is it a consumer device, an enterprise LAN, a physical location, all three?—there's clearly consensus that it's going to be a big deal, as...
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...
5G-ready smartphones won't start appearing until the first half of 2019, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report.
Ericsson expects the first smartphones supporting 5G to be available in early 2019, according to its June Ericsson Mobility Report. The report came out before the 3GPP...
