Ooredoo said it aims to upgrade 100 base stations to 5G within the next three months
Qatar-based telecommunications group Ooredoo has announced the launch of what it claims to be the world’s first live 5G home broadband devices.
The devices, which are currently being tested on...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — 3D chips are the next frontier for machine-learning chip design, said Globalfoundaries CTO of ASICs, at the IoT DevCon and Machine Learning Conference this week.
Wireless networks and equipment on them, even internet of things equipment, will likely have machine learning...
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam stepping back effective August 1
Hans Vestberg, after a six-year stint as CEO of Ericsson, joined Verizon in April 2017 as executive vice president, chief technology officer and president of global networks. Today the carrier announced Vestberg will become CEO effective...
Tests of bi-directional over-the-air 5G data sessions using a 3GPP-compliant 5G New Radio system have hit the mark, say T-Mobile US and Nokia.
Nokia and T-Mobile US say they have successfully transmitted data in a bi-directional, over-the-air 5G data session using a 3GPP-compliant 5G New...
Former Qualcomm executives are starting a new 5G company to focus on wireless technologies for mobile. Paul Jacobs, the former CEO and chairman of Qualcomm, is joined by former CTO Matt Grob and former President Derek Aberle in forming the company XCOM.
XCOM, launched yesterday,...
Now that 5G is getting closer to deployment, what are the killer apps going to be that push 5G forward into broad deployment? It is said that 5G could be the next “General Purpose Technology”, but will 5G influential enough to push the technology...
Venture capital investor offers tips for IoT startups, says voice, AI are the fundable technologies of 2018
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Founded was in 1911 by Carnegie Steel founders, Bessemer Venture Partners is the oldest venture capital firm in the U.S. The firm has invested in everything...
T'Mo's 600 MHz, along with Sprint's 2.5 GHz, is major 5G value prop for proposed merger
In March last year, T-Mobile US spent around $8 billion in the 600 MHz incentive auction, winning 1,525 10 megahertz licenses covering 414 of the 428 partial economic areas...
Drone pilots prefer these drool-worthy drones for tower inspections.
Multi-rotor drones — the drones that look like little helicopters but with more than one blade — make the best tower inspectors among drone types, because they can hover steadily in one spot and take pictures. ...
5G-connected laptops, 2-and-1s highlighted by Intel at Computex
From distributed computing and artificial intelligence to enterprise-enablement and 5G, Intel is pushing hard into the next-generation of mobility, which is poised to be about a lot more than just smartphones.
This week at the Computex event in...
Flying COW drones are key FirstNet efforts and network plans of the future.
Flying Cells on Wings are similar to their terrestrial COW cousins — except instead of being mounted on a portable mast, the cell is mounted on a drone. The drones are typically...
5G testbed will be established at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Ericsson, together with Telia and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, has announced an agreement to foster the development of 5G in Sweden.
Through the new 5G project, Telia and KTH will build an...
LAA also deployed in Russia by MTS
As operators around the world work to add capacity to mobile networks, a consummate limitation is the availability of spectrum. To address this crunch, innovative technologies like Licensed Assisted Access (LAA), which aggregates an unlicensed band with licensed...
Last December, the entire mobile industry reached a significant milestone for 5G. The 5G NR Release-15 Non-Standalone (NSA) specifications were completed at the 3GPP RAN Plenary meeting held in Lisbon, Portugal. These are the first specifications that define the global 5G standard, covering spectrums...
South Korea’s government aims to award spectrum in both 3.5GHz and 28GHz bands
South Korean mobile operators have until next week in order to apply for 5G licenses in a spectrum auction to be carried out by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
The Korean government...
The study highlighted the new entity's stronger national position and spectrum advantage
The adoption of 5G technology in the United States will experience an acceleration if the merger of mobile carriers T-Mobile US and Sprint is approved, according to a recent study by research firm...
Follows 5G R&D loans totaling $370 million from Nordic Investment Bank, AB Svensk Exportkredit
The European Investment Bank (EIB), a nonprofit lender backed by the European Union, is loaning Swedish network infrastructure giant Ericsson nearly $300 million to fund ongoing research and development related to 5G....
Network slicing will be an important enabler of the ability to execute on 5G business models. But how networks are sliced will have a big impact on how services are rolled out.
If the full potential of 5G is to be realized, networks will have...
TIM, Huawei and Fastweb showcased a virtual reality solution for tourists and an augmented reality tool for ship engines maintenance
Italian telecom operators TIM and Fastweb, together with Chinese vendor Huawei, have announced the first field applications based on a 5G mobile network.
In March this...
The first 5G networks may be commercially ready by the end of this year. Mobile subscribers are within sniffing distance of lightning-fast 5G, a truly exciting prospect after years of build-up, speculation, discussion and…yes…some hype. 5G will open up use cases and business revenue...
After hosting 3GPP’s 5G phase-1 standards discussions in Busan, South Korea, last week, Samsung say the results of the Busan discussions will be announced in June at the general meeting to be held in the U.S. Samsung has been very involved in the 5G...
Australia’s telecom regulator ACMA aims to award spectrum in the 3.6 GHz band later this year
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has launched a consultation process to award 5G spectrum in the 3.6 GHz band.
The regulator had previously said that it aims to...
As with 5G and IoT, network slicing security offers a range of challenges that the ICT industry must prepare for
By now, we’ve heard plenty about how the complexity inherent in 5G and IoT networks will result in new attack vectors and additional opportunities for...
Trump said the Chinese vendor will need to pay a $1.3 billion fine, change its management and hire U.S compliance officers
U.S President Donald Trump said the U.S government will allow Chinese vendor ZTE to restart its business, after it pays another large fine and...
