5G NEW HORIZONS WIRELESS SYMPOSIUM
Hosted by 5G Americas, for the first time the bi-annual Global 5G Event was held in the U.S. and co-located with 5G North America and the Big Communications Event in Austin, Texas, May 16-17, 2018. Many thanks to RCR Wireless News...
5G goes to the seventh hole of U.S. Open in a collaboration among FOX Sports, AT&T, Ericsson and Intel.
Two FOX Sports cameras will transmit 4K HDR images over a 5G network from the seventh hole at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club during the U.S. Open Championship...
As net neutrality appears in U.S. news again, a product in trials now could ease carriers’ financial issues in the fight. It could also help justify investing in the 5G stepping-stone mobile edge computing (MEC).
AUSTIN, Tex.--Mavenir estimates that U.S. mobile carriers can save $546...
AUSTIN, Tex.--Verizon has begun testing LTE in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz in its commercial network, with a deployment in Florida that utilized both indoor and outdoor systems.
No commercial user devices are yet available for CBRS (Verizon expects them to...
AUSTIN, Tx. — Sprint plans to leap over the competition by dropping 128-radio massive MIMO equipment on its tri-band towers for 2.5 GHz using a 4G/5G split in nine U.S. cities. This is how Sprint will get 5G up quickly and possibly beat other...
New 5G network will also allow Ooredoo to launch driverless cars as well as VR/AR services
Middle East telecom group Ooredoo announced that the company has launched what it claims to be first the world’s first live 5G network on the 3.5 GHz spectrum band.
Ooredoo...
AUSTIN, Tex.--Sprint expanded its list of markets for initial roll-outs of 5G network technology, saying that it will build out 5G in New York City; Phoenix, Ariz., and the Kansas City market -- the carrier's hometown.
Those three cities join Atlanta, Ga.; Chicago, Ill.; Dallas and...
Why Sprint's losses may be a multi-year tax gift for a new T-Mobile US
Sprint’s losses may make for an advantageous tax situation if or when the a combined Sprint-T-Mobile US company passes regulatory review. Bloomberg Tax reports that Sprint’s net operating loss as of March...
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President Donald Trump confirmed he has instructed the Department of Commerce to find a solution to an export ban which had forced ZTE to cease operations
President Trump said he's working with Chinese President Xi Jinping to find a solution to allow Chinese telecom equipment...
BT secured spectrum in the 3.4 GHz band and plans to bid in 700 MHz spectrum auction
U.K. telecom group BT says it will launch commercial 5G services before the end of next year, the company’s CEO Gavin Patterson said during a recent conference call...
As commercial 5G roll outs begin in volume during H2 2018 and into 2019, handicapping which operators or which countries will 'win' the race to 5G is ramping up
IMHO, this seems to be the wrong way to look at 5G on several levels.
First off,...
Fabless semiconductor startups are making interesting 5G silicon by converting big ideas into practice
5G is a complex problem: how to create 100x faster networks that can handle 1000x more traffic with low latency using fewer, and sometimes more problematic, resources. Spectrum is a finite...
Apple wants the Federal Communications Commission to make sure that plenty of the so-far unlicensed, very high spectrum bands from 95 GHz to 3000 GHz stay as they are: unlicensed. In a comment with the FCC on May 2, Apple asked the FCC to...
Under the new 5G deal, NEC will provide control units for NTT DoCoMo’s 5G base stations
Japanese technology firm NEC has reached an agreement with compatriot telecom operator NTT DoCoMo to provide control units for 5G base station equipment aiming for the commercialization of 5G...
Part of the 5G vision includes an on demand, bespoke data pipe that perfectly optimized to meet the needs of any service.
Network and spectrum resources will see maximum efficiency of usage in this model, but how do we get there?
The Chinese vendor said that the next two weeks will be key to find a solution to the conflict
Chinese vendor ZTE announced that it has ceased its major operating activities due to the export ban imposed by the US government.
“As a result of the...
The deployment of 5G networks will require the simultaneous availability of several new technologies for the first time. Those technologies—namely SDN, NFV, network slicing, distributed cloud and mobile edge computing—will need to work together, interoperating successfully in order to make 5G a reality. Currently,...
DARPA, industry fund research into high-gigahertz and terahertz spectrum for "6G" smart road.
The industry is just getting started with 5G, but New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering — home of NYU Wireless and the Brooklyn 5G Summit — is joining in the Defense...
The Finnish vendor and French telco SFR completed the 5G test at Nokia’s facilities in Paris
Nokia and French telecommunications company SFR confirmed they have successfully completed a 5G call, using the Third Generation Partnership Project-compliant 5G New Radio system over the air on the...
In the last 30-years, tastes and preferences have shifted toward 24/7 connectivity. As older generations have adopted the new technology, younger generations have grown with it, and vast industries have embedded it into their operations, electronic companies have expanded their service offerings, thereby placing...
The U.S government has recently banned local companies to export components to ZTE
Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE said it has filed a request to the U.S Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) for the suspension of a seven-year business ban.
In a...
Samsung earns distinction of designing first FCC approved end-to-end 5G beamforming basestations.
Last week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission gave Samsung approval of the final piece of its triad of equipment for 5G fixed wireless. It was the first time the FCC had approved a...
Nokia has acquired California-based IoT analytics firm SpaceTime Insight to expand its capabilities help it develop industrial IoT applications formarkets such as manufacturing, energy, logistics, transportation and utilities.
The move follows Nokia’s disposal of its digital healthcare business last week, just two years after acquiring...
