Nokia's transformation under Chairman Risto Siilasmaa is one of the most significant corporate turnarounds in recent years
I first met Risto Siilasmaa five years ago for lunch in Helsinki, Finland. Â He had recently stepped into the role of chairman for Nokia, which at the time...
Nokia's transformation under Chairman Risto Siilasmaa is one of the most significant corporate turnarounds in recent history
Nokia’s transformation from industry laggard to technology leader over the past 5 years is one of the most significant corporate turnarounds in recent history.  While traveling across Europe...
Dense small cell networks seen as key to 5G
While small cell technologies are being used to add capacity and coverage for LTE networks, scalable deployments have proven problematic given varying regulatory regimes and access to power and backhaul. To support larger connectivity projects, carriers...
Engineering challenges abound in 5G testing and trials
AT&T has been testing a variety of technologies as it moves toward gigabit Long Term Evolution and 5G. In June, the carrier announced the results of License Assisted Access testing that it conducted in San Francisco as...
Gigabit LTE trial completed in Antigua and Barbuda
Network infrastructure vendor Ericsson and operator C&W Communications (C&W) announced the completion of a gigabit LTE trial on the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda. The two companies also said they have started testing a pre-5G network under...
5G’s ecosystem of high-performance applications will operate over the ultimate consolidation of voice, data and video. For many RF engineers, this is uncharted territory: mastering millimeter-wave, characterizing air interfaces, measuring antenna efficiency, and solving elusive interference problems. To help you explore new ground, Keysight...
Nokia-led 5G-MoNArch focused on 5G for vertical markets including automotive, healthcare and media
Network slicing, seen as a key 5G enabler, partitions a single physical layer into multiple virtual networks. With this technology, operators can essentially provide optimal support for any type of application on...
Stock transfer to Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba, among others, will raise money for 5G development
China Unicom has announced plans to issue and transfer stock to Chinese private investors and its employees in a move that will raise about CNY 77.9 billion (US$11.67 billion). The...
New mobile bearer solution to allow operators to build end-to-end 5G networks including any type of backhaul connection
Huawei said its new X-Haul product supports flexible backhaul access to the core network through IP, microwave and optical transport network (OTN) technologies, regardless of the requirements...
Researchers at CATT and NYU Wireless have built the world’s first wireless emulator suitable for 5G systems that feature massive bandwidths and hundreds of antenna elements. In this unique patented design, the solution emulates not only the wireless channel, but also the beamformers (or...
Continuing efforts to gain a better understanding of RF transmission in high-band frequencies, both Verizon and AT&T--who are already testing a fixed wireless access application of 5G using 28 GHz spectrum--have asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to keep that R&D work going.
AT&T...
InterDigital Flips platform uses NFV and SDN 'fabric'
InterDigital, a mobile technology research and development company, announced its mobile edge computing (MEC) 5G network architecture trial in Bristol, U.K., was a success.
Bistol Is Open, a collaborate smart city project run by the University of Bristol...
The telco expects to carry out 5G field trials in China over the next two years
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile telephony operator in terms of subscribers, will wait until 5G technologies and business models are more mature to determine the capex of its...
U.K. telco BT and French operator Orange are also part of the 5G PaaS initiative
Nokia Bell Labs announced it will lead a consortium of industry vendors, operators, IT companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and European academic institutions to develop the next generation platform-as-a-Service (NGPaaS)...
How to ascertain leadership in 3GPP; quality vs. quantity of technical contributions
Established in 1998, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) united seven organizational partners into one group that works on telecommunications technological specifications that broadly cover radio access networks, services and systems, and core...
The new 5G solution is being tested in Seoul, SK Telecom says
Korean  operator SK Telecom has developed a 5G repeater and applied it to its 5G trial network deployed near Gangnam Station in Seoul, Korea. Reps for the telco said that the 5G repeater is...
T-Mobile US emphasizes IoT as key 5G use case
T-Mobile US made a splash earlier this year announcing it would deploy a mobile "nationwide 5G" network--as opposed to 5G fixed wireless access, which Verizon and AT&T are focused on--following its $8 billion acquisition of nationwide...
In a discussion with Oppenheimer Managing Director Tim Horan during the investment firm's ongoing Technology, Internet and Communications Conference, Verizon EVP and Group President of Verizon Wireless Ronan Dunne discussed the carrier's approach to an evolution from LTE to 5G.
Dunne said 5G services will...
John Stephens talks move from hardware to software, FirstNet, spectrum and 5G
During the ongoing Oppenheimer Technology, Internet and Communications Conference, John Stephens, AT&T senior executive vice president and chief financial officer, explained how replacing hardware with software is a key part of the carrier's...
Qualcomm has been promoting 5G New Radio as a way to accelerate the deployment of next-generation technologies, and now the chipmaker is at work on 5G NR small cells. Qualcomm Technologies will collaborate with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a non-profit organization engaged...
5G is the highly anticipated technology that is expected to change the way we live by connecting everything around us. 5G falls into three main categories. 1) enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), 2) ultra-reliable and low latency communications (uRLLC) for critical machine communications, and; 3)...
Between acquisitions and supplier deals, Verizon has spent more than $3 billion on fiber--this year
It's difficult to state just how valuable fiber optic assets are to the telecommunications network as the evolution from LTE to 5G continues. But, let's give it a shot using...
5G wireless technology has many hopes and promises associated with it, including delivering up to 10 Gbps of throughput per user with much denser networks and super-low latency speeds.Â
Although not expected to be standardized until 2018, 5G is clearly transitioning from an industry vision to a tangible,...
The most effective wireless researchers have something in common: they understand the complexity of looking at standards, what their competitors are doing, and how-to work towards 5G development for their organization.
Our complete guide will provide an overview and update covering: PHY and MAC layers...
