China Mobile selects Nuage Networks VSP to provide public, private and hybrid cloud services
China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) recently announced that it has chosen Nokia’s Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) as the software-defined networking (SDN) platform for its public and private enterprise cloud...
According to the GSMA, the number of 5G capex in China will support 428 million connections by 2025
Chinese telecommunications firms could invest around $280 billion on the deployment of 5G between 2020 and 2030, according to recent Chinese press reports. An additional forecast by research...
China Mobile plans to deploy more than 10,000 5G base stations by 2020
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile telephony operator, announced plans to build what it claims to be the world’s largest 5G trial network, according to local press. The operator said it will start...
Ericsson and China Mobile have signed a strategic framework agreement at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona to collaborate on new enterprise and industrial IoT (IIoT) systems and services.
The pair said they will build an ‘Industry IoT Cooperation Center’, as a crossover between China...
Nokia also announced a 5G field trial in Italy in partnership with Vodafone
BARCELONA- Nokia and China Mobile have inked a deal under which the two firms will jointly investigate how the Chinese operator can extend its service offerings for vertical markets using the capabilities...
Viavi Solutions said this week that it is collaborating with the China Mobile Research Institute on network slicing support for a 5G launch by the end of 2019, following "strategic meetings on 5G planning" in January between Madam Yang Zhiqiang, deputy general manager of CMRI,...
Study finds China Mobile accounted for 32% of total cellular IoT connections at the end of Q3 2017
Mobile operators in China had more than 46% of global IoT cellular connections at the end of the third quarter of 2017, according to a recent study...
China Mobile to bring Huawei CloudFabric to OpenStack project
Huawei announced it will use its CloudFabric solution to enable the development of a private cloud resource pool for China Mobile data centers in Hohhot and Harbin. The goal is to aid the digital transformation of...
Huawei and China Mobile submit BNG proposal to IETF
Huawei and the China Mobile Research Institute submitted a standards proposal at the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) 100th meeting for the first cloud-based Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) interface protocol requirements. According to the companies, the...
China Mobile plans to offer subsidies to IoT makers in order to foster the domestic IoT ecosystem
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, announced plans to invest approximately $300 million to subsidize IoT makers as part of a push to build...
The third phase of 5G R&D program focuses on pre-commercial product development
China has started the third phase of 5G technology research and development tests, ahead of schedule, as the Asian nation accelerates the process to commercialize next-generation telecom services. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information...
Services include 5G vehicle experience, UAV, submarine and 5G-based VR cloud gaming
Chinese vendor ZTE announced plans to develop six major 5G services with China Mobile. The vendor unveiled its 5G, internet of things (IoT), smart home, smart education, big video and terminal services at China...
Working with ZTE and China Mobile, Qualcomm marks 5G NR milestone with layer 1 data connection
As the 3GPP 5G NR standard coalesces ahead of a mid-2018 release, vendors and operators continue increasingly advanced testing scenarios to prove out next-generation network technologies. In the latest...
Factory owners who invest in automation can break even in less than six months and see a 210% return within the first year, according to Ericsson. The company backs up this marketing claim with real world experience from one of its own factories. A...
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...
We’ve recently completed a two-month project to investigate the market for asset tracking IoT devices …and we discovered two key facts that may surprise you:
Surprise #1: In asset tracking, more NB-IoT devices will ship this year than LoRa or Sigfox devices. China Telecom already...
In partnership with Qualcomm, ZTE and China Mobile hit 700 Mbps downlink in gigabit LTE testing
While 5G promises to ultimately deliver multi-gigabit-per-second mobile throughput speeds, carriers around the world are focused on providing gigabit-LTE speeds to users well before a 5G standard is defined...
The telco expects to launch a remote smart metering system in partnership with Chinese companies
Korean telecom operator SK Telecom is planning to enter the Chinese internet of things (IoT) market with the launch of a remote smart metering system for a gas utility, Korean...
Report: 5G service provider revenues will hit $269 billion by 2025
In a new report from Juniper Research, focused on the outlook for 5G development and commercialization, suggests operators in the Asia Pacific region are ahead of the curve when it comes to developing next-generation...
The Taiwanese firm also announced NB-IoT cooperation with China Mobile
Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek has recently unveiled its first narrow band internet of things (NB-IoT) system-on-chip (SoC).
MediaTek’s new low-power MT2625 SoC supports a full frequency band (from 450MHz to 2.1GHz) of 3GPP R13 (NB1) and R14...
China has reportedly told its three nationwide carriers that within seven months they will need to suspend customers' access to major websites hosted outside the country. Google, Facebook and U.S. news sites are currently available to Chinese citizens who access them via virtual private...
Huawei said the 5G demo lays the foundation for future development of connected vehicles
China Mobile, the world’s largest telecommunications company, together with Chinese companies SAIC Motor and Huawei Technologies have completed a demonstration of what it claims to be the world's first 5G remote...
China Mobile expects to carry out 5G interoperability tests in 20 cities across China next year
SHANGHAI--China Mobile, the largest mobile operator in the world by subscriber numbers, expects to end this year with 620 million subs in the LTE segment, company Chairman Shang Bing...
The new partnership will allow Chinese customers to have access to eSIM technology
Global connectivity solutions provider Cubic Telecom, China Mobile and eSIM solution provider Valid have announced a partnership to deliver LTE connectivity enablement to global internet of things (IoT) customers in China.
Under this...
