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...
China and Japan exchange more than $200 billion worth of goods each year, and more and more of those products are shipping with embedded SIM cards to enable connections to cellular networks. Now China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo have integrated their embedded SIM platforms...
5G also projected to have a major impact on the Chinese economy
A new report from China's Acadaemy of Information and Communications Technology, as detailed by Chinese media outlets including the South China Morning Post, predicts China's three carriers--China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom--will...
The vendor said that it expects 5G compatible handsets to be commercially available in two years
TOKYO--Chinese vendor ZTE expects to see revenues from the sale of standardized 5G equipment in 2019, the company’s managing director for 5G solutions, Alex Wang, told reporters during a...
The trial will use China Mobile’s 2G/4G multimode network and Mobike’s smart lock, which is supported by the Qualcomm Technologies’ modem for IoT apps
Qualcomm’s subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies announced plans to start the first eMTC/NB-IoT/GSM (LTE Cat M1/NB1 and E-GPRS) multimode field trials in China.
The...
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Trails are also being carried out in Hangzhou, Shanghai and Fuzhou provinces
Chinese vendors ZTE and China Mobile have announced they have completed the operators' first narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) field test in Guangzhou.
The vendors said that the trial involved the validation of core network, service,...
NFV continues to gain development and deployment momentum across the telecom space, with Oracle expecting big moves in 2017.
On this week’s “NFV/SDN Reality Check” we speak with Chris King, senior director of CSP products at Oracle, to discuss news...
SVP of AT&T Labs Chris Rice named chair of ONAP Project just weeks after its formation out of The Linux Foundation; releases code in bid for collaboration.
Mere weeks after its formation, the Open Network Automation Platform Project released its code and documentation...
The CORD Project, which is focused on using NFV, SDN and cloud technology to re-invent data centers, adds carriers Sprint and Deutsche Telekom to its ranks.
The CORD Project said it attracted new members in Sprint, Deutsche Telekom, Ixia and Xpose as...
SAN FRANCISCO – In a keynote presentation at the IEEE's Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Chih Lin-I, chief scientist of the China Mobile Research Institute, highlighted the need for the telecom industry to embrace the agility associated with software-centric operations.
Chih-Lin I showed slides quantifying...
China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom initially began launching LTE services in 2013.
China’s three largest mobile telecommunication operators count more than 800 million LTE subscribers, according to the latest available figures from carriers China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. ...
The Linux Foundation discusses its ONAP Project, which is focused on consolidating efforts around open source orchestration and management.
On this week’s “NFV/SDN Reality Check,” we speak with The Linux Foundation to discuss its recent move to consolidate its open source enhanced control,...
Partners look to release NFV requirements, an assessment framework and best practices by the end of 2017.
Huawei, China Mobile and the GSMA have agreed to work together on a joint project to build an assessment framework for achieving carrier-grade network functions virtualization...
Connected factory trial is currently focused on production line monitoring and materials tracking use cases.
China Mobile and Ericsson said they are carrying out a connected factory trial at the plant of Ericsson’s subsidiary Ericsson Panda Communication, in the city of Nanjing,...
China Mobile states plans to begin large-scale precommercial 5G technology trials in 2019.
BARCELONA, Spain – China Mobile said it will launch a new phase of its “5G” field trials this year, according to Liu Guangyi, CTO of wireless development at China...
Stating plans to harmonize under a single framework targeting telecom SDN and NFV plans, The Linux Foundation moves to consolidate open source efforts.
The Linux Foundation is looking to merge open source orchestration and management efforts, and perhaps reduce acronym clutter, by...
Companies state 5G trials to include interoperability testing and to be conducted in the second half of 2017.
Qualcomm, ZTE and China Mobile announced plans to conduct interoperability testing and over-the-air field trials based on the “5G New Radio” specifications being...
Huawei is using the upgrade to pave the way for the commercial launch of 5G services
China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) and Chinese vendor Huawei have successfully migrated the telco’s services to a NFV-based cloud core network for commercial use.
China Mobile Hong Kong claims to...
Japanese firm EneCom will distribute Nokia G.fast fixed ultra-broadband access technology.
Nokia signed a distributor agreement with Energia Communications to sell its G.fast fixed broadband access technology in Japan.
G.fast is designed to deliver fiber-like speeds over copper cable over short...
The Asia-Pacific region is currently very active in terms of "5G" trials as vendors and mobile operators are carrying out tests with the aim to launch commercial networks before 2020.
South Korean operators are among the most active players in the field, with the country's...
The telematics solution will be offered through the Spanish telco’s Smart M2M platform
Spanish telecommunications operator Telefonica and Hertz Mexico have signed a multi-year agreement to roll-out a telematics solution to the whole vehicle fleet that will enable the rental car company to improve their...
NFV solution to initially be deployed at China Mobile’s Southern Base and Northern Base data centers.
China Mobile selected a network functions virtualization solution from Brocade to support the delivery of cloud-based services. Brocade’s Virtual Traffic Manager will be deployed within China...
5G test reached transmission speeds of more than 22 Gbps.
Ericsson said it completed the first "5G" technology trial in Turkey, achieving transmission speeds in excess of 22 gigabits per second. The vendor said the trial, which took place at the Istanbul University Süleyman Demirel...
