Standalone 5G New Radio specification tracking for June release
Operators in the U.S. including Verizon and AT&T are promising commercial services based on the non-standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification, adopted in December 2017 by 3GPP, later this year. These services will use the LTE...
The Chinese vendor is currently investing $500 million annually in 5G research
ZTE has released what it claims to be the world’s first end-to-end 5G network slicing solution. ZTE highlighted solution is the key to the 5G network as it allows the resource of a...
Ericsson reports 12% decline in Q4 sales; creates new 'emerging business' unit
Ericsson today reported a 12% decline in Q4 2017 sales and a 10% full-year sales decline in what company President and CEO Börje Ekholm described as a "challenging 2017." One of the key determinants,...
Comes on heels of AT&T and Huawei deal falling apart ahead of CES
Long-gestating concerns regarding the relationships between Huawei, ZTE and the Chinese government have long hindered the network infrastructure vendors' abilities to enter the U.S. market. This point was recently punctuated when AT&T...
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...
The new R&D center will be located in the city of Chongqing
Qualcomm has inked a partnership with Chinese tech firm Thunder Software Technology to establish a smart cars lab in mainland China.
According to international press reports, the new research and development facility will be...
Under the terms of the agreement, Alibaba will provide cloud computing technologies to help Macau transform into a smart city
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has signed a strategic partnership with the Government of Macau special administrative region (Macau), under which Alibaba will support Macau’s...
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...
A GSMA study forecast the nation will reach 428 million 5G subscribers by that time
China is expected to represent 39% of global 5G connections by 2025, according to a new study by GSMA Intelligence and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)....
The GSMA further expects APAC will have 670 million 5G connections by 2025
SHANGHAI- China and India will account for almost half of all new mobile subscribers expected to be added worldwide by the end of the decade, Mats Granryd, Director General of the GSMA,...
The vendor is currently testing 5G technology mostly in the city of Guangzhou
Chinese vendor ZTE has already started to work in the second phase of the Chinese government’s 5G program, ZTE’s managing director for 5G solutions, Alex Wang said during a press conference in...
Nokia CEO calls the deal "historic"
Although Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, which manufactures switching, transmission and other telecom network infrastructure, have been operating jointly since January 2016, the integration is targeted for an official close in July.
The new joint venture, called Nokia Shanghai Bell,...
Lab aimed at speeding development, implementation of SDN/NFV
Broadband Forum and the China-based SDN/NFV Industry Alliance plan to set up a joint lab in China for testing aimed at accelerating the development and implementation of software-defined networking and network function virtualization.
The two organizations will work together...
The Chinese government looks to increase private investments in the telecom sector to improve competition.
China Unicom said its main shareholder China United Network Communications was reviewing the firm’s ownership structure as part of a government plan to boost private investments in the telecommunications sector,...
Test company MTS Systems is looking into whether some of its employees in China violated the company's code of conduct in regards to associating with a competitor – and the rank of the employees involved is delaying the company's financial reporting.
The audit committee of...
The Chinese city is collaborating with local vendor ZTE in a number of smart city initiatives
The city of Yinchuan, in China, is known to be the most advanced city in the Asian nation in terms of the development and implementation of smart city initiatives.
In...
ZTE will help the Belgian operator upgrade to 3G, 4G and "4G+" technologies
Belgium’s largest cable TV and broadband provider Telenet signed a long-term strategic partnership with ZTE to modernize its nationwide network.
Telenet acquired mobile operator BASE from KPN for 1.325 billion euros ($1.47 billion)...
The new ZTE strategy takes into account trends including virtuality, openness, intelligence, cloudification and IoT
Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation has unveiled its M-ICT 2.0 strategy that will guide the company for the next five years. According to the company, the M "encompasses multiple dimensions, capturing...
Chinese market accounted for more than 58% of ZTE total revenue in the period
Chinese vendor ZTE recorded operating revenue of 47.76 billion yuan ($7.17 billion) in the first half of 2016, climbing 4.05% over the same period the previous year.
ZTE reported a domestic operating revenue...
The Chinese vendor sees APAC, Middle East, Africa and Latin America as key small cell markets
Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei expects its small cell product line to generate revenue of $2 billion in 2020, the company’s president of small cell product line, Yuefeng Zhou,...
Xiaomi and Apple see decline in Q2 smartphone shipments
Chinese vendor Huawei shipped a total of 19.1 million smartphones in the local market during the second quarter of the year, climbing 15.2% compared to the same quarter the previous year, according to a recent report...
Drone flys using 5G connection
Ericsson and China Mobile announced the successful trial for the first ever 5G-enabled drone prototype.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTdMypaopo
The trial was held in Wuxi in China’s Jiangsu province, where a drone was flown using the operator’s cellular network with 5G-enabled technologies and handovers across multiple sites...
China Mobile operating revenue for H1 2016 grew 7.1% year-over-year; now has 1.32M 4G base stations
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator, ended the first half of the year with 428.5 million subscribers in the LTE segment, according to the operator’s latest available figures.
The telco recorded...
The internet of things network currently covers 360 cities
China’s second largest mobile operator China Unicom ended the first half of 2016 with more than 20 million internet of things connection, after a net addition 10.5 million connections during the period, local press reported.
The Chinese operator...
