The goal of Ericsson, Bombardier tests are automated train operations
Swedish vendor Ericsson and Bombardier completed trials of LTE networks for railway solutions at simulated speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour.
A total of 11 tests were conducted in a laboratory to determine the...
NTT DoCoMo ended June with 143,500 LTE base stations across Japan
Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo has expanded its "Premium 4G" service to 1,203 cities across Japan, according to a company presentation. The service, launched in March 2015, offers download speeds of up to 370 megabits per second using LTE-Advanced...
IBM operates a similar innovation facility in Abu Dhabi
IBM has opened a new industry and innovation center in the United Arab Emirates to offer clients access to advanced cloud and cognitive technologies.
The new facility located in Dubai is the second IBM innovation center in...
SK Telecom reports $3.8B in revenue for Q2
Korean operator SK Telecom said it ended the second quarter of 2016 with 20 million subscribers in the 4G LTE segment, surging 11.7% compared to the same quarter the previous year.
SK Telecom also said that 21.3 million...
The telco ended Q1 with almost 4 million subscribers in the Arab country
Kuwait-based telecom operator Zain launched voice-over-LTE technology in the Kuwaiti market through its LTE-Advanced network, the telco said in a statement.
Reps for the telco said VoLTE is currently fully compatible with the...
NTT DoCoMo also confirmed plans to commercially launch 5G networks in 2020
SHANGHAI – Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo expects its Premium 4G LTE service to reach speeds of up to 500 megabits per second, the company’s new president and CEO Kazuhiro Yoshizawa said during a...
Huawei and ZTE provided vendor support for LTE-Advanced Pro trials
Sri Lankan mobile operators Dialog Axiata and Mobitel recently carried out trials of LTE-Advanced Pro technology. The test was carried out on its LTE network in partnership with Chinese vendor Huawei, Dialog Axiata said.
“The demonstration...
‘Highly flexible RAN design’ will be necessary for 5G
AUSTIN, Texas — Dave Wolter, assistant VP of radio technology at AT&T Labs, highlighted the widely varying requirements needed to realize the full promise of "5G" mobile networks in a presentation Monday, asking: “Can it do...
Rohde & Schwarz says it has achieved the first validation of RF conformance for LTE-Advanced Pro with 64 quadrature amplitude modulation and carrier aggregation in the uplink, claimed to enable maximum uplink data speeds of 150 megabits per second. The validation came out of...
Goal is to commercially launch LTE-Advanced Pro in 2017
Swiss mobile telephony operator Swisscom has successfully tested LTE-Advanced Pro, reaching a peak connection speed of 1 Gbps. The trial was carried out on its live mobile broadband network in partnership with Swedish vendor Ericsson.
The European operator said...
Network rollout to be completed in the first half of the year
Finnish vendor Nokia and Swedish mobile telephony operator 3 Sweden announced plans to deploy TD-LTE-Advanced mobile broadband technology to improve the operator’s quality of service in the European country.
3 Sweden will use...
The deal includes 2G/3G deployments across portions of Thailand
Ericsson signed a three-year contract with Thai telecommunications services provider True Move to deploy LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation and 2G/3G networks across portions of Thailand The telco serves approximately 18 million mobile subscribers in Thailand.
Under the terms...
RCR Wireless News editors recap the highlights of Mobile World Congress 2016
Mobile World Congress 2016 was a jam-packed show with a huge emphasis on the future of "5G" and the "Internet of Things." 5G is moving into the trial phase, which will help inform...
Promise of 5G will become apparent in LTE evolution
In a wide-ranging conversation with RCR Wireless News during Mobile World Congress 2016, AT&T SVP of wireless network architecture and design Tom Keathley looked at the long-term vision of "5G," as well as the incremental advancements...
Arab telco has finalized LTE-A Pro tests in Kuwait
BARCELONA, Spain – Kuwait-based telecom operator Zain expects to carry out tests of LTE-Advanced Pro technology, also referred to as "4.5G" technology by some vendors, across its regional footprint, the group’s CEO Scott Gegenheimer told RCR...
Qualcomm to remain the dominant supplier of LTE baseband chips
As mobile operators increasingly accommodate new applications and use cases – 360-degree video, virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive graphics, computer vision, machine learning,and natural language processing – as well as increase the capabilities of cloud...
'Pre-5G' initiatives include massive MIMO, UDN and MUSA
BARCELONA, Spain – Chinese vendor ZTE said it expects to market "pre-5G" technology in certain parts of Asia and Europe this year.
“This year, 'pre-5G' is the key technology,” said Zhang Jianguo, GM of ZTE's wireless product operation division, just...
LTE-A Pro technology will ‘explode’ this year, Huawei says
Chinese ICT solutions provider Huawei expects to reach 60 commercial networks with its LTE-Advanced Pro-based "4.5G" technology by the end of this year, according to the company's president of wireless network marketing operation Qiu Heng.
At of...
Test company Rohde & Schwarz has moved to consolidate its cybersecurity focus in a new subsidiary company, Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity GmbH, with the aim of becoming a dominant force in the network security market in Europe.
R&S made several network security-related acquisitions in the...
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project accepted specifications developed by industry players for low-power wide area network development, expected to be a major piece of the "Internet of Things" in terms of devices that send small amounts of data, require a long battery life and may...
As RCR Wireless News prepared for its 2016 Analyst Predictions Day, the editorial team met with analyst Roger Entner of Recon Analytics and Chris Pearson of 4G Americas to hear their forecasts for the year ahead. The conversation was part of RCR Wireless News'...
LTENA 2015: LTE still reaching for global ubiquity
DALLAS – For as much as the wireless industry is abuzz over "5G," a few things stood out in presentations at LTE North America: LTE is still a relatively young technology with a long life ahead of it, and...
