Beyond the U.S., mmWave 5G auctions coming up in key mobile markets
While U.S. operators AT&T and Verizon went to market with millimeter wave-based mobile and fixed 5G services, most other operators used mid-band spectrum in the 3.4 GHz to 3.6 GHz range, providing an...
The Chinese telecom giant Huawei unveiled its latest flagship smartphone lineup, the P40 today. Its usual pompous, glitter-filled launch event was sadly replaced by a somber online event because of the COVID19 situation. As one would expect, the P40 lineup, powered by Kirin 990...
Heidi Hemmer wasn't surprised that Verizon's millimeter-wave-based 5G network performed well in recent 5G benchmark testing by RootMetrics across five U.S. cities. For the carrier's vice president of network engineering, the testing was instead an affirmation of Verizon's strategy to base its first 5G...
Beneath the surface, 5G is driving demand
The Microwave Transmission market, comprised of point-to-point systems, declined 5 percent in 2019, bringing the market revenue down to $3.2 billion—far smaller than the good days of rampant 4G build outs and upgrades that drove this market’s revenue...
Lewisville, Texas, factory producing "Street Macro" 5G base stations
In September last year, Swedish network infrastructure vendor Ericsson announced it would invest $100 million in a U.S. smart factory to help facilitate rapid network deployments for domestic customers. Today the company announced it has produced...
Qualcomm and Ericsson hit 4.3 Gbps using millimeter wave 5G equipment
Verizon has been very bullish on 5G millimeter wave, beginning to roll out a fixed wireless service in 2018, and expanding to mobility finishing 2019 with high-band spectrum deployed in 31 markets. During an...
U.S. regulators have been very bullish around the role of millimeter wave frequencies for 5G service, opening vast swaths of high-band spectrum for auction. Millimeter wave was used for Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile 5G launches, although the first two operators are tapping dynamic spectrum...
Not including Snapdragon Ride, Qualcomm automotive design win pipeline tops $7 billion
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf, discussing Q1 2020 earnings on a Feb. 5 conference call, touted the company’s near- and long-term view of 5G adoption in not just handsets but also in IoT, automotive,...
A new report from CTIA says that the United States is a global outlier in its approach to and amount of available mid-band spectrum for 5G, although it is a leader in high-band and low-band spectrum availability.
Meredith Attwell Baker, CTIA president and CEO, said...
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Hindsight and 2020 vision
As expected, 5G stole the...
As the ongoing millimeter wave auction moves closer to conclusion, the Federal Communications Commission is bumping up the number of daily bidding rounds from five to seven, and shortening them from 30 minutes to 20 minutes.
The additional rounds of bidding start today. This is...
As of round 61 of Auction 103, only 11 licenses have more demand than supply
The Federal Communications Commission auction of millimeter wave licenses has now raised more than $7.4 billion in bids, with bidding in the auction's clock phase drawing closer to conclusion as...
The ongoing millimeter wave spectrum auction is moving to five rounds of bidding each day, up from three, as bidding slows to a trickle with $6.7 billion raised after 38 rounds.
Today is the first day of five bidding rounds, and the bidding total raised...
Five to seven year goal of bringing 5G Home fixed wireless offering to 30 million customers
Verizon ended 2019 with it's millimeter wave-based mobile 5G network available in parts of 31 markets, and also grew the footprint of its 5G Home residential broadband offering from...
The Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing Spectrum Frontiers auction of millimeter wave spectrum has raised more than $5.3 billion in bids, after 24 rounds.
More than 14,100 licenses are up for grabs across three mmWave bands in Auction 103: the upper 37 GHz band (37.6-38.6 GHz), the 39...
Bidding in the Federal Communications Commission's latest auction of millimeter wave spectrum has reached more than $1.4 billion, after three days and eight rounds.
Three more rounds will be held today, with three rounds per day to be held next week as well.
The latest Spectrum...
Verizon CFO says 5G Home fixed wireless service "resonates with customers"
Last year Verizon went to market with its millimeter wave-based 5G in four markets serving up fixed wireless residential broadband. That first cut was based on a proprietary standard rather than the global 5G...
Dependent on location, network, subscription and the handset used, the roll-out of 5G will herald notable changes in mobile network performance. For subscribers, 5G offers the much talked-about ‘enhanced mobile broadband’ . With its enhanced capabilities, 5G supports many more applications such as 8K...
SOLiD intros mmWave 5G repeater, testing O-RAN compliant RAN platform
Earlier this year SOLiD Technologies joined the O-RAN Alliance in an effort to help shape the open interfaces needed to shift network economics and foster innovation in the RAN vendor space. Last week during Mobile...
Joining 13 NFL stadiums, basketball and hockey venues getting mmWave 5G
On Friday Verizon announced it has activated its millimeter wave-based 5G network in three sports venues, has a fourth venue "coming soon," and will launch at six additional facilities by the end of the...
"Hallelujah!" says Commissioner Michael O'Rielly
The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously approved a proposal for rules governing the auction of Priority Access Licenses in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service, with a proposed auction start date of June 25, 2020.
The CBRS band "holds the...
700 MHz, 3.6 GHz and 26 GHz are "pioneer" 5G bands in European Union
While European regulators have articulated plans to auction millimeter wave licenses, all of the current and planned network activations are based on mid-band frequencies centered in the 3.4 GHz to 3.8...
"5G is here now," Inseego CMO says
Ashish Sharma, CMO and EVP of IoT & Mobile Solutions at Inseego, shares his perspective on 5G development in Europe, including opportunities around consumer mobility, fixed wireless access and private networks for industrial enablement.
Q: Can you give me...
Qualcomm working with local operators and government on millimeter wave 5G trial network
Millimeter wave spectrum has been front-and-center in U.S. 5G deployments with AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon all going to market using high-band frequencies, while Sprint went to market using its 2.5 GHz...
