Wi-Fi 6, based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard, is designed for high-density user environments and features uplink and downlink OFDMA, 8×8 multi-user MIMO and 1024 QAM. With network equipment and device support moving along, Boingo today announced a commercial trial of the latest Wi-Fi...
AT&T on Tuesday said it is now offering standards-based mobile 5G service in seven additional cities--Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, bringing its presence up to portions of 19 markets. AT&T turned up its initial slate of a...
In a back-and-forth that saw carriers on two continents put the pedal to the metal to activate mobile 5G networks ahead of schedule, SK Telecom turned up with six initial users on April 3, beating Verizon in the U.S. to the punch, albeit in...
The carrier aims to launch commercial 5G services in nine markets this year
Sprint has opened a 5G experience center at its headquarters in Kansas City with the aim of showcasing and explaining the benefits of 5G technology, the carrier said in a statement.
"We are...
The supply chain links the whole Industry 4.0 movement. For higher-grade operational intelligence to be brought to bear across the wider industrial market, the supply chain needs to mesh-in with the various stages of production and delivery. It has to be integrated in order...
5G coming on April 11 on the Motorola z3 handset
Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband Network is set to light up parts of Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11. Beginning March 14 customers can pre-order Motorola's clip-on 5G mod for the moto z3 handset and the...
For 5G, HPE focused on enabling virtualization, edge services
While 5G certainly led most conversations during the recent Mobile World Congress, next in line were supporting technology sets like virtualization and edge computing. At a high level, to successfully build out 5G, operators will need...
The nationwide commercial launch, initially scheduled for this month will be delayed due to the lack of 5G terminals
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has decided to postpone the commercial launch of nationwide 5G commercial services by local carriers, which was expected to...
A funny thing happened last week at the MWC19 wireless show in Barcelona. We were expecting the focus, once again, to be on 5G, AI, IoT, the cloud and so much more in the way of hot, new technologies. Instead, the folding screen smartphone...
The first wave of 5G handsets are here
BARCELONA--Ahead of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, three major smartphone providers--Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei--all unveiled their first 5G capable smartphones.
At its Unpacked events in San Francisco and London, Samsung showed off its Galaxy S10 5G device. Samsung's Drew...
We are only days away from the biggest telecom show, Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019. The industry announcements are slowly trickling in and will soon turn into a flood! I am trying to do what I always do at this time of the year—pause,...
5Ge indicator rolling out with latest iOS update
Some AT&T customers with Android handsets have begun seeing a "5Ge" indicator when connected to the operator's LTE-Advanced network. Now, with its most recent operating system update, Apple users will begin seeing the same thing, according to...
The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system.
The launch “changes the IoT and edge computing landscape,” it said in a press note....
The two partners trialled the use of 5G technology to improve security on train platforms and deploy ultra-fast communications at schools
Samsung Electronics and Japanese telco KDDI have carried out two new 5G demonstrations, with the first involving the transmission of 4K ultra-high-definition surveillance video...
Cars are 'just one more personalized mobile device,' says Harman CEO
After announcing a U.S. joint venture for next-generation television broadcasting earlier this week, Korean mobile operator SK Telecom and Sinclair Broadcasting Group promptly followed up with a deal that brings in automotive software services...
The Indian government said its 5G spectrum auction will take place in the second half of next year
Chinese vendor Huawei confirmed that it has been invited by the Indian government to conduct 5G trials in the country, which are scheduled to start early next...
Carrier focused connected-car companies Tantalum and Springworks have combined in a deal worth around £14 million, bolstering their position in Europe and the US automotive and telecommunications markets.
The deal sees UK-based Tantalum, which counts Edmund Truell’s Disruptive Capital investment fund as its majority shareholder, purchase...
Samsung is supporting Verizon and AT&T millimeter wave 5G deployments
Millimeter wave frequencies are key to the multi-gigabit-per-second data speeds and ultra low latency expected of commercial 5G networks. And, after years of development and skepticism, initial 5G launches from U.S. operators Verizon and AT&T...
Nicki Palmer stresses first mover advantage Verizon has on 5G
Wailea, HAWAII--Verizon in October launched its 5G Home service, a fixed wireless residential broadband offering that uses the carrier's millimeter wave spectrum. And, in 2019, expect the launch of a standards-based mobile service using those...
AT&T highlights plans to offer Samsung 5G handsets, plural, in 2019
Wailea, MAUI--AT&T will launch mobile, standards-based 5G in a dozen markets by the end of 2018. That was the message from a trio of execs during a roundtable meeting with the press on the...
Early network launches are consumer-facing but 5G will drive value across the board
Wailea, MAUI—Qualcomm kicked off its third annual Snapdragon Tech Summit today in Maui with company President Cristiano Amon laying out how commercialization of 5G represents a transition much more significant than previous...
Verizon and Samsung are planning their first 5G smartphone release in the first half of 2019, signaling the carrier's plans for mobile 5G in addition to the fixed wireless access service that it is already rolling out.
Verizon said that its mobile 5G "will go...
The vision for 5G includes support for multi-Gbps throughput for a range of devices, both fixed and mobile. Early 5G deployments show the promise of millimeter wave in delivering enhanced broadband, but what's next?
In the U.S. the FCC is planning spectrum auctions for high-band...
The vision for 5G includes support for multi-Gbps throughput for a range of devices, both fixed and mobile. Early 5G deployments show the promise of millimeter wave in delivering enhanced broadband, but what's next?
In the U.S. the FCC is planning spectrum auctions for high-band...
