Standalone 5G

  South Korean carrier LG Uplus completed tests of core technologies supporting voice service running on a standalone (SA) 5G network as the carrier expects to launch 5G based on …

Made in Japan–compatriot firms collaborate on standalone Japanese mobile network operator Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, and NEC Corporation announced that the two companies have reached an …

T-Mobile US exec: ‘SA 5G […] will accelerate 5G adoption and services’ T-Mobile US, assisted by Ericsson, has achieved a number of significant milestones for standalone architecture (SA) 5G. In …

Keysight Technologies said this week that Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten will be using Keysight’s test equipment in support of its Rakuten Mobile network launch. Rakuten Mobile, which just began offering …

  Chinese vendor ZTE announced it has secured the winning bid for the commercial 5G Standalone core network in China Mobile’s 2020 centralized procurement for new 5G SA core network …

DSS can ease the transition from non-standalone to standalone 5G For operators looking to quickly scale 5G, the DSS value proposition is crystal clear–instead of rolling trucks to re-farm spectrum …

Nokia exec: ‘You cannot do 5G properly without taking advantage of cloud computing technologies” To demonstrate just how varied Nokia’s approach to 5G is, the Finnish company’s Global Head of …

SK Telecom tested SA 5G transmission on a multi-vendor network SK Telecom expects to start offering standalone (SA) 5G services in Korea in the first half of 2020, the telco …

The VoNR test used a commercial chipset from MediaTek deployed on a 3.5GHz TDD band A successful Voice over New Radio (VoNR) interoperability test was conducted at the Ericsson Lab …

Nokia has won a tender with German rail company Deutsche Bahn to test and deliver standalone 5G for autonomous trains and rail operations. It will be the first time a …

Etisalat recently recognized as the fastest mobile network in MENA region Telecom services operator Etisalat already made headlines for completing the first end-to-end standalone 5G call in the Middle East …

Dynamic spectrum sharing allows operators to avoid re-farming Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) is a software-based functionality that allows a base station to simultaneously transmit LTE and 5G NR communications at …

Greetings from New York City (aerial shot of Manhattan pictured), Philadelphia and Davidson/ Charlotte.  This week’s Sunday Brief is kind of lengthy but worth careful reading as we have entered …

M1 details plans for 5G in Singapore While it covers a land area of a little more than 275 square miles, the island nation of Singapore is an economic powerhouse …

SK Telecom: “SA 5G will be the cornerstone of the true 5G era” Korean mobile operator SK Telecom (SKT) and network infrastructure vendor Ericsson have completed testing of an end-to-end …

Qualcomm: “The global rollout of 5G is exceeding expectations in both its speed and scale” With 5G just picking up momentum, operators are already looking to the second phase of …

Now that more than 50 service providers on every continent have rolled out 5G, where are we with 5G? and where we are going? are timely questions. When will we …

T-Mobile US says it has conducted the first successful North American testing of a Standalone 5G New Radio data session, and that the test was also a world-first test of …

Affirmed Networks is supporting several fledgling Standalone 5G trials with its new UnityCloud solution, which it described as bringing together 5G and webscale technology on a virtualized network platform that …