Vodacom Launches Commercial 5G service in Lesotho
Vodacom has announced the launch of standards-based, commercial 5G service in Lesotho using 3.5GHz spectrum to initially deliver Fixed-Wireless Access broadband services to two enterprise customers in Lesotho.
Telstra Starts 5G on the Gold Coast
Australian carrier Telstra has switched on 5G technology across selected areas of the Gold Coast. The operator plans to launch more than 200 5G-capable sites around the country by the…
Nokia, T-Mobile Sign $3.5 Billion 5G Network Agreement
Nokia and T-Mobile have inked a $3.5 billion agreement to accelerate the deployment of a nationwide 5G network. Nokia will provide T-Mobile with its complete end-to-end 5G technology, software, and…
AT&T Adds More cities to 5G Rollout Plan in 2018
AT&T plans to offer 5G services to customers in a dozen cities this year and is adding Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C. and Oklahoma City as the next three identified cities…
Nokia and dtac Deploy Commercial 4G TDD Network in Thailand
Nokia and dtac are deploying the commercial 4G TDD network in Thailand. Once completed, dtac TURBO users on the 2300 MHz spectrum operated in cooperation with TOT will get superior…
Elisa Launches Commercial 5G Network in Finland
Finnish operator Elisa has announced the launch of commercial 5G network and has started selling 5G subscriptions. The company has started 5G services in Tampere and Tallinn. The operator is…
3GPP Completes 5G System Specifications with SA Release
3GPP has announced the completion of the standalone (SA) Release 15, 5G specifications paving the way for 5G commercialization. Earlier in Dec. 2017, 3GPP has released the 5G NR specifications…
NTT DOCOMO and Huawei Test IAB with 39 GHz Band During 5G Trial
Huawei and NTT DOCOMO have announced the successful completion of Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) technology trial using the 39GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) band as part of on-going 5G tests.
Verizon Announces 5G Plan for Los Angeles, Tests LTE over CBRS Spectrum
Verizon plans to deploy 5G technology in Los Angeles starting in the fourth quarter of 2018. Los Angeles is the second city Verizon has identified as part of its 3-5…
Nokia and SFR Conduct a 5G New Radio Call using 3.5 GHz spectrum
Nokia and SFR have announced the successful completion of a 5G call, using the 3GPP-compliant 5G New Radio (NR) system over-the-air on the 3.5GHz frequency band. The test took place…
AT&T Preps for 5G, Doubles LTE Speed in More Than 100 New Markets
As part of 5G Evolution strategy, AT&T continues to evolve it’s LTE network and has announced 117 new markets which will have theoretical peak speeds of up to 400 megabits…
China Unicom and Huawei to Work Together on 5G Network Slicing
China Unicom and Huawei have signed an agreement on 5G network slicing to jointly carry out research, demonstration, and application of 5G network slicing. Network slicing is a key native…
AT&T Shares 5G Trial Progress, Reports Gigabit Speeds and 9ms Latency
AT&T has released some ongoing 5G trial details earlier this week. The company had started enterprise 5G trial in Austin, Texas more than a year ago to explore mmWave and…
EE, Telefónica, Vodafone Win Big in Ofcom’s 4G, 5G Spectrum Auction
UK’s telecom regulator Ofcom has released the outcome of the principal stage of its 4G, 5G spectrum auction. EE, Telefónica, Vodafone came out as big winners. Ofcom has been running…
3GPP Road to 5G Massive Internet of Things
In last few years, Internet of Things (IoT) standards have evolved considerably to provide seamless convergence of the digital and the physical world. IoT allows applications, machines connected to the…
Cisco and Partners to Start 5G Trial in Rural Areas of the UK
Cisco and it’s partners aim to create a UK government funded complete end-to-end rural 5G testbed system for trials of new wireless and networking technologies, spectrum sharing, new applications and…
Ofcom Begins 5G Spectrum Auction to Improve Mobile Broadband
Ofcom has begun 5G auction for mobile broadband and future 5G services, earlier this week. Five companies are taking part in the auction to bid for available spectrum in two…
AutoAir to Deliver a Small Cell 5G Testbed for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)
Airspan Networks has announced AutoAir, a 5G testbed for connected and autonomous vehicles as part UK’s £25M 5G digital strategy. The company is part of “AutoAir” consortium, a neutral host…
Huawei, NTT DOCOMO and TOBU RAILWAY Conduct 5G Field Trial In Japan
Huawei collaborated with NTT DOCOMO and TOBU RAILWAY in 5G system trial at TOKYO SKYTREE TOWN as part of 5G Field Trials initiated by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,…
Singtel and Ericsson Launch commercial NB-IoT Network in Singapore
Singtel in partnership with Ericsson has rolled out a nationwide commercial cellular Internet of Things (IoT) network in Singapore. This advanced mobile network technology will help accelerate the proliferation of…
Session and Service Continuity Evolution in 5G Networks
The explosive growth of data-driven service has been the main driver for 3GPP evolutions in recent years. 5G is expected to provide considerably more flexibility for customization compared to earlier…
Nokia, Intel and Verizon Demonstrate New Virtualized RAN Architectures
Nokia, Intel and Verizon are collaborating on new Cloud RAN architectures to provide the flexibility needed for the operator’s future services and requirements for 4G, 5G and IoT in the…
Huawei Announces 5G Chipset, Customer-premises Equipment
Huawei has launched its 5G customer-premises equipment (CPE) at Mobile World Congress. Huawei uses its self-developed Balong 5G01 chipset – a commercial chipset supporting the 3GPP standard for 5G, with theoretical…
SK Telecom to Showcase 5G Hologram AI, Self-driving car, 3D HD Map at MWC
Under the theme of “Perfect 5G,” SK Telecom plans to lay out the company’s 5G technologies and announce the soon-to-be arriving 5G era.
Huawei Starts 5G “Wireless to the Home” CPE Trial in Canada
Huawei has launched an end-to-end user trial for “Wireless to the Home” (WTTx) 5G service using a specially-designed 5G CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) unit. The trial is taking place in…
Qualcomm Demonstrates the Next Phase of 5G NR Technology Roadmap
Qualcomm has demonstrated next phase of the global 5G New Radio (NR) standard at an event in San Diego on February 7th. Following the recent completion of the first 5G…
Nokia and Qualcomm Successfully Complete 5G New Radio Interoperability Tests
Nokia and Qualcomm have announced the successful completion of interoperability testing in the 3.5Ghz and 28Ghz spectrum compliant with the global 3GPP 5G NR Release 15 standard. Tests utilized the…
Optus Plans Commercial 5G Rollout by Early 2019
Optus plans to roll out 5G technology in Australia by early 2019 with a fixed wireless product in key metro areas. This announcement follows the launch of a successful outdoor…
Nokia Announces ReefShark Chipsets, Future X Network Architecture for 5G
Nokia has launched its new ReefShark chipsets, which leverage in-house silicon expertise to reduce the size, cost and power consumption of operators’ networks and meet the massive compute and radio…
Nokia to Supply 5G Gears to NTT DOCOMO for Commercial 5G Service
Nokia has signed an agreement with Japan’s mobile operator NTT DOCOMO to supply 5G baseband equipments for aiming to deploy in a 5G mobile network planned to be in commercial…
