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…
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…
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…
Turkcell and Huawei Complete LTE Spectrum Coordination on a Commercial Network
Turkcell and Huawei have completed LTE Spectrum coordination on Antalya’s commercial LTE network with Huawei’s latest eRAN13.1 solution. This solution enables coordination between high and low LTE bands to realize…
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…
Continental, Ericsson, Nissan, NTT DOCOMO, OKI and Qualcomm to Host Cellular C-V2X Trials in Japan
Continental, Ericsson, Nissan, NTT DOCOMO, OKI, and Qualcomm plan to carry out their first Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) trials in Japan. The objective is to validate and demonstrate the benefits of…
T-Mobile Launches Narrowband IoT Plans
T-Mobile USA has launched narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) plan for $6 per year. T-Mobile launched NB-IoT last October and plans to launch the technology nationwide by mid-year. T-Mobile also announced that…
Huawei, China Mobile Test 5G Core Network Performance
Huawei has announced the completion of latest 3GPP specifications (Release 15) based 5G core network technical verification test at China Mobile’s Research Institute. This test covered service-based architecture (SBA), network…
Nokia, T-Mobile and Intel Test Commercial Hardware Based 5G 28 GHz Cell On Air
Nokia, T-Mobile and Intel have brought up a 28 GHz outdoor 5G commercial radio system on air in the downtown corridor of Bellevue in Washington state.
AT&T to Launch Mobile 5G in Late 2018
AT&T plans to introduce mobile 5G service in a dozen markets by late 2018. In addition, the company expects to trial 5G technology with businesses of all sizes across industries…
SK Telecom Deploys 5G Infrastructure in K-City
SK Telecom along with Korea Transportation Safety Authority (KOTSA) has successfully deployed 5G infrastructure in K-City, the country’s pilot city for self-driving. K-City, located in Hwaseong, southwest of Seoul, has…
Verizon, Qualcomm, and Ericsson Trial Latest Massive MIMO Advancements
Verizon, Ericsson and Qualcomm have completed the successful FDD Massive MIMO trial with a fully compatible customer device. This achievement builds on the momentum from the deployment of FDD (Frequency…
BSNL Driving Digital India with Wi-Fi Strategy
India is known to have the second largest population in the world at 1.3 billion but it also has the second largest number of mobile subscriptions in the world.
3GPP Achieves 5G Phase 1 System Architecture Milestone
3GPP has completed 3GPP 5G architecture stage 2 level specifications. With this Release 15 milestone, 3GPP has provided the set of features and functionality needed for deploying a commercially operational…
One Third of Global Mobile Subscriptions are on LTE, to Overtake GSM Next Year
LTE subscriptions now make one-third of global mobile subscriptions. A recent GSA report puts the total subscriptions to 2.54 billion, 32.4% of all mobile subscriptions globally. It took 3 years…
Huawei and NTT DOCOMO Complete 5G mmWave Long-Distance Mobility Trial over 39 GHz Band
Huawei and NTT DOCOMO have completed a successful joint field trial for 5G mobile communications over a long distance with 39 GHz Millimeter Wave (mmWave) band in Yokohama, Japan. Long-distance…
SK Telecom’s Fronthaul Technology for 5G Adopted as Korean National Standard
SK Telecom’s newly developed fronthaul of 5G network technology was adopted as a Korean national standard by the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA), the operator has announced today.
Deutsche Telekom Picks Ericsson for Network Modernization
Deutsche Telekom has selected Ericsson as a supplier for its current and future network in one out of two market areas of Deutsche Telekom in Germany. The operator is modernizing…
Sunrise and Huawei Conduct 5G Tests in Switzerland
Sunrise and Huawei demonstrated 5G performance with download data throughput of 3.28 Gbit/s in the 3.5 GHz (band 42) frequency band at the 5G lab at Sunrise headquarters in Zurich…
Verizon Awards Commercial 5G Network Contract to Ericsson
Verizon has selected Ericsson to provide networking equipment for their commercial 5G launch. Verizon will deploy the pre-standard 5G commercial radio network and the 5G Core network in select markets…
Singtel, Ericsson Test Gigabit speeds with LAA
Singtel and Ericsson have achieved a peak speed of 1.1 Gbps in a joint trial of a new configuration of Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology. Conducted in a Singtel laboratory,…
T-Mobile and Ericsson Demonstrate 1.1 Gbps Speeds Using 12-Layer LAA
T-Mobile and Ericsson have achieved speeds of 1.1 Gbps using 12-layer Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology, companies announced today. This LAA technology builds upon operator’s deployments of 4×4 MIMO and 256 QAM…
