5G infrastructure
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Emitel, the Polish tower operator owned by Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited, has secured a contract with Orange Polska to support the expansion of its mobile network coverage in the country. -
AT&T’s FirstNet 5G network for US first responders now boasts more than seven million public safety connections after it added 20,000 square miles of terrestrial coverage in the last year.
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Software Radio Systems (SRS) has successfully deployed its RAN Enterprise 5G solution at Altice Labs' innovation hub in Aveiro, Portugal, as part of a European Commission-funded project.
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Vodafone Idea has picked Nokia to upgrade and expand its optical metro and circle networks across India.
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MedUX, a leader in international fixed and mobile network testing and benchmarking, has released its 2025 benchmark report on 5G performance across 15 European cities.
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Verizon has achieved a new 5G speed milestone, reaching 5.5 Gbps download speeds — the equivalent of downloading 266 Taylor Swift albums a minute — during tests with Samsung Electronics and MediaTek.
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Officials in the UK are exploring ways to rebuild the country’s capability in making telecoms equipment, so local companies can win a share of the current 5G investment programme if Huawei is blocked.
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China's first 5G medical edge cloud platform – a new-generation 5G information communication infrastructure for medical industry customers – has launched following a collaborative project between ZTE and China Mobile.
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Belgian operator Proximus has launched the first 5G network in the country – but it will be available mainly in Dutch-speaking areas.
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US-based Cradlepoint has announced two new additions to its senior leadership team, alongside a new market strategy for Europe.
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Mobile service providers are making “substantial progress” in their 5G roll outs despite the additional challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Telia Company and Ericsson have switched on a 100% renewable-powered 5G network in Stockholm, ahead of the commercial launch of 5G services.
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In a rallying speech delivered via video link yesterday, Ericsson president and CEO Börje Ekholm called on the industry to rethink the future role of networks, saying “more than ever, connectivity is key.”
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Vodafone has become the first operator to test the Access Gateway Function (AGF) from Metaswitch, marking the industry’s first implementation of the 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence (WWC) AGF standard.
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BT has decided to source its 5G core network from Ericsson, the companies announced today.
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Two Japanese telcos, KDDI and SoftBank, have formally set up a joint venture to build out 5G networks in rural parts of the country.
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This year will be even more difficult for Huawei than 2019, as the US embargo on the company tightens its grip.
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Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile is to produce its cloud-based 5G system with NEC after a joint development project.
