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.
Forthcoming events
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DISH is to turn to Equinix for its interconnection requirements as it builds out the first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network in the US.
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There will be 3.2 billion 5G connections in five years’ time, according to new market research.
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Three UK has called on the UK government to explore the "credible alternative" of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) to deliver gigabit connectivity in rural areas.
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Ericsson reported group organic sales growth of 8% year on year in its latest quarterly results.
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A new 5G wholesale network aims to cover 80% of the 32 million population of Malaysia by 2024.
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Orange has announced what it calls “the network of the future”, an experimental cloud-based network that it hopes will eventually provide “ambient connectivity”.
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Historic difficulties building cell sites in the Philippines affected the deployment of 5G across the country, according to Globe president and CEO Ernest Cu.
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Mobile technologies, including both 4G and 5G, are now a mainstream alternative to fibre broadband, said an industry lobby group today.
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Huawei has lost two court appeals within a few days that together set back its desire to return to supplying European and US telcos with its equipment.
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VEON has turned to Nokia as its Georgian mobile operator, Beeline, modernises its core network ahead of the country's 5G launch.
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There are already 311 private mobile networks in operation using 4G or 5G in 40 countries, according to research from equipment suppliers.
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The Linux Foundation is working with a leading mobile industry organisation to set priorities for 5G and move on to 6G.
