5G infrastructure
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Vietnamese carrier Viettel has launched an Open RAN 5G Network, leveraging hardware from Qualcomm to provide enhanced connectivity across the country. -
Ofcom has revealed the UK’s next spectrum auction will take place in 2025, offering mmWave band licences in the 25.1-27.5 GHz and 40.5-43.5 GHz bands.
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Ericsson has completed an overhaul of African operator MTN’s network in Kigali, Rwanda to prepare the East African country for 5G.
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Nokia has secured a contract extension with Taiwan Mobile to boost the performance and capacity of its 5G network and upgrade its 4G/LTE network.
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Some 39% of UK companies are prepared to invest in 5G Standalone (5G SA), new data has revealed.
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Using latest generation mobile networks to allow operators to connect all passengers on the future line and platforms by 2025.
Forthcoming events
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Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has promised digital transformation for all 27 EU member states in 10 years.
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Students at the University of Surrey in south-east England can download data at 1Gbps using a campus-wide network.
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The Facebook-backed project that is supporting open-source mobile technology has started a new unit to promote private 5G networks.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is the latest vendor to throw its weight behind open, cloud-native 5G networks, with a stack of software that it says will speed commercial deployment.
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Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Minister, Saifuddin Abdullah, has set out the country's plans for a US$3.7 billion 5G launch.
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Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System, its fourth-generation 5G modem-to-antenna solution.
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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has successfully demonstrated 5G mobile communications on a train travelling at 360km/h.
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Two of Finland’s mobile operators, DNA and Telia, are to expand the area of their shared network so it covers 62.5% of the country.
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Small data centres will develop alongside a fibre infrastructure in small neighbourhoods, the audience for yesterday’s session in Edge Global Week heard.
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EdgeQ, a company developing 5G systems on a chip has hired two former top executives of Qualcomm, including ex-CEO Paul Jacobs, as advisors.
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As the Biden-Harris administration comes into power at noon Eastern Time today, leaders in the telecoms industry have told Capacity what their priorities should be.
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Canadian-owned telecoms infrastructure company BAI Communications has hired Telefónica O2 UK’s Brendan O’Reilly to become its global CTO.
