5G infrastructure
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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. -
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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Vietnamese carrier Viettel has launched an Open RAN 5G Network, leveraging hardware from Qualcomm to provide enhanced connectivity across the country.
Forthcoming events
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US company Airspan has jumped into the UK government’s call for new mobile suppliers by saying it will expand its presence in the country.
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Qualcomm has launched a fellowship and training programme to "identify, educate and attract" home-grown talent to work on the development of 5G in Spain.
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Verizon Business is working with Associated British Ports (ABP) in a project that will see the UK's Port of Southampton become the first British mainland port with a private 5G network.
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Qualcomm has joined a UK government scheme to test 5G wireless for rural applications, from agriculture and fisheries to tourism and safety.
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Nokia has signed a five-year deal with AT&T to deploy the operator’s C-Band network in parts of the US.
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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.
