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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Sweden’s 5G auction is due to start tomorrow after Huawei lost an appeal over the ruling that its equipment should be excluded.
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T-Mobile US has announced a five-year programme to expand its 5G coverage, with contracts to both Ericsson and Nokia.
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Nokia is making no profit on its mobile infrastructure sales and 2021 “will be challenging”, CEO Pekka Lundmark has admitted.
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A Nigerian company that specialises in building mobile networks for rural areas is to install open-source technology to deliver 2G, 3G and 4G wholesale services, upgradable to 5G.
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Jeremy Spencer, 5G innovation lead for BT Enterprise writes on the major developments scheduled for 2021
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Network operator spending on multi-access edge computing (MEC), is set to reach US$8.3 billion by 2025.
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India could get its first 5G services in the second half of 2021 after Reliance boss Mukesh Ambani said Jio would "pioneer the 5G revolution".
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Vendors, operators and enterprises are becoming enthusiastic about private 5G networks, running IoT networks separate from what’s out there in the public world. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at the market
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NEC’s new centre of excellence in London for 5G open systems will address a global market, according to a senior executive in Japan.
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The rapid installation of 5G networks can reduce carbon emissions in the energy industry by almost 1% by in the next decade, new research shows
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This episode features deputy editor Melanie Mingas, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporters Natalie Bannerman and Abigail Opiah.
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Asia carriers saw growth from 30% upwards as the pandemic hit their markets in early 2020.
