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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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.
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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.
