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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Nokia announced today that it can upgrade its 4G LTE base stations to 5G using a software change.
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Two bodies representing Europe’s telecommunications industry have called on EU institutions and national governments to take a series of actions as they prioritise digital technology across the continent.
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Nokia has announced that it plans to use open systems in its radio network – the first such move by a major vendor at a time when smaller equipment makers are putting their hopes in open ecosystems.
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The US is on the verge of winning its battle to persuade the UK to ban Huawei from its telecoms networks, says a former spy chief.
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Verizon provides the fastest 5G speed in the US, almost 500Mbps – but its customers can connect with it only 0.4% of the time because of coverage issues.
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AT&T has launched its 5G network in 28 additional markets across the US, bringing 5G services to more than 160 million people across 355 markets in the country.
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The British economy could see a productivity-based boost to economic output worth more than £150 billion over 10 years, according to new figures from Vodafone.
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Japanese equipment maker NEC is aiming to boost its presence in the 5G market with the aid of a US$600 million investment from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT).
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The organisation heading mobile operators’ work towards 5G has appointed Anita Döhler, an Accenture executive, as its new CEO.
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Karsten Gewecke, SVP and head of EMEA, Zyxel Communications, shares his top connectivity trends for a post-Covid business landscape.
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Nokia’s next generation 5G AirScale Cloud RAN solution, based on vRAN2.0, will be commercially available this year with general availability expected in 2021.
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Eurofiber has joined an international research project with a €10 million budget to explore the use of fiberoptic infrastructure and technology for 5G connections.
