5G Networks
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Swisscom is working with Ericsson to offer a standalone Mobile Private Network (MPN) to provide enterprises with private, localised connectivity. -
Vietnamese carrier Viettel has launched an Open RAN 5G Network, leveraging hardware from Qualcomm to provide enhanced connectivity across the country.
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Nvidia is working with SoftBank to reinvent telecom networks to make them capable of supporting AI-RAN, enabling them to run AI and 5G workloads at the same time.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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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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Throughout the pandemic, questions have been asked about what the post-Covid world could, and should, look like.
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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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Vodafone is building a private 5G network for Ford’s electric vehicle factory in the UK.
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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.
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ZTE has named its new president of mobile devices, who has taken responsibility for strengthening resource integrations for 5G opportunities.
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Orange CEO Stéphane Richard has confirmed eight changes to the group’s executive committee, intended to help Orange “exit the health crisis in the best conditions”. Seven other positions remain unchanged.
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Areas of Aberdeen, Brighton and Oxford have become the latest in the UK to connect to 5G, as O2 surpassed its target to switch the network on in 50 locations by summer 2020.
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Businesses in Spain are being promised a boost following a deal between Google Cloud and Telefónica that will see the former launch a new cloud region in the country, and the latter lead the joint development of a “portfolio of solutions for 5G”.
