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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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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Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile US is leading its rivals, AT&T and Verizon, in 5G speed, availability and experienced, according to the latest Opensignal survey.
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Nokia has confirmed two technological firsts in recent days following collaborations with China Mobile (CMCC) and Saudi Arabia's Mobily.
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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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Three UK, Cambridge University, Blue Mesh Solutions, Ericsson and Siemens are collaborating on a £3.4 million project to test 5G at the Port of Felixstowe.
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The Gulf kingdom of Bahrain has achieved full national 5G coverage, with two of its three mobile operators now offering services across the country.
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Ericsson has signed a five-year agreement with Ooredoo Group to provide a "comprehensive portfolio of telecom services" across the firm's 10 markets.
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It is already the fastest growing mobile technology in history, but the success of 5G in 2021 depends, like so much else, on the Covid-19 pandemic. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at the mobile industry’s forecasts
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Nokia is making no profit on its mobile infrastructure sales and 2021 “will be challenging”, CEO Pekka Lundmark has admitted.
