Ericsson says it has successfully completed the first commercial implementation of its Elastic RAN for SoftBank’s mobile network in a Tokyo train station, demonstrating a 40% increase in data throughput for commuters during peak hours. Read more…
NTT DoCoMo announced that it will commence delivery of 5G trial environments in Japan possibly as early as May 2017, working in conjunction with various partners in industries such as automobiles, railways and broadcasting. DoCoMo Read more…
Hong Kong cellco SmarTone said it is taking the next step on its roadmap to 5G via a five-year contract with Ericsson that will kick off with trials and pilot deployments of key pre-5G technologies slated for Read more…
SK Telecom announced that it has become a member of 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), a global cross-industry association of companies from the telecommunications and automotive industries. It is also the first Asian mobile operator to Read more…
Singapore telco StarHub says it has used Nokia’s AirScale platform to demonstrate in a ‘live’ setting how 5G centimeter-wave (cmWave) can deliver mobile broadband with a throughput speed of 4.3 Gbps and latency of just Read more…
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up the CUHK-ASTRI Joint Research Laboratory, which will conduct Read more…
Singaporean cellco M1 and Nokia say they have conducted Singapore’s first “live” Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) demo (live in a lab, anyway), along with a bonus 5G demo featuring robots. The NB-IoT demo, conducted Read more…
Philippines operator Globe Telecom has signed two Memoranda of Confirmation frame agreements with Nokia – one for wireless technologies and the other for IP, optical and SDN technologies – for a network transformation project that Read more…
Samsung’s exploding handsets aside, Ericsson’s crisis shows the need for all players to accelerate their shift towards software and services. It’s been a month of exploding smartphones and the growing fall-out from the problems with Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – AT&T has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85 billion, sources said on Friday, paving the way for what would be the biggest deal in the Read more…
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released a discussion paper that looks at the possibilities of refarming the 1.5-GHz and 3.6-GHz bands for 5G services. Those bands are currently used by a variety Read more…
Qualcomm has unveiled its first commercial 5G modem chipset solution, and has announced activities with Telstra, Ericsson and Netgear to develop the world’s first “Gigabit Class” LTE mobile device and a commercially ready network to Read more…
The ETSI Industry Specification Group on Next Generation Protocols (NGP ISG) has released its first specifications which define key scenarios to evolve the current IP suite architecture and addresses the future technologies that will be Read more…
Huawei says it has made a new breakthrough on 5G channel coding by achieving a downlink speed of 27 Gbps using Polar Code technology during a field trial. The trial used millimeter-wave spectrum and tests were Read more…
Singtel-owned Australian operator Optus has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nokia to collaborate on the network evolution to 5G, which will enable a host of network capabilities such as massive Internet of Things, Read more…
5G Asia (formerly known as LTE Asia – see what they did there?) has wrapped up in Singapore, and here’s ten (10) things we learned: 5G is an awesome technology that will do awesome things. Read more…
Disruptive companies like Uber, Tesla and Netflix represent the future of 5G services, but telcos who want to serve them have to become a lot more agile and be willing to experiment and accept failure. Read more…
Not a lot of people know that Facebook is in the 5G business – but it is, via the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), and Facebook’s engineering director took the stage at 5G Asia in Singapore Read more…
For operators still unsure which services will justify 5G deployments, don’t worry about it – just build a platform that enables other players figure out the service angle for you. That was the advice (paraphrased) Read more…
A recurring theme at 5G Asia in Singapore this week is that the most important technology in the 5G ecosystem isn’t New Radios – it’s SDN and NFV. YTL Communications CEO Wing Lee was emphatic Read more…
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