Ofcom has announced the results of the principal bidding stage for its 4G/5G spectrum auction. The airwaves sale is available in two frequency bands, 2.3GHz, and 3.4GHz. 2.3GHz is usable by current mobile phones and will help improve 4G capacity for today’s mobile users, while 3.4GHz is one of the spectrum bands earmarked for 5G, […]
Chinese telecom equipment company ZTE Group has announced its success in making the first phone call enabled by 5G technologies as smartphone makers scramble to work on 5G in hopes of applying this next-generation mobile communication technology to their products as soon as possible, Tuesday’s China Daily reported. “The success moves China a step forward […]
The UK government has started a search for a city to serve as a large-scale testbed for wireless 5G infrastructure, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport announced Friday. The city will be used to test “how new technology can make urban communities inherently safer, greener, more efficient and more attractive places to live,” […]
There will be 9.0 billion user-linked subscriptions to wireless services by 2023, up from 7.7 billion today, according to new forecasts from Strategy Analytics´ Service Provider Group, the company said. The new report, “Worldwide Cellular User Forecasts 2018-2023” predicts that 5G adoption will follow a comparable path to that seen by 4G LTE, but warns […]
Telecom Italia (TIM) and Ericsson have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Municipality of Genoa, the Liguria Region and Liguria Digital to launch a 5G Digital Lab that will explore the benefits of the new technology and the Internet of Things for local citizens, businesses and public offices. The 5G Digital Lab will […]
IOTHINGS MILAN is the international event, organized by Innovability, totally dedicated to the IoT and the emerging Digital Transformation of Things. The last edition, which took place on 16 and 17 May 2017, gathered over 1800 participants, including 82 companies including sponsors, partners and exhibitors from 15 countries around the world. A heterogeneous public, both […]
India will have a full roadmap for 5G technology by June, Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said on Tuesday. Making the announcement at a COAI event in the capital, Sundararajan said 5G was important for India’s massive “digitisation and digitalisation” progress. She said the government is working with all stakeholders to be a frontrunner in the […]
El director de Transformación Digital de Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Carlos Cuffí, ha asumido la dirección del Observatorio Nacional 5G y del proyecto 5GBarcelona desde la Fundación. Cuffí dirigirá el Observatorio Nacional 5G, promovido por Red.es y la Secretaría de Estado para la Sociedad de la Información y la Agenda Digital, que arranca con el […]
Bristol University’s Smart Internet Lab has used its world-leading expertise in 5G radio models and mapping tools to create a 3D digital twin of the city. This will be used to visualise and predict how 5G radio signals will flow around the city and to connected and autonomous vehicles. The twin was revealed to the […]
The US is set to emerge as a “pioneer market” in 5G, with 100 million 5G connections by 2023, according to a GSMA report released Monday. By the year 2025, the number of 5G connections in the US will grow to 190 million. The major use case for 5G will be mobile broadband networks, according to a […]