Italy will be holding a 5G spectrum auction in September as part of an initiative meant to prepare the Mediterranean country for the next wireless revolution, communications regulator AGCOM said earlier this week. The auction is expected to see Italy raise at least €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion), with AGCOM already defining basic bidding rules, though the […]
Saudi Arabia’s Al Khobar has become the first city in the MENA region to test a 5G network as part of a programme launched during the first week of Ramadan, according to the kingdom’s Ministry of Culture and Information. The move came shortly after the country’s ICT regulator, the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) […]
The 6th annual Compass Intelligence awards honors the top companies, products, and technology solutions in mobile, IoT, and emerging technology industries. After nominations come in from companies, PR and corporate communications firms, and others the awards are then voted on by 40+ industry-leading press, editors, journalists, thought leaders, and analysts. The program includes three primary […]
Germany’s Federal Network Regulator said on Tuesday it planned to auction spectrum for fifth-generation (5G) mobile services in early 2019, rather than this year as originally planned. “We want to auction the frequencies as quickly as possible,” said a spokesman for the Bonn-based regulator, confirming a report in the Handelsblatt newspaper. “The likely date will […]
5GCity in collaboration with VirtuWind, 5GEX, SPEED-5G, 5G-MiEdge, and 5G-MoNArch projects are organizing the “2nd Workshop on business models and techno-economic analysis for 5G networks”. The reason for the workshop is to show case the work of 5GCity and other 5G projects and discuss business and techno-economic issues of 5G networking. The workshop also hopes […]
BT Group is looking to launch a commercial 5G product in the next 18 months, lightreading.com reports. His comments were made during the company’s strategy and earnings presentation. Chief technology officer (CTO) Howard Watson said that although a commercial 5G launch would initially focus on enhanced mobile broadband, BT was also looking at the development […]
The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will take place from 25th May to 27th May 2018 at the Aldemar Amilia Mare & Paradise Village in Kallithea, Greece. The conference will cover areas like Machine Learning,Data Mining and Information Retrieval,Computer Vision,eBusiness, eCommerce, eHealth. inCITES will present […]
Open network platforms are only part of the picture if the 5G vision, of an open ecosystem of operators and vendors, supporting a huge variety of business models, is to be realized. Open spectrum, able to support many service providers through sharing, while keeping some airwaves for critical or optimized performance, is equally vital, and […]
Plans to establish the European 5G Observatory were announced in February 2018 by Commissioner Gabriel, to closely monitor the progress of the European 5G Connectivity objectives for a competitive Digital Single Market by 2025. The European Commission has launched recently a RFP looking the first comprehensive reports and a publicly accessible online platform to be available from end 2018. In […]
A new manuscript describing and assessing the socio-techno-economic factors affecting the market adoption and evolution of 5G / CHARISMA networks has been accepted for publication at Telematics and Informatics. 5G networks are rapidly becoming the means to accommodate the complex demands of vertical sectors. The European project CHARISMA is aiming to develop a hierarchical, distributed-intelligence […]