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 […]
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 […]
A government-backed UK 5G testbed will be up and running in April, enabling trials of applications and use cases delivered by the next-generation technology. The project, which involved the deployment of a pilot network by King’s College London, the University of Surrey and the University of Bristol, is backed by £16 million of funding from […]
Smartlamppost is an emergent product which aims at solving smart cities’ ability to grow and scale efficiently. According to its needs, it leverages urban furniture to elegantly provide (1) telecommunication capabilities, (2) EV-charging stations and (3) edge computing capabilities, providing a platform for innovative solutions to unfold, fostering a rich ecosystem of partnerships between different […]
Italtel participated at 5G Summit Trento, University of Trento, in the first time the event was organized in Italy. IEEE 5G Summits are organized by IEEE Communication Society within a strategic framework based on the principles that embrace Industry’s interests and priorities, while integrating IEEE and ComSoc’s objectives. This one day summit provided a platform for […]