Telefónica today announced the deployment of 4G across 1,000 new UK sites, making immediate moves to expand capacity following its successful acquisition of more 4G spectrum in Ofcom’s recent auction. The decision followed successful Q1 results, in the UK alone, which saw net income increase by 7.4 percent year-on-year globally; total revenue increase by 2.9 percent […]
South Korea on Thursday set the opening price of the auction for high-end fifth-generation network frequencies at 3.3 trillion won (US$3.1 billion). The Ministry of Science and ICT announced the decision during a public hearing ahead of the auction, which will be completed in June, with the participation of the country’s mobile carriers — SK […]
Telefonica and 5GBarcelona are set to launch a new testing lab for 5G and Intern et of Things technology at the Pier01 complex in the Palau del Mar near the port of Barcelona, reports EFE. The 200-square-meter open space will be located in the offices of Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCapital) and is designed to allow […]
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 […]
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 […]