Charlie Ergen’s considerable investment in potential US cellular spectrum could be about to pay off. Business news channel CNBC is reporting that Dish has “come to terms” with Deutsche Telekom-backed T-Mobile on certain divestitures required to permit T-Mobile to clear its $26 billion (€23bn) merger with Sprint. Any agreement – and details are extremely sparse […]
Market analyst Canalys forecasts that 5G-enabled smartphone shipments will reach nearly 800 million units in 2023, accounting for 51.4 per cent of all smartphone shipments, passing 4G smartphones five years after commercial launch. The CAGR between 2019 and 2023 will be 179.9 per cent, while vendors will ship nearly 1.9 billion devices to market market […]
SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Korea and Samsung Electronics have successfully completed Korea’s first interoperability assessment between 5G Standalone (SA) Core and other commercial network systems over a 5G network. This successful result brings the two companies one step closer to 5G SA commercialisation. The 5G SA Core, jointly developed by SK Telecom […]
China Central TV (CCTV) has transmitted an 8K Ultra HD television signal over 5G wireless. The CCTV signal was sent from the broadcaster’s studios in Beijing to delegates at the Mobile World Congress gathering in Shanghai. Technology participants in the test included China Media Group, China Unicom and Huawei. Signals were carried at 320 Mb/s. […]
If the customised, software-defined networks needed to enable affordable 5G are to be achieved, operators’ architectures must become programmable, open and disaggregated, Ayush Sharma, Head of Programmable Network & Intelligence at Sterlite Technologies Ltd (STL), has said. Speaking at Mobile World Congress Shanghai, Sharma told delegates that Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) […]
With more than 15 million 5G handset services in operation (SIOs) expected by the end of June 2023, the adoption of 5G is set to be faster than the previous generations, according to research from emerging technology analyst firm, Telsyte. The Telsyte Australian Mobile Services Market Study 2019 found the local market is forecast to […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has approved a request from the UK’s main mobile network operators to make technical changes to their spectrum licences, which will support the rollout of ultrafast mobile services. EE, Hutchison, Telefónica and Vodafone will have their licences in the 3.4 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 3.6 GHz bands varied. These are considered […]
SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom have met to discuss diverse 5G business strategies, with around 100 executives from both companies in attendance, including Park Jung-ho, President and Chief Executive Officer of SK Telecom, and Timotheus Höttges, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Telekom. At the meeting, SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom agreed to establish a joint […]
A new filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and commenting on the C-Band Alliance’s plan to sell off 180 MHz of satellite spectrum for 5G, has thrown up some important concerns about the scheme. In particular, the letter expresses concerns about potential extremely harmful interference from new commercial wireless applications in the 3.7-4.2 GHz […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI is planning the first 5G transmission, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Development, and the City of Turin. The trials will be conducted by RAI’s Centre for Research, Technological Innovation and Experimentation in Turin. They will commence on June 24th, during a special event to mark the occasion of the […]