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Data: London’s 5G lags behind other UK cities

Data from Ookla, a specialist in connectivity intelligence, reveals Londoners spend more time in mobile signal not-spots and experience slower 5G speeds than residents of other UK cities, resulting in poorer performance in everyday tasks like web browsing. In the first article in a new series exploring the competitiveness of mobile networks in European towns […]

April 16, 2025

Forecast: Telco capex to decline at 2% CAGR

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telco, security, networks and data centre industries, telco operators scaled back wireless and wireline investments in 2024. The high-level relationship between carrier revenues, capex and telecom equipment was mostly stable, as both telecom capex and telecom equipment revenues tanked in 2024. […]

April 11, 2025

Nokia, Digita, CoreGo event collaboration

Nokia and Digita are expanding their partnership with CoreGo, a company specialising in payment and access control solutions for events, to provide secure and reliable data transmission for large Finnish and international events. This collaboration has enabled multiple deployments in the last two years, benefited sports and festival organisers with reliable connectivity, and significantly improved […]

April 10, 2025

XGen Network announces LPTV Broadcast Positioning System

XGen Network (XGN), a specialist in 5G Broadcast solutions, announced at the LPTV Broadcasters Association’s conference the development of its LPTV Broadcast Positioning System (BPS) leveraging 5G Broadcast technology. Scheduled for testing by Q3 2025, BPS aims to enhance broadcasting capabilities and introduce a wide array of applications.​ XGN’s initiative builds upon the 3GPP standards, […]

April 7, 2025

Ericsson, Lenovo settle patent litigation

Ericsson and Lenovo have reached a settlement to resolve their patent licensing dispute over a multi-year, global patent cross-licence agreement between the two companies. As part of the settlement, all ongoing lawsuits and administrative proceedings filed by both companies in several countries will be withdrawn. Financial impacts are expected to be recognised from Q2 2025, […]

April 4, 2025

Open Broadcast Systems launches 5G Assist

Open Broadcast Systems, a specialist in low-latency encoding and decoding, has released 5G Assist to enhance remote production over the public internet. 5G Assist uses a supplementary network, such as 5G or Starlink, alongside the main internet connection, to perform packet recoveries, in addition to recovery attempts performed over the main connection. Using 5G Assist, […]

April 4, 2025

Mobile TV Group selects Open Broadcast Systems’ encoders and decoders

Open Broadcast Systems, a specialist in software-based low-latency video encoding and decoding, has announced that Mobile TV Group has selected its encoders and decoders for low-latency video transport. Mobile TV Group is one of the largest live production providers in the US covering over 4,000 events per year and is using Open Broadcast Systems’ encoders […]

April 1, 2025

Forecast: Mobile service revenue in Japan to increase at 3% CAGR

The total mobile service revenue in Japan is poised to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3 per cent from $46.9 billion (€43.3bn) in 2024 to $54.5 billion in 2029, mainly supported by the growth in mobile data service revenues, forecasts GlobalData, the data and analytics company. GlobalData’s Japan Mobile Broadband Forecast […]

March 25, 2025

5G utilised by TV production at the Turin 2025 Winter Universiade

RAI, the national public service broadcaster in Italy, with its Research Centre and Technology Directorate, together with EMG Italy, CVE, One TV, Sony Europe and the WUG Organising Committee, are pleased to announce the success of a series of 5G technology trials on a private network in the 4GHz band. Applied to TV production during […]

March 25, 2025

Forecast: 5G roaming spend to surpass 4G by 2028

A study from Juniper Research, the foremost experts in telecommunications markets, forecasts that 5G subscribers will spend $10.8 billion (€9.9bn) on roaming globally in 2028; rising from $4.2 billion in 2025. Juniper Research expects 2028 to be the first year in which 5G roaming spend exceeds spend from 4G subscribers. Despite the first commercial 5G […]

March 24, 2025