The fast-developing 6 GHz IMT ecosystem is poised to play an important role in supporting 5G rollouts worldwide, a new report from mobile industry trade body the GSMA has revealed. However, whilst 6 GHz ecosystem developers are standing by to meet consumer demand, regulatory decisions at next year’s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23), and subsequently by […]
India’s competing telcos spent more than $19 billion (€18.7bn) in the government auction of 5G spectrum. Reliance Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have spent seven days competing with each other to make the majority of the acquisitions, purchasing 71 per cent of all offered spectrum, which the government said totally exceeded its expectations. […]
The US’s Federal Communications Commission has opened bidding in its latest mid-band spectrum auction to support next generation wireless services – including 5G. Auction 108 makes available 8,017 new flexible-use, county-based overlay licences in the 2.5 GHz band. These licences are in areas with unassigned 2.5 GHz spectrum—mostly rural parts of the country—following disposition of […]
EE has been named the UK’s best network for the ninth year running. After independent, UK wide tests by RootMetrics, EE came first or joint first across all seven RootScore Awards – reliability, speed, data, call, text, accessibility and overall performance. EE announced earlier this year that its 5G network was the first to pass […]
Universities and telecoms firms have been invited to apply for up to £25 million (€29.5m) to research and develop the next generation of 5G and 6G network equipment as part of new UK government plans to unleash innovation in the sector. The Future Open Networks Research Challenge will enable academics and the industry to conduct […]
Gogo Business Aviation, which supplies airline connectivity to business aircraft, has completed the build at its 75th 5G site in the US. Gogo says this is halfway to its target overall 5G network, and that its 5G system remains on budget and on schedule to launch in the second half of 2022. “Getting to the […]
DirecTV is arguing that rival Dish Network’s planned 5G signals will interfere with its DTH signals over North America. Dish Network, backed by Charlie Ergen, has invested heavily in winning licences for 5G terrestrial cellular networks in the US. DirecTV has told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that Dish Network’s mobile 5G signals “would cause […]
Terrestrial 5G telephony in the US wants to use the 12.2-12.7 GHz wireless band. The problem is that satellite operators also use the same frequencies. OneWeb, a would-be satellite constellation, in a letter to the Federal communications Commission (FCC) on July 11th argued that the FCC should reject Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network plans to use […]
Ericsson has reported its Q2 2022 results. Group organic sales grew by 5 per cent YoY driven primarily by Networks in North America and Europe. Reported sales were SEK 62.5 billion (€5.8bn). Reported gross income increased to SEK 26.3 billion driven by higher sales. Gross margin was 42.1 per cent impacted by lower IPR revenues […]
On June 20th, MTN detailed its plan to cover at least 25 per cent of the South African population with 5G by the end of 2022 and 60 per cent by 2025. This confirms South Africa as the most advanced country in the Sub-Saharan region in terms of mobile broadband coverage, reports Dataxis. MTN’s projects […]