China dominates 5G but spending tails off
China will hit 1 billion 5G users within a couple of years, new research shows, and operators may have already passed the peak of investment in the technology.
China will hit 1 billion 5G users within a couple of years, new research shows, and operators may have already passed the peak of investment in the technology.
Scott, Iain and Pierre get some rare quality time together on this week’s guest-free pod. Inevitably the preamble is somewhat protracted but they eventually get on to reviewing the latest news surrounding BT, including some recent media coverage that landed its CEO in hot water. They move on to discuss the implications of a ban in Chinese 5G kit in Germany before concluding with a look at the competitive implications of the vRAN movement.
The boss of Chinese telco China Unicom told reporters he expects his company to start trialling 6G application scenarios in just two years’ time.
Social media giant Meta has weighed in on the ‘fair contribution’ debate insisting the campaign to force Big Tech to pay for network infrastructure costs is ‘not the solution’.
The bullish sentiment swirling around 5G fixed-wireless access (FWA) services continues to build.
UK regulator Ofcom says licenses for unused 2100 MHz (1900-1920 MHz) spectrum may be revoked the and the spectrum reallocated.
India’s Narendra Modi is sticking by his aim of launching 6G services in the country by 2030, despite the fact that 5G is only six months old.
Telecoms industry body the GSMA has released a couple of reports waxing on future spectrum allocation and its economic implications.
Liberty Global wants to take full control of its Belgian subsidiary Telenet and is willing to spend US$1 billion to do so.
Qualcomm’s Philippe Poggianti discusses with Scott Bicheno the speed and experience benefits mmWave can bring to a wide range of devices, especially in very crowded areas. Thanks to Telefonica, Ericsson and Qualcomm, visitors to Barcelona’s Fira for MWC 23 have been experiencing mmWave technology first-hand.
The UK government will soon conduct a nationwide test of a system that will allow it to push messages to nearly all mobile phones.
BT Wholesale is working with AWS to trial a mobile cloud edge computing service for businesses to facilitate mobile IoT applications over EE networks.
UK telco group VMO2 joins the party of operators piping in 4G and 5G connectivity to the London Underground Network.
The increase in download speed on 5G compared to 4G is less pronounced in London than in any other part of the UK.
UK operator Three clocked a modest revenue bump of 3% in 2022, but it says the cost of building out network infrastructure in the current system is unsustainable, as merger talks with Vodafone roll on.
The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration is looking for bright ideas about where the next big chunk of radiofrequency spectrum will come from.
VMO2 will embark upon a campaign of ‘substantial network modernization’ covering hardware, software and service enhancements using Ericsson kit, with the aim of improving 4G and 5G across the UK.
Chinese kit vendor ZTE has developed a dedicated digital twin platform, which it claims has reached over 90% twinning precision in certain environments.
What’s needed is starting the discussion with the enterprise by talking up use-cases and showcasing the business problems that private networks can solve, rather than using standard connectivity metrics.
Sameh Yamany, Chief Technology Officer at VIAVI Solutions, introduces the company’s Lab to Live test and optimization solutions across Fiber, 5G and Cloud at MWC Barcelona 2023.
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