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Vodafone develops ‘prototype 5G network’ built on a Raspberry Pi

Operator Vodafone’s R&D boffins have put together a device that functions as a 5G base station but runs on the simplest of hardware, apparently costing no more than a router.

• 20 Feb 2023

China close to massive 5G base station target

China is close to hitting its target of rolling out a staggering 500,000 5G mobile base stations by the end of the year.

• 09 Sep 2020

Nokia signals its technology virtue

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has been getting involved with liquid cooling 5G base stations and dynamically refarming loads of spectrum.

• 03 Jun 2020

Huawei and China Mobile stick a 5G base station on Mount Everest

Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and China Mobile have chosen the highest mountain in the world to make some kind of point about how great they are at 5G.

• 01 May 2020

Huawei launches its own 5G chip

Huawei doesn’t feel like waiting for chip companies to get their act together on 5G so it has decided to make one of its own.

• 24 Jan 2019

Nokia uses its silicon secret sauce to make new ReefShark chipsets

Uniquely among major networking vendors Nokia is keen to talk-up its chip design credentials, with the latest lot designed to help base stations get with the 5G programme.

• 29 Jan 2018

Nokia announces portable RAN breakthrough, so do Vodafone and Ericsson

As telecoms operators and vendors seek to solve coverage and capacity issues on the mobile network, Nokia Networks and Vodafone have announced separate portable radio offerings.

• 31 May 2016

Nokia gets its MWC launches in early

Newly-enlarged networking vendor Nokia has decided to beat the Mobile World Congress rush with four product launches this week.

• 28 Jan 2016

NEC and Intel collaborate on mobile base station virtualization

Base stations could get smaller, cheaper and more powerful if a new virtualization project reaches fruition in 2016.

• 18 Dec 2015

Ericsson pre-empts MWC 2015 with seven product mega launch

Giant telecoms vendor Ericsson just couldn’t wait until Mobile World Congress 2015 to reveal not one but seven product launches. The broad theme of these launches concerned how to help telcos to adapt to digital market realities.

• 19 Feb 2015

SK Telecom, Nokia claim world’s first commercialised eICIC

SK Telecom and Nokia Networks have announced what they called the world’s first commercialised Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (eICIC) technology, which is designed to enhance LTE-A network quality.

• 28 Jan 2015

ZTE claims MIMO trial strengthens its 5G leadership

Chinese networking vendor ZTE has conducted what it said is the world’s first pre-commercial field trial of multi-user and multi-stream transmission on a Massive input-multiple multiple-output (MIMO) base station. The firm claimed the test has strengthened its leadership in 5G.

• 26 Jan 2015

SK Telecom, Nokia in 5G cooperation deal

SK Telecom has announced it has entered into an agreement with Nokia to collaborate on developing 5G network technologies. The pact was sealed with a memorandum of understanding, a second such agreement between the Korean telco and the Finnish kit vendor.

• 22 Jan 2015

Nokia completes Panasonic network business acquisition

Nokia Networks has completed the acquisition of the network business from Japanese firm Panasonic, including its 3G and LTE base station systems and related equipment. The Finnish infrastructure vendor said the integration of the new resources will improve efficiency and quality control of its product development and R&D.

• 05 Jan 2015

Mobile edge video delivery demonstrated by Nokia and StarHub

Nokia Networks has enabled live video streaming based on an LTE base station-enabled local content caching system. In partnership with Singaporean operator StarHub, Nokia helped to deliver a live streaming, multi-camera broadcast of the WTA tennis championships live from Singapore.

• 24 Oct 2014