DT and Samsung flirt with each other over standalone 5G
As Deutsche Telekom’s reliance on Huawei kit increasingly looks like a precarious position, it has taken to playing the field.
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Ericsson celebrates Vodafone UK pre-5G win
Vodafone UK has chosen Ericsson to evolve its 4G networks in southern England and also provide technology to help it prepare for 5G in the region.
SFR gets in on the Huawei MIMO party
Huawei and SFR have jointly announced they have completed France’s first pre-commercial field verification of 4X4 MIMO achieving a downlink throughput of 628.31 Mbps.
Ericsson claims delivery of world’s first 5G New Radio kit
The race to 5G is hotting up with the launch by Swedish networking giant Ericsson of what it claims is the first hardware to enable 5G New Radio (NR) networks.
Ericsson launches 5G Plug-Ins to help the transition to 5G
Swedish networking giant Ericsson has launched a new range of network upgrade options called 5G Plug-Ins that are designed to help operators with their move to the next generation.
Huawei completes testing of new 5G air interface technology
Chinese telco giant Huawei has announced the completion of the first phase of field trials of what it claims is a new 5G air interface.
Facebook and Microsoft team up to lay “highest capacity” Atlantic cable
Microsoft and Facebook have announced plans to roll out a subsea cable infrastructure connecting the US and Spain, as the latter continues to make a physical network infrastructure play.
Facebook boosts wireless connectivity push with Terragraph and Project ARIES
Social media giant Facebook has doubled-down on bringing connectivity to under-served environments with the launch of two new terrestrial connectivity systems.
Ericsson claims 25 Gbps 5G field trial with MU-MIMO
Swedish kit vendor Ericsson says it has achieved peak downlink throughput speeds in excess of 25 Gbps in a trial using MU-MIMO and beam tracking technology.
Ericsson set to field test 5G radio prototypes
Ericsson is to conduct operator field trials of new 5G radio prototypes in 2016, after developing new multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) and beamforming technology.
SK Telecom, Intel collaborate on 5G chipsets and MIMO R&D
Over at MWC Shanghai this week, Korean operator SK Telecom has announced its intentions to collaborate with Intel on the development of 5G radio access tech.
KT targets 5G rollout for 2018 Winter Olympics
Korean mobile operator KT says it will be conducting 5G trials with a view to launching a live service ready for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, being hosted in the Korean city of Pyeongchang.
SKT and Samsung to demo 7.55Gbps ‘3D Beamforming’ at MWC 2015
The Korean partnership of SK Telecom and Samsung is combining once more to showcase new telecoms technology. They will be demonstrating a technology known as 3D Beamforming, which is designed to support high frequency bands.
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.
Ericsson flexes 5G muscle with 5Gbps demo
In a live, over-the-air demonstration of pre-standard equipment, the Swedish company achieved 5Gbps throughput in the 15 GHz frequency band using advanced MIMO technology at its lab in Kista, Sweden.
NSN claims record upload TD-LTE speeds
Infrastructure vendor NSN claims to have set a record by achieving 56 Mbps peak upload throughput in a TD-LTE network using its commercial 4G base station with multiple antenna technology and a single 20 MHz carrier.
Cisco gets in on WiMAX game
Networking giant Cisco said Tuesday that it has agreed to spend $330m on the acquisition of WiMAX kit maker Navini Networks. Texas-based Navini develops smart beamforming technologies with MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) antennas, making it a strategic player in the Mobile WiMAX 802.16e space. The new addition will extend Cisco’s wifi and wifi mesh portfolios to […]
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