By Ray Le Maistre Spain’s auction of 700 MHz spectrum for 5G services was concluded in just one day, with the government raising little more than the minimum reserve prices for the blocks snapped up by Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone: The country’s fourth mobile operator, Másmóvil, did not participate. Orange paid the starting price of €350 million for two blocks of 2×5 …
By ericsson The indoor 5G network, inside the multi-purpose dairy processing plant at Glanbia Ireland’s facility in Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, will bring enhanced indoor 5G coverage, low latency connectivity and improved data security across Glanbia’s largest Irish plant. The 5G solution will enable faster and more accurate maintenance tasks and provide for richer analysis of …
By Jamilah Lim Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB), a special purpose vehicle (SPV) under the Malaysian Ministry of Finance, has released a statement last Thursday clarifying details of the Malaysia 5G tender awarded to Ericsson. DNB stated that Ericsson’s estimated cost of RM 11 billion for the design, build, and maintenance of the national Malaysia 5G network is …
By Seulkee Jang North Korean authorities are incorporating cutting-edge technology into their efforts to control the country’s border with China. According to a source in the country, the authorities plan to use 5G mobile communications technology to monitor the situation along the border from as far away as Pyongyang with surveillance cameras. In fact, the country …
By Dashveenjit Kaur Last month, India’s telecom giant Reliance Jio and Google Cloud teamed up to provide faster internet, assist small businesses, and lay the foundation for the next phase of India’s digitization. The deal between both companies is among Google’s largest cloud deals that may usher in a revenue of US$1 billion for the California-based …
By Natalie Bannerman Indosat Ooredoo confirms the first commercial deployment of Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) in Southeast Asia to support its 5G services in Indonesia. Partnering with Cisco this latest network upgrade transforms Indosat Ooredoo’s transport infrastructure into a 5G-ready transport network supported by IPv6 segment routing technology (SRv6) with network slicing, that creates …
By News Wire Feed SEOUL – Samsung Electronics. Co., Ltd. today unveiled a range of new chipsets that will be embedded into the company’s next generation 5G solutions. The new 3GPP Rel.16 compliant chipsets consist of a third generation mmWave Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) chip, a second generation 5G modem System-on-Chip (SoC), and a …
By Tara Lachapelle 5G: It feels as if it’s everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Fascinatingly cutting edge yet uneventful in its arrival. Ripe for conspiracy theories in some corners, yawns in others. Yes, high-speed 5G wireless service is here, but not everyone has it, and many consumers aren’t sure how to feel about it. I’m here to tell you that I have …
By news.samsung Samsung Electronics today announced a collaboration with OPTAGE Inc., a Japanese service provider, to implement a dedicated private 5G network and deploy a real-time video monitoring system at a plant facility. This private 5G network will support 4K Ultra HD-based live-streaming videos, transmitted from multiple devices, including cameras located throughout the plant. The video …
By Joe O’Halloran 5G development has to date faced a number of gating factors, device pricing and Covid-19 among them, but perhaps the most critical has been wireless spectrum. The mobile industry’s trade association, the GSMA, is now warning that the global future of 5G is at risk if governments fail to align on licensing 6GHz spectrum. To …