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Ericsson acquires Vonage in a deal for 5G enterprise innovation
Friday 3 December, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
Ericsson has announced an agreement to acquire the IP communications business Vonage for $6.2 billion. Pending regulatory review and clearance, the deal is expected to close in H1 2022. Vonage is best known for its roots as a consumer VoIP telephony business before WhatsApp ...
5G powering ahead in China
Friday 3 December, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
The Chinese mobile operators have reported a sharp increase in 5G mobile tariff additions, with the country-wide total reaching 670 million 5G-capable tariffs as of October. While this does not represent the actual number of 5G subscribers – which GSMA Intelligence estimates ...
New AR/VR product launches show the metaverse is not just hype
Monday 15 November, 2021 | AR/VR Digest | Latest News
Recent product announcements highlight how the market for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) services is quickly maturing. Qualcomm has unveiled Snapdragon Spaces, a developer kit for creating AR applications. Nvidia has unveiled two new core capabilities of its Omniverse ...
European open RAN initiatives move to the next phase
Monday 15 November, 2021 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News | Open RAN
The German government last week announced the first projects to receive support from a €300 million fund created to develop and test open RAN technology. One of the winning projects is an open RAN test lab run by a consortium of partners including Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone ...
Network vendors announce new solutions at MWC LA
Monday 1 November, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News | Open RAN
Several network vendors used MWC LA to showcase their latest products. Samsung and Ciena announced they have entered into an agreement to deliver 5G solutions to the market. The combined offer will comprise an end-to-end solution set, including Samsung’s 5G RAN and core ...
KDDI, Deutsche Telekom, MobiledgeX, Sturfee and Mawari demonstrate next generation AR mobile app experience in alignment with GSMA TEC initiative
Tuesday 26 October, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News | TEC Trials
October 26, 2021 – MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2021 LOS ANGELES KDDI Corporation (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan; hereinafter “KDDI”), Deutsche Telekom AG, MobiledgeX, Sturfee and Mawari have jointly developed a mobile application proof of concept to demonstrate ...
FCC sets mid-band spectrum auction in motion
Monday 11 October, 2021 | 5G | 5G Digest | Latest News
In the US, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began Auction 110 on 5 October, allowing operators another chance to acquire mid-band spectrum for 5G. The auction will offer 100 MHz in the 3.45–3.55 GHz band, with spectrum being auctioned in each of the US’s partial ...
Apple’s new iPhone iterates and expands 5G coverage
Monday 20 September, 2021 | 5G | 5G Digest | Latest News
Apple held its annual device launch event in California this week – a gathering that did not release any ‘big bangs’ but rather iterated to bring new functionality and, most important, wider availability. The new iPhone 13 is the successor to the 5G-supported iPhone 12 ...
Network shutdowns accelerate as operators eye the 4G/5G opportunity
Monday 6 September, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
Telefónica Deutschland (O2) has announced it is accelerating the shutdown of its 3G network in various regions of Germany. Though the end of 2021 was its original target, the company will convert the majority of 3G sites as early as September and carry out the last ...
Airtel and Intel team up to accelerate 5G in India
Monday 26 July, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
Bharti Airtel and Intel have announced a collaboration to fast-track the move of Airtel’s customer base to 5G by leveraging vRAN and O-RAN technologies. Flexible, software-defined network architecture will allow the operator to offer targeted services and address customer ...
AT&T to develop first “at scale” 5G smart city
Monday 26 July, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
AT&T and JBG Smith are working together to create the first 5G smart city “at scale” in the US. Using both sub-6 GHz and mmWave 5G spectrum, AT&T will commence infrastructure deployments in the first half of 2022. AT&T and JBG Smith are looking to create a ...
France reveals public-private partnership strategy for 5G
Monday 12 July, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
France aims to spend nearly €1.7 billion in its 5G market by 2025 through public and private investments, according to a 5G and future telecommunications plan announced by government ministers. The aim is to accelerate the development of 5G, particularly new use cases, to ...
AT&T accelerates shift to the public cloud with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure partnerships
Monday 12 July, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
AT&T has announced plans to increase the integration of its multi-access edge compute (MEC) platform with Google Cloud to enable it to deliver new 5G and edge solutions for businesses in verticals such as retail, healthcare, manufacturing and entertainment. In June, ...
GSMA Announces Details of Innovative Edge Cloud Applications and Dedicated Telco Edge Cloud Federation
Tuesday 29 June, 2021 | 5G Digest | Digest | Latest News
5G’s low latency and high bandwidth, paired with edge cloud functionality, can deliver valuable new services 29 June 2021, Barcelona The GSMA has today revealed details of the first project trials using its Telco Edge Operator Platform. It has also launched the Telco Edge ...
Operators make progress with open RAN commercialisation
Friday 25 June, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News | Open RAN
Vodafone UK and MTN have revealed the vendors they will work with for open RAN deployments. Vodafone’s commercial open RAN rollout – the first in Europe – will cover 2,500 sites in rural parts of the UK at first, expanding into urban areas over the longer term. This marks an ...
Operators continue to address the private 5G opportunity
Wednesday 19 May, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
Telefónica Tech has partnered with Microsoft to offer private 5G and on-premise edge computing to address the Industry 4.0 opportunity and related use cases. Meanwhile, in the US, AT&T has launched a private 5G network for healthcare, connecting researchers and patients. ...
Vodafone and Google sign new cloud partnership
Monday 10 May, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
Vodafone Group has agreed a six-year partnership with Google to jointly build a new integrated data platform, with Vodafone transferring data from its servers to Google Cloud. The deal will see the companies collaborate on the development of a new data analytics system that ...
iPhone propels Apple to record earnings, with a potential halo effect for 5G
Friday 7 May, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
Apple has reported record financial results for the quarter ending March 2021, with revenue growth of over 50% despite the challenging operating environment from Covid-19. There was broad-based success across its product portfolio, but iPhone sales continue to drive the ...
T-Mobile expands the reach of telehealth – a sign of things to come
Friday 7 May, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
T-Mobile US has formed a partnership with digital healthcare platform Zyter, which offers telehealth services such as patient monitoring and workforce collaboration for health professionals. T-Mobile will leverage its nationwide LTE and 5G network scale and enterprise sales ...
Verizon Business to bring private 5G network to UK port
Thursday 15 April, 2021 | 5G Digest | Latest News
Verizon Business has secured its first European private 5G network contract, supplying Associated British Ports (ABP) with connectivity for the Port of Southampton – one of the UK’s busiest ports. The private network offers secure, low-latency connectivity, providing the ...