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Nokia and Qualcomm Successfully Complete 5G New Radio Interoperability Tests

Posted on 08. Feb, 2018 by sujitg in News, 5G, 5G New Radio, Nokia, Qualcomm, LTE

Nokia and Qualcomm have announced the successful completion of interoperability testing in the 3.5Ghz and 28Ghz spectrum compliant with the global 3GPP 5G NR Release 15 standard. Tests utilized the commercially available Nokia AirScale base station and device prototypes from Qualcomm.

Optus Plans Commercial 5G Rollout by Early 2019

Posted on 01. Feb, 2018 by sujitg in News, 5G, 5G New Radio, Optus, LTE

Optus plans to roll out 5G technology in Australia by early 2019 with a fixed wireless product in key metro areas. This announcement follows the launch of a successful outdoor trial for 5G New Radio, which showed 2Gbps download speeds using a potential device for a fixed wireless service in the home and business.

Nokia Announces ReefShark Chipsets, Future X Network Architecture for 5G

Posted on 29. Jan, 2018 by Pankaj in News, 5G, Nokia, MIMO, LTE

Nokia has launched its new ReefShark chipsets, which leverage in-house silicon expertise to reduce the size, cost and power consumption of operators' networks and meet the massive compute and radio requirements of 5G.

Nokia to Supply 5G Gears to NTT DOCOMO for Commercial 5G Service

Posted on 19. Jan, 2018 by sujitg in News, 5G, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, LTE

Nokia has signed an agreement with Japan's mobile operator NTT DOCOMO to supply 5G baseband equipments for aiming to deploy in a 5G mobile network planned to be in commercial service by 2020.

French Regulator Prepares for 5G Pilots

Posted on 17. Jan, 2018 by sujitg in News, 5G, ARCEP

In France, the Government has launched a public consultation as part of the process of devising a national strategy for 5G. In this context French regulator, Arcep is opening up a window for conducting 5G pilots.

5G: A Tutorial Overview of Standards, Trials, Challenges, Deployment, and Practice

in Tutorial, 5G, IEEE, LTE

There is considerable pressure to define the key requirements of 5G, develop 5G standards, and perform technology trials as quickly as possible.
Normally, these activities are best done in series but there is a desire to complete these tasks in parallel so that commercial deployments of 5G can begin by 2020.

5G radio access – capabilities and technologies

in Whitepaper, 5G, Ericsson, LTE

The capabilities of 5G wireless access must extend far beyond previous generations of mobile communication. Examples of these capabilities include very high data rates, very low latency, ultra-high reliability, energy efficiency and extreme device densities, and will be realized by the.

Continental, Ericsson, Nissan, NTT DOCOMO, OKI and Qualcomm to Host Cellular C-V2X Trials in Japan

Posted on 15. Jan, 2018 by Pankaj in News, 5G, 5G NR, Continental, Ericsson, LTE-Advanced, Nissan, NTT DOCOMO, OKI, Qualcomm, LTE

Continental, Ericsson, Nissan, NTT DOCOMO, OKI, and Qualcomm plan to carry out their first Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) trials in Japan. The objective is to validate and demonstrate the benefits of C-V2X using direct communication technology defined by the 3GPP Release 14 specifications.

T-Mobile Launches Narrowband IoT Plans

Posted on 11. Jan, 2018 by sujitg in News, 5G, IOT, LTE-Advanced, NB-IoT, T-Mobile, LTE

T-Mobile USA has launched narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) plan for $6 per year. T-Mobile launched NB-IoT last October and plans to launch the technology nationwide by mid-year. T-Mobile also announced that the company has certified new NB-IoT modules from u-blox and Sierra Wireless for use on its network.

Huawei, China Mobile Test 5G Core Network Performance

Posted on 10. Jan, 2018 by sujitg in News, 5G, China Mobile, Huawei, LTE

Huawei has announced the completion of latest 3GPP specifications (Release 15) based 5G core network technical verification test at China Mobile’s Research Institute. This test covered service-based architecture (SBA), network slicing, edge computing, 5G standalone networking, and other basic service procedures.

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