Tag: 5G coverage

March 31, 2023

Spain ended the first half of 2022 with a 5G coverage of 58.12%, according to a report by the country’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. This figure compares with a coverage of 33.51% at the end of the […]

February 20, 2023

Private cellular in a box? It is hardly a novel idea, as Athonet and Druid Software will testify, including via commercial air-drop installations at music shows and war zones, or suchlike. But a new card-sized private 5G prototype from UK […]

November 29, 2022

Indian telco Bharti Airtel is already offering 5G services in 12 cities across the country, according to local press reports. Last month, Bharti Airtel launched 5G services in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur and Varanasi. The offering is […]

November 23, 2022

Four million smartphone users in Canada are expecting to upgrade to 5G services over the next 12-15 months, according to a recent survey carried out by Ericsson. This figure represents 17% of the country’s smartphone users, according to the European […]

November 4, 2022

Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel is currently testing 5G Standalone (SA) technology with the aim of using it to cover certain uses cases for enterprises, local press reported. “While these use cases are very niche today, we are already doing […]

October 25, 2022

Thailand is expected to end this year with a 5G coverage of over 85% of the country’s population, local carrier True’s Co-Chief Commercial Officer, Tanaphon Manavutiveth, said. During a keynote presentation at Huawei’s 13th Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF) being […]

October 19, 2022

Mexican telecom group America Movil ended the third quarter of the year with 5G coverage in 64 cities across the country, the carrier said in its earnings statement. The telco had ended the previous quarter with 40 cities with 5G […]

September 21, 2022

AT&T Mexico announced the launch of its 5G network in ten new cities across the country. In a release, the operator said that its 5G offering has been activated in Tijuana, Mexicali, Ciudad Juárez, Mazatlan, Ciudad Obregon, Navojoa, Guasave, Ensenada, […]

August 23, 2022

Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 23.4 million 5G subscribers in July, according to the carriers’ latest available figures. China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, added a total of 12.77 million 5G subscribers during July. […]

June 17, 2022

The global pandemic has created a new normal that is continuing to fuel a permanent shift to remote work-from-anywhere (WFA) habits. As a result, reliable access to high-speed internet, video streaming and online conferencing is no longer just a ‘nice-to-have’ […]

June 14, 2022

Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, announced the completion of an end-to-end 5G network slicing proof of concept (PoC) with A1 Telekom Austria Group. Amdocs said that the PoC demonstrated the ability of its […]

June 7, 2022

German telco Deutsche Telekom said it is using spectrum in the 700 MHz range for the provision of 5G for the first time. The European operator said that the use of the 700 MHz band improve mobile communications coverage in […]

April 20, 2022

U.K. carrier EE claimed to be the first European network to successfully aggregate a 5G signal using seven different spectrum carriers, the telco said in a release. The experiment was performed in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies at BT’s Borehamwood lab, […]

January 3, 2022

Spanish operators have been accelerating 5G deployments during 2021 and all carriers already offer 5G in the country’s main urban areas as well as in medium-sized cities. In this article, we briefly describe the current state of 5G deployments by […]

May 14, 2021

U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, has doubled its 5G footprint in the recent fiscal year, with its next-generation offering currently available in 160 towns and cities across the country, BT said in its earnings statement. BT also […]

March 5, 2021

France had a total of 21,714 5G authorized sites as of March 1, of which 12,310 were declared technically operational by the local mobile carriers, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR. The agency said that […]

October 12, 2020

Australian carrier Telstra said it has already deployed over 2,000 5G base stations in the country, providing 5G coverage to 41% of Australia’s population. The telco said in a statement that it aims to cover 75% of the country’s population […]

September 29, 2020

To gain a clearer picture of 5G Network coverage and the importance of MIMO (Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output) and the 3.5 GHz frequency, we reached out to a panel of industry experts and leaders who provided us with in-depth and insightful […]

September 17, 2020

WESTLAKE, TX — Sept. 16, 2020 — Verizon has recently completed lab trials with Corning and begun lab trials with Samsung on new 5G mmWave in-building solutions which, when commercially launched, will provide 5G mmWave coverage inside facilities such as […]

April 20, 2020

The municipal government of China’s Shenzhen city plans to deploy a total of 30,000 new 5G base stations during 2020, Chinese press reported. According to local municipal authorities, this deployment will allow Chinese carriers to provide full 5G coverage across […]