Killed off by NTT DoCoMo: NB-IoT still kicking globally, but for how long?

Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched, Jeremy Cowan editorial director of VanillaPlus turned to industry watchers for their

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Nokia supporting SoftBank Corp. in completing the 5G connected car test

Nokia provides end-to-end 5G portfolio to SoftBank Corp to have successfully completed tests demonstrating that non-standalone 5G technology can be used to commercially operate connected cars.

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Keysight Enables mobile operators to accelerate 5G with 5G device test cases

Keysight Technologies, Inc. , a technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world,

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3.67Gbps, Sunrise and Huawei set record in 5G network speed

Sunrise and Huawei have achieved a top speed of 3.67Gbps downlink with multiple 5G smartphones in one 5G cell in Zürich. It is a new milestone of Huawei and Sunrise’s

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5G technologies, spectrum, radios, and networks, and their ‘positive global impact’ explored in 5G Americas report

5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas, has published Global 5G: Implications of a Transformational Technology, a white paper produced by Rysavy

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Wireless Broadband Alliance and NGMN examine options for convergence, management of Wi-Fi 6 and 5G

Mobile operators have now received further verification that Wi-Fi will play a critical role to the success of 5G, as illustrated in a new white paper developed by the Wireless

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Rohde & Schwarz claims industry’s first 5G location-based services session using Snapdragon X55 modem

Rohde & Schwarz, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, have successfully verified an A-GPS control-plane LPP test session over 5G NR using a device powered

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SaT5G project reports successful demos of 5G-over- satellite use cases at EuCNC 2019 event in Valencia

The SaT5G project has announced a number of successful demonstrations of 5G over satellite at the 2019 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2019) in Valencia, Spain.

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China Media, China Mobile, and Huawei jointly completed the verification of UHD live streaming through 5G SA network slices

The China Media Group, China Mobile, and Huawei claimed to complete the first UHD live streaming verification through a real end-to-end 5G network slice. This is claimed to be the industry’s first live

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MediaTek and Ericsson place standalone 5G call on 2.6GHz band

Ericsson’s ecosystem collaboration with MediaTek has resulted in a successful end-to-end standalone (SA) 5G data call on a chipset on the 2.6GHz band. This is a key stepping stone for

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