5G is a garden with forking paths

Everything used to be so straightforward. Customers couldn’t get enough mobile service – first voice, then data – and 3GPP brought vendors and operators together on a single path to

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Open source and standards – The path towards 5G and the Internet of Things

Following the success of last year’s event, the 2nd workshop “Open Source and Standards – The Path Towards 5G and the Internet of Things”, jointly organised by NGMN and the

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New tricks needed to stop the €45 billion counterfeit smartphone market

When billionaire Alibaba founder Jack Ma wrote in an open letter earlier this year, “We need to fight counterfeits the same way, we fight drunk driving,” his sentiments reflected how

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Ericsson announces a 5G access network – but what is 5G?

On August 31, 2016, Ericsson announced the launch of its new AIR 6468 cellular radio. Ericsson stated that together with the 5G Plug-Ins announced in June, and the (already available)

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The evolving supply chain and its implications for the CTO

The supply chain into CSPs is constantly evolving and CTOs have to adapt accordingly.

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GSMA urges governments to secure future of mobile internet at WRC-15

The GSMA marked the start of the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-15) by calling on governments across the world to allocate the spectrum required to drive continued global growth of

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New spectrum is needed to deliver future IMT vision

“5G mobile systems will require access to new spectrum bands supporting much wider bandwidths than those available today if the full capabilities of the 5G vision are to be delivered. Therefore

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