With 5G networks in the U.S. still in their infancy, there’s already some early rumblings of another G. And I’m not talking about 6G (which is in development). I’m talking about the dreaded half-G.  During Huawei’s annual global analyst conference...

Ericsson and MediaTek combined millimeter wave (mmWave) and mid-band spectrum bands in a test of New Radio Dual Connectivity (NR DC) for standalone 5G. Vendors and carriers have been working on 5G carrier aggregation (CA) technology to combine different spectrum channels...

Vodafone Germany CEO said the operator is the first in Europe to take off the so-called LTE training wheels of its 5G network, launching standalone (SA) 5G on Monday with vendor partner Ericsson. All mobile radio sites in the 3.5 GHz...

This week Verizon and AT&T seemed to walk back their timelines a bit in terms of rolling out their 5G standalone (SA) cores. In mid-2020, Verizon said it had completed the first data session on its new 5G SA core,...

Nokia has helped deploy a 5G standalone RAN sharing network for two mobile operators in Singapore, in what the Finnish vendor called a first for South East Asia. Nokia secured a deal with Antina, a joint venture between operators M1...

T-Mobile today announced it has made an unspecified investment in The Drone Racing League (DRL) via the T-Mobile Ventures fund, with plans to increase its expertise in 5G drone technology over the next several years. As DRL’s exclusive U.S. 5G...

Ericsson on Thursday said KDDI will use the vendor’s cloud-native dual-mode 5G core to launch standalone 5G services in its network in Japan. That comes two days after Nokia disclosed a deal to supply Japan’s SoftBank with cloud-native 5G Core...

Dish Network announced a partnership with Intel to integrate Intel 5G infrastructure technology into Dish’s buildout of its virtualized, open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) 5G network. Specifically, Dish said it has selected the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor, the Intel Ethernet...

Rakuten Mobile today launched its 5G service in parts of six prefectures in Japan, and in conjunction it announced a new Rakuten 5G smartphone. The 5G launch was originally planned for June, but the company delayed it due to Covid-19....