5G is going to change the world. Find out how this exciting technology is going to reshape your industry at this year’s Total Telecom Congress April 20th Chinese province Shenzhen plans to add 30,000 5G base stations this year, adding to the 15,500 they build last year.  US operator GCI has brought 5G to Alaska for the first time. Verizon says it’s still “on track” to deploy 5G in 30 additional cities this year despite disruption from the pandemic.   April 17th Ofcom have released an updated 5G electromagnetic frequency report, which again shows the radiation levels to be safe. Polish regulator, the Urzad Komunikacji Elektronicznej (Office of Electronic Communications)…

5G is going to change the world. Find out how this exciting technology is going to reshape your industry at this year’s Total Telecom Congress

April 20th

Chinese province Shenzhen plans to add 30,000 5G base stations this year, adding to the 15,500 they build last year. 

US operator GCI has brought 5G to Alaska for the first time.

Verizon says it’s still “on track” to deploy 5G in 30 additional cities this year despite disruption from the pandemic.

 

April 17th

Ofcom have released an updated 5G electromagnetic frequency report, which again shows the radiation levels to be safe.

Polish regulator, the Urzad Komunikacji Elektronicznej (Office of Electronic Communications), has confirmed the delay of its upcoming 5G spectrum auction due to the coronavirus. No alternative plans for the auction have been presented at this time.

 

April 16th

Samsung has announced its partnership with Xilinx to make use of the latters adaptive compute acceleration platform for their 5G solutions.

 

April 15th

Turkcell taps Mavenir for virtualised IMS solution for voLTE and future 5G networks

BT selects Ericsson for 4G and 5G core components, but seems to be in no hurry to remove the Huawei equipment.

The UK5G Testbed & Trials Working Group have launched a Security-Sub Group focussing on the development of security policies and principles for the new technology.

China Mobile‘s annual report shows 50,000 5G base stations built in 50 cities and 15.5 million 5G subscribers.

Bad news for 5G conspiracy theorists as French spectrum angency ANFR publishes preliminary report showing 5G exposure from pilot projects, even at full power, is well below the regulatory limit.

Proximus is pausing its 5G deployment in the city of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve until it can allay the residents healthcare concerns about the new technology.  

 

April 14th 

Telmex

has transferred its 50 MHz of 3.5 GHz spectrum to sister company

Telcel

, in preparation for the latter’s

5G deployment

 

 

Samsung

are claiming a new

5G speed record

, having achieved 8.5 Gbps across two devices.

 

 

April 13th 

 

Ericsson

has announced it will be supplying Kansas-based operator

Nex-Tech Wireless

with

5G RAN and core

components.

 

This Morning co-host

Eamonn Holmes

receives backlash after lending support to 5G–coronavirus

conspiracy theories

. (Edit: Holmes has since apologised for his statements and said that there is “no scientific evidence to substantiate any of those 5G theories”.) 

 

 

 

Huawei

VP Victor Zhang publishes an

open letter

defending the company’s role in UK connectivity

 

 

April 12th 

 

Facebook

is taking ‘

aggressive measures

’ to remove misinformation linking 5G to the coronavirus from its platform

 

Coronavirus pressure means

Dish

may be unable to fulfil its

5G network obligations

related to the

Sprint–T-Mobile

merger. If it fails to provide 5G coverage to 70% of the US by 2023, the company could face around $2 billion in fines.

 

 

April 11th

 

5G conspiracy theorists

set fire

to Dutch phone towers

 

BT

 CEO Philip Jansen, himself recently recovered from COVID-19, has called for an end to

5G conspiracy theories

and the resulting abuse to telecoms staff 

 

“We all need to be able to recognise conspiracy theories, and to stop them before they become harmful. They are just like a virus – if we starve them of the ability to reach new people, they will die out, and we can all focus on coming together as one nation to get through these most challenging of times.”

 

 

April 10th

 

China Mobile

taps

ZTE

to implement the 5G Message Center and send China’s

first 5G message

based on the GSMA’s UP2.4 standard.

 

 

April 9th

 

 

China Unicom Beijing

and

Huawei

sign and memorandum of understanding for the ‘

5G Capital

’ joint innovation project, which will see the two parties work together on pilot programmes for six new 5G solutions.

 

Hungarian operator

Magyar Telekom

launches its commercial

5G network

 

Erillisverkot Finland

selects

Ericsson

’s

5G core

for public safety network

 

Nokia

launch new products in its

AirScale

range, including new MIMO adaptive antennas and compact dual and triple-band remote radio heads to support cell site deployment requirements.

 

 

April 8th 

 

World Wide Technology

develops blueprint to accelerate deployment of 4G/5G

open virtualised RAN

solutions with

Cisco

and

Altiostar Technology

 

 

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