5G/6G

Ranplan Wireless is collaborating with the University of Warwick on a project funded by Innovate UK’s Geospatial Commission to identify wireless blackspots to support the rollout of 5G. The COCKPIT-5G project will use crowd blackspot intelligence sourcing and social media techniques along with real-time natural language processing to curate consumer data and build up an accurate connectivity map of the UK. 

Following the recent Conformance Agreement Group (CAG) #59 meeting, Keysight Technologies now supports a leading number of 5G new radio (NR) conformance radio frequency (RF) test cases validated by the Global Certification Forum (GCF).

Wireless communication is driving Industry 4.0 and 5G is at the forefront, with billions of machines, devices, and sensors just waiting to be connected. 5G plays such an important role that it is being designed with the industry’s needs specifically in mind. The thing with Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the connected industry – whatever you want to call it, one thing is undeniable: it is growing, and fast...

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is increasingly becoming a challenge– especially for new generation mobile phones and 5G technology. Heraeus now offers a new complete solution consisting of silver ink, inkjet printer and curing equipment for EMI shielding. This system is reportedly less expensive and more effective than all other options available.

Finland has officially entered the era of 5G, as what is reportedly the first 5G phone in the Nordic countries was sold to Harri Hellström today at Elisa Kulma. Finland is one of the most advanced countries in terms of adopting 5G. Veli-Matti Mattila, the CEO of Elisa Corporation, handed over the first 5G phone in the Nordic countries to the customer at Elisa Kulma in Helsinki. 

  The potential for 5G to revolutionise the way people shop on the go is unlikely as 65.0% of shoppers prefer to browse products on their smartphones and then make purchases on a laptop or desktop at home, according to the latest consumer survey by data and analytics company, GlobalData.

Ericsson predicts that by 2023 every active smartphone in the US will consume 48 gigabytes of data per month. This is roughly seven times higher than in 2017. In global markets, this trend is the same, driven by improvements in our smartphones, increasingly data-heavy content, and better, more affordable data plans.

A new generation of experts in 5G networks will be trained by the University of Huddersfield, which has been awarded funding of more than a million euros for its central role in a Europe-wide project involving ten academic and industrial partners. There will be a focus on embedding artificial intelligence into 5G systems, the use of drone-based technology to improve communications, and new 'beam-forming' antennae that will direct a separate ...

T-Mobile, Qualcomm Technologies, and Ericsson, have achieved the world’s first known low-band 5G data session on a commercial 5G modem. The data session was conducted in T-Mobile’s lab in Bellevue, Washington on 600MHz, the same spectrum T-Mobile is using to roll out broad, nationwide 5G in the US, marking a major milestone in delivering 5G across America beyond urban areas.

Viavi Solutions has announced that Samsung has selected the VIAVI TM500 Network Tester and TeraVM 5G Core Emulator to validate 5G network equipment performance. The partnership marks the first wrap-around testing of 5G stand-alone (SA) base station equipment, and emulating real-world conditions enables end-to-end test of the radio access network (RAN), thereby ensuring performance and reliability in the field.