5G/6G

OPPO, a leading mobile device manufacturers, has selected Keysight Technologies’ 5G New Radio (NR) network emulation solutions for protocol and radio frequency (RF) performance validation in sub-6GHz frequency bands (FR1).  The Chinese-based smartphone manufacturer is targeting commercial release of its first 5G mobile device in 2019.

TIM, together with Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies has successfully completed the first 5G connection in Italy on TIM’s live network using the country’s first 5G prototype smartphone.

Project partners Rohde & Schwarz and Kathrein have reached two important milestones of the 5G TODAY research project. On December 4, a Rohde & Schwarz transmitter successfully went into operation at Bayerischer Rundfunk’s (BR) Wendelstein transmitter station.

Every time a new cellular phone standard comes out, we see new claims about the “end of WiFi.” When 3G was announced, the promise was that it would make WiFi (802.11b) redundant, which clearly turned out to be incorrect. With 4G (LTE), this story repeated itself and claimed it would put WiFi (802.11ac) in the shredder. And now the 5G message is that it will cover both the inside and outside of homes and buildings. It’s almost as...

Without an LTE connection, there is no 5G NR connection possible.

Deutsche Telekom is preparing the roll-out of its 5G-ready LTE-M technology in 2019 with the accelerated development of LTE-M solutions. The company has unveiled the finalists of the hubraum LTE-M Prototyping program at a summit in Vienna, Austria. The initiative was established by Deutsche Telekom’s in-house tech incubator hubraum in cooperation with its ICT services arm T-Systems. It builds on already implemented prototyping programs for ...

In a smart-city project to help the city of Kakinada, India, to monitor both air-and-noise pollution and other environmental hazards, Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the IoT, and Oizom, an environmental-monitoring-system provider, have announced that Kerlink’s Wirnet Stations are powering Oizom’s comprehensive, ambient air-quality monitoring system, Polludrone, in that city.

The wireless research arm of Rethink Technology Research, RAN Research, has released a new report ‘5G Deployment Trends 2018-2025 ‘Will 5G really be so different after all?’. It shows the mounting tensions in the 5G world; vendors are emphasising new business models, and trying to enable them, while operator spending plans, show they are more worried about sustaining the growth curve on mobile broadband.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Keysight Technologies and SK Telecom to collaborate on 5G network design development and testing technology. The MoU covers development of 5G device performance validation technology, test cases and processes to help verify that new products perform as intended on the mobile operator’s network.

A collaboration between Keysight Technologies and China Telecom has been extended as the two organisations look to accelerate commercial deployment of 5G technology. The collaboration now supports China Telecom’s 5G new radio (NR) device trials using Keysight’s 5G NR network emulation solutions, based on the company’s UXM 5G wireless test platform, for protocol and radio frequency (RF) performance validation.