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Category: 5G
T-Mobile Promises Nationwide 5G by 2020
Since moving forward with their merger with Sprint, T-Mobile has made it very clear that they are enormously committed to an aggressive 5G development plan. CEO John Legere confirmed that the rollout will being with 30 cities receiving 5G in 2018, including major markets New York and Los Angeles, with a commercial launch in 2019 […]
Nokia & T-Mobile Sign 3.5 billion 5G Deal
LONDON (Reuters) – T-Mobile US (TMUS.O) named Nokia (NOKIA.HE) to supply it with $3.5 billion(2.67 billion pounds) in next-generation 5G network gear, the firms said on Monday, marking the world’s largest 5G deal so far and concrete evidence of a new wireless upgrade cycle taking root. No.3 U.S. mobile carrier T-Mobile – which in April […]
Verizon Announces Houston, TX to get 5G
Samsung Electronics America’s years of research into millimeter wave appear to be paying off, as the infrastructure vendor has scored Houston as the second city in which Verizon has selected Samsung as its 5G equipment supplier. Samsung announced in January that it was supplying Verizon with commercial 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network solutions in Sacramento, Calif. […]
Verizon Discusses Future of 5G on Call
In a conference call this week, Verizon discussed their growth as well as their plans for the future, particular centered around 5G. CEO Lowell McAdam confirmed Verizon’s emphasis on 5G and said that the company will be a market leader in 5G: “”We don’t play to play. We play to win. Network leadership is at […]
FCC Announces Spectrum Auctions That Will Drive 5G
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has announced two spectrum auctions, planned to begin in November, that will contribute to the development of 5G. According to Pai’s blog, the FCC will vote in its August 2 meeting to conduct a November 2018 auction of spectrum in the 28 GHz band, to be followed soon after by an auction […]
Boing Wireless Discusses Future of 5G and Wireless
Derek Peterson, CTO of Los Angeles-based mobile internet and WiFi company Boing Wireless, did an interview with RCR Wireless in which he discussed 5G and how it will converge with WiFi. As he explained, “To meet the demand of a new connected generation—and accommodate applications like IoT, autonomous cars, AR/VR and artificial intelligence—we’ll need all […]
AT&T Fixed 5G Gets Tested in South Bend
AT&T has progressed from field and lab trials to trialing their 5G fixed-wireless service to several residences in South Bend, Indiana. The results thus far are proving 5G’s capabilities, with one household reporting speeds of 1Gbps and latency under 20ms – performance that exceeds traditional home internet options and blows 4G out of the water. […]
FCC Looks at Revising Regulations for 3.5GHz Spectrum to Benefit 5G
Countries around the world have focused on harmonizing the 3.5GHz spectrum for 5G use on an international basis, but outdated regulations on that spectrum could impede the use of it in the U.S. The current regulations were created under the assumption that the 3.5GHz spectrum would be used like Wi-Fi, with businesses or manufacturers and […]
The 5G Indoor Coverage Disadvantage
There’s no question that 5G will provide enormous advantages over older networks when it comes to speed and bandwidth capacity, but 5G does have a glaring limitation that will make it difficult to replace older networks for some time: signal penetration. The higher frequencies that will be utilized by 5G networks are less able to […]
