Telefónica Deutschland Tests O-RAN Tech In Bavaria
By Juan Pedro Tomás German operator Telefónica Deutschland expects to carry out a test of O-RAN technology with the aim...
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 480 Chipset Brings 5G To Low-end Phones
By Catherine Sbeglia Qualcomm has kicked off the new year by announcing the Snapdragon 480, its first 5G chipset designed...
TIM To Offer 5G Via DSS Tech In 12 Brazilian Cities By March 2021
By Juan Pedro Tomás Brazilian operator TIM Brasil has announced that its 5G network, which uses Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS),...
Nokia, Zain KSA Carry Out Indoor 5G Trial In Saudi Arabia
BY Juan Pedro Tomás Nokia recently announced that it has achieved a record 5G speed of 1.9 Gbps during a...
Magenta Telekom’s 5G Network Reaches 1,200 Sites Across Austria
By Juan Pedro Tomás Austrian operator Magenta Telekom, which is owned by German telecom group Deutsche Telekom, said its 5G...
UK Broadband Usage Doubles In 2020
By Stuart Thomson UK broadband usage more than doubled in 2020 with 50,000 Petabytes (PB) of data being consumed across...
Qualcomm Expands 5G Capabilities To Mobile Devices Powered by New Snapdragon 480 5G Mobile Platform
A First In The Snapdragon 4-Series By Godson Umejiego, Correspondent USA Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 480 5G...
India: Goa Proposes 200 Towers To Give A Boost To Connectivity
The state government has proposed the installation of 200 mobile towers across the state in two phases to improve internet...
South Korea’s 5G Network Speed Reaches 691Mbps Per Second
South Korea's 5G download speed and overall quality improved in the second half of the year from the first half...
From 4G Deals To OpenRAN: How Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Jio Changed The Vendor Landscape In 2020
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea kept modernising their networks throughout the year despite covid and AGR-led disruption. As per various estimates, a network traffic increase of about 15-20 per cent has forced Indian telcos to expand the network both in terms of coverage and capacity. Both telcos awarded new business to European gear vendors like Nokia and Ericsson during the year. Notably, Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE saw their business fall dramatically in 2020 due to geo-poloitical reasons. Airtel India's telecom sector, in the efforts of enabling policies including more...