Qualcomm invests $200 million in 5G start-ups
Qualcomm is working on 5G hardware for smartphones and other devices. However, the company also wants startups to get involved in this market and to develop new use cases for 5G. To this end, it is now setting up an investment fund.
Through the new Qualcomm Ventures 5G Ecosystem Fund, Qualcomm h... Read more
Huawei to develop radars for autonomous cars
With 5G, all kinds of new possibilities will come, including connected cars. This has to do with the low latency that the new network offers. Huawei knows that too, and will use its 5G technology to develop radars for self-driving vehicles.
Xu Zhijun, the chairman of the Huawei board of director... Read more
Huawei will produce 5G base stations without American components
Huawei claims to have started making 5G-base stations
that do not contain any American components. Next year, the total production of
these base stations should more than doubled, as more countries will roll out the
technology.
Founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei states that the mass production of the... Read more
Juniper Networks: 5G makes mobile edge increasingly important
The introduction of 5G means that both telecom companies
and network suppliers have to make concrete plans for this latest mobile
technology. Especially since business applications are still the best use cases
for the time being. Juniper Networks works closely with the Swedish Ericsson
company and ... Read more
VMware wants to better support 5G usage with Telco and Edge Cloud
VMware announces a number of additions to its portfolio regarding Telco and Edge Cloud. Among other things, VMware will support real-time intelligence for telecom networks. Improved security and automation is also provided for telecom, edge and IoT applications.
According to Rajiv Ramaswami, COO... Read more
Dell and AT&T work together on open source 5G network edge infrastructure
Dell Technologies and AT&T are working together on an open source infrastructure, which enables the network edge before the transition from 4G to 5G takes place. The two companies hope that other network operators will standardize on their blueprint for 5G infrastructure.
The network edge ref... Read more
FCC: radio frequencies smartphones with 5G technology are safe
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) states in a new proposal that current levels of radio frequency emissions from mobile phones are safe. This applies not only to older and current mobile phones, but also to the smartphones that will be using the new 5G technology.
The FCC carried out si... Read more
Huawei is fully committed to simple, faster and cheaper 5G
Huawei is currently investing heavily in 5G, as was
recently shown during an event in London where the product announcements for
MWC 2019 were already presented. Many hardware solutions, but also associated
software, were reviewed. All this under the motto: simpler, faster and cheaper.
During th... Read more
T-Mobile successfully establishes 5G connection with OPPO smartphone
For the first time, T-Mobile has set up a 5G connection with a smartphone. The connection was set up with an OPPO Reno 5G, and provided a maximum download speed of 850 Mbps.
The connection was set up in the T-Mobile 5G Field Lab. In this lab - which is located at the head office in The Hague - new p... Read more