June 6th, 2019 10:01 AM 0 COMMENTS

5G Mobile Connections in India Expected to Reach 88 Million by 2025: GSMA

Global telecom industry body GSMA expects India to have 920 million unique mobile subscribers by 2025 which will include 88 million 5G connections. "5G connections in India are forecast to reach 88 million by 2025...This will leave India trailing regional peers such as China, which is set to see almost 30% of its total connection base on 5G by 2025," the GSMA Intelligence report released in May said. It said... Read More

June 4th, 2019 4:45 PM 0 COMMENTS

Recommended Base Price of 5G Airwaves in India Nearly 40% higher Than Other Markets: COAI

A day after the government announced its intention to hold spectrum auctions in the current year, industry body COAI said that the recommended base price of 5G radiowaves is nearly 30-40% higher than the rates in markets like South Korea and the US. "Majority of our operators have indicated that 5G spectrum is far too prohibitively expensive and that their balance sheets can't afford this," Cellular Operators' Association of India... Read More

May 29th, 2019 5:14 PM 0 COMMENTS

MediaTek Unveils 7nm 5G-Enabled Chipset at Computex 2019

Working to ensure that the 5G wave touches low-cost handsets, Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company MediaTek on Wednesday introduced its 7nm 5G system-on-chip (SoC) designed to power the first wave of 5G smartphones at Computex 2019 in Taiwan. The integrated 5G chipset, with the MediaTek Helio M70 5G modem built in, includes ARM's Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPU and the company's most advanced AI processing unit (APU) to meet the power and... Read More

May 28th, 2019 2:42 PM 0 COMMENTS

Lenovo and Qualcomm Team Up for First 5G Laptop

Amid the ongoing trade tensions between the US and China, US-based chip-maker Qualcomm and Chinese computer-maker Lenovo has teamed up to introduce the first 5G laptop, powered by Snapdragon. Code-named "Project Limitless", the 5G-enabled PC would be "the world's first 7nm platform purpose-built for PCs that offers 5G connectivity", TechCrunch quoted the companies as describing the device on Monday. The laptop would run on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx Compute Platform, which... Read More

May 23rd, 2019 4:58 PM 0 COMMENTS

5G Trials and Spectrum Auction are Key Agendas for Telecom Ministry Under New Government

Preparing the Cabinet note for spectrum auction, rolling out of the new digital communications policy and establishing regulatory sandboxes, 5G technology trials, policy on experimentation and trial spectrum for technologies in June, will top the agenda of the Union Telecom Ministry over the next three months once the new government takes over. With election results indicative of a return of the Modi government, the telecom ministry  has started getting its... Read More

May 21st, 2019 3:47 PM 0 COMMENTS

DoT Need to Commence 5G Spectrum Auction in India at the Earliest: Tech Mahindra

The Department of Telecom need to commence the auction of 5G spectrum in India as the regulators in some countries have already formulated policies and initiated spectrum auctions for the 5G rollout in their respective nations, a senior official of the IT giant Tech Mahindra has said. Manish Vyas, President of Communications Business and Chief Executive Officer of Network Services, Tech Mahindra said 4G is yet to touch all parts... Read More

May 14th, 2019 5:21 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone 5G Network to Go Live in the UK on July 3

Vodafone on Tuesday announced that its 5G network would go live in the UK for both common consumers as well as business customers on July 3, giving the UK its first official 5G launch date. "Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and London will be among the first cities in the world to receive 5G and Vodafone will price 5G the same as 4G," Vodafone wrote in a blog post.... Read More

May 8th, 2019 11:39 AM 0 COMMENTS

Telcos Could Start 5G Trials in India Next Month, Spectrum Allocation to Happen in the Next 15 Days

The much-awaited network trial for 5G services in the country is slated to start from June, with the Telecom Ministry panel recommending spectrum for the test run to the incumbent telcos for a three-month period. The panel which deliberated on the quantum and duration of the spectrum trial has recommended 5G spectrum to Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio initially for three months, which can be scaled up to one... Read More

May 8th, 2019 9:38 AM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Organises Workshop to Deliberate Use Cases, Challenges and Requisites of 5G Technology

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) organised a workshop on ‘Enabling 5G in India’ on May 1, 2019. The workshop was held with the idea of deliberating and ideating on the issues related to 5G and its rollout in the country. The workshop also hosted discussions on 5G use cases and the commercial, regulatory and infrastructural requirements and implications of these use-cases. Trai chairman, Ram Sewak Sharma took to... Read More

May 7th, 2019 6:40 PM 0 COMMENTS

Smartphone Users Ready to Pay 20% Premium for 5G Services: Report

Smartphone users are willing to pay a 20% premium for 5G services, while half of the early adopters would pay as much as 32% more, says an Ericsson study on Tuesday. One in five smartphone users' data usage could reach more than 200GB per month on a 5G device by 2025, said the Ericsson "ConsumerLab" report. Average world smartphone data usage in 2018 stood at 5.6GB per month and is... Read More

April 16th, 2019 7:14 PM 0 COMMENTS

Huawei Predicts 5G Subscriber Base to Reach 2.8 Billion by 2025

Chinese telecom major Huawei Technologies on Tuesday raised the market demand projection for 5G services and forecast the figure of 2.8 billion 5G users by 2025 and 58% global coverage by this ultra-fast spectrum-based services. "The 5G subscriber base will touch 2.8 billion by 2025 and 58% of the population will be covered by this technology-based services. A whopping 6.5 million base stations will be in use for supporting such... Read More

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