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 … Read More
After the results, the new government at the centre has taken the reins of the country, and the cabinet is all set up. With these things in place now, the government might be looking at auctioning the 4G and 5G Spectrum as soon as in September or October, an ET … Read More
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, … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
Chinese telecom equipment major Huawei on Tuesday said that India should address the constraints in the spectrum availability to make 5G technology-based services a success in the country. Speaking to IANS on the sidelines of the Huawei Global Analysts Summit 2019, Huawei Executive Director David Wang, who is also the … Read More
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