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Sneha Bhardwaj June 7th, 2019 4:39 PM 1 COMMENTS

DoT to Consult Home Ministry and PMO Before Taking Final Call on Huawei’s 5G Trials in India

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will consult with the Home Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) before taking a final call on allowing Chinese telecom major Huawei to take part in the upcoming 5G spectrum-based field trials, an official source said to IANS. "It is a security issue not a telecom or technology one, Home Ministry will have to be in the loop and also the PMO whose views... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj June 7th, 2019 2:00 PM 0 COMMENTS

Realme to Launch 5G Products This Year

Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth has announced that the firm would be among the first handset makers to launch 5G products this year. "#5GisReal... Straight out of meeting room with Sky Li. Glad to share with you our latest R&D updates: #realme will be among the first brands to bring 5G products globally this year. And we are determined to bring the best of technology to India as early as... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj June 6th, 2019 12:11 PM 0 COMMENTS

China Government Grants 5G License to Telcos for Commercial Use

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Thursday granted 5G licenses for commercial use, marking the beginning of a new era in the country's telecommunication industry. China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Broadcasting Network are the first batch of companies that obtained the licenses, reports Xinhua news agency. The 5G technology will establish a high-speed, mobile, safe and widespread new-generation information infrastructure, MIIT Minister Miao Wei... Read More

Chakri K 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

Sneha Bhardwaj 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

Chakri K June 3rd, 2019 9:38 AM 8 COMMENTS

5G Spectrum Auction May Happen by Year End With Trai Recommended Prices

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 Telecom report said. Also, the auction in the upcoming month for the 4G and 5G Spectrum might happen at the... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj 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

Sneha Bhardwaj 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

Sneha Bhardwaj 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

Sneha Bhardwaj 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

Sneha Bhardwaj 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

Sneha Bhardwaj 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