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Chakri K 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

Sneha Bhardwaj 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

Sneha Bhardwaj 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

Sneha Bhardwaj April 16th, 2019 3:40 PM 0 COMMENTS

India Should Address Spectrum Availability Issues to Make 5G a Success: Huawei

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 company's ICT strategy head, also pointed out that the Indian telecom market is currently faced with excess competition. "Huawei would... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj March 6th, 2019 3:48 PM 1 COMMENTS

Government Likely to Allocate Spectrum for 5G Trials in India by June: Report

In a pre-service rollout exercise for telcos, spectrum allocation for 5G trial and subsequent field experiments can take place June onwards, official sources said on Wednesday. The panel constituted for such an exercise would soon begin deliberations on the quantum of spectrum, the time period and venue to hold the 5G trial, live demonstrations on speed and latency of 5G among others, sources added. By the time the telcos start... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj February 28th, 2019 10:07 AM 0 COMMENTS

Heavy Data Usage in India Calls for Early Adoption of 5G Network: Ericsson

The humongous amount of data flowing in Indian telecom market shows that 5G network in the country is required soon, a senior official of Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson said Wednesday. "5G might be not so much discussed in India but to be honest with you, the amount of data that goes through those networks, from mobile broadband perspective, 5G is going to needed soon in India just to compliment... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj February 27th, 2019 6:11 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai Will Stick to its Recommended Price for 5G Spectrum: RS Sharma

Telecom regulator Trai will stick to its recommended price for spectrum including that for 5G services, its Chairman R S Sharma said after leading telecom operators complained about high base prices for the sale of frequencies. Trai Chairman R S Sharma said that the regulator, however, has recommended various measures to lower levies on the sector to help improve the financial health of stressed operators. "We have given reserve price... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj February 25th, 2019 8:47 PM 0 COMMENTS

5G Smartphone Shipments Likely to Exceed 140 Million in India by 2025: Report

While the world is going gaga over 5G at the ongoing MWC Barcelona, India is not even on the map for the technology's large-scale rollout this year, or even beyond. Although India is targeting 2020 for the 5G rollout, the country is yet to allocate 5G spectrum to operators even for the 5G trial of use cases. The entire 5G ecosystem, which involves original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), infrastructure, spectrum and... Read More

Chakri K February 25th, 2019 5:51 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Deploys Ciena’s Software Platforms to Offer Faster 4G and FTTH Data Speeds

Bharti Airtel today announced that it's deploying coherent optical and intelligent software platforms of Ciena to provide enhanced services to the customers. Airtel says that it's building the world's largest Photonic Control Plane networks in India. With this deployment, Airtel's backbone network will serve the aggressive demand for high-speed data services in India. After the entry of Reliance Jio to the Indian marker, the data consumption has seen a meteoric... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj February 20th, 2019 11:48 AM 0 COMMENTS

Huawei Did Not Receive Any Objections from the Indian Government Regarding 5G Trials: CEO

Politics is behind the debate and developments around security threat from Huawei equipment in various countries, Huawei India CEO Jay Chen said Tuesday. The official, however, said that the Chinese company has not received any objection from the Indian government so far. "Politics is behind all this," Chen told reporters of PTI when asked about countries talking about security threat from Huawei telecom equipment. Some countries, including Australia, have banned... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj February 19th, 2019 6:34 PM 0 COMMENTS

Huawei Ready to Begin 5G Trials in India With Government’s Approval

Amid reports suggesting that Huawei may not get the government's approval for 5G trials in India, Huawei India CEO Jay Chen stressed on Tuesday that the Chinese tech giant could begin the 5G trials within a month of approval from the government. "All of my engagements with the government have been positive so far. We are fully prepared. We can start the 5G trial within one month of getting approval... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj February 18th, 2019 3:22 PM 0 COMMENTS

5G-Enabled and Foldable Smartphones Will Steal the Show at MWC 2019

The buzz around the first 5G-enabled smartphone and foldable devices will be the talk of the town as the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 opens in Barcelona next week. According to Thomas Husson, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, a global market research firm, the sessions on 5G and foldable phones are likely to cast a shadow over MWC. "There is no denying that 5G is the infrastructure of... Read More