2020-06-22
June saw a host of new 5G contracts and rollouts. Ericsson strengthened its position in China by winning 5G contracts in 2020 with all three major operators. Telefónica Deutschland, which operates under the O2 brand in Germany, selected Ericss
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Samsung, 5G, TELUS, Canada 2020-06-19
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has been selected as the 5G networks infrastructure supplier for TELUS (NYSE:TU), a world-leading telecommunications service provider in Canada. Samsung is rapidly expanding its customer pool, signing four new 5G contracts i
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Ericsson, 5G RAN, O2 UK 2020-06-11
Ericsson says Telefónica UK (O2 UK) has selected its 5G RAN kit to go "even further." When O2 announced that Ericsson, along with Nokia, were its main 5G kit providers last October, the Swedish supplier's equipment was lined up
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SmarTone, 5G, Hong Kong, Ericsson 2020-05-30
SmarTone has launched its 5G service in Hong Kong, offering high-speed 5G connectivity and broad network coverage both indoors and outdoors. SmarTone becomes the first mobile operator in Asia to deploy Ericsson Spectrum Sharing – a unique techn
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Nokia, Open RAN, Open RAN Policy Coalition 2020-05-23
Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that it has joined the Open RAN Policy Coalition to help enable a comprehensive and secure approach to 5G and future network generations. Alongside its customers and other industry stakeholders, Nokia will
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2020-05-02
Telstra has now upgraded its 5G radio access network (RAN) coverage footprint across Australia, connecting a Cloud Native 5G Core network to handle new 5G Standalone traffic. The 5G Standalone landmark achievement means that Telstra already has the capab
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Microsoft cloud, Microsoft, COVID-19 2020-04-30
Microsoft is thriving business-wise from the coronavirus outbreak. Lockdown measures have given a huge fillip to the software giant's cloud business and helped margins keep firm. The software giant posted a 15% year-on-year increase in revenue, to $
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Nokia, COVID-19 2020-04-30
Nokia has blamed the impact of the coronavirus for a €200 million ($218 million) hit to first-quarter sales and lowered profit targets for the year amid the economic uncertainty the virus has generated in its main addressable markets.The Finnish
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India's Airtel, Nokia, Vodafone Idea 2020-04-29
Indian telco giant Bharti Airtel has handed a massive contract to Finnish equipment maker Nokia for the rollout of a single radio access network (SRAN) in some of India's busiest communities. While the value of the deal was not cited in the official
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Qualcomm, 5G 2020-04-27
Qualcomm still expects global 5G handset shipments this year of between 175 and 225 million. That's the prediction the company provided before the COVID-19 outbreak, and that's the figure it's sticking with. "Launches [of 5G] across a
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