You wouldn’t necessarily describe it as unobtrusive, but Mynmar’s first telecom tower constructed from bamboo, which has been installed in Thanlyin, a major port city, is certainly sustainable.
Wiicom has tapped Intracom Telecom for a network delivering mobile and ultra-broadband services to residential consumers and businesses across Cameroon that cannot be reached by fibre.
According to reports in the Chinese press, the country’s leading operator is targeting the signing of some 70 million 5G users by the end of 2020.
The city of Jerusalem is deploying Siklu’s millimeter wave (mmWave) core and access network equipment for an ongoing project which will become one of the largest municipal networks in the world.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) has granted Bharti Airtel Lanka a 5MHz block of 900MHz spectrum.
MTN South Africa has selected Ericsson as a 5G network modernization vendor. Ericsson will supply 5G products and solutions from its radio access network (RAN), transport and core portfolios, with commercial rollout expected to start in 2020.
Pan-African operator group MTN is deploying more than 5000 OpenRAN sites across its 21 African operations.
Zain, an operator with a commercial footprint in eight Middle Eastern and African countries, has selected Ericsson to build its 5G network in Bahrain.
Telefonica has selected Comtech EF Data Corp’s Heights Networking Platform for a multi-year program to upgrade Vivo Brazil and Telefonica Argentina’s networks in support of 2G, 3G and LTE backhaul.
Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is using Intracom Telecom’s WiBAS Point-to-MultiPoint (PtMP) technology to offer state-of-the-art microwave connectivity solutions to its customers.
Infinet Wireless has made a number of new landmark implementation agreements across the African and Latin American markets.
All the world's leading operators are eager to compete for 5G but how can a 5G network be built quickly, transcend the 4G experience and enable a variety of industrial applications?
The race to 5G roll-out continues as next generation technology is tested in Costa Rica, assessed in Estonia and actually launched in Guam.
Partnerships and plans relating to 5G have recently been announced in Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Seychelles company Intelvision, which describes itself as “a 100 percent Seychellois-owned company providing TV and internet services to the local market”, is reportedly moving into the provision of mobile services in the country.
VEON has announced that its joint venture company in Kazakhstan, KaR-Tel LLC, operating under the Beeline brand, has launched a large-scale 5G network trial in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
5G may not be here yet as an end-user offering in most countries, but trials and announcements in South America and the Middle East indicate that it may not be too far off.
Kazakhstan’s KaR-Tel has launched a large-scale 5G network trial in the city of Shymkent.
PT Indosat Tbk. (Indosat Ooredoo), a leading Indonesian digital telecommunications company, has agreed the sale of 3,100 of its mobile communications towers.
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has selected Ericsson to deploy its 5G-ready Cloud Packet Core in Airtel’s Pan India core network.
The date for the Colombian 700MHz, 1900MHz, 2500MHz auction has finally been agreed.
Vendor Nokia and operator Hutchison 3 Indonesia (3ID) have announced the completion of what is described as the first 5G end-to-end live network trial in Indonesia.
Ongoing plans for 5G rollout in South America have reached a new stage in Chile and Peru this week.
Kuwait-headquartered mobile telecommunications company Zain Group has announced that its operation in Saudi Arabia has launched 5G commercial services.
Hard on the heels of the announcement of 5G trials in the country, one of Malaysia’s leading mobile network operators, Maxis, has signed a deal with China’s Huawei Technologies for the provisioning of a 5G network.
Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is now offering commercial 4G services across several cities in the country.
Nepal Telecom is extending its 4G network services offering to around 25 cities beyond the Kathmandu Valley.
As 4G-related activity continues across Africa there’s news of promotional efforts in Senegal and an imminent rollout in Zanzibar.
Among many 5G demonstrations planned or recently held, two that certainly put 5G centre stage – almost literally – are in Myanmar and Brazil.
Malaysia, Nigeria and Bolivia have all been trialling 5G – at least one of them with an eye to 5G rollout in 2020.
At the Mobile 360 Series – Digital Societies conference in Kuala Lumpur the GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has launched the fourth edition of what it calls a key annual report on the region.
According to reports from the Philippines press, Globe Telecom has revealed plans to improve its wireless networks in the capital Manila, underpinned by an agreement with the city authorities.
Recent news from Vietnam, Lebanon and Mexico indicates growing 5G activity in all three countries.
South African data-only operator Rain has launched what is being called the African continent's first commercial 5G network.
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