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Philippines’ Globe Telecom to deploy “Air Fiber 5G” this month
Globe Telecom has made the Philippines the first country in Southeast Asia to offer commercial “5G” fixed wireless internet. The rollout of these services, from early July 2019, form part of Globe’s efforts to connect two million homes across the Philippines by 2020. The at home ‘Air Fiber 5G’ postpaid plans that Globe has released… Read more
FCC Commissioner: Choosing the WRONG LANE (mmWave) in the race for 5G Spectrum
by Jessica Rosenworcel, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Wired.com – edited by Alan J Weissberger, IEEE ComSoc Edited Summary: Lost in the glowing 5G hype and headlines is the fact the United States is making choices that will leave rural America behind. These choices will harm our global leadership in 5G and could create new… Read more
5G Telecom Investments, Hype, Huawei & 5G replacement for cable broadband?
Wharton’s Kevin Werbach and Jeffrey Reed from Virginia Tech discuss whether 5G technology will live up to its promise. Telecom companies and other providers will have to invest billions to make 5G a reality — not only to buy more spectrum, but also to build out the infrastructure. Because it’s yet uncertain how much revenue… Read more
India’s 5G may lag due to low telecom infrastructure growth rate and insufficient fiber for backhaul
by Muntazir Abbas (edited by Alan J Weissberger) from Economic Times: India’s 5G ambition may be thwarted as mobile infrastructure expansion is likely to remain low-paced following policy bottlenecks in the federal governance structure. Add to that India’s weak fiberization, which is mandatory for high-speed wireless network backhaul. The country’s existing telecom infrastructure catering to a… Read more
Germany’s Contentious 5G Auction May Squeeze Telcos
Germany’s auction of 5G frequencies, now into its 10th week, has drawn 6 billion euros ($6.7 billion) in bids so far. That amount raised in a record 405 auction rounds for the 41 blocks on offer is more than experts thought companies would spend all together for all rounds. The duration of this auction has no… Read more
WDM-PON to Enable 5G+FTTH Converged Gigaband Access
SOURCE: ZTE Introduction: 5G networks will be distinctly different then 4G-LTE networks, even though all so called “5G” pre-standard deployments use 3GPP Rel 15 5G-NR NSA (Non Stand Alone) for the data plane, with a heavy LTE anchor for: signaling, network management and mobile packet core (EVC). ITU-R will specify the radio related standards for… Read more
Huawei to compete in global consumer electronics market with world’s first “5G” TV
Huawei is reportedly preparing to produce the world’s first 5G TV as a way to challenge Apple and Samsung in the global consumer electronics market. The TV would include a “5G” modem [1] and 8K display resolution, allowing users to download high-resolution programming over cellular connections. Huawei would then be able to use some type… Read more
Waiting for 5G? Researchers want early development of 6G telecom technologies in South Korea
by Lim Chang-won; email : [email protected] South Korea has become a front runner in disseminating 5G mobile services, but researchers were not complacent, calling for the early and pre-emptive development of next-generation technologies for market advantage as it did in code-division multiple access (CDMA), a second-generation channel access method used in mobile phone standards.South Korea started… Read more
Bangkok Post: Struggling to get 5G right -Doubts remain over whether Thailand is prepared?
by Komsan Tortermvasana and William Hicks of the Bangkok Post As Thailand’s telecom operators race to develop 5G infrastructure in a timely manner, the government is finding ways to subsidize development by delaying payments for past auctions and changing the sales process for the next round. This has sparked debate on the efficacy of such… Read more
CRU: Fiber deployments in China to slow, but will increase worldwide by 2% this year
For the second year in a row, deployments of fiber-optic cable in China should decline year-on-year, according to CRU. And, for the second year in a row, deployments elsewhere in the world should offset this decline and lead to overall growth – just not as much in 2019 as in 2018, predicts the market research firm…. Read more