The International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) annual report found steady but uneven growth of internet connectivity worldwide. “Facts and Figures” found that since its commercial launch in 2019, 5G mobile networks have reached nearly 40% of the world’s population. It is…
T-Mobile is offering free 5G connectivity on the Microsoft Surface Pro 9 tablet for 90 days or 30 GB of service, whichever comes first. The offer also includes 200MB of roaming but does not extend to international use. Importantly, the…
New York, New York – November 16, 2023 – Verizon Business and the Norfolk International Terminal (NIT) today announced an agreement to build a Verizon Private 5G Network at their Virginia facility, following the successful deployment of Verizon Private 5G…
Plano, Texas — October 16, 2023 — /PRNewswire/ — Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) announced today that Appalachian Wireless, an East Kentucky Network (EKN) company, has chosen Ericsson for a multi-year Radio Access Network (RAN) modernization project to bring world-class 5G technologies to underserved…
Bellevue, Washington and Bonn, Germany — October 15, 2023 — What’s the news: T-Mobile US and Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier have completed successful testing of 5G Standalone (5G SA) roaming, leveraging Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier’s Security Edge Protection Proxy (SEPP) to…
Bellevue, Washington – October 12, 2023 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) is taking connectivity to the next level for hundreds of thousands of Virginians. Today the company announced that over the last two years, it has made significant…
Twenty percent of consumers are willing to pay more for 5G if it has differentiated quality of service, according to new research from Ericsson ConsumerLab. The additional amount those consumers are willing to pay could be as high as 11%….
5G is the fastest growing wireless cellular technology and will exceed 4G LTE by more than 2.5 billion connections in 2028, according to a 5G forecast from 5G Americas and Omdia. During the past six months, 331 million 5G connections…
Verizon touted gains it has made involving its 5G and fixed wireless access (FWA) services in a blog post today. The post highlighted key achievements on its multiyear network expansion and update roadmap. The impact of the upgrade is evident…
Holograms replaced more commonly used avatars as Bell Canada, Verizon, Vodafone and Matsuko conducted what they called “the first live transatlantic collaborative meeting connecting multiple holographic people in Canada, the US and the UK using 5G and multi-access edge computing…
The FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) today that seeks comment on previously established plans to use a reverse auction process to award funding to cover some of the costs of making 5G service available in areas where…