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Cambodia’s Cellcard reportedly plans to roll out nationwide LTE services by April, becoming first past the post in the race to deploy 4G services covering the whole country. The operator recently contracted Nokia to expand and modernize its 3G and LTE…
Australia’s Telstra has launched the world’s first commercial Gigabit LTE network in the central business districts of key state capital cities. The operator’s LTE-A network in these CBDs has been upgraded to support 4X4 multiple input multiple output (MIMO),…
Mobile operators, especially those with multi-screen assets and ambitions of providing superior mobile video and data experiences to customers, should adopt eMBMS, or LTE Broadcast, more aggressively, says a new report by Strategy Analytics. Accessing mobile…
Singtel has announced the nationwide deployment of its 450Mbps LTE-Advanced service as part of the operator’s journey to 5G. The company has upgraded its LTE network in Singapore to support the pre-5G technology 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (256 QAM).…
Huawei has conducted a live demonstration involving 5G and LTE dual connectivity for a 4K video-on-demand service, achieving single user peak throughput of 21.1Gbps. At last week’s Global Mobile Broadband Forum, Huawei conducted a demonstration based on its…
YTL Communications in Malaysia has deployed Elitecore’s Revenue and Customer Management (RCM) Platform to roll out its 4G LTE high speed data & VoLTE services. The platform will enable the operator to roll out new business models like, HD Voice (VoLTE),…
Nokia has secured a contract to deploy the world’s first LTE-R (LTE-railway) LTE network in South Korea. The vendor will deploy the network on a railway line between Wonju and Gangneung as part of a line extension to prepare for next year’s Winter Olympics in…
Telstra and its technology supplier Ericsson claim to have achieved a world-first with a test that used four separate radio frequency spectrum bands with five carriers for very high long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) bit rates. The trial at an undisclosed…
Ericsson has announced plans to commercially launch the first 5G New Radio (NR) equipment in 2017, a key enabling technology for future 5G networks. The 5G NR radio supports Ericsson’s Massive MIMO and Multi-User MIMO 5G plugins. It uses advanced antennas and…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom is fast-tracking the rollout of LTE over its recently-acquired 700-MHz spectrum. The operator revealed it has recently rolled out more than 150 700-MHz base stations, mostly in Metro Manila. The new sites cover major business…
Vodafone Fiji has become one of the first operators in the Pacific to roll out an LTE-Advanced network. The operator has gone live with an LTE-A network that currently covers 65% of the population, and aims to expand this to 85% by Christmas. The network…
Singapore’s M1 has announced it has commenced Singapore’s first commercial HetNet rollout in collaboration with Nokia. As part of the rollout, M1 plans to progressively deploy Nokia’s Flexi Zone small cells and Wi-Fi equipment at hundreds of high-traffic…
Ooredoo Myanmar has signed up 500,000 LTE users since launching 4G services in May and is pushing ahead with the operator’s ambitious rollout plans. The operator’s CEO Rene Meza told that the operator now has a total 4G population coverage of 4.6 million…
Ericsson and Nokia are both trialing using drones to dynamically improve coverage of next-generation mobile networks. Ericsson and China Mobile recently announced they have completed a 5G drone prototype field trial on the operator’s network. During the trial…
LTE-Advanced deployments have reached the mainstream adoption phase, according to the latest GSA figures. LTE-Advanced now accounts for 147 of the 521 commercial LTE networks that have been launched worldwide, while LTE-Advanced Pro is used in a further 9,…
SK Telecom and Nokia have completed the development the first all-in one portable public safety LTE system for emergency first-responders. The system is compact enough to fit in a backpack, and comes with all the elements required for mobile communications,…
