Ericsson and Telia have joined forces with Qualcomm to take 5G innovation to a new level by jointly testing a new industry-first feature in Telia’s commercial 5G network.

Spain earned €1.1 billion in a delayed auction for 5G-suitable frequencies in the 700MHz band.

Nokia is expanding its relationship with Xantaro, encompassing next generation fiber access to connect more than two million UK homes with broadband speeds up to 10 Gibabit per second.

The Small Cell Forum proposed a global framework for hosted open RAN networks.

The GSMA called on regulators across the globe to boost mid-band spectrum availability.

Masmovil ruled itself out of a Spanish 700MHz 5G auction.

AT&T, Nvidia, Samsung America, Qualcomm and InterDigital supported a 6G research project in the US.

In cooperation with Deutsche Telekom, Hrvatski Telekom has ensured that Croatian customers in Germany and German customers in Croatia can now use the benefits of a 5G network.

Australia's Telstra, in collaboration with Ericsson, announced the successful completion of a 5G Standalone data call of 113 km from a Telstra commercial mobile site in Gippsland, Victoria.

Deutsche Bahn and Deutsche Telekom plan to radically improve mobile reception on trains.

At an MWC event, president of carrier business group at Huawei, Ryan Ding, said investment in 5G across early pacesetter markets had already been justified.

Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, and Samsung have successfully completed the world’s first 5G end-to-end (E2E) network slicing trial.

The GSMA and Mobileum joined forces to develop a global system targeting prevention of fraudulent and unwanted calls, with a trial phase of the project open for industry players.

At the MWC Barcelona, ICT industry executives noted diversity and inclusion in the sector had significantly increased in recent years.

Deutsche Telekom CEO Timotheus Hoettges criticized current regulations that fail to classify companies like WhatsApp and Microsoft as communications providers.

Head of Telefonica, Jose Maria Alverez-Pallete, called for a complete overhaul of regulations impacting Europe’s telecommunications sector to prevent the region lagging even further behind digital leaders.

South Korea is planning a deployment of the world’s first commercial 6G network in 2028.

UK mobile operator EE plans to charge customers more for using their plans in EU from January 2022.

Nokia, Qualcomm  and UScellular  achieved a world record extended range over mmWave of more than 10km utilizing its 5G extended-range millimeter Wave solution on a commercial network.

Samsung was selected as a leading Open RAN vendor for Vodafone to bring virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) to the United Kingdom (UK), as well as its latest 4G and 5G solutions, including its Massive MIMO and other radios.

Canada began an auction of 3.5GHz spectrum for 5G services a little more than a year after the original sale was delayed by COVID-19.

Nokia will collaborate with HMD Global using Nokia’s Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) to enable seamless global IoT connectivity for HMD’s IoT solution for enterprises.

Hrvatski Telekom announced its 5G network is available in further 31 cities and six municipalities in Croatia.

Nokia, Ericsson, II-VI, Lumentum and Sumitomo Electric  published a joint technical paper making the case for reducing the wide choice of Mobile Optical Pluggables (MOPA) used to connect cell sites to fiber networks.

Italian operator TIM has launched the new satellite Internet service.

Japanese and Finnish mobile technology organisations agreed to collaborate on the development of 6G technologies.

Hrvatski Telekom concluded an agreement for 5G roaming with Magyar Telekom, member of Deutsche Telekom Group.

Ericsson has partnered with Deutsche Telekom to achieve the first 5G voice over new radio (VoNR) call on an end-to-end multivendor network.

Spain has released the terms for its latest 5G spectrum auction.

Nokia and Proximus turned on the world’s fastest fiber access network in Antwerp, Belgium.