ZTE CEO Xu Ziyang estimates that China’s 5G infrastructure will cost $165 billion over the full construction cycle.

Orange has unveiled details of the launch of its domestic 5G service.

Hrvatski Telekom continued to invest in the development of telecommunications infrastructure in the town of Požega.

The UK government proposed a new bill to increase its powers over telecoms networks.

Nokia has been selected by China Mobile IoT (CMIoT) to ensure delivery of IoT connectivity and services to CMIoT’s customers across China and globally.

China Telecom said that the 5G penetration surpassed 20 percent after adding 7.06 million customers in October.

TIM has signed a strategic agreement with Eutelsat to expand its offer of satellite ultrabroadband services.

Nokia, Elisa and Qualcomm announced that they have achieved the world’s fastest 5G speeds on a commercial network in Finland by delivering 8 Gbps for the first time serving two 5G mmWave devices connected simultaneously.

New spectrum sale in South Korea might be postponed after unsuccesful negotiations over price.

Samsung and KT announced they have successfully deployed Korea’s first 5G Standalone and Non-Standalone common core in a commercial network.

In a time span of just eight months, the Italian municipalities that have benefited from TIM’s expansion of ultrabroadband coverage have risen to about 3,000.

At the 2020 Global Mobile Broadband Forum, David Wang, Huawei's Executive Director, said that 5.5G will be an evolution of 5G and that he looked forward to working with industry partners to define 5.5G.

Sweden’s telecoms regulator PTS had to postpone its 5G auction following a court ruling to suspend the decision to exclude Huawei.

Nokia announced a new services deal with A1 Austria.

5G is switched on in the center of the three largest cities in Estonia: Tallinn, Tartu, and Pärnu and before the end of the year a total of 20 sites will be up and running.

BT and EE customers are set to benefit from Ericsson 5G RAN connectivity following the company’s selection as BT’s 5G RAN provider in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff and other major cities.

The commercial use of 5G networks is starting in the world, and this was the opportunity to talk to Zhang Heng, CEO of Huawei Technologies Croatia, who points out that many applications are expected in various segments of the economy of smart manufacturing, remote health care, smart agriculture. He points out that 5G will have a big impact on fixed wireless access.

TIM is joining the Italian government’s Voucher scheme, managed by Infratel Italia, to boost the use of ultra-broadband across the country.

TIM and INWIT started a collaboration to deploy small cells in Italy’s major cities in order to make the mobile phone signal more performing and support the development of 5G.

The Town of Donja Stubica and the municipalities of Bistra and Dugopolje are part of the cities and municipalities which, as part of the WiFi4EU initiative, were awarded a voucher in the amount of €15,000.

Vodafone UK plans to deploy open RAN in 2,600 network sites by 2027.

Intel secured a contract to supply virtualised RAN (vRAN) equipment for a standalone 5G deployment by US operator Dish Network.

Ookla has recognized Hrvatski Telekom as one of the world's ten fastest mobile networks in 2020.

Qualcomm unveiled the Immersive Home Platforms, a successor to the company’s mesh networking platforms.

As a direct result of crises, Hrvatski Telekom total consolidated net revenue decreased by HRK 221 million or 3.9% in 9M 2020 compared to 9M 2019. The revenue decrease was caused by lower realization in mobile revenue (HRK 175 million or 6.7%), fixed revenue (HRK 138 million or 5.5%), and miscellaneous revenue (HRK 11 million or 93.5%) but was partially offset by higher System Solutions (HRK 103 million or 18.3%).

Hrvatski Telekom is the first to launch a commercial 5G network, which is the foundation of the future technological development of the economy and society. At the moment, the 5G network is available in areas of Zagreb, Rijeka, Split, Osijek, Samobor and Sveta Nedelja. With 5G, Hrvatski Telekom is building a network of the future that will enable the connection and automation of numerous sensors, industrial devices, autonomous vehicles, drones, as well as the advances in telemedicine. In selected tariffs Hrvatski Telekom, without additional charges until June 10, 2021, offers all of its customers the possibility to use the 5G network, in by 5G covered areas and with use of a compatible 5G device.

Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete, Telefonica CEO, said it is critical that Europe introduced competition rules to strengthen the beleaguered telecoms sector.

Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) banned operators taking part in a forthcoming 5G auction from using products made by Huawei and ZTE.

Deutsche Telekom and Stratospheric Platforms Limited (SPL) conducted the first successful demonstration of LTE/4G voice and data connectivity over a platform flying at the edge of the stratosphere and fully integrated into a commercial mobile network.

Hrvatski Telekom has started implementing the most modern fiber-optic infrastructure in Mali Lošinj.