German Bundesministerium fur Digitales und Verkehr (BMDV), a transport and digital infrastructure authority, opened applications for new mobile network funding schemes.

For the first time, Deutsche Telekom and RTL Deutschland have broadcasted live TV content via the 5G standalone network of Deutsche Telekom.

Nokia and Telia Finland announced the launch of the world’s first commercial 5G standalone (SA) network with network slicing for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services.

Nokia signed a frame agreement with Eurofiber Group, the leading supplier and operator of Open Network infrastructure in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Germany.

According to the recent tweet by Google SVP of platforms and ecosystems Hiroshi Lockheimer, Android 14 will be compatible with satellite communications.

The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2.5GHz band auction totaled $416 million on Thursday after 63 rounds.

Nokia successfully tested a 600Gbit/s line rate on Telekom Serbia and MTEL’s optical transport network over 600km between Banja Luka and Belgrade.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) changed plans to award SpaceX millions of dollars in subsidies to deliver rural broadband coverage.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) started another spectrum auction.

Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Thales are planning to take 5G out of this world and across a network of Earth-orbiting satellites.

Huawei is already invested in upgrading 5G networks to a transitional technology dubbed 5.5G.

Telecom associations, the GSMA and ETNO, along with several national telecom associations, added pressure on the European Commission to encourage tech companies to contribute to deploying the infrastructure.

Nokia will lead 6G-ANNA, a German national-funded 6G lighthouse project.

An autonomous car project, funded by the European Commission, completed a pilot that connected a range of next-generation vehicle functions using 5G.

Ericsson, OPPO, and Qualcomm have successfully trialed a 5G enterprise network slicing solution on a commercial Android 12 handset.

Vodafone UK commenced a trial of the nation’s first wind and solar-powered mobile phone mast.

BT and Ericsson announced a multi-million-pound new partnership to provide commercial 5G private networks for the UK market, the first agreement of its kind in the country.

Deutsche Telekom is now using a new frequency in its 5G network: 700 megahertz (MHz).

Samsung released a white paper that lays out the company’s vision for securing global frequency bands for 6G, the next-generation communications technology.

The EU Member States, with the support of the European Commission and ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, published a report on the cybersecurity of Open RAN.

Qualcomm, Three Austria, and ZTE have successfully executed a 5G network demonstration using a standalone (SA) coverage layer based on 700MHz (n28) and the world’s first supplemental downlink (SDL) band 1400MHz (n75).

In a new analysis, Opensignal has observed that smartphone users in Switzerland experienced worse signal strength when connected to 5G networks than users in neighboring Germany, France, and Italy.

Nokia announced the successful completion of a network trial with TIM using the PSE-Vs fifth-generation super coherent optics.

German regulator Bundesnetzagentur banned Deutsche Telekom’s StreamOn offer and the Vodafone Pass on net neutrality grounds.

Ericsson got the green light to provide 5G network equipment to mobile operators in Romania.

Imagine listening, watching and enjoying a live concert of your favorite rock band while the vocalist is in New York, lead guitarist plays from Stockholm, rhythm guitarist is in Sofia, bass guitarist – in Zagreb, the drummer – in Shanghai, and the keyboard player – in Buenos Aires. The audience is everywhere. Many would argue that this is not possible today. However, 5G is the technology that is already enabling such a live collaboration.

The total Mobile Core Network (MCN) and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) market 2021 revenue growth slowed to the lowest rate since 2017, according to Dell’Oro Group.

T-Mobile US is now available to a further 3 million potential customers for its fixed wireless access (FWA) service after deploying it in 54 more cities.

Nokia and Rakuten Mobile announced that the two companies have demonstrated the first live 1 Tb/s per channel transmission over Rakuten’s commercial Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer (DWDM) network.

The prospect of a fourth mobile network operator entering the Belgian mobile market became more likely.