BT Group’s EE and BT Sport have demonstrated the first live broadcast with remote production over 5G – an approach BT Sport will use to increase the coverage available to viewers with more matches and faster highlights. The pair partnered to showcase the capability by delivering a live, two-way broadcast over 5G from Wembley Stadium […]
5G wireless home broadband will provide UK households with a cheaper, more flexible alternative to fibre connections, offering customers double the current average download speed. According to an independent report from Ovum, commissioned by Three UK, the technology is expected to deliver speeds of 80-100 Mbps, which is on average double what customers in the […]
On November 18th, Nokia, AT&T and Jaunt will show fans of American Football what they claim is the future of mobile content and immersive experiences with a 5G demonstration and ‘tailgate’ [informal social gathering] before the Atlanta Falcons faceoff against the Dallas Cowboys. Using 5G connectivity and Jaunt’s volumetric capture technology, fans can show their […]
The US Federal Communications Commission is undertaking its first-ever high-band 5G spectrum auction. Bidding is beginning on spectrum in the 28 GHz band (Auction 101), which will be followed by bidding for spectrum in the 24 GHz band (Auction 102). The FCC is making 1.55 gigahertz of spectrum available through these two auctions. These auctions […]
UK mobile network EE, part of BT Group, is switching on 5G sites in 16 UK cities in 2019. The first launch cities will be the UK’s four capital cities – London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast – and Birmingham and Manchester. EE is building 5G in the busiest parts of the six launch cites – […]
The Spanish government plans to auction spectrum in the 700MHz band for 5G services in the first quarter of 2019. Currently, DTT channels are using that band, but will release it by March 2020. DTT migration is expected to commence in January of next year. The government aims to raise up to €1.05 billion with the […]
Scandinavian telco Telenor has launched what it says is the very first 5G pilot in Scandinavia. The pilot will serve as a testbed for the superfast fifth generation mobile network in Norway. The pilot was launched during the technology and innovation conference Kongsberg Summit, with Telenor claiming a milestone in Norwegian telecommunications history. “We have […]
Mobile telco Three UK has completed a number of key steps in its network improvement programme, as part of a wider £2 billion+ (€2.29bn+) infrastructure investment, in preparation for the advent of 5G. Three says that 5G technology will provide the capacity to meet the anticipated future demand for data, with UK consumers expected to […]
A report from International Data Corporation (IDC) presents its inaugural forecast for the worldwide 5G network infrastructure market for the period 2018–2022. With the first instances of 5G services rolling out in the fourth quarter of 2018, 2019 is set to be a seminal year in the mobile industry. 5G handsets will begin to hit […]
Openwave Mobility’s Mobile Video Industry Council (MVIC) meeting in London, which included Tier 1 mobile operators Deutsche Telekom, EE, KPN, MTS, Orange, Telefonica, Telus and Vodafone, expect that up to 90 per cent of 5G traffic could be mobile video. This projection is based on current trends and the upward trajectory of mobile video traffic, […]