The operator upgraded its nationwide network of 4G LTE cell sites for NB-IoT and says it plans to update with global standards for massive IoT on its 5G network

T-Mobile US said it can deliver 5G on its own and it plans to at least double the speeds it provides today when it rolls out 5G services later

Verizon named the next 20 cities to receive mobile 5G, but service may not actually be live for up to eight months.

AT&T pushed back its self-imposed deadline to provide nationwide 5G coverage from “early 2020” to the end of next year.

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg declined to say which spectrum bands it will bring to 5G, but he did explain that efforts to refarm 3G spectrum for its burgeoning 5G

The company had inked 40 contracts for 5G commercial networks by the end of March.

Early 5G coverage is spotty, service is limited, signals often drop within hundreds of feet of a base station, and devices are nonexistent.

By adding ThreadX to its Azure IoT Hub, Microsoft now has a direct competitor to Amazon FreeRTOS, an open-source platform that Amazon took stewardship of in 2016.

“Huawei will continue its investment in 5G technologies and stick to transparent and open cooperation to build a credible [information and communications technology] infrastructure,” said Peter Zhou, CMO of

As part of the settlement, Apple agreed to pay Qualcomm an undisclosed amount and inked a six-year license deal with Qualcomm.

If the proposed merger with T-Mobile fails and SoftBank doesn’t invest further in Sprint, the outlook is grim.

The Chinese juggernaut this week is trying to shift attention to the future by highlighting 5G deployments that are underway and its plan to pursue a more rapid pace

Japan's telecom regulator also imposed a condition that effectively bans Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE from the country's 5G networks.

Trump gave his speech on 5G surrounded by a group of farmers wearing cowboy hats and cell tower technicians wearing safety harnesses and hardhats.

KT's 5G network now covers the country’s most populated areas, including Seoul, six other metropolitan cities, most of the 85 major cities, 70 shopping malls, and 464 college campuses.

The top two cloud providers are now vying for the largest federal IT project to date. Amazon is still considered the heavy favorite.

The storage caching appliance combines hardware from Dell EMC and Microsoft software in a pizza box form factor.

The carrier's 5G network is now live in 19 markets. Rival Verizon Wireless just recently launched its first two markets with standards-based 5G service.

5G is not expected to positively impact operator revenues for at least three years, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group.

The reference designs offer a peek inside the brains of operators, Timon Sloane, VP of marketing and ecosystem at the Open Networking Foundation, told SDxCentral in an interview.

The operator contributed the initial seed code for the 5G RAN Intelligent Controller, which was co-developed with Nokia, to the Linux Foundation in partnership with the O-RAN Alliance as

Lean NFV says "current NFV efforts are drowning in a quicksand of complexity," and proposes a decoupling of NFV’s core components.

The Open Platform for NFV now includes virtual network function compliance testing in conjunction with the Open Network Automation Platform community.

By freeing up more spectrum during the next five years, the U.S. wireless industry could add $391 billion to the U.S. economy and create 1.8 million new jobs.