Kazakhstan’s KaR-Tel has launched a large-scale 5G network trial in the city of Shymkent.
PT Indosat Tbk. (Indosat Ooredoo), a leading Indonesian digital telecommunications company, has agreed the sale of 3,100 of its mobile communications towers.
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has selected Ericsson to deploy its 5G-ready Cloud Packet Core in Airtel’s Pan India core network.
The date for the Colombian 700MHz, 1900MHz, 2500MHz auction has finally been agreed.
Vendor Nokia and operator Hutchison 3 Indonesia (3ID) have announced the completion of what is described as the first 5G end-to-end live network trial in Indonesia.
Ongoing plans for 5G rollout in South America have reached a new stage in Chile and Peru this week.
Kuwait-headquartered mobile telecommunications company Zain Group has announced that its operation in Saudi Arabia has launched 5G commercial services.
Hard on the heels of the announcement of 5G trials in the country, one of Malaysia’s leading mobile network operators, Maxis, has signed a deal with China’s Huawei Technologies for the provisioning of a 5G network.
Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is now offering commercial 4G services across several cities in the country.
Nepal Telecom is extending its 4G network services offering to around 25 cities beyond the Kathmandu Valley.
As 4G-related activity continues across Africa there’s news of promotional efforts in Senegal and an imminent rollout in Zanzibar.
Among many 5G demonstrations planned or recently held, two that certainly put 5G centre stage – almost literally – are in Myanmar and Brazil.
Malaysia, Nigeria and Bolivia have all been trialling 5G – at least one of them with an eye to 5G rollout in 2020.
At the Mobile 360 Series – Digital Societies conference in Kuala Lumpur the GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has launched the fourth edition of what it calls a key annual report on the region.
According to reports from the Philippines press, Globe Telecom has revealed plans to improve its wireless networks in the capital Manila, underpinned by an agreement with the city authorities.
Recent news from Vietnam, Lebanon and Mexico indicates growing 5G activity in all three countries.
South African data-only operator Rain has launched what is being called the African continent's first commercial 5G network.
ECI and WDC Networks have partnered to enable ISPs throughout Brazil to provide affordable, high-speed broadband to regions and rural communities which have been historically underserved.
With 5G spectrum affordability very much a talking point recently, it seems appropriate to highlight news that the much-delayed mass spectrum auction may finally be on its way in India.
Hard on the heels of yesterday’s detailed GSMA report on spectrum prices comes an open letter to governments on the identification of spectrum for mobile communications.
Orange Polska and Ericsson have launched a 5G test network in Warsaw offering download speeds close to 900Mbps.
It’s becoming more and more common for operators to consider sharing as 5G rolls out, but it’s certainly news when two of the biggest operators in the world propose such a strategy.
Hard on the heels of last week’s news that Axiata and Telenor have, for now, dropped the proposed merger of their Asian businesses comes a more upbeat announcement in the form of encouraging figures from mobile operator XL Axiata.
Hughes Network Systems has partnered with Facebook to launch Wi-Fi hotspots in Colombia, supported by the Facebook Express Wi-Fi software platform.
Focusing on 4G availability has rocketed Cambodia into the top half of Opensignal’s global rankings for this metric – but at the cost of 4G speeds.
US component maker Qualcomm is cooperating with various players across Russia’s mobile sector with a view to trialling a 5G mmWave network in Moscow that will go live later in the year.
Intracom Telecom has won a major rural ultra-broadband (UBB) deal with its fixed wireless access (FWA) solutions.
Vodafone Ghana and the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) have partnered with the GSMA to support the deployment of innovative mobile internet connectivity solutions for unconnected rural communities.
Hot on the heels of Shanghai, the Chinese city of Guangzhou has announced that it aims to accelerate the pace of 5G deployment by rolling out 65,000 base stations by 2021.
Telecom Cambodia has signed an infrastructure-sharing agreement with Viettel’s local unit Metfone that will see the operators start jointly trialling 5G this month.
Tuvalu Telecom has selected Cataleya to deliver cost-efficient, leading edge voice solutions to its widely dispersed customer base.
With an investment of CNY30 billion ($4.4 billion), the city of Shanghai – China’s second most populous – is planning to implement widespread 5G coverage by 2020.
In what is described as one of the first phase-outs of 3G technology globally, Indian telecommunications giant Bharti Airtel has announced the shutdown of its 3G network in Kolkata.
More 5G plans are under discussion – or under way – across Asia and the Middle East. Three of the most recent 5G announcements come from Saudi Arabia, China and Indonesia.
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