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[Shenzhen, China, March 7, 2019] Today, Huawei announced that it has filed a complaint in a U.S. federal court that challenges the constitutionality of Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Through this action, Huawei seeks a declaratory judgment that the restrictions targeting Huawei are unconstitutional, and a permanent injunction against these restrictions.

As a top Huawei executive, I’m often asked why the US has launched a full-scale assault on us. The Americans have charged us with stealing technology and violating trade sanctions and largely blocked us from doing business there.

MTN Cyprus and Huawei today announced their agreement for a strategic cooperation on the development of a 5G network in Cyprus, initially through a joint research program and then though a commercial set of services.

(Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 26 February 2019) Telenor Norway today announced Elverum as the first location for its 5G pilot with Ericsson. The mobile operator also revealed there will be 10 further collaborative 5G projects in Norway – and that soon, the next major city to get 5G will be named.

Denmark will soon have its first life test of 5G - this is done with equipment from Nokia on Telenor's and Telia's common mobile network. Both Telenor and Telia have previously tested the mobile technology of the future and with the establishment of the new life test, the two telecom groups will be front runners compared to 5G here in Denmark.

Telenor Group and Nokia will test 5G capabilities in both the Radio Access Network (RAN) and the mobile core network in Denmark.

Nokia will deploy AirScale base stations for piloting 5G in Telenor Denmark’s commercial radio access network and will also test new functions in the cloud-core network as part of the 5G pilot.

Today at MWC Barcelona, Sprint (NYSE: S) announced that standards-based 5G is now on-air, with commercial service expected to launch starting in May. Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and Kansas City are expected to be among the first cities to offer commercial 5G service; with Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix and Washington D.C. also slated to launch in the first half of 2019.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Fastweb today announced an agreement to conduct Italy's first 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) trial on commercial spectrum. Companies are trialing to demonstrate how 5G FWA networks could serve as a compelling alternative to FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) to deliver ultra broadband connectivity and gigabit experience to end users.

Darmstadt has joined the ranks of Deutsche Telekom's 5G cities. A first group of 5G antennas is now in operation in that city. The new systems follow 5G-antenna test fields in Berlin and the Port of Hamburg.  The aims in connection with the Darmstadt 5G test field include gathering experience with installation and operation of systems for the new technology.

The new frontiers of mobile technology arrive in Sanremo. On the occasion of the Festival, in fact, TIM lights up in the city of flowers some antennas for the new 5G network that use the frequencies acquired at the recent tender of the Ministry for Economic Development with a total investment of 2.4 billion euros.

New milestone for the O2 network and the business customer area of ​​Telefónica Deutschland. Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M have started on the company's live network. Thus, Telefónica Deutschland offers business customers machine networks for their IoT applications, such as m

Magyar Telekom launched its first standard 5G station at the end of January. The station located at downtown Zalaegerszeg uses the 3.7 GHz test spectrum. The test gigabit network operating under real-life conditions runs on a standardized 5G system and uses 5G components ready for commercial launch.

Turkcell have stepped up its 5G game through this new collaboration. In a joint effort with Ericsson, Turkcell has achieved Turkey’s first end-to-end, 3GPP-compliant, multivendor 5G data call on 3.5 GHz band.

In the Lower Austrian town of Gmünd the first 5G live data connection in the existing mobile network of A1 was carried out. Together with technology partner Nokia, A1 has equipped three transmitters with the upcoming 5G mobile phone technology, ensuring future 5G coverage of the rural urban area of ​​the community. 

Today Sprint (NYSE: S) announced it has reached a significant milestone on its path towards launching mobile 5G service beginning in the first half of this year.

The Sunday papers in Bolivia were quick to announce Tigo's launch this month of 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) high-speed nationwide.

The service with speeds of up to 100 Mbps will be Millicom's second 4G offering to date - the first being in Colombia, in December 2013.

SaskTel is pleased to have been able to acquire one block of 700 MHz spectrum for $7,557,000 as confirmed by today’s Industry Canada announcement regarding the outcome of the spectrum auction.  SaskTel however, is concerned that the overall outcome of the auction will not result in the effective use of scarce spectrum necessary to support improved 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) coverage in rural

The manager of the National Telecommunications Company (Entel), Oscar Coca, announced that since April will integrate the technology 'LTE' (Long Term Evolution) to its network of Fourth Generation (4G) internet, with the purpose of increasing to six Megabits per second the speed of navigation.

TIM is reinforcing the coverage of the 3G network in the state capital with the use of the 900 MHz band, authorized to the operator by Anatel earlier this year. The project, which already benefits customers from 50 city districts with better quality of services, began in May, through the modernization of sites in areas that concentrate more traffic of voice and data.