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10 July 2017, Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, announced the company supported China Unicom in the operator’s successful first 5G NR (New Radio) field test.

Etisalat, a top UAE-based telecom provider decided to launch NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies. Etisalat will be the first operator in the Mena region to offer these new technologies. These two technologies enabling variety of solutions and services. Etisalat to Launch Narrowband Internet of Things and Long Term Evolution for machines

STATE-owned telecoms company Cyta on Friday unveiled its mobile-internet speed upgrade to 4.5G, saying it was part of the complete upgrade and modernisation of its mobile telephony network.

Moscow - Tele2, an alternative mobile operator, and Nokia, a global leader in innovative solutions, successfully tested the fifth-generation mobile communication technologies. During the tests, the companies investigated various scenarios for the use of 5G.

China Unicom and Huawei have jointly constructed the 5G field experiment base and completed the 5G deployments in the high and low frequency bands, the former announced officially recently.

Spark New Zealand has today announced that it has commenced the development of a nationwide low power wide area (‘LPWA’) network to enable the Internet of Things (‘IoT’).

MEDIA RELEASE - Vodafone NZ will deploy Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) in early 2018 to prepare for an expected surge in IoT applications over the coming years.

NB-IoT is a low power, wide area network (LPWAN) that uses dedicated bandwidth and licenced spectrum to deliver secure coverage across vast geographical areas.

The demonstrations were conducted using Ericsson’s Internet of Things (IoT) and VoLTE capable network infrastructure, IoT devices integrated with Qualcomm MDM9206 global multimode LTE IoT modems, and China Unicom’s radio spectrum and verification of the technology and multi-service capabilities.

SANTIAGO, June 29, 2017.- Nokia and Movistar Chile today held the first demonstration of 4.5G Pro in Latin America, reaching a speed of 1Gbps.

Swisscom is intensively driving forward the development of 5G and thus supporting the Swiss economy and society with digitisation. Swisscom will launch two new access technologies for the Internet of Things next year – Narrow Band-IoT and LTE Cat-M1. The two access technologies based on mobile telecommunications supplement the existing low power network (LPN).

The new maximum speed is tested in collaboration with Ericsson in Karuby, Siuntio, the fastest 4G village in Finland, where the theoretical maximum network speed has now reached one gigabyte per second (1 Gbps). The theoretical maximum speed is also important because it reveals the base station’s total capacity and enables higher actual average speeds for mobile network users. 
 

Vodafone UK has selected Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) to evolve its 4G networks in London and southern England using technologies such as Massive MIMO and Carrier Aggregation, which will help deliver improved capacity and end-user performance.

DNA has taken another step toward 5G by testing a 1Gbps speed on its mobile network. At the same time, DNA ensures maximum speeds for all network users by continuing to increase the capacity of its national 4G mobile network. 
 

[Brasilia, Brazil, June 26, 2017] Recently, Claro Brazil launched the commercial 4.5G (4x4 MIMO+ Massive CA+256QAM) network in Brasilia in partnership with Huawei. The 4.5G network is the first network intended for commercial use in Brazil, and is expected to be the largest in the Latin America Region.

Vancouver – TELUS, Canada's fastest growing telecommunications company, and Huawei, one of the world's largest information and communications technology companies, achieved a significant breakthrough with the successful completion of a 5G wireless connection using the global 3GPP technology standards platform.

The EuroLeague Basketball is one of the most popular sporting events in Turkey. The Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul was the stage for the exciting final round of the championship, played from May 19th to 21st between CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid, Olympiacos Piraeus and Fenerbahce Istanbul.

The release of the 700 MHz frequency band will help foster Internet adoption of things in the country, as it has greater signal penetration capacity and increases the coverage area. In an interview with CDTV, Eduardo Polidoro, director of IoT at Claro Brasil, explained that telco will update th

ISTANBUL – Working together to develop 5G technologies, Turkcell (NYSE:TKC) (BIST:TCELL) and Huawei broke a record by carrying out the first 5G mmWave speed test together in line with their innovative work. In the test performed using real 5G equipment in the 71.5 to 73.5 GHz frequency band, a new speed record was reached in this area in Turkey by reaching a difficult system speed of 70 Gbps.

It is reported that MIIT recently announced that China is required to speed up the implementation of NB-IoT in China, and to build 400,000 base stations by the end of this year, 1.5 million by 2020.

NB-IoT has outstanding advantages in depth coverage, large links, ultra low power consumption and ultra low cost, becoming an important push of the IoT industry process.

Brazilian operator Algar Telecom completed the refarming of the band from 1800 MHz to 4G, an idea that had been formalized by the end of 2015 . The 10 MHz previously saved for 2G were compressed at 5 MHz and the other half was used for LTE.

Etisalat today announced the launch of a new class of High Throughput Satellite (HTS) service to provide high capacity, efficiency, performance and multi-band connectivity to address business segments in remote locations or harsh environment.

WND, the Latin American operator of Sigfox technology, begins the commercial operation of its IoT network in free frequency in August, with coverage of 50% of the population.

ISTANBUL – Turkcell, bringing one of the strongest 4.5G infrastructures in the world with the investments they have made, continues to work towards the technology of the future 5G as the first operator to test the “Massive MIMO” technique, which is one of the major solution from the way of 4.5G evolution towards to 5G, in Europe and Central Asia on a real network.

SK Telecom today announced that it successfully commercialized five-band Carrier Aggregation (CA)* and 4X4 MIMO, which are key technologies of LTE-A Pro, the last stage of LTE evolution.

MONTRÉAL, June 1, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ - Bell today announced it will launch an LTE-M (Long Term Evolution, category M1) network to support the rapidly increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices on low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) in Canada.

“Exactly one year ago we demonstrated speeds of slightly faster than 1 Gbps. It’s symbolic that we have returned to the same venue, the St Petersburg Communications Museum — but this time with new technologies — to today showcase even higher speeds on a 5G network.

For the first time MagtiCom will offer its customers 4.5G, the latest version of LTE.

MagtiCom is the first among mobile operator operators operating in Georgia with 4.5G (LTE-Advanced) network.

Tests have shown that the new NB-IoT (Narrow Band Internet of Things) technology makes it possible to connect an increasingly broad range of devices to the Internet. This means that broader selection of sensors and devices can be connected in the Internet in increasingly challenging locations to facilitate, for example, the monitoring of humidity and air quality in buildings.

Amsterdam (23 May 2017) – VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam: VEON ) (“VEON”) and its subsidiary Global Telecom Holding S.A.E. (EGX: GTHE) (“GTH”), today announced the acquisition of additional 4G/LTE spectrum in Pakistan, through their local 85% owned subsidiary, Jazz.

Cellnex Telecom (54%) –in a consortium with Swiss Life Asset Managers  (28%) and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP) (18%) – has reached an agreement with Sunrise Communications International to acquire 100% of Swiss Towers AG, a subsidiary of the Swiss mobile operator that operates 2,239 telecommunication site Switzerland.