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Millimeter Wave, National and International Trends

Deutsche Telekom Launches Millimeter Wave 5G Service for Industrial Customers

On June 13, Deutsche Telekom announced the successful trial of a millimeter wave 5G industrial use case in the 26 GHz band. The company is the first in Germany to offer this band commercially to industrial customers already....

Many companies with private wireless deployments are expanding their usage locations and use cases (Nokia report).

On June 12, Finland's Nokia released its latest report on corporate private wireless deployments, the 2024 Industrial Digitization Report. The report shows that private wireless workers'...

Fraunhofer HHI Promotes Open 5G Campus Network with Local 5G Deployment of IS-Wireless

Germany's Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for Telecommunications Research (HHI) recently decided to deploy a local 5G network from IS-Wireless, a Polish startup telecom company. The open 5G campus network in Germany and other European markets e...

Transmission test of live soccer broadcasts using 5G millimeter waves, conducted by Danish TV stations, Ericsson, Sony and others.

On June 5, TV2, a Danish TV station, conducted a transmission test of an international soccer match using 5G millimeter waves in cooperation with Sweden's Ericsson, telecom operator Three, and Sony. This is the first attempt of its kind in Denmark...

HPE's New Solution for Easier Local 5G Deployment and Management

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) on June 3 announced HPE Aruba Networking Enterprise Private 5G, a new solution that speeds and simplifies the deployment and management of local 5G networks for enterprise...

Ericsson, Qualcomm and Dronus Successfully Test Drones for Manufacturing and Warehousing Using 5G Millimeter Waves

Ericsson of Sweden announced on May 27 that it has successfully tested an autonomous drone for the manufacturing and warehousing industry, conducted in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies of the US and Italian industrial drone solutions provider Dronus. This 5G millimeter wave drone u...

T-Mobile Acquires US Cellular, Looking to Strengthen Private 5G

T-Mobile, the second largest company in the U.S. wireless telecommunications industry, announced on May 28 that it will acquire part of the wireless business and spectrum assets of US Cellular, the fifth largest company in the industry, for up to $4.4 billion (approximately 690 billion yen). With this acquisition, T-Mobile will strengthen its own 5G coverage and capacity. It will also put T-Mobile behind its competitors in...

Samsung and Arm collaborate on SIMD research, a key software technology related to 6G.

Samsung Research, Samsung's R&D organization, announced on May 20 a partnership with Arm, a leading British semiconductor design company. The two companies will work together to develop a parallel packet processing technology called SIMD (Single ...

Korea's KT and Nokia cooperate in R&D on future 6G technology

South Korean telecommunications giant KT announced on May 8 that it is partnering with Finland's Nokia for 6G research....

Logo for the next generation mobile technology "6G" has been selected.

The 3GPP, an international standardization project for wireless communication systems, decided on a new logo for the 6G specification during its April 23 meeting in Reston, Va....

UK Telecoms Authority Releases Update on 26 GHz/40 GHz Spectrum Auction

On April 16, Ofcom, the UK's broadcasting and communications regulator, released an update on the auction of frequencies in the 26 GHz and 40 GHz millimeter wave bands....

ETSI reports on use cases for terahertz bands, including "in-flight and on-train entertainment" and "cooperative mobile robots.

On April 5, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) released two reports on the development and availability of 6G technology...

5GMF Releases Third Edition of White Paper to Promote Millimeter Wave Penetration

In March 2024, the 5th Generation Mobile Forum (5GMF) released the third edition of the 5GMF white paper, "Advanced 5G with Millimeter Wave Penetration," which follows the second edition in July 2023 and introduces additional new features related to 5G with millimeter waves....

A Look at the Current Status of 5G and Millimeter Waves at Home and Abroad [Part 2]--Standardization Trends and Movements in Each Country

5G services are progressing in countries around the world. On the other hand, the use of "millimeter wave," which uses a higher frequency band among 5G services, is still limited, although the allocation of frequencies is progressing. In this article, we will introduce the domestic and international status of 5G and millimeter wave services in two parts....

A Look at the Current Status of 5G and Millimeter Waves at Home and Abroad [Part 1] -- Frequency Allocation and Commercial Service Launch

5G services are progressing in countries around the world. On the other hand, the use of "millimeter wave," which uses a higher frequency band among 5G services, is still limited, although the allocation of frequencies is progressing. In this article, we will introduce the domestic and international status of 5G and millimeter wave services in two parts....

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