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5G launch (hopefully!!) India is likely to witness some firm steps on the road to 5G in 2021. Spectrum auctions are due and some keenly awaited 5G trials will soon take place. Jio, Indias largest service provider, has already announced plans to launch 5G in the coming year. Even if this happens, though, rollout will probably be limited to a few areas of the country or be focused on the enterprise sector. Most industry experts believe 5G will not be widely available until 2022. Jio is determin...

Verizon CTO Kyle Malady tells Light Reading: I dont see any reason why the technology cant work, but there will be things carriers need to work out if they do adopt it.

Boris Johnson cuts an even more dishevelled figure than usual these days. The UKs scruffy-haired prime minister has become a proverbial punching bag for people at either end of the political spectrum as the center ground empties. Hesitancy to return the country to a full lockdown has cost lives, declaims the left. Restrictions risk a future economic collapse, responds the right. There is little sympathy from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), a government spending watchdog, which today slamm...

The US Department of Defense (DoD) said it plans to expand its activities in standards-setting organizations including the 3GPP, which is the primary global technology-development association for 5G. "To promote high-quality, protected and reliable 5G devices and applications, the US must play a lead role in shaping information and communications technology standards," the Pentagon wrote in its new "5G strategy implementation plan," issued in December. "DoD will fully implement its Standards En...

Fri, Jan 8th 2021 6:35am — Karl Bode Weve noted repeatedly how fifth-generation wireless (5G) was painfully overhyped. To spike lagging smartphone and network hardware sales, carriers, equipment makers, and the lawmakers paid to love them spent years insisting that 5G would change the world, ushering forth amazing new cancer cures and the revolutionary smart cities of tomorrow. But while 5G is an important evolutionary step toward faster, more resilient networks, its not some magical revolut...

According to Euractiv, the ECA has identified a worryingly divergent approach across different EU nations Paolo Pesce, part of the ECA team conducting the 12-month review, remarked that although "member states have started to develop and implement necessary security measures to mitigate risks, they seem to be progressing at a different pace." Flagging issues: The European Court of Auditors has flagged concerns about member states approaches to 5G security. As far as the ECA is concerned, if Lig...

Verizon has decided to keep its 3G alive for the foreseeable future it seems. After first delaying a shutdown that was supposed to happen at the end of 2019 and extending the network’s life until...

With how much Verizon has been hyping its 5G capabilities of late, some might be surprised to learn that the carrier's 3G network is still in operation.

As we start moving towards a future where 5G is the new standard in mobile connectivity, it means that carriers will need to free up more spectrum....

Verizon has announced it is delaying the shutdown of its 3G network indefinitely.