Backhaul

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Spectrum

Belgium consults on E-band mmWave spectrum for 5G backhaul

Industrial IoT

Cisco announces intent to acquire Fluidmesh Networks

Spectrum

FCC Concludes Largest Ever Spectrum Auction

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Optical

Nokia sees some light at the end of the fibre

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5G

Vodafone, TIM get EU go-ahead for towers tie-up

Backhaul

NEC successfully demonstrates 10Gbps outdoor transmission in the 150GHz-band

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Nokia

Nokia’s Suri resigns after indifferent results feeds doubts over strategy

5G

Cisco to optimize NTT DOCOMO’s 5G mobile backhaul

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5G

Cellnex, Bouygues form JV, will spend €1bn on fibre

5G

More Capable, Compact and Faster, ZTE Unveils 5G RAN Product Portfolio for the Networks of the Future

5G

Intel Announces Unmatched Portfolio for 5G Network Infrastructure

Rural Communications

Huawei Launches RuralStar Pro: integrates baseband, radio frequency (RF), and wireless backhaul functions

5G

CityFibre chosen as a preferred provider of backhaul for Three’s 5G rollout nationwide

Backhaul

Orange and Telxius are teaming up on Dunant submarine cable, a Google project, to provide each other with terrestrial backhaul extensions in France and in the US

MWC

The GSMA finally yielded to the inevitable and cancelled MWC late on Wednesday

Network Services

Samsung buys network services provider to better penetrate US 4G/5G market

via Flickr © Victor Camilo (CC BY-ND 2.0)

5G

There’s an awful lot of 5G investment required in Brazil

5G

ZTE, China Telecom and China Unicom take the lead in completing 5G co-build co-share verification

Contractors laying fibre in Milton Keynes, UK

FTTx

Vodafone cuts a fibre deal with Openreach

Cloud Native

Mavenir Launches Fully Virtualized 4G/5G OpenRAN Solution

5G

ZTE and China Telecom help Bluetron adopt China’s first end-to-end 5G slicing and intelligent manufacturing solution

5G

Nokia completes world’s first single-carrier terabit-per-second field trial over Etisalat’s fibre network in UAE

Backhaul

India Bharti and Huawei complete 5G microwave enhanced MIMO joint innovation

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5G

US cities seek a slice of 5G revenue