 Hi Voornaam
The amount of news about 5G products, projects, events and other happenings in the past few days has been absolutely staggering. It seems that everyone has some news about a new 5G location that has just been switched on, a new player in the market, a new auction set to take place in one of the three 5G spectrum bands, a hot 5G stock buy, and now a new patents legal battle between two tech giants in Ericsson and Samsung. Is T-Mobile really the US 5G leader? Should governments keep their political hands out of the technology space? And the amount of money being talked up in the consumer 5G space is almost beyond comprehension. If you want to get an idea of the quantity of 5G news being generated in just the first 14 days of this month visit this page.
Below are some of the more interesting stories of the past few days and, as always, there are several orders of magnitude more on wirefreez.com.
Best regards
Stan Beer
Editor in Chief  Swedish telecoms equipment supplier Ericsson has filed a lawsuit in the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, against Samsung, for alleged FRAND violation of 5G contractual commitments.
T-Mobile US CEO talks up Sprint merger & 5G leadership in U.S. 
T-Mobile has begun shuttering Sprint’s network in a few locations following its acquisition, but doesn’t expect to really start until 2021-to-2022. Talking with a fireplace in the background during a UBS Global TMT Virtual Conference on December 8th, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said in response to a question about when Sprint’s ...
Australia’s mmWave 5G spectrum auction applications opened by ACMA
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has opened applications to participate in the April 2021 high-band mmWave 5G spectrum auction.
The government first announced the April 2021 5G mmWave auction in November, with another auction for low-band 5G taking place later in the year.
High-band mmWave spectrum can provide higher capacity ...
 Trust in 5G technology and open collaboration were key messages echoed by a number of respected independent voices at a conference hosted by much-maligned Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies last week.
 A new report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that fixed home voice lines are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
 While 1 billion people are in areas actually with 5G coverage, according to Ericsson’s data, it expects only 220 million 5G subscriptions will be active by the end of this year.
The 5G consumer market could be worth US$31 trillion by 2030: Ericsson exec
The 5G consumer market could be worth USD 31 trillion by 2030 globally, according to the new Harnessing the 5G Consumer Potential report from Ericsson ConsumerLab. The report estimates that communications service providers (CSPs) could earn USD 3.7 trillion
Sky Deutschland and Vodafone Deutschland are testing the use of 5G in football coverage as part of the pre- and post-coverage of a live 2nd division Bundesliga football match for the first time. Until now, the TV footage has traditionally
With its aggressive rollout and investment in 5G, the Asia region is better placed to take advantage of the business environment brought about by the pandemic and drive the value of data growth with 5G, say SAP executives on the…
Apple will follow up the creation of its own Mac processor with a custom-built cellular modem which could finally see Apple laptops gain 5G wireless connectivity, according to Apple insiders. In the same way that the latest M-series of Apple-designed silicon will…
China's 5G phone shipments inside the country reached over 20.13 million last month, taking a larger share of the mobile phone market, the latest data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) shows. The figure accounted for…
Earlier this year, the government of Portugal announced its intention to have 5G available in at least one coastal city by the end of 2020, as part of the National Strategy for 5G. Dense Air has installed 5G in Cascais on the Portuguese Riviera.
It isn’t just the Galaxy S21+ that’s just got a massive leak. Even though it doesn’t have come with hands-on videos, the amount of information from the OnePlus 9 5G leak that just got dumped on the Internet is perhaps…
 NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) announced today its establishment of an Open RAN laboratory in India as a complement to its Center of Excellence (CoE) in the U.K. The facility will accelerate development of NEC's 5G open ecosystem by pre-integrating partner…
Three stocks in the 5G space to buy right now?
This analyst names three growth stocks which he claims have the right business models to be long-term winners in the 5G space, each of which still looks like a solid value today. The stocks are already household names so don’t expect to find an unknown fast riser among them. 
Board members of FirstNet, the independent organisation authorised by the US Congress to develop a national broadband network for first responder services, this week unanimously approved a resolution authorising the FirstNet Authority staff to obligate reinvestment funds from AT&T to pay operations and maintenance costs associated with upgrading the FirstNet ...
Marketing intelligence firm SNS Telecom & IT‘s latest research report indicates that annual spending on unlicensed LTE and 5G NR RAN (Radio Access Network) infrastructure operating in unlicensed spectrum will reach $1.3 Billion by 2023, despite competition from non-3GPP wireless technologies and the ongoing economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unlicensed ...
Miramar Marine Corps Air Station near San Diego already is partially solar powered, yet the Marines are after an even newer technology; the station has contracted Verizon to build a private 5G cellular network, according to a new report.
Respondents to a 2020 S&P survey pointed to the mid-band 5G as their most preferred frequency spectrum range, with 63% of the mobile network operators, or MNOs, planning to leverage the 3 GHz to 4 GHz bands to deliver initial 5G services. This is up from the firm's 2019 results ...
An October 2020 report from Strategy Analytics revealed that the Samsung Galaxy S20+ 5G had the best 5G device sales by revenue for the first half of 2020. Together, Samsung’s S20 trio were the top-selling 5G smartphones in the world, accounting for 22 percent of global 5G sales revenue. Moreover, The ...
The roll-out of 5G and cheap data could be a viable competitor to the fixed line NBN (national broadband network) in Australia. Mobile prices fell 17 percent in 2019-20 thanks to a drop in the cost of entry level plans and significant growth in data allowances, according to consumer watchdog ...
Having lost the lead in consumer-facing handsets after missing the shift to smartphones, Japanese brands have also fallen behind Nokia Oyj, Ericsson AB and above all Huawei Technologies Co. in the buildout of 5G infrastructure. Now Japan races to catch up to Huawei in 5G tech.
Japan races to catch up to Huawei ...
Santa Clara-based Marvell Technologies and fellow signal processing semiconductor maker, Massachusetts-based Analog Devices, have developed an advanced 5G massive MIMO radio unit that supports high antenna counts and multi-gigabit per second throughput for both integrated RAN and Open RAN deployments.
Marvell and Analog Devices announce 5G massive MIMO radio unit solutions
Coronavirus is proving a tipping point for tech adoption; 5G, IoT and cloud are at the heart of this acceleration into digitalisation, but are their benefits interdependent?
Tech ecosystem: how 5G, IoT and cloud work together Raconteur
The Indian government will “shortly" announce the 5G spectrum bands for the rollout of telecom services for the world's second most populous country based on the next generation wireless standard after consultations with departments that are using the airwaves. 
Germany's largest telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom is expanding its broadband network at breakneck speed largely as a result of its Huawei 5G relationship, while other countries, such as Canada, continue to dither because of geopolitical considerations.
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