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Slovenia's largest telecoms provider Telekom Slovenije and embedded systems maker Kontron have implemented the Eastern European country's first commercial private 5G SA mobile network for chemical processing company Cinkarna Celje.

Telstra in collaboration with telecoms vendor Ericsson and mobile chipset OEM Qualcomm claims to have set a record uplink speed of 516 Mbps, surpassing the previous record of 447 Mbps set in October 2024.

Telstra has partnered with Ericsson and mobile chipset maker MediaTek, to claim a new benchmark peak downlink speed of 9.4 Gbps on its live commercial 5G Standalone (SA) network.

Italian FWA (fixed wireless access) telecoms provider EOLO, has deployed what is claimed to be the first 5G standalone mmWave RAN (radio access network) in Europe, using equipment from Finnish vendor Nokia.

A new report forecasts that one-quarter of all mobile subscriptions will be 5G - almost 2.3 billion - by the end of 2024, fuelled lin part by uptake in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

Australia's largest telecoms provider Telstra and Swedish telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson have claimed a world record 5G uplink speed of 447 Mbps in a sub-6GHz 5G Standalone (SA) environment on Telstra’s live commercial 5G network.

State-owned telecoms provider Viettel officially launched its 5G network, and in so doing becomes the first company to provide official 5G services in Vietnam.

Japanese mobile phone operator NTT Docomo plans to deploy new radio dual connectivity using three frequency bands—two Sub-6 (3.7GHz and 4.5GHz bands) and millimetre-wave (28GHz band)—to deliver what it claims Japan’s fastest download speed of up to 6.6Gbps using standalone (SA) architecture.

The mobile core network (MCN) market five-year cumulative revenue forecast is expected to decline 10% during the forecast period from 2024 to 2028, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia has collaborated with T-Mobile to supply the telco gateway solutions that support LTE, 5G NSA, and 5G SA for its fixed-wireless high-speed internet (HSI) traffic.

Mobile core network (MCN) market growth has been reduced to less than a 1% CAGR for 2023-2028. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) market segment and the 5G MCN market segment will lead MCN market’s growth, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson has partnered with Canadian telecommunications company Telus to launch and optimise its 5G standalone network.

Finnish telco vendor Nokia claimed it completed the first interoperability tests of 5G Standalone (SA) Packet Core’s User Plane Function (UPF) in the Sylva open-source cloud software environment, which was conducted at the Project Sylva Validation Centre in France, operated by partner Orange.

Cellular provider Cellcom and technology service provider Parallel Wireless have deployed autonomous 5G SA core sites in Israel.

Telecommunications operators Vodafone Oman and Ericsson have conducted a test call introducing 5G standalone voice and data services for Vodafone subscribers in the sultanate.

Telecommunications and digital provider Spark, Ericsson, and Red Hat have completed a 5G standalone (5G SA) trial in New Zealand within a span of three months to demonstrate standalone cloud-native solutions that can be deployed.

Network software provider Mavenir announced the availability of its fixed wireless access solution (FWA) combining Mavenir’s open virtualised RAN, converged packet core, and OpenBeam portfolio of radio units.