NEC and Microelectronics Technology Inc (MTI), a network RF solutions provider, announced a collaboration to enhance the Open RAN ecosystem with a variety of radio options to cater to global 4G and 5G markets.
NEC announced the launch of new radio units (RU) for 5G base stations that are geared for global markets and are scheduled to be available in 2022.
A survey of the open RAN radios available from both established and new markets has found that there are still significant challenges for the vendors before they gained traction in the market.
European telecommunications provider Ericsson has announced three new massive MIMO radios and six new RAN compute products to help with 5G mid-band rollouts.
NEC claims it has achieved the first demonstration of a distributed-MIMO 5G system in the millimetre-wave frequency band in an office environment.
Hong Kong's top telco, SmarTone, has smartly decided to trial Ericsson's FDD Massive MIMO tech on the road to 5G.
Vodafone has "taken the next steps in the advancement of its mobile network performance by successfully conducting its first field demonstration of Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) using a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) band".
Operator-billed revenues from 5G are set to soar to a massive $269 billion by 2025, rising from a mere $851 million in 2019, for a massive 161% CAGR.
Global provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for mobile Internet, ZTE, has won the Best Wireless Broadband Innovation award at Broadband World Forum in London.