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The City of Shanghai has launched 5G trials in the Hongkou district, which also has the distinction of having a gigabit broadband network.

The 5G trial, backed by China Mobile, involves providing full coverage of the district, China Daily reported.

During a commencement ceremony for the trial, a 5G video call was placed using the Huawei Mate X foldable 5G smartphone.

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Juniper Research is forecasting that total operator revenues from A2P (Application-to-Person) messaging services will reach $62 billion by 2023, up from $43 billion in 2019.  This represents a growth of 42% over the next 4 years.

The research firm also claimed that revenue growth will be driven by operator efforts in mitigating messaging fraud over grey routes, alongside the emergence…

Do contributions to online content platforms induce a feedback loop of ever more user-generated content or will they discourage future contributions? To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment which added content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find that adding content has a negligible impact on the subsequent long-run growth of content. Our results…

If operators are to make a success of 5G, they should adopt a four-pronged approach to automated assurance that includes unified cross-domain assurance, dynamic monitoring, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and assurance-assisted closed-loop automation with MANO.

5G promises to support diverse industry use cases with varying demands such as service dynamicity, quality of…

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata has launched what it says is South Asia's first fully standards based 5G pilot service in collaboration with Huawei.

The successful demonstration involved the use of the operator's Huawei-based RAN and core network with the most current 5G non-standalone architecture to transmit data to a 5G smartphone.

Dialog Axiata group chief executive Supun…