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Mobile radio technology is moving from 4G to 5G, but it cannot move in isolation. Operators learned this valuable lesson with the move to 4G. In particular, the transport layer, often referred to as mobile backhaul, became a network choke point at cell sites with upgraded 4G mobile radios and legacy backhaul systems. To avoid these past mistakes, operators are placing as much emphasis on the…

An Ericsson equipment fault has been blamed on a mobile network outage spanning multiple countries that left millions without coverage, with some still affected.

The outage yesterday affected data access across the mobile services of operators including SoftBank in Japan and O2 in the UK.

SoftBank has reported that its outage lasted nearly five hours starting at around 1:39pm…

Malaysia's Asia Pacific University (APU) has deployed Ruckus Networks’ indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi access points, network controllers and switches at its existing and new Technology & Innovation Campus.

The university selected the vendor to build a scalable wired and wireless network infrastructure to meet the growing needs of APU's expanding student population, connected devices, and…

The China Mobile Research Institute and Nokia have launched a jointly-developed hybrid indoor radio solution with location services, designed to meet 5G connectivity demands inside large, busy buildings.

The solution, which the companies are hailing as an industry-first, is aimed at reducing operators' deployment costs.

The solution uses the Nokia 5G Pico RRH System, passive…

As part of its journey towards 5G, Australian operator Telstra has completed a series of demonstrations in collaboration with HTC, Qualcomm and Ericsson.

The company has completed what it said was the world's first connection of a 5G mid-band device anywhere in the world with a demonstration of the upcoming HTC 5G Hub mobile smart device.

The device, developed by HTC in…