2025/07/15
Rakuten Symphony, a telecommunications subsidiary of Rakuten Group, and MobiFone, a state-owned telecommunications company in Vietnam, announced on June 4, 2025, the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to test and deploy 4G/5G Open RAN in Vietnam MobiFone is a Southeast Asian...
2025/07/09
This showcase was held at the Expo Messe "WASSE" on the Expo grounds and was a limited nine-day event from May 26 to June 3. More than 40,000 visitors attended during that time, demonstrating the high interest of visitors in future telecommunications....
2025/07/08
Nokia of Finland announced on June 2, 2025 a partnership with Andorix of Canada, a telecommunications infrastructure company for real estate. The two companies will provide private 5G and edge solutions for the real estate market in the U.S. and Canada....
2025/06/24
The NFL's Buffalo Bills announced on May 12, 2025, that they will have U.S. telecommunications giant Verizon as their official 5G partner at their new home, Highmark Stadium, scheduled to open in 2026. Verizon will also be the founding partner of the new stadium...
2025/06/11
The June ODAIBA IX Core workshop will be held at Sekisui Chemical's Mizunase Innovation Center, Osaka, which opened in 2020....
2025/06/10
We spoke with Dr. Tetsuya Iye of Kozo Keikaku Engineering’s Communication Engineering Department—who says that “continuous development leveraging the scalability of open-source software (OSS) will accelerate the spread of local 5G”—about the development front line, the benefits of the OSS community, and current interest in the OAIBOX.
2025/06/04
Sumitomo Electric Industries (Sumitomo Electric) is a leading Japanese nonferrous metals manufacturer whose core business is wire harnesses for automobiles. Of the company's approximately 290,000 consolidated employees, more than 80% are engaged in the automotive business, many of whom work overseas. More than 60% of its sales come from overseas markets...
Finland's Nokia announced on May 6, 2025, that it has signed a contract to install a self-owned radio network (privately owned wireless) for the fleet of Danish shipping giant AP Moller Maersk. Maersk will install the wireless network on 450 vessels in its fleet, providing real-time cargo tracking, suppl...
2025/05/20
Ericsson of Sweden announced on April 14, 2025 that Newmont, a major U.S. gold mining company, has selected its private 5G. The 5G network will be used to remotely operate a fleet of bulldozer vehicles at the Cadia mine, the largest underground mine in Australia....
2025/05/13
Verizon Business announced a private 5G solution for the broadcast industry during the NAB show 2025 in Las Vegas on April 6, 2025. Called the "Portable Private 5G Network Framework," the solution...
2025/04/23
Both Sub6, which can cover large areas at lower frequencies, and millimeter wave, which can achieve high-speed communications at higher frequencies, are allocated as frequency bands available for 5G. Millimeter wave communications are not often heard of by the general public, but how are they actually used in services and solutions...
2025/04/22
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE)* of France recently announced a partnership with Celona of the United States to provide turnkey local 5G solutions. Local 5G networks for complex industrial environments such as manufacturing sites, refineries, logistics warehouses, ports, airport tarmacs...
2025/03/27
In this 6th Joint Workshop, we will report on the results of the validation of the business value assessment methodology compiled by 5G-ACIA using a use case in a Japanese car manufacturer's factory as the subject matter, and also report on the results of a survey targeting industries in Japan....
2025/03/12
This year's ambitious program was an actual visit to Oki Electric's flagship factory, Honjo New Plant (Saitama Prefecture), to hear reports from the Oki Electric site and discuss...
2025/03/04
How are wireless networks used in factories and various social settings, and what solutions are needed to ensure safe and smooth operations within them? At the Wireless Network Research Center of the Network Research Institute of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), wireless...
2025/02/13
The 5G network has a strong image of growth for consumers, but we expect growth in the indus-try domain as well. One of the reasons for this is that global cellular IoT subscriptions are growing at more than 10% per year, and the impact is strong....
