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Photo Report on CEATEC2025 "5G/6G Special Day II"

CEATEC2025 "5G/6G Special Day II" will be held at Convention Hall A of Makuhari Messe International Convention Center from October 15 (Wed.) to 16 (Thu.), 2025, with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, XG Mobile Promotion Forum (XGMF), Radio Industries Association of Japan (AR...

Private LTE/5G Market to be worth $7.2 Billion in 2028: Nokia and Ericsson diverge on strategy

Market research firm SNS Telecom & IT (SNS) recently released its latest forecast for the global private network market. In it, global private LTE/5G infrastructure investment will grow at a CAGR of 22% from 2025 to the end of 2028....

Samsung and SK Telecom Jointly Develop AI-RAN for 6G, to be Verified on Real Network

On November 26, 2025, Samsung Electronics of Korea and SK Telecom (SKT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for joint research on AI-RAN technology. The two companies will work on AI-based channel estimation, distributed MIMO, AI-RAN-based scheduler and core network architecture...

EU Considers Legislation to Eliminate Huawei and ZTE Telecom Devices, Unified Policy for All Member States

The European Union is considering legal action to phase out China's Huawei and ZTE products from member states' 5G and next-generation networks....

Nokia Considers Partial Sale of Enterprise Private 5G Business to Focus on Mission Critical Areas

Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia announced its new strategy and restructuring at an investor presentation (Capital Markets Day) on November 19, 2025. Among the changes, the company announced that the "Enterprise Campus e...

Samsung Demonstrates "AI Native 6G" Technology in Silicon Valley

On November 13, 2025 (local time), Samsung Electronics Korea, Inc. demonstrated its AI-RAN technology integrated into a real system at the Silicon Valley Future Wireless Summit 2025 in Mountain View, California, USA....

Nokia and Rohde & Schwarz Demonstrate Coverage Improvement with AI-Enabled 6G Receiver

Finland's Nokia announced on November 3, 2025, that it has developed an AI-powered receiver for 6G and successfully field-tested it in collaboration with German measurement equipment giant Rohde & Schwarz. The two companies presented the results at the Brooklyn 6G [......

Nokia and NVIDIA form strategic alliance, jointly develop AI-RAN platform for 6G

On October 20, 2025, U.S. telecommunications giant T-Mobile announced Edge Control and T-Platform, a new enterprise solution based on 5G-Advanced. The equivalent of private 5G on public networks...

T-Mobile Announces New Service for Businesses Using 5G-Advanced

On October 20, 2025, U.S. telecommunications giant T-Mobile announced Edge Control and T-Platform, a new enterprise solution based on 5G-Advanced. The equivalent of private 5G on public networks...

Verizon Establishes 6G Forum to Promote Standardization in Collaboration with Industry Leaders

U.S. telecommunications giant Verizon announced on September 22, 2025, the establishment of the Verizon 6G Innovation Forum, an industry collaboration organization to lead research and development of the next-generation "6G" communications technology. In cooperation with telecommunications equipment vendors and device and chipset companies...

Apple Watch to Support 5G RedCap; U.S., German, and Japanese Carriers to Launch Commercial Offering

Following Apple's support of 5G RedCap (Reduced Capability) in its latest Apple Watch series, major telecommunications carriers in the U.S., Germany, and Japan will begin offering the standard commercially one after another. Optimized for wearable devices...

Nokia Opens Next-Generation Campus in Oulu to Promote AI-Driven 5G/6G Research and Manufacturing

Finland's Nokia announced on September 5, 2025, the opening of a new R&D and manufacturing campus, Home of Radio, in Oulu, northern part of the country. The site covers an area of 55,000 square meters and will employ approximately 3,000 professionals. This center will be used to develop 5G O...

Chinese Research Team Announces Chip for 6G, Covering 0.5G to 115GHz in a Single Chip

A research team from Peking University in China and City University of Hong Kong published the world's first "all-frequency-capable" wireless chip in the British scientific journal Nature on August 27, 2025. Demonstrating transmission in excess of 100 Gbps per second on a single communication channel, the chip has the potential to take advantage of the full spectrum in future 6G...

First in Korea, KT begins AI-RAN verification on commercial 5G network

South Korean telecommunications giant KT announced on August 26, 2025, that it has begun verifying AI-RAN technology on a commercial 5G network in Naju, Jeollanam-do Province. This is the first trial of its kind in the country, an initiative aimed at improving communication efficiency and laying the groundwork for the 6G era....

SoftBank's AI-RAN, 30% faster uplink speed on actual network, advances toward commercial deployment.

On August 21, 2025, Softbank announced that it has developed a new AI architecture for RAN (Radio Access Network) and demonstrated that it can significantly improve the performance of 5G communications. As part of the company's "AI for RAN" research, AI-RAN live net...

du and huawei launch first 5G-Advanced network in the Middle East in the UAE

UAE telecom giant du announced on August 13, 2025, the launch of the first 5G-Advanced (5G-A) on a commercial network in the Middle East, in collaboration with Huawei....

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