5G connection to reach 35 bn globally 350 mn in India by 2026: Report

New investment will include spending on 5G diversification, local fibre networks and Shared Rural Network 4G initiative, government says The UK government will spend 250 million over next few years to diversify its 5G equipment supply chain and to help carriers remove Huawei 5G equipment from their mobile networks. Around 50 million of the sum will be made available next year to help

Huawei was recently banned from supplying 5G equipment to carriers in Sweden, the home country of its rival Ericsson. It has now received support from an unexpected place as the Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm said in an interview that this decision is restricting free competition and trade. He also said the ban will delay the rolling out of the new technology. Exactly one month ago the Swedish Post

The report suggests that four out of every ten mobile subscriptions in 2026 will be 5G.

Britain has ordered telecom firms to not install any new Huawei 5G kit after September 2021. They were already banned from buying new Huawei 5G kit after year’s end.

UK cellular operators will be banned from installing Huawei 5G equipment after September 2021, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has announced. The government also released a roadmap to eliminating Huawei-built telecom gear by 2027.“Today I am setting out a clear path for the complete removal of high risk vendors from our 5G networks,” said Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden in a s

5G coverage is expected to reach 15% of the world’s population, more than one billion people, by the end of this year, according to a new report by Ericsson. The Swedish telecoms company has raised its year-end 2020 estimate for global 5G subscriptions to 220 million, out of which 175 million of those - almost 80% - will be based in China. This is due to the faster-than-average 5G uptake in China,

In its latest Mobility Report released this week, telecommunications giant Ericsson estimates there will be around 220 million 5G subscriptions by the end of 2020, and 5G deployments are expected to cover around 1 billion people worldwide within the same timeframe.

Open RAN can bring about dramatic change to the telecom market, but that is often lost in political rhetoric against Huawei. The post Seen as alternative to Huawei 5G gear, Open RAN can be much more appeared first on Techgoondu.

Although a number of Latin America telecom operators have already engaged in 5G network trials, and a few telcos in Uruguay and Brazil have already launched FWA 5G services, the region lags substantially behind in terms of mobile 5G deployments. The Covid-19 pandemic and the deterioration of the macroeconomic environment across the Latin America region [] The post Latin America to see its first m