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Rakuten Mobile’s 4G infra reaches 97% of Japanese population at end-Q1Rakuten Mobile’s CTO Tareq Amin said that the telco now aims to accelerate 5G deployments across Japan Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile said it 4G network reached 97% of the country’s population as of the end of the first quarter of the year. In its earnings […]

Virgin Media O2 reaches 400 U.K cities with its 5G network at end-Q1Virgin Media O2 launched services in June 2021 as a JV between Liberty Global and Telefónica in the U.K U.K. operator Virgin Media O2 announced that its 5G network infrastructure had reached 400 towns and cities across the country as of the end […]

Internet for All funding spigot begins to turn $45 billion up for grabs in nationwide broadband initiative The Biden administration’s “Internet for All” effort to provide affordable high-speed Internet to everyone in the U.S. moved a step closer to reality this week. On Friday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo traveled to Durham, North Carolina to announce that […]

Finnish government unveils new 6G initiativeThe members of 6G Finland will now start creating a 6G R&D roadmap on the most important common priorities Several Finnish research institutes and companies currently doing 6G research and development have founded a national coalition, dubbed 6G Finland, with the aim of boosting Finland’s competitiveness in the as-yet-unstandardized 6G […]

Test and Measurement: ‘Opportunities for improvement’ in Rakuten Mobile’s 5G Open RAN, SRG findsRakuten Mobile’s Open RAN 5G network leaves something to be desired in terms of both spectral efficiency and performance, according to new testing from Signals Research Group. SRG conducted the tests over three days in late April, looking at both Rakuten’s 5G […]