After conducting a series of successful demonstrations of relay technologies for 5G, SK Telecom has started to accelerate its efforts to roll out a 5G service in South Korea earlier than expected. Read more...

"Tuning range" solutions, in which adjacent or nearly adjacent bands can be considered harmonised if equipment can be reconfigured to operate over multiple bands, are capable of generating the same benefits as harmonised spectrum allocations, says the mobile industry body. Read more...

Further trials in the 3.7 GHz band in Germany are on the way, says chief technology and innovation officer Claudia Nemat. Read more...

Nokia’s chief executive Rajeev Suri said on the company’s quarterly earnings call earlier this week that “lead customers in both the United States and China” would deploy sooner than the 2020 date the company had previously expected. Read more...

Narrow band-IoT (NB-IoT) will feature in a separate radio interface technology (RIT) proposal from 3GPP for the eventual ITU 5G standard. Read more...

Following predictions for how much revenue 5G would generate, researchers have been assessing mobile operators’ capital expenditure. Read more...

The GSMA’s operator members are supporting the European position that 26 GHz should be the mmWave band used for 5G services globally. 28 GHz, under study in the US and South Korea, is unequivocally off the table, according to the European administrations' group CEPT. Read more...

Vodafone Australia has called for the country’s National Broadband Network (NBN Co) to work with the mobile sector and share the 3.4 GHz spectrum that is critical to the rollout of 5G. However, the operator did not show any interest in the band when it was assigned in 2011. Read more...

As the US regulator unveils the results of the 600 MHz auction, it remains to be seen what one of the big winners, Dish, will do with its large spectrum holding, and how well TV channels will fare in the repacking process. Read more...

Several connectivity bills introduced in earlier congressional hearings are back in play as the US House of Representatives calls for more licensed, unlicensed, shared and government spectrum for the "21st Century wireless economy". Read more...