The glory days of the country’s mobile industry may be behind them, but a new McKinsey study says there is hope for the future. Read more...

Japan's regulator and mobile operators have been focusing on the 4.5 GHz band as they race to launch 5G in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Read more...

The huge potential benefits and rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) have encouraged regulators in various countries to formulate relevant policy roadmaps and regulation. Read more...

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...