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Qualcomm Completes Validation of its 9205 LTE IoT Modem on DOCOMO’s LTE-M Network

Qualcomm Technologies has completed validation of its cutting-edge Qualcomm 9205 LTE IoT Modem’s capabilities for NTT DOCOMO’s 3GPP Release-14 LTE-M…

Rakuten Mobile Selects Spirent Landslide for 5G & LTE Core Network Testing

Spirent this week announced its extensive work with Rakuten Mobile support of the operator’s current LTE services, planned 5G Non-Standalone…

Rakuten Mobile, NEC to Jointly Develop Containerized SA 5G Core Network

Rakuten Mobile and NEC today announced that the two companies have reached an agreement to jointly develop the containerized standalone…

Altiostar Conducts O-RAN-based 5G Massive MIMO Interop Testing with NEC and Rakuten Mobile

Altiostar recently announced testing of the industry's first O-RAN Alliance-compliant multi-vendor massive-multi-input, multi-output (mMIMO) 5G with vRAN in collaboration with…

Nokia, KDDI Jointly Test Fully Cloudified RAN Solution

Nokia on Wednesday announced that it is working with Japanese mobile operator, KDDI, in a joint initiative aimed at delivering…

Mitsubishi Electric Tests Local 5G System for Factory Automation in Japan

Mitsubishi Electric on Monday announced that it has begun a demonstration test of a local 5G system at its Nagoya…

Rakuten Mobile 5G Service Launch Postponed Three Months

Rakuten Mobile on Friday announced that due to the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the company expects a delay…

SoftBank to Use MediaTek's NB-IoT Chip for Lightweight M2M over Non-IP Data Delivery

MediaTek announced its MT2625 NB-IoT chip has been validated for LwM2M over NIDD (Lightweight Machine-to-Machine over Non-IP Data Delivery) on…

Rakuten Mobile Plans to Acquire OSS Startup Innoeye to Boost 5G Rollout

Rakuten Mobile plans to acquire Innoeye, an engineering technology solutions company headquartered in Virginia, USA. Rakuten Mobile has already deployed…