MegaFon demos commercial Gigabit LTE network

MegaFon has showcased the capabilities of Gigabit LTE on a commercial network, with the peak data download speed reaching 979Mbps. Nokia Air Scale system module and Sony’ Xperia XZ Premium, powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform with X16 LTE, were used...

Nokia Bell Labs work on 5G platform-as-a-service

Nokia Bell Labs is to lead a consortium of industry vendors, operators, IT companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and European academic institutions to build over the next 24 months the Next Generation Platform-as-a-Service (NGPaaS) for the 5G era. The...

Maxwell Technology enters the LTE connectivity space

Paratus Telecommunications South Africa, through its subsidiary Maxwell Technology, has partnered with Rain to provide a range of LTE products called Max-LTE. Customers can expect affordable rates, with speeds of between 20Mbps and 50Mbps. Wireless Business Solutions...

Nokia expands development, deployment of 5G FIRST

Meeting growing customer interest in 5G, Nokia is broadening its focus into multiple areas of early 5G mobility use cases, including enhanced mobile broadband and ultra-reliable, ultra-low latency communications. Nokia will push for accelerated 3GPP industry...

Drones create a buzz in SA’s cellular industry

Unnamed aerial vehicles (UAVs), colloquially known as drones, are emerging as the worker bees of South Africa’s mobile telecommunications industry. That’s according to Philip Smerkovitz, MD of enterprise-class UAV consultant and distributor TeleEye SA....

MTN opens up its fibre to the home network

Effective 1 September, MTN will open its fibre to the home (FTTH) access network, paving the way for independent internet service providers (ISPs) to provide value-added services to their customers via MTN’s wholesale broadband fiber connection division. John...