"How this technology will be used and potentially adopted at scale will drive the required infrastructure investment."

The test, conducted in Japan from May 9 to 11, used digital signal processing between base stations.

Spark announced that Cisco is the first of several collaborators it will be working with to prepare and test the parameters for a 5G network.

The company has responded to a request from MBIE for feedback on the challenges and opportunities of a 5G rollout.

Schnedier Electric's Russel Senesac says there are a number of factors behind the growing need for the industry to be powered by edge computing.

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Spark at their Auckland headquarters to explore their vision of the 5G future.

​The 5G industry has made impressive progress in the last six months with astonishing forecasts for the future - well, at least in Asia and America.

Forget the hype, the road to full 5G coverage is going to be a little longer than vendors and service providers have promised.

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Vodafone at their headquarters to see 5G in action and talk to CEO Russell Stanners about its applications.

Ericsson has joined forces with Vertiv and NorthStar to form this alliance.

Nokia's global head of 5G has been welcomed into the ranks of Huawei Australia as its new CTO to head up its own 5G research and development.

The trial was deployed with specialist equipment and technical support from technology partner Huawei and is located directly across from Parliament.

This enhancement in cell capacity will provide a better experience for more consumers.

​5G has been talked about for a number of years but the quest is really starting to heat up with the big players keen to express their handiwork.

5G has long been in development with no shortage of hype surrounding the term - but Ericsson's CEO said at MWC it is officially in the here and now.

Fujitsu announced that it has agreed to provide NTT DOCOMO with base station hardware that it intends to commercialize for 5G.

As 5G deployment plans further solidify across the globe, Lenovo will build and partner on NFV hardware and software solutions.

The trial tested both the capacity and latency that could be achieved using a traditional IP microwave link.

Intel announced its collaboration with Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft to bring 5G connectivity to Windows PCs.

The end-to-end 5G NR interoperability testing demonstrated the essential components of the 5G NR air interface.

Huawei revealed that a full series of scenario-based massive MIMO AAU products would be released in 2018.

Coriant’s global customer base includes cloud and data center operators, mobile and fixed line service providers, and Web 2.0 content providers.

NEC Corporation announced it has reduced the size of the millimeter-wave radio units for fifth-generation mobile communications.

Telstra, Ericsson, NETGEAR and Qualcomm announced they have achieved record-breaking 4G speeds of up to two Gigabits per second.