
US behind China in 5G race
America getting less great again
Beancounters at Deloitte have added up some numbers and divided by them by their shoe size and worked out that the United States is being outspent by China in the 5G race and it risks losing out on the potential economic benefits.

FCC issues rules for 5G spectrum sales
Ajit wants to slice up the Pai
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday issued rules for bidding on high-band spectrum that will be used to create the next generation of 5G wireless networks.

Big 5G contract awarded
T-Mobile and Nokia
T-Mobile US has named Nokia as its supplier for $3.5 billion in next-generation 5G network gear.

Qualcomm 5G enabled cars to arrive in 2021
Qualcomm CEO confirms
5G is just around the corner in the phone form factor and Qualcomm has now said that OEM devices can be expected in early 2019.

Qualcomm peaks guidance with $5.6 billion revenue
199M Snapdragons in Q3 FY2018
Qualcomm has announced its financial Q3 2018 results and the company ended up with $5.6 billion of revenue, at the top end of its $4.8 – $5.6 billian guidance. Non-GAAP diluted EPS was expected at $0.65 - $0.75 and in reality it ended up at $1.01.

Qualcomm won’t be in the 2018 iPhone
Apple lover stuck with slower choice
Qualcomm has been signaling since the beginning of the 2018 that it might not end up in Apple's iPhone 2018 and at its last financial conference call it officially confirmed it.

5G mmWave and sub 6Ghz phones will arrive in early 2019
Why is mmWave crucial for Multi Gbps speeds
A few months back Fudzilla reported about a 5G reference design of the phone with three mmWave antenna openings, and today, Qualcomm announced the new design with four antennas at half the size. Nick covered this part well, but we wanted to add some additional information about this important step in the development of 5G.

European telcos implementing mmWave 5G
TIM Italy with multi Gigabit speeds
After yesterday’s announcement that Qualcomm has four mm wave 5G antenna solution for a phone form factor, we wanted to shift some attention to carriers that might support these wave lengths and fast speeds and it looks like US and Europe will start straight away.

Huawei to launch 5G by June 2019
Definitely won’t be the first
Everyone is rushing to be the leader in 5G and Huawei made an announcement that the company is planning to introduce 5G chips in March 2019 and ship the phone solution a quarter later. The company officially confirmed these plans.

Ericsson needs 5G take-up
Something needs to turn around
Ericsson needs 5G network services to be taken up to turn it around and end its need to restructure and allow it to expand again.