Three will offer 5G in August
$2.55 billion 5G infrastructure investment i
UK mobile operator Three will launch its first new-generation 5G broadband service in London in August and would roll out mobile and broadband across 25 towns and cities before the end of the year.
Ireland’s National 5G Test Centre opens at Maynooth University
€1.5 million centre is first of its kind in Europe
Maynooth University today opened Ireland’s National 5G Test Centre. The state-of-the-art facility dubbed RadioSpace, which represents an investment of €1.5 million, is the country’s first large-scale facility for the research and testing of radio and wireless technologies needed for 5G and the future Internet of Things.
Mediatek announces SoC with an integrated 5G modem
7nm with ARM's new Cortex-A77 CPU/Mali-G77 GPU
Mediatek has made quite a surprising announcement as its new SoC will be the first to use ARM's new SOC design with Cortex-A77 CPU cores and Mali-G77 GPU, as well as an integrated 5G modem.
Lenovo showcases a 5G Snapdragon 8cx PC
Computex 19: X55 modem inside, pictured
Qualcomm and Lenovo showcased the world’s first 5G PC at Computex. The PC is based on Qualcomm’s 8cx platform and comes with additional 5G connectivity. Lenovo calls this design "Project Limitless", based on world’s first 7nm platform purpose-built for PCs.
German 5G bids hit six billion euro
Auction into its 10th week
Germany’s 5G auction has drawn six billion euro ($6.7 billion) in bids so far as the sale enters its 10th week.
Huawei launches first 5G phone
Due next month
Chinese smartphone company Huawei said that its first commercial 5G phone will launch on the 20th of June and cost £999.
TSMC is 5G winner
Appears to have most of the fabless chipmaker's projects
TSMC has reportedly grabbed orders for all the 5G modem chips that have been introduced by fabless chipmakers, such as Qualcomm's Snapdragon X50 and HiSilicon's Balong series.
Apple will take years to build a 5G modem
It can’t get the wood
Fruity cargo cult Apple has no chance of escaping Qualcomm’s clutches for at least six years.
5G might mess with weather satellites
US Navy worried
A U.S. Navy memo warns that 5G mobile networks are likely to interfere with weather satellites, and senators are urging the Federal Communications Commission to avoid issuing new spectrum licenses to wireless carriers until changes are made to prevent harms to weather forecasting.
UK gets July 5G launch date
Vodafone is the first
Vodafone has announced that its 5G network will go live on the 3rd of July, making it the first to set a hard date for the launch of its next-gen mobile network.