5G

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  Telstra Offers Australia’s First Taste of 5G

  Telstra has turned on the first precinct of 5G-enabled Wi-Fi hotspots in the world, allowing Gold Coast locals and visitors to enjoy free broadband while Telstra evaluates 5G technology.

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  MWC 2018: Intel and Huawei to showcase 5GNR public interoperability demonstration

  Ahead of this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Intel have announced they’ll be taking the occasion to undertaking what they say is the world’s first 5GNR public interoperability demonstration in cooperation with Huawei.

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  MWC 2018: Intel confirms OEM collaboration on 5G PCs

  Ahead of this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Intel has confirmed expected plans to collaborate with Dell, HP and Lenovo on the first wave of 5G-enabled PCs.

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  5G plans just hit the accelerator

  The international body crafting the 5G standard has approved an accelerated roadmap that could see large-scale trials and deployments in 2019 instead of 2020.

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  Intel showed how 5G networking will power VR and self-driving cars

  Intel is leading the push toward 5G networking because as more devices connect, we're all going to need more bandwidth. At Mobile World Congress, it showed use cases from smart homes to VR to self-driving cars.

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  How Intel's pushing 5G networking for a super-connected future

  Think about everything you'd like to connect in your life, and thank about how much bandwidth we'll need when everyone wants to do that. That's why Intel and other companies are pushing to develop fast 5G networking.

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  5G will help autonomous cars cruise streets safely

  Years from now, your first autonomous may have a lot of help from 5G networks to cruise the streets safely.

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  Optus leverages Huawei partnership to launch Aussie first 4.5G network

  Optus has switched on 4.5G network services throughout Macquarie Park, in north-west Sydney, and said the technology will be rolled out in selected capital cities and in the next year.

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  5G progress at Ericsson could help enterprises work worldwide

  The Swedish network giant Ericsson will have a lot of prospective 5G equipment to show to gearheads at Mobile World Congress later this month, but the future cloud capabilities it demonstrates may be just as important for a subscriber’s experience.

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  Huawei aims to be epicentre of 5G application research

  Huawei appears to be seeking to stake out a central co-ordinating role in the evolution of 5G mobile applications.

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  5G will need small cells, so Nokia is sending in the drones

  If you want 5G, there’s a good chance you’ll need a small cell nearby to deliver it. Putting up that cell may be hard because of a host of problems, but Nokia Bell Labs thinks it can solve some of them with drones and tiny solar panels.

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  The 5G mobile challenge: Selling a dream

  The mobile industry doesn't yet know what application will create a mass audience for super-fast, sustained wireless performance. That makes its 5G crusade a little harder.

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  AT&T wants big mobile players to form a 5G dream team

  AT&T is hoping to collaborate with a powerful set of carriers and equipment vendors on 5G. On Wednesday, the company said it’s having preliminary discussions with an A-list lineup of players to align their efforts on defining the future standard.

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  ACCC to scrutinise impact of NBN, 5G on telco competition

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will launch a market study of the communications industry that will examine the impact on competition of changes in the sector including the National Broadband Network rollout, the growth in consumer...

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  Ericsson will offer 5G features from next year

  Standards for the next generation of cellular technology that will support multigigabit bandwidths are yet to be finalised and commercial deployments in Australian networks are unlikely before 2021, but Ericsson has announced upgrades to 4G networks ...