4G / 5G / 6G

NTT Docomo and Mitsubishi Estate are developing 5G Smart City Infrastructure across Tokyo’s Otemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakucho districts, targeting the high data traffic and growing connectivity needs of one of Japan’s leading business areas. The project will introduce advanced 5G...

New Zealand mobile operator 2degrees has taken a significant step in its rollout of direct to device satellite connectivity, officially opening its Marton satellite ground station and completing successful testing of voice calls, video calls and mobile data through...

The Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) has awarded radio spectrum frequency blocks to Viettel and Claro Dominicana following a public tender process. The Dominican Spectrum Tender resulted in a combined 260MHz being allocated to the two operators, creating scope...

SoftBank and Ericsson have validated AI RAN software on a live commercial 5G network in Japan, marking the first such demonstration of the vendor's technology in the country. The two companies announced on 20 August that the trial tested...

India and Singapore telecom cooperation has taken a fresh step forward with the signing of a Letter of Intent between the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and Singapore's Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA). The LoI was exchanged during...

The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) has approved a framework for Low Latency Energy Efficient Networks as an international standard. The approval, granted on 13 August 2026, establishes Recommendation ITU-T Y.3335 as the formal standard defining network...

China 6G development is gathering pace as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) approved 6GHz trial frequencies for 6G technology trials and launched coordinated regional pilot programmes to support the country's next-generation mobile communications roadmap. In May 2026,...