Trial

Portuguese full-service telecoms operator Nos has staged a 5G trial in the coastal town of Matosinhos. According to Nos, the 5G testing process involved the demonstration of beach surveillance/danger prevention techniques. For Nos to carry out the tests, the National Communications Authority allowed the telco to use a block of 3.5GHz spectrum.

Vodafone Portugal has made a 5G hologram call to TVI Studios in Lisbon. The HD hologram was able to interact with the CTO of Vodafone, João Nascimento, in 3D with minimal transmission latency. This means that there was minimal delay in the interaction, despite the huge amount of data being transmitted – a key benefit of […]

The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), Deutsche Telekom and Nokia have completed an 18-month field test of 5G slicing and industrial IoT at the Port of Hamburg. The tests at the ‘smart seaport’ in Hamburg, running on an 8,000-hectare site between January 2018 and June 2019, covered one strand of the European Union’s two-part 5G-MoNArch (5G mobile […]

The first European 5G NR video call was achieved in Rome over TIM’s 5G network in mmWaves frequency band, powered by the Snapdragon X50 5G modem equipment from Qualcomm Technologies Inc. The network infrastructure was provided by Ericsson. TIM demonstrated its new ultra-fast mobile network with a remote-driven car, a remote control of industrial robots, […]

Cagliari will be the 6th Italian city to test 5G (after Milan, Prato, L’Aquila, Bari and Matera) since the government’s approval for 5G trials in the city by the local telco Fastweb in partnership with the vendor Huawei to develop IT solutions and services in the areas of health, transport, waste management, logistics, security and […]

In order to test 5G performance in 2019 before the expected commercial launch in 2020, Orange announced its partnership with Nokia to launch a test phase in Marseille where 500 selected locals will have access to the 5G Network. Similar tests will take place in Nantes Lilles and Paris.   In January 2019, Orange announced […]

The British operator O2 (Telefonica UK Limited) announced 5G trials over 200 sites in London, using Huawei equipment, to prepare for the 5G commercial launch in 2019.

MEO and Huawei achieved DL speeds of 1.5Gbps in a Lisbon-based 5G trial using 3.6GHz spectrum.

Altice-backed PT Portugal (MEO) annouced the trial of 5G network with Huawei using the 3.6GHz frequency band.

EE opened nine additional sites in busy areas of east London for 5G trials. The tests will aim for evaluating customer experience with businesses and consumers in the selected areas.