Trial

The Dutch operator KPN openned four 5G labs in the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam, a farm in the northern town of Valthermond (Drenthe), the port of Rotterdam, and two motorway stretches in the south of the country. In Amsterdam arena, tests will include massive MIMO antennas from RAN supplier Nokia. At the Valthermond farm, […]

Telefónica , Nokia , TELDAT and Avanza , with the collaboration of the City of Segovia , launched a 5G demonstrator of 4K UHD TV in a moving bus in Spain. The vehicule was equiped with three 4K TV screens installed  by Telefónica and Avanza, connected to a 4K TV decoder designed by Nokia that […]

Telefonica Deutschland announced a trial for 26GHz FWA technology in Hamburg with equipment from Samsung, aiming next for commercial trials as well.

Russian mobile operator Megafon and national operator Rostelecom have tested 5G on the 26 GHz band.

Orange Polska and Huawei launched a station supporting 5G technology in Gliwice. It is the first 5G tests in Poland carried out outside a laboratory on 3.4-3.6 GHz frequency.

Telefónica Deutschland and Samsung Electronics agreed on 20 Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) trials in Germany. About 20 households in Hamburg will test the Gigabit technology from November over a period of three months.

Ericsson and Swisscom conducted a multivendor 5G Non-Standalone data call on the 3.5 GHz band in Burgdorf, Switzerland. The data call was conducted using Ericsson’s commercial HW/SW (NSA-compliant) Ericsson Radio System with AIR 6488, Baseband 6630, R6000 Transport and virtual EPC for 5G. Data transmissions were carried out using Intel’s Mobile Trial Platform (MTP) device […]

The launch of 5G trials was announced in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, Malaga and Seville by Vodafone. The announcement follows the recent acquisition of 90 megahertz of spectrum in the the 3.6-3.8 GHz band by the operator for €198 million.

Vipnet conducted 5G trials in Croatia, achieving speeds of 20 Gbps. Download and upload data both ran at 3.5GHz .

Bouygues Telecom has carried out 5G trials in cooperation with Ericsson, using a radio station equipped with active 5G antennas connected simultaneously to two mobile prototype terminals. The companies claim to have achieved aggregated rate of 25.2Gbps on the 5G antenna with a latency of the order of three milliseconds.