Mobile Wallet, digital pay 2018-04-12
A new study from Juniper Research predicts that 2.1 billion consumers worldwide will use a mobile wallet to make a payment or send money in 2019, up 30% from the 1.6 billion in 2017. The study claimed that while contactless card payments were far more pre
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Mobile Shopping, APAC, Mobile Shopping Charge, China, India 2018-04-02
New research from Worldpay has shown that shoppers in emerging markets such as China and India are searching for a more luxurious, personalized shopping experience via their mobile devices. Furthermore, many shoppers in the Asia Pacific have also expresse
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Spark, 5G 2018-03-21
New Zealand incumbent Spark has kicked off a 5G trial in Wellington, making it the country’s first mobile carrier to do so. In a statement, Spark said the first live 5G test was carried out in Wellington on a temporary spectrum provided by the
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3 HK, 5CC CA, 4.5G 2018-03-15
3 Hong Kong has announced it has completed the refarming of spectrum in the 2100-MHz band for its 4.5G services, becoming the first local operator to provide five-band carrier aggregation. In partnership with Huawei Technologies, the operator has prepare
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2degrees, 2G 2018-03-15
New Zealand mobile operator 2degrees will switch off its 2G network from Thursday as part of plans to refarm its existing spectrum for 4G services. The operator stopped selling 2G devices in 2015 and announced plans around six months ago to shutter its 2
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5G, China, US 2018-02-27
The US and China are leading the race to 5G, but the US needs to get more aggressive when it comes to spectrum, according to Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri. “It's a neck-and-neck race between the US and China to see who will be first to deploy”
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KT, mmWave, 5G, 5G Network 2018-02-27
KT, Intel and other top telecom companies offered a brief look at the results from what is likely the world's largest and most visible test of 5G network technology to date: a commercial 5G network running in Pyeongchang for the Winter Olympics, wh
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5G, Vendor 2018-02-26
South Korea's KT, working in conjunction with Samsung and Qualcomm, has completed multi-vendor 5G new radio (5G NR) interoperability testing compliant with the new 3GPP Release 15 5G NR global standard. The live, over-the-air interoperability testi
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Intel, 5G, Mobile PCs 2018-02-25
Intel has announced it has teamed up with Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft to introduce 5G connectivity to Windows mobile PCs. The agreements will involve embedding Windows PCs with Intel's XMM 8000 series of commercial 5G modems. The first 5G connec
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Operators, 5G, Trials 2018-02-22
A total of 72 operators worldwide - including 31 in Asia-Pacific - are involved in 5G trials, according to data compiled by VIAVI Solutions. A report [PDF] from the network testing and monitoring solutions provider found that of the 31 APAC operators tha
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