Venezuela targets 4G development
09 September 2019
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has invited Russian telecom companies, along with Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE, to develop a nationwide 4G telecommunication network in the Bolivarian Republic.
Development of the 4G network system will become a part of the socialist corporation of the telecommunications and postal services sector of Venezuela, he said. However, Maduro did not specify the range of potential investments into the project.
Find out more Polish regulator calls for legal changes to enable 5G roll-out
09 September 2019
Poland’s telecom regulator Prezes Urzedu Komunikacji Elektronicznej (UKE) has urged the government to press ahead with regulatory changes related to permissible radiation levels that are key to rolling out next-generation 5G networks in the country in line with EU requirements.
All EU members are obliged to have an operational 5G network in at least one city by the close of 2020.
However, Poland first has to raise the acceptable level for radiation emitted from the highly efficient base stations that must be built for 5G.
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Brazil starts 5G testing
06 September 2019
Trials on the 3.5 GHz frequency are being executed with Chinese tech giant Huawei and public research and development body, CERTI foundation
Telecom Italia’s Brazilian subsidiary TIM has started the first 5G tests in South America’s largest nation ahead of commercial launch of the technology forecast for 2021.
Trials on the 3.5 GHz frequency in Florianópolis, the capital of southern Brazil’s Santa Catarina state, are being executed with Chinese tech giant Huawei and CERTI foundation, a public research and development body.
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