Category: 5G networks

BT and Ericsson Join Forces to Build 5G Private Networks

LONDON—Telecoms company BT and Ericsson have struck a multi-million pound partnership to offer private 5G networks to businesses across Britain, enabling them to deploy Internet of Things and other technologies quickly and securely. Private 5G networks mirror public 5G, but connectivity is limited to a group of devices in a dedicated space, such as a…


Taxpayers Should Not Compensate Telecoms if Huawei Banned: Tories

The Conservatives are calling on the federal government not to compensate Canada’s large telecom corporations with taxpayer money for choosing to install Huawei’s equipment for their next-generation 5G networks if the Liberals go ahead with a ban on Huawei 5G. “Canadians should not have to pay for the Trudeau government’s failure to make the right…


Ottawa Pressed to Ban Huawei From Canada’s 5G Networks

More than two years after Stanford University shelved its partnership with Huawei over U.S national security concerns and others like Princeton and MIT followed suit, Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) continues to fund university research collaborations with the Chinese tech giant.  This issue, as well as whether Ottawa will finally decide to…