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Nearly 75 thousand 5G testers were sold in 2018. According to a recent intelligence report presented by Future Market Insights (FMI), the sales volume of 5G tester will thrive impressively at around 14 percent in 2019.

The world has a massive appetite for mobile data, especially in crowded cities. Operators are going to have to make their loaves and fishes feed everybody—but how? In a brand new report, Mobile Experts reveals how they expect operators to satisfy the hunger for more data, with new networks at 24 to 39 GHz.

Network tester market is likely to witness more than 12.5 percent Y-o-Y in 2019, after registering the global revenue roughly equating $7 billion in 2018, according to a study of Future Market Insights (FMI).

Yole Développement (Yole) has just released a report showing an industry shift in packaging technology as 5G is implemented. They state that 5G will totally redefine how the RF front-end interacts in-between the network and the modem. The new RF bands for sub 6 GHz pose big challenges for the industry.

Ericsson, Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) and Telia are operating Sweden’s first 5G network for industrial use, placing Volvo CE among the early global pioneers to test remote-controlled machines and autonomous solutions with the technology.

Anritsu and TRX Systems have introduced a field solution providing 3D indoor and outdoor coverage mapping for 5G NR. It integrates Anritsu's Field Master Pro™ MS2090A RF handheld spectrum analyzer with the TRX MA8100A NEON Signal Mapper.

Verizon plans to launch its 5G mobile service in Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11, the first locations to have Verizon’s NR compliant 5G. Consumers can access the network with the moto 5G mod paired with the moto z3 4G handset.

Every year at the end February, we make our annual pilgrimage to Barcelona, Spain for the world’s largest wireless conference, the Mobile World Congress.  The shear scale of the conference can be overwhelming with all wireless companies demonstrating the latest technologies, outlining future directions, and of course showcasing the latest wireless products.  I just returned from Barcelona and MWC 2019, and here are some thoughts.

The biggest hit at MWC19 was flexible display technology that was shown off in 2 foldable phones, the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X, and in a wearable smartwatch phone from ZTE, the nubia Alpha. While 5G was everywhere (I don’t think I saw one booth that did not mention 5G), it is just emerging into the market but will certainly take off later this year. Nokia voiced this timing in their press conference saying that they expect the first half o 2019 to be somewhat slow with 5G taking off more quickly in the second half of this year. Read this thorough summary of the event.