Vendors concerned about ailing bottom lines are guilty of overhyping 5G, Vodafone's Group CTO has warned, as he predicted smartphones rather than enterprises that will drive the first flush of the market.

Bouygues Telecom and Altice have announced at Mobile World Congress that they have signed up Huawei for 5G trials, as the vendor announced a slew of new 5G products.

TIM has launched a project to virtualise its radio access network across Italy, in a move described as key to its migration to 5G.

Deutsche Telekom is aiming to dive further into 5G research and deployments with the formation of a new subsidiary company dedicated to the technology, as football star Manuel Neuer made a guest appearance at its Mobile World Congress press conference.

The unstoppable force of technology optimism met the immovable object of financial reality at Mobile World Congress today, as debate raged about the investment case for 5G.

Ericsson's CEO has said "not all traffic is created equal", on a day at Mobile World Congress 2018 that is set to feature debates on net neutrality.

Qualcomm has held its latest set of 5G trials, demonstrating the speeds and capacity increases that the next generation technology hopes to offer.

5G activity in Europe will be dwarfed by that of the United States and Asia, the CEO of Nokia has said, as the Finnish vendor announced new Wi-Fi products, 5G trials and further work with Facebook.

Cisco has launched a suite of 5G products for operators and is spearheading a new initiative to boost adoption of virtualised RAN (vRAN).

Huawei has won a new agreement with Telecom Italia to roll out small cells in Italy, as well as launching a new project designed to advance network slicing.

London's O2 arena was the venue for annual music industry shindig The Brit awards last night and Telefónica UK is hoping the arena hits the right note as a 5G testbed.

Swisscom has brought forward its plans to deploy 5G to the end of this year, so long as the correct health regulatory framework is in place.

Ericsson is dominating 5G network trials, new figures from networking testing firm Viavi have shown, with 72 operators testing the next generation technology.

TIM and Huawei have developed the first FDD full-band 4x4 MIMO antenna that they said would enable site sharing, 5G applications and help operators deploy next generation networks.

Swisscom is exploring how network slicing can help critical communications across LTE and 5G in a new collaboration with Ericsson.

Vodafone has made the first call using non-standalone 5G New Radio technology in a demonstration with Huawei.

Robots balancing balls formed part of what Mtel has claimed is Bulgaria's first demonstration of 5G.

Deutsche Telekom, Huawei and Intel have held the first trial of 5G New Radio interoperability on a commercial base station.

Vodafone and Huawei have completed tests demonstrating how traditional IP microwave links could be used as backhaul for future 5G networks.

Elisa has tested 5G connectivity in a moving car using its test network in Finland.