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Spark New Zealand Ltd. and the Philippines' Smart Communications Inc. are rolling out their 5G services. United States Cellular Corp. and Australia's Telstra Corp. Ltd., meanwhile, are planning to extend their 5G footprint, while telecom equipment maker Ericsson is making gains in China through its 5G offering.
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* DISH Network Corp. selected VMware Inc.'s Telco Cloud platform to deploy its 5G, cloud-native open radio access network in the U.S.
* U.S. Cellular will activate its 5G service in certain locations across 11 U.S. states. Nokia earlier agreed to add 5G millimeter-wave capabilities to U.S. Cellular's network.
* Ericsson provided a U.S.-manufactured 5G base station to Verizon.
* Qualcomm Inc. forecasts that between 175 million and 225 million 5G devices will ship during 2020.
ASIA-PACIFIC
* Telstra plans to expand its 5G coverage to 75% of Australia's population by June 2021, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
* Verizon Communications Inc. reached a 5G roaming partnership with South Korea.
* MediaTek Inc. plans to supply chips for 5G phones that run on mmWave frequencies "sometime next year," CEO Rick Tsai said.
* PT XL Axiata Tbk selected Ericsson to deploy 5G-ready cloud core technology services in the eastern part of Indonesia.
* Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. expects the launch of new products such as 5G phones to drive up consumer demand in the next several quarters.
* PLDT Inc. unit Smart Communications launched its commercial 5G service in key business districts of Metro Manila, Philippines.
* Spark rolled out its 5G service in the city center of Palmerston North, New Zealand. The telco will extend its 5G coverage to four more locations before end-2020.
EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
* Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. asked the German government to let the company be a part of its 5G network expansion, Der Spiegel reported.
* Three Portuguese operators will not use Huawei equipment in their core 5G networks despite the absence of a government ban, Reuters reported.
* Russian media and telecom regulator Roskomnadzor granted a 5G license to Mobile TeleSystems PJSC.
* Qatari operator Ooredoo rolled out Nokia's cloud-native core network to support its 5G service.
* Orange SA and Google LLC's Google Cloud will jointly create 5G-based edge-computing services. Alphabet Inc. owns Google.
* Madagascar's telecom regulator ARTEC suspended Telecom Malagasy SA's 5G network after granting it a temporary one-month permit to test the technology, Ecofin Agency reported.
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