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Orange and Ericsson Begin Live 5G Trial in Warsaw

Orange Polska has begun Poland’s first live urban test of 5G
technology in Warsaw in conjunction with Ericsson. Operating on
a government-granted test license in the 3.4GHz-3.6GHz band,
the test network has been set up between nine sites in the Ochota
and Powisle districts of the Polish capital. Orange Poland has
made more than 100 5G smartphones and routers available for
invited customers to test and experience 5G download speeds of
up to 900Mbps. The operator expects to roll out commercial 5G
in Poland in 2020-21, following the acquisition of the necessary
5G spectrum. Jean-Francois Fallacher, CEO of Orange Poland,
said: ‘Today we are one step closer to launching the Polish fifth-
generation mobile network. We are technologically ready for this
challenge. After more than a year of trials in laboratories and in
the field, we have launched a network operating in the capital city.’

KT, Tessares Claim First ‘5G Low Latency Multi-Radio Access Technology’
test on Live Network

South Korea’s KT Corp has announced the multi-radio context, resulting in a setup which is expected to greatly contribute to
completion of a world-first ‘5G low latency delay of less than half compared to previous the activation of delay-sensitive enterprise
multi-radio access technology’ test in a 5G approaches. KT and Tessares have jointly applications such as 5G smart office and
commercial network in collaboration with led the international standardization of this smart factories. Sun-woo Lee, Senior Vice
Belgian tech company Tessares. The 5G initial delay reduction technique through President, KT Infra R&D Laboratory, said
multi-radio access technology, which the the IETF TCP Working Group. KT launched of the latest ATSSS test: ‘The success of
3GPP has named ATSSS (Access Traffic its 5G network for enterprise users in this low latency test will allow customers
Steering, Switch and Splitting), is one of December 2018 ahead of a wider consumer to take advantage of existing LTE and Wi-Fi
the 5G differentiators standardized in the launch in April 2019, and by August it was networks, as well as 5G, to enable wireless
3GPP Release-16 5G System Architecture operating 35,415 5G base stations across services at higher speed and quality.’
Standard (3GPP TS 23.501). ATSSS was major cities, according to TeleGeography’s Tessares CEO Denis Periquet added: ‘We
defined in collaboration with KT, Apple, GlobalComms Database. Low-latency are convinced that mobile Internet usage
Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Cisco, and multi-radio access network technology is requires an efficient combination of all
is based on Multi-Path TCP technology. being applied to improve data speed and existing network assets such as Wi-Fi, LTE
ATSSS reduces the initial session setup service quality for consumers as well as and 5G.’
time to achieve 5G ultra-low latency in a for KT’s enterprise-dedicated 5G service,

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