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Singapore’s top telecom providers selected European telecoms Ericsson and Nokia over Huawei to develop the city-state’s main 5G network, joining a growing list of countries that have limited the Chinese company’s role in building the next-generation wireless network. Singapore Telecommunications, which is the country’s largest telecom, chose to use equipment from Sweden’s Ericsson after a …

This story is part of Generation China, CNET’s series exploring the nation’s technological ambition. The pandemic sure isn’t hurting 5G subscriptions, at least when it comes to China. The super-fast new wireless technology should be in about double the number of hands in 2020 as Ericsson predicted late last year. The Swedish networking giant, in its biannual mobility report released …

US companies will be permitted to work with Huawei on developing 5G standards under a new rule announced by the US Commerce Department on Monday. “The United States will not cede leadership in global innovation,” US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in statement published Monday. “The department is committed to protecting U.S. national security and foreign policy interests by encouraging …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Less than two weeks after laying off thousands of employees, Uber said Monday that it’s letting go of 3,000 more staff members and closing or consolidating roughly 45 offices worldwide. The ride-hailing company has now reduced its workforce by 25%, making these layoffs one of …

Though the hype over 5G has been intense, the reality is that few people have had a chance to really experience the service. The available coverage has been hard to find over the past year, with the broader-ranging networks turning on only at the end of 2019. There’ve been only a handful of compatible devices, and CNET suggested you avoid …

5G is the next generation of wireless networks and it does a lot of things better than 4G. It will arrive in fits and spurts as the networks and devices debut and mature, but the recent pandemic and disruptions it has caused may stoke an appetite for the best connectivity everywhere, as our lives have moved more online.  A 5G connection …

An FCC proposal to offer a portion of new radio spectrum for ordinary Wi-Fi use would make car-to-car communications unsafe and could squelch advancements in self-driving cars, Ford warned in comments filed Monday. The automaker wants all the spectrum in a swath of airwaves near the 5.9GHz frequency band to be available for a technology called C-V2X, short for cellular …

Verizon is calling Super Bowl LIV the first 5G Super Bowl, as it’ll be showcasing its next-generation wireless service at the big game in Miami on Sunday. The carrier says this will be the first time that its wireless customers will be able to access its 5G mobile network at the event.  Verizon’s 5G mobile network hadn’t even launched for …

5G launched in the UK last year and now, at the start of 2020, all four major UK networks — EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three — offer it but to vastly different extents. To see exactly how the networks are performing, what speeds to expect and the extent of coverage, I toured the UK to test 5G in five major cities: London, …

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Verizon plans to launch 20 5G devices in 2020, or four times the number that came out last year. More importantly, the devices won’t all command a hefty premium. Verizon plans to release phones that initially cost about $800 in the …