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Keysight Technologies Inc. announced a collaboration with Telia Finland to accelerate commercial 5G New Radio (NR) deployments.

Qualcomm Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., and Swisscom, together with cutting-edge device manufactures including OPPO, LG Electronics, Askey and WNC, announced the arrival of commercial 5G services in Europe with the launch of Swisscom’s 5G network.

Korean carrier SK Telecom has officially launched commercial 5G services across the country, the telco said in a statement.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced the company's 5G RF Conformance Toolset was used to submit 5G new radio (NR) standalone (SA) test cases to the Global Certification Forum (GCF), enabling the independent certification body to activate certification of 5G NR SA mobile devices based on 3GPP standards.

The PAWR program, funded by the NSF and a consortium of 29 industry partners, announced the completion of the first phase of deployment of an advanced wireless research testbed with end-to-end programmability of radio and edge compute resources in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Keysight Technologies Inc. announced that the company, together with Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has established the mobile industry's first announced 5G NR data call in the FDD mode, accelerating global deployments in all major 3GPP frequency bands including TDD and FDD.

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. announced demonstrations of IIoT applications with multiple companies at Hannover Messe using a live OTA 5G NR network utilizing mobile test devices powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X50 5G modem and antenna modules with integrated RF transceiver, RF front-end and antenna elements.

With first-blush services turned up in the U.S. and a few other key global markets, operators are planning to scale out 5G networks throughout 2019.