SliceNet partner Orange Romania launches commercial 5G

Orange Romania has become the first country within the Orange Group’s footprint to commercially launch 5G, offering customers internet download speeds of up to 1.2Gbps and average download speeds of 600Mbps. A speed test carried out on the Orange Romania 5G commercial network in Cluj Napoca, Romania, shows coverage on a Samsung Galaxy S10 5G (exclusive to Orange Romania).

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CIT discusses 5G telemedicine use case with Irish National Ambulance Service

Mark Roddy (Senior Researcher with CIT) presents 5G PPP Trials & Pilots brochure to Martin Dunne (Director NAS)

On 8th October, Mark Roddy, a senior researcher from SliceNet partner Cork Institute of Technology, met Martin Dunne, the Director of the Irish National Ambulance Service. They discussed CIT’s innovative research for the delivery of life-saving telemedicine services over an experimental 5G in-ambulance communication system. The telemedicine trial is part of the use cases explored in the SliceNet project.

At their meeting, Mark presented Martin with a recently published brochure from the EU’s 5G PPP that showcases CIT’s innovative in-ambulance TeleStroke Assessment service, currently under trial at DellEMC’s experimental 5G testbed in Ovens, Cork.

Further information:
5G PPP Trials & Pilots brochure for download (pdf)