Crosswire — September 12, 2026
DAILY BRIEFING — September 12, 2026
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TECH & AI
Russia's 5G Rollout Turns Into a "First" Fight
What happened: Two of Russia's big carriers are claiming 5G leadership on the same day. MegaFon says it has switched on 5G in ten cities — Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Tver, and Veliky Novgorod — with users able to test it on 5G-capable handsets and more cities and tourist sites to follow. MTS counters that it is the first and only operator with gigabit 5G, citing a 4.9 GHz network across five cities including Moscow and St…
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