Monthly Archives: March, 2017

Chip-level IoT enablement is about more than connectivity

With its new SoC, Sequans includes LTE connectivity along with the horsepower necessary for increasingly complex IoT applications At this point, there are well established...

#TBT: Sprint, SoftBank pressured on Huawei; T-Mobile launches LTE … this week in 2013

Congress applied pressure to Sprint and SoftBank to avoid Huawei, while T-Mobile USA launched its LTE network … 4 years ago this week. ...

Submit nominations for Enterprise IoT Innovator and Industrialist of the year

Submission deadline for Enterprise IoT Innovator and Industrialist of the year nominations extended to Sunday, March 26, 2017. Submit your nomination today for recognition as an...

Editorial Webinar: Public Safety LTE

After years of planning and pilot projects, the national public safety wireless broadband network known as FirstNet is poised to soon become a reality....

The direction of 5G and IoT coming out of MWC 2017

What impact did news from this year’s Mobile World Congress event have on the direction and pace of 5G technology and IoT deployment models?...

Editorial Report: Public Safety LTE

After years of planning and pilot projects, the national public safety wireless broadband network known as FirstNet is poised to soon become a reality....

How we will get to 5G

The hopes for what 5G can accomplish are a testament to mobile’s triumph. Mobile has been so successful, on such a massive scale, that it...

Small cell siting update

Florida and California consider state legislation while FCC considers federal rules. A lot has happened in Washington, D.C., since Mobilitie petitioned the Federal...

Indianapolis, Richmond ranked top cellular markets; T-Mobile dings Omaha, Worcester

RootMetrics' latest performance report claims overall cellular improvements, though T-Mobile call blocking issues doomed last-place markets. U.S. wireless carriers improved their performance game...

Vodafone provides IoT connectivity for Mobike’s operation in Singapore

Vodafone to support the Chinese bike-sharing service already operating in 33 cities. Vodafone announced it is providing all the managed internet of things connectivity...

ZTE unveils NB-IoT based smart water meters

New meters use technologies including nonmagnetic induction and NB-IoT wireless remote transmission. ZTE released two narrowband internet of things-based smart water meters during...

CenturyLink claims CORD first using its own virtualized broadband network gateway

CenturyLink notes use of CORD design as part of virtualized broadband network gateway is part of extensive virtualization use in IP core by end...

The difference between IoT today, and IoT as supported by 5G

SAN FRANCISCO – There's a big difference between the internet of things as we know it today and truly massive IoT, which is what...

Analyst Angle: The convergence towards spectrum sharing

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in...

For service providers, virtualization is an opportunity to rethink the network

Signaling-control delivered via software sets the stage for the explosion in IoT devices, as well as 5G, while accelerating innovation Virtualizing telecommunications networks is a...

Feature Report: Smart City Use Cases and Trends

City governments around the world are increasingly adopting schemes to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in order...

Analyst Angle: Another next-gen mobile technology revolution – in voice with VoLTE and digital assistants

Voice communication may not have the hype of high-speed data services, but VoLTE and digital assistants show the market has next-generation potential. ...

LTE-M updates: Sequans, Qualcomm, Altair

With both AT&T and Verizon Wireless expected to roll out LTE-M internet of things networks in the U.S. this year, makers of low-power connectivity...

Verizon buys drone management firm

Verizon Communications bought drone management firm Skyward for an undisclosed sum. Skyward is an Oregon-based software startup that said it helps more than 100...

From communicators to the holodeck, are we getting to Star Trek?

5G could give us the transporter and the tricoder. SAN FRANCISCO – Marcus Weldon, president of Nokia Bell Labs and Nokia CTO, in a...

IoT case study: Vodafone helps improve efficiencies in dairy industry

Indian company Prompt Softech was founded in 1995 to help tackle inefficiencies in the local dairy supply chain. The company initially launched operations with...

Deutsche Telekom to implement smart parking project in Hamburg

The initiative stipulates the digitalization of up to 11,000 parking spaces. Deutsche Telekom and the city of Hamburg, Germany, are currently working...

Prestandard 5G deployment work to generate $250M in spending this year

A new report from SNS Research predicts larger operators in the U.S. and South Korea are set to drive prestandard 5G deployment spending. ...

Vodafone inks wholesale deal with Telefónica to expand footprint in Spain

The agreement will allow the U.K.-based carrier to have access to Telefónica’s fiber infrastructure. Telefónica and Vodafone reached a commercial five-year agreement for wholesale...

AT&T claims successful SDN controlled 400 GbE test

AT&T noted successful first phase of SDN controlled testing sets the stage for faster Open ROADM trial and open router platform. AT&T...
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