October 2017

Whether it’s keeping up with work while on the move, staying in touch with co-workers and friends, or just looking for some entertainment, travelers want to stay connected. Now, this …

4.5G Pro and 4.9 G set the stage for rapid commercialization of 5G Ahead of the planned release of the 5G New Radio specification in mid-2018, pre-standard lab and field …

Focus is on 5G demos, live field trials and third-party collaboration Ericsson and Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel announced plans to jointly establish a center of excellence (CoE) to facilitate 5G …

There’s a notable deal underway in the Indian mobile market: Bharti Airtel is picking up Tata’s Teleservices operations, boosting Bharti Airtel’s position in a market where competition has been ratcheted …

Inter-departmental coordination is imperative for smart city success Hospitality industry nonprofit Visit Orlando figures around 68 million people visited the Central Florida theme park destination in 2016. In a metro …

EXFO struck a deal to acquire the rest of French network visibility company Astellia and reported financial results reflecting a rise in sales of 4.6% year-over-year, although EXFO’s profits were …

IoT solutions director highlights role of edge computing One day after Dell said it would launch a new IoT division headed by former VMWare CTO Ray O’Farrell, the company’s IoT …

Magic Box small cell, wins “Mobile Breakthrough Award” for small cell technology This week Sprint won the Mobile Breakthrough Award for the all-wireless Magic Box small cell, developed by vendor …

New Aryaka reports notes trends in 2017 WAN market Aryaka, a global software-defined wide-area network provider, recently published its third “State of WAN Connectivity” report, reviewing WAN traffic, trends, reliability, …

Lanner Electronics and 128 Technoly team up to ease SD-WAN deployments Lanner Electronics has partnered with 128 Technology to help deploy next generation software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and virtual …

Artificial intelligence center will be located in Montreal and will focus on the development of AI implementations across Thales’ portfolio French company Thales, which designs and builds electrical systems and …

Who attends 3GPP meetings and why do they attend? The men and women who attend 3GPP meetings come from companies around the world and across the entire wireless ecosystem. The …

New facility will use 5G to further test autonomous car use case Korean telecommunications operator KT has secured a license to build what it claims to be the world’s first …

Telenor worked with Hitachi on remote management of connected machinery in mining and construction verticals Japanese company Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM), which manufactures products for the mining and construction industry …

78% of 50 operators surveyed in 5G trial phase “Ready or not…5G is coming, and work has started to understand the disruptive change it will bring across industries and societies. …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on …

Demand for in-building cellular is pointed, but market education gap remains By and large, a modern enterprise needs in-building cellular coverage and capacity. But in the context of commercial real …

The internet is a defining element of the twenty-first century as it forever changed the way we live, communicate, and get information. This is particularly true for wireless technology. Today, more …

TM Forum and MEF extend four open APIs with LSO Sonato software development kit TM Forum, a nonprofit industry association for service providers and their suppliers in the telecom industry, …

Company reports damage from Santa Rosa wildfires The corporate headquarters of test company Keysight Technologies is shut down and suffered minor damage in the wildfires that have wiped out parts …

WOW! to roll out Nokia’s virtualized Distributed Access Architecture WideOpenWest (WOW!) and Nokia announced the deployment of what the companies claim to be the first virtualized Distributed Access Architecture (vDAA). Nokia …

In conjunction with FOX, T-Mobile is accelerating deployment of new spectrum T-Mobile US continues its effort to aggressively deploy its 600 MHz holdings. Following activation of rural sites in Maine …

Operator prioritizing NFV MANO Proximus, Belgium’s largest telecommunications company, has selected Cloudify’s cloud-native orchestration platform in its push toward network functions virtualization (NFV). Proximus will leverage Cloudify’’s platform to provide …

Forecast predicts 50 million 5G connections in the region by 2025 Middle East mobile telephony operators will be early adopters of 5G technology, according to a recent study by the …

The Japanese firm said the system detects and prevents cyber attacks in connected and autonomous cars Panasonic Corporation announced the development of an automotive intrusion detection and prevention systems to …