Monthly Archives: May, 2018

Emerging public safety use cases for drones

Last December, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in northern Virginia used a drone to help search for a 92-year-old hunter who had gotten stranded...

CTIA calls on FCC to take action on mid-band spectrum

CTIA asks Federal Communications Commission to take action in July on finalizing CBRS rules, repurposing additional mid-band spectrum CTIA is calling on the Federal Communications...

Verizon’s largest authorized retailer gets bigger

Round Room picks up Wireless Advantage stores across the southeast Verizon authorized retailer Round Room has agreed to acquire competitor Wireless Advantage, boosting its footprint...

How is embedded design shaping the IoT?

Embedded processors have become smaller, more powerful and less expensive and are now shaping the development of the Internet of Things. Specifically, new IoT...

ExteNet Systems aims to expand footprint in New York, New Jersey via new acquisition

  ExteNet aims to complete the acquisition of Hudson Fiber Network during the second half of 2018 ExteNet Systems, a developer and operator of distributed networks,...

NEC, NTT DoCoMo carry out 5G trial with multiple base stations in Japan

  The two Japanese firms said they achieved 5.5 Gbps wireless communication in eight mobile stations in Kawasaki City Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and compatriot firm...

European Investment Bank loans nearly $300 million to Ericsson for 5G R&D

Follows 5G R&D loans totaling $370 million from Nordic Investment Bank, AB Svensk Exportkredit The European Investment Bank (EIB), a nonprofit lender backed by the European...

MIT researchers design fleet of autonomous boats

  The driverless boat has been already tested in Amsterdam’s canals in 2016   Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Senseable...

LoRaWAN for IoT gaining traction with network deployments, device support

Comcast deploys LoRaWAN in San Francisco; Laird gateway has Senet support baked-in From devices to connectivity, the internet of things (IoT) market is a crowded...

Verizon to hold hack day — for the whole company

Instead of a suggestion box, Verizon will engage its employees in an all-company hack day. Anyone who has worked in a corporate culture for any...

Nokia Technologies president resigns following close of digital health sale

Digital health wearables unit returned to Withings co-founder as Nokia focuses on B2B In 2016 Nokia Technologies spent $190 million to acquire consumer-facing health wearables...

#TBT: Android takes over; Sprint’s first LTE device; countdown to iDEN shut-down … this week in 2012

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...

Nokia to deploy 100Gbps optical transport network for SGCC power grid in China

Nokia has won a contract to deliver an optical transport network (OTN) to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), covering the SGCC’s power...

Google Cloud joins LoRa Alliance to bolster IoT analytics and insights

Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance as a sponsor member. Its input will help LoRaWAN operators glean deeper insights from data analytics running...

Handle with care: How the IoT enables monitoring of sensitive assets throughout the supply chain (Reality Check)

  Over the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed logistics, enabling shippers to track the location of assets as they move through...

Network slicing fundamentals: Horizontal vs. vertical slices

Network slicing will be an important enabler of the ability to execute on 5G business models. But how networks are sliced will have a...

How Honeywell is helping building managers improve indoor efficiencies

New Jersey-based Honeywell is helping organizations to boost efficiency through the use of an application with the aim of improving the quality and comfort...

OPC group responds to Kaspersky claims, Rockwell intros OPC UA support

The OPC Foundation has said security vulnerabilities found by Kaspersky Labs in its OPC-UA framework, designed for secure data transfer between clients and servers...

Italy’s consortium unveils first 5G-based field applications

  TIM, Huawei and Fastweb showcased a virtual reality solution for tourists and an augmented reality tool for ship engines maintenance Italian telecom operators TIM and...

Private tower companies weigh in on T-Mo/Sprint merger impacts

In a panel discussion at the recent ConnectX event, executives from private tower companies weighed the potential impacts of the proposed merger of T-Mobile...

Infrastructure key to enabling intelligent edge computing

AWS exec lays out four principles guiding edge computing vision According to Satyen Yadav, general manager, IoT and edge services, Amazon Web Services, the network edge...

6 reasons why network slicing challenges 5G’s progress (Reader Forum)

  The first 5G networks may be commercially ready by the end of this year. Mobile subscribers are within sniffing distance of lightning-fast 5G, a...

3GPP 5G standards: Stay tuned for Phase-1, Samsung says

After hosting 3GPP’s 5G phase-1 standards discussions in Busan, South Korea, last week, Samsung say the results of the Busan discussions will be announced...

SDN for operators and enterprises

Flexibility, scalability, time-to-market key drivers of SDN adoption Software-defined networking (SDN) provides the management and orchestration tools needed to operate increasingly complex and increasingly virtualized...

Summer of 5G: Australia, Spain ready 5G spectrum

  Australia’s telecom regulator ACMA aims to award spectrum in the 3.6 GHz band later this year The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has launched...
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