Yearly Archives: 2018

P3’s newest benchmarking grants Verizon ‘best in test’ title

New P3 report looks at nationwide network performance in terms of coverage, speed and data service availability Verizon comes out on top as the mobile...

Is DSRC dead? Cable cos want FCC action on 5.9 GHz

NCTA calls DSRC 'failed;' wants 5.9 GHz for Wi-Fi Almost two decades ago the U.S. Federal Communications Commission set aside the 5.9 GHz band for...

All about Wi-SUN, and the quiet buzz around the ‘world’s widest’ IoT network

Wi-SUN has been quietly succeeding in the smart utilities and smart cities markets as an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRa and...

Operators focus on open RAN and transport at TIP Summit

Vodafone, Telefónica to pilot disaggregated RAN The broad goal of the Telecom Infra Project is to take the cost out of crucial network infrastructure by...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: How hard is it to fund smart cities? (1/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How...

Eurotech adds Cumulocity platform and Ubuntu system to gateways, edge devices

Italian ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) company Eurotech is offering its latest industrial IoT software framework with Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT platform in all its gateways and...

Aricent White Paper: The Future of Cellular for IoT

Communications service providers (CSPs) are among the top players vying for a share of the addressable IoT market. Top CSPs, such as AT&T and...

Aricent White Paper: 3.5 GHz Spectrum Sharing Charter

The rising cost and scarcity of spectrum is a big problem for communications service providers (CSPs) and mobile network operators (MNOs). If today’s allocation...

Nokia gets Brazilian private LTE/5G gig to power smart grid, meters, vehicles

Nokia has been selected by Brazilian elelctricity distributor Elektro to deploy a private LTE network to power its smart grid, smart meters, and electric...

Fleet management data drives changes to driver behavior, new Verizon analysis says

New analysis from Verizon shows the impact of data from fleet management The use of fleet management software to analyze information from connected vehicles is...

Facebook’s Terragraph gains momentum with operator, vendor buy-in

Terragraph uses 60 GHz band for high-speed wireless As it continues to develop wireless network solutions via the Telecom Infra Project, Facebook is building momentum...

Orange Business Services offers LoRA networks for IoT with new solution

  Through IoT Connect Anywhere, Orange Business Services provides connectivity for energy management, on-site tracking, waste control and smart cities   Orange Business Services has launched a...

SoftBank moves forward to launch Japan IPO: report

  The Japanese operator plans to hire Goldman Sachs, Nomura and Deutsche Bank to lead the IPO process Japanese telecommunications group SoftBank has appointed three banks...

US senators urge Canada to block Huawei from 5G networks

  Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau said politics should not interfere with the decision to select 5G vendors Two U.S. senators have sent a letter to Canada’s...

Qualcomm shipping 802.11ay chipsets for multi-gigabit Wi-Fi

Calls 802.11ay Wi-Fi for the 5G era While the IEEE 802.11ax Wi-Fi standard got a boost this month with its rebranding as Wi-Fi 6, now...

Cellular under the tree in ’83: The first commercial cellular call in America

Editor's note: Keith Radousky, president of RadVisory 5G, shares his personal recollection of the first commercial cellular call, in October 1983 at Soldier Field in...

Streaming video | Assuring quality depends on how you look at it

We’re all in the video business now Back in the late ‘90s, mobile network providers were in the phone call business. That’s what drove ARPU....

Oracle execs on IoT revenue opportunities and cybersecurity

Massive IoT means massive cybersecurity implications Support for a massive number of internet of things devices, as well as significantly increased device density, is one...

SUSE White Paper: The Benefits of Supported Linux for IoT

There is growing emphasis around the importance of building IoT systems that offer reliable connectivity, enterprise-grade security, and extended device lifecycle management. Investing in...

Wi-Fi vs. cellular: In-building wireless for commercial office buildings

As connectivity becomes the fourth utility and occupants of commercial buildings demand the very best in Wi-Fi and cellular access, it is becoming paramount...

City leaders come out against FCC over streamlined small cell order

Seattle to challenge FCC claiming federal overreach Last month the U.S. Federal Communications Commission passed an order meant to make it easier for operators to...

The hard ROI of smart street-lighting – seven ways for cities to make their money back

Only one smart city use case stands up to close scrutiny: smart street lighting. The business case for parking and garbage, the other functions...

B2B2X – the key for telecom operators to rise above Xpectations (Reader Forum)

The idea of digital transformation has taken center stage over the last few years and has thrown open many opportunities for organizations to fundamentally...

T-Mo lays out its network plans for the FCC

T-Mobile US presentation to FCC lays out network plans T-Mobile US sketched out its vision for a combined 5G network if its proposed merger with...

Vodafone announces NB-IoT network expansions in Spain, Germany

  The U.K-based telecom group recently announced plans to double the size of its NB-IoT footprint in Europe by end-2019   Vodafone Spain said that its national...
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