2018

5G-ready smartphones won’t start appearing until the first half of 2019, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. Ericsson expects the first smartphones supporting 5G to be available in early …

Public Safety Standards Alliance says it complements standards work A new public safety communications organization says that it seeks to help vendors, carriers and public safety communications users agree on …

T-Mobile CEO says combination will prompt increased 5G investment by AT&T, Verizon As company executives work Washington D.C. circles to develop support for the proposed merger, T-Mobile US and Sprint …

After it laid off 1,500 workers in April, Qualcomm has filed a new Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) to lay off approximately 300 more employees. The numbers are 61 …

New television service and ad platform come from AT&T mega-merger Last week the U.S. Department of Justice lost its bid to block AT&T’s $85 billion merger with Time Warner. That …

The consumer sector will lead IoT spending followed by insurance and healthcare Global internet of things (IoT) spending will experience a compound annual growth rate of 13.6% between 2017-2022 and …

Senators and representatives will have meeting to reconcile the two versions of the annual defense bill The U.S. Senate has approved an amendment to the annual defense spending bill which …

Comba has deployed a turnkey in-building wireless solution for Dubai’s new architectural landmark, the Dubai Frame Hong Kong-based wireless solution provider Comba Telecom Systems announced it has deployed a turnkey …

  The Net Promoter Score (NPS) has emerged as a popular tool across industries for measuring and gaining insight into satisfaction ratings and whether a customer is likely to recommend …

Vapor IO working with Crown Castle to deploy edge data centers Large, centralized data centers house the racks, servers and other hardware needed to support cloud services, content delivery networks, …

Amazon emphasizes importance of spectrum access Online retail and cloud computing giant Amazon has joined the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance as a charter member, adding its backing to the group which …

Munich-based test equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz has updated its CMW500 radio tester and SMBV100A GNSS simulator to support cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) device certification. It is the first test equipment …

“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the …

  While 5G could be deployed without Artificial Intelligence (AI) and edge compute, intelligent edge will be essential to new revenues and lower costs for 5G. Please click on page …

The New York City government said awardees will have the right to use existing light and utility poles to deploy new wireless infrastructure The New York City Department of Information …

3GPP finalized standalone 5G New Radio last week Last week was big for the continued development of technological specifications for next-generation 5G networks. Meeting in a hotel ballroom in La …

The Chinese vendor invited Australian security agencies to meet with the firm R&D specialists to better understand its technology Chinese vendor Huawei may be prevented from taking part in the …

Affirmed Networks benchmarks vEPC performance Network virtualization is most certainly a process, but one that’s imperative to the evolution from hardware-driven connectivity to much more flexible software control. While operators …

Verizon’s pre-commercial 5G technology runs mixed reality on 5G successfully Imagine walking through a building that you are designing long before the structure has been built. You’re able to see …

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has mapped out a “continuum” of edge computing in industrial settings, with the ‘edge’ variously located at certain points of remove from the data source …

Daimler said it is currently working with customers to trial truck platooning in the country Daimler Trucks has announced the inauguration of its automated truck research and development center in …

5G entering the trough of disillusionment The hype cycle is a tool developed by Gartner to help understand how particular technologies are regarded in terms of the reality of expectations …

  Traditionally, development kits and advanced toolsets allow designers to quickly and efficiently leverage new technologies. Integrating and aggregating In-Building wireless architectures is one of those areas where development expertise …

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has issued a white paper with practical guidance on edge computing in industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) settings. The publication seeks to define edge computing architectural functions …

Over the last several years we have seen the communications industry go through an enormous and rapid transformation in area after area. Small- and mid-size business customers see unified communications …