Yearly Archives: 2018

The IoT interview (pt1): “We have to focus on what scales and repeats,” says AT&T

The greatest challenge for Chris Penrose, president of IoT solutions at AT&T, is just to order and manage the multiplying opportunities afforded by the...

Verizon launches new development toolkit for IoT

  The new offering uses Verizon’s ThingSpace platform and is powered by Amazon FreeRTOS   Verizon has launched a new internet of things development toolkit using the...

How do we plan for 5G NR deployments?

  What coverage and capacity can we expect and what are the best deployment practices? Just last month, I had the pleasure to speak at the 4G/5G...

IIC shows how to optimise assets in smart buildings, machines in smart factories

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced results from a pair of testbeds investigating, alternatively, artificial intelligence (AI) for smart buildings management and ways...

Driverless cars on UK roads in five years, reckons two thirds of business leaders

Driverless cars will be on UK roads within five years. So says two thirds (65 per cent) of senior industry leaders in the UK,...

PropTech 101: What is a space-as-a-service (SPaaS) business model?

The commercial real estate industry is undergoing massive structural change through a concept known as space-as-a-service. Space-as-a-service (SPaaS) is a paradigm shift in the...

Verizon, Samsung plan 5G smartphone for first half of 2019

Verizon and Samsung are planning their first 5G smartphone release in the first half of 2019, signaling the carrier's plans for mobile 5G in...

Ericsson ‘fingerprints’ radio network to enhance NB-IoT, LTE-M positioning

Swedish vendor Ericsson is looking at ways to employ artificial intelligence to enable advanced “fingerprinting” of mobile radio networks to enhance the positioning resolution...

Korean carriers launch commercial 5G services

  KT, SK Telecom and LG Uplus said the 5G offering will be initially available for enterprise customers   South Korean mobile carriers SK Telecom, KT and...

McDonald?s new smart building app improved workplace satisfaction 76%

McDonald?s improved employee workplace satisfaction by 76% through a smart building workplace app at the company?s new offices located in downtown Chicago. ?A simple feel-good...

Telefonica launches internal program to achieve higher growth

  The Spanish carrier’s CEO said he was not satisfied with the growth levels experienced by the company over the last years Spanish telecom giant Telefonica...

Itron secures two IoT contracts in Latin America

  The U.S. firm will deploy its solutions for a Brazilian utility and four Costa Rican electricity cooperatives   U.S. firm Itron said Brazilian utility Elektro will...

Smart cities Q&A: “A consumer model with city license could work,” says Digi

Minnesota based Digi supplies routers, gateways and IoT modules for machine connectivity in a variety of applications in the smart city space, including in...

Common Core facilitates rapid deployment of 5G

  Problems to 5G Network Deployment As the demand for high-speed bandwidth of services such as AR/VR/HD video/3D video, the demand for mass terminal accesses of...

Private equity firm buys MYCOM OSI

Service assurance and analytics company MYCOM OSI has been acquired by private equity Inflexion, which said that the telecom industry's transition to 5G and...

How 5G will transform the enterprise

Ensure Your Wireless Infrastructure is Ready to Ride the Next Technology Wave Over the last few years enterprises have been radically transforming. Buildings are becoming...

Exploring the benefits of Wi-Fi 6 (Reader Forum)

The Wi-Fi landscape is rapidly evolving and its growth continues unabated. A ubiquitous amenity, Wi-Fi is routinely offered across a wide range of locations...

Kagan: Why so much of CES 2019 is tied to 5G wireless

CES 2019 is just a few weeks away and I’ve noticed something very interesting. So much of the innovation and new ideas at this...

Solving the e911 problem: Locating emergency callers accurately (Reader Forum)

Nearly 80 percent of all 911 calls originate from a wireless device. This is not surprising, given that over half of households in the...

Test and Measurement: Sprint launches ad blitz for ‘better than ever’ network

Sprint is trying to capitalize on recent favorable testing results with a new advertising campaign that proclaims its network is "better than ever" --...

‘Smart building’ means different things to owners and tenants

A smart building uses technology to lower operating costs and serve up amenities What makes a building a smart building? Well, it depends who you...

NTT DoCoMo, Toyota use 5G to control humanoid robot

  The robot, developed by Toyota was developed to support human activities in homes and health centers Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo and Toyota Motors said they...

The only way for operators to generate more revenue is to take more risk, says Vodafone

The promise for operators of 5G networks is in selling augmented connectivity solutions to enterprises, and not to consumers, Vodafone told The Great Telco...

Qualcomm launches fund to invest in AI startups

  Qualcomm said investment will be mainly oriented to startups focusing on autonomous cars, robotics and machine learning   Qualcomm has announced the launch of a new...

Auction 101 sees post-holiday bidding spree

Bidders in the Federal Communications Commission's current auction of millimeter wave spectrum seemed to be in the mood to shop this week, with the...
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