Monthly Archives: January, 2019

PropTech investment soars; 53% of CRE firms will directly invest in startups

A new report reveals that technological investment in PropTech for commercial real estate (CRE) interests will continue to rise in 2019 as industry leaders...

WeWork debuts membership-free co-working in retail spaces

After rebranding as The We Company, the largest co-working provider in the United States is introducing membership-free co-working spaces in retail areas. ? The We...

TIA, IoT Community to launch smart building portal and rating score

The exponential growth of IoT devices, estimated to reach a whopping 75 billion by 2025, has initiated a partnership between the Telecommunications Industry Association...

AWS open-sources SageMaker Neo code for training machine learning in edge devices

AWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available...

Arm, AT&T, Ericsson, HPE et al  join new Linux group to bring order to edge IoT chaos

The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of...

Auction 101 wraps up, raising $702 million

The Federal Communications Commission's auction of millimeter wave spectrum at 28 GHz has concluded after 176 rounds, having raised nearly $702.6 million in provisionally...

Amazon joins Zigbee board to push open standards in smart home, smart city

Amazon is to take a seat on the Zigbee Alliance board of directors. The Zigbee Alliance said the decision shows the IoT market is...

“A green earth and blue ocean is a growth generator,” Japanese PM tells Davos

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe told the World Economic Forum in Davos this week his country has been revitalised by recent economic policy, and...

Spectrum strategies for 5G: 2019 update (Analyst Angle)

Much of the activity on 5G spectrum in the US to date has focused on millimeter (mmWave) spectrum, but it is not clear that...

Are consumers willing to pay (more) for 5G?

Two recent studies highlighted consumers' willingness to pay a premium for 5G service, but devices, and whether 5G actually provides a new kind of...

LG Uplus to complete 5G deployment in Korea’s major cities by end-2019

  The Asian carrier said it has already deployed a total of 5,500 5G base stations South Korean telecom operator LG Uplus confirmed that it aims...

Europe leads 5G trial activity with 139 pilots

  The European Commission said Spain, France, Germany and Italy account for 40% of these 5G trials Europe ended 2018 with a total of 139 5G...

Kamstrup, Siemens to roll out large-scale smart metering project in Ireland

  Siemens said that the project, which will be executed in two years, stipulates the deployment of 250,000 smart meters   A Kamstrup-Siemens consortium announced that it...

“Yes, the driller has to drill, but it also has to compute” – and other Airbus rules for Industry 4.0

Note, this was originally intended to be a two part series covering Airbus' four essential lessons for Industry 4.0. Here, we are inserting another...

Huawei unveils 5G chipset and CPE; teases smartphone launches at MWC

Huawei says new 5G chipset supports sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave frequencies 2019 is set to be a big year for 5G smartphones. Right now...

#TBT: Marketers eye mobile; GSM on track to hit 1B users; hot handset market … this week in 2004

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...

Ericsson exec says countries need a national CTO to guide policy decisions

A national CTO should focus on digital inclusion As technologies like 5G, the internet of things, data analytics, and the like are increasingly incorporated into...

Is big data more like oil or sunshine?

Metaphors aside, big data is the key to AI development We've all heard the comparison, perhaps too often, but here it is: big data is...

World Economic Forum’s new Industry 4.0 policy bureau puts focus on AI, blockchain

Membership of the World Economic Forum’s fledgling Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (Centre Network) has swelled to over 100, with five nations...

Siemens and SAP join Industry 4.0 initiative to move enterprises out of digital ‘pilot trap’

A new industrial consortium including SAP and Siemens has convened to help industrial organisations go beyond the ‘pilot trap’ with their Industry 4.0 deployments. The...

Sigfox seeks new USA president; responds to staff exits, office moves, sales talk

Sigfox USA has confirmed its president, Christian Olivier, has left the business. It said the decision was mutual, and the business is preparing a...

Debating the future of the 2.5 GHz EBS spectrum

Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel continued her backing of an incentive auction for Educational Broadband Service licenses at 2.5 GHz at a forum in...

Deloitte examines if companies are ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Study finds executives appreciate the benefits the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring but many lack a clear strategy Political and corporate leaders gathered in Davos,...

Vodafone, O2 ink letter of intent to add 5G to existing network sharing deal

  The two UK carriers said they also aim to upgrade their transmission networks with higher capacity optical fiber cables   UK carriers Vodafone and Telefonica UK...

M1 adds Nokia’s IoT platform to enhance smart city portfolio

  The Singaporean telco, together with Noki,a had launched a nationwide NB-IoT network in 2017   Singaporean telco M1 said it will use Nokia’s Impact IoT platform...
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