January 2019

Ericsson and Huawei separately testing 5G NR at 2.6 GHz This week Ericsson and Huawei, two of the largest network infrastructures in the world, both announced successful tests of the …

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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 up the time machine, put on …

Note, this is the second part of a feature/interview Sigfox; click the link for the first, about the company’s ‘Zero-G’ strategy and global rollout plans. When it comes to wireless …

  The carrier launched a bus service in which customers can experience virtual reality and augmented reality via 5G   Korean carrier KT is showcasing the capabilities of 5G technology …

The plethora of IoT devices used to monitor building systems and operations are making smart buildings more vulnerable to cyber attack,?according to research by cybersecurity firm ForeScout Technologies Inc. ? …

A major new internet of things (IoT) project has launched in London to investigate improve the city’s toxic air. The initiative, Breathe London, claims “the world’s most advanced and comprehensive …

The new technology will use hardware from Intel and cloud computing capabilities provided by the Chinese firm   Intel and Chinese tech giant Alibaba say they are developing athlete tracking …

Japanese company SoftBank plans to make another $700 million investment in California-based Katerra, a construction tech startup aiming to disrupt the $10 trillion industry. The new investment from SoftBank?s Vision …

T-Mobile US CEO John Legere was in DC this week; it’s not clear where he’s staying Lobbying groups aligned with Saudi Arabia and Cyprus, the Embassy of the Republic of …

  Bsquare selected AWS as it preferred cloud services provider for its DataV suite   Industrial internet of things company Bsquare says it is collaborating with Amazon Web Services to …

Ericsson executive team member will “pursue opportunities outside the company” A little more than a year following a restructuring of Ericsson leadership, Senior Vice President Helena Norman is leaving the …

AI will make expense reporting, sales, manufacturing and other work applications  a lot more useful—and hopefully less annoying It’s not just your home appliances that are getting smarter. Artificial intelligence …

Coexistence is key to ensuring stable and reliable functional performance of your IoT device and is the only way to accurately evaluate and maintain its performance.    To locate and …

IoT networking company Sigfox has big plans for 2019. Every IoT company does, of course, but the French firm has set a target to secure ‘global’ coverage by setting up …

The events that took place on 9/11 revealed a number of holes in America?s emergency communications infrastructure. On the ground at the World Trade Center that day, first responders from …

  There is no one-size-fits-all solution for the cellular coverage holes, dropped calls, unreliable connectivity, and poor reception that plague employees and guests inside middleprise buildings (i.e., those that are …

Many buildings have poor cellular coverage or dead zones indoors, which is an issue for occupants considering that 80% of calls are made indoors. There are many factors that inhibit …

Alphabet’s Loon, which focuses on bringing balloon-based connectivity to remote areas, is adding former telecom executives from some of the largest mobile operators to a new advisory board focused on …

The 5G test used a 5G base station with massive MIMO technology Japanese company NEC Corporation announced that it contributed to a video transmission test utilizing 5G conducted in November …

The Swiss regulator aims to announce the results of the auction in Q2 2019 Swiss telecommunications services regulator Ofcom  said it aims to kick off a 5G spectrum auction this month, …

Verizon vendors focus on in-building connectivity during Austin event The annual Verizon Technology Users Forum event, formerly called the In-Building Technology Users Forum, is taking place this week in Austin, …

  The study said that organizations believes blockchain technology would be ideal to solve security concerns in the IoT field   Nearly half of businesses — 53% — cannot detect …

Huawei’s Futurewei unit in Silicon Valley reportedly faces potential export ban In a rare press conference with international journalists, Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s founder and CEO, said that his company does …

YoSmart, a manufacturer of smart building IoT devices, announced that it will integrate Semtech Corporation’s proprietary wireless radio frequency technology, LoRa, into its smart building and home products. ? ?YoSmart …