March 2019

Establishing Z-axis location information has been an ongoing part of an effort by the Federal Communications Commission to improve the location data available to first responders when a wireless user …

Florida-based Entic specializes in the provision of prescriptive analytics solutions U.S.-based commercial real estate software company Aquicore has announced the acquisition of compatriot firm Entic, which specializes in prescriptive analytics …

Canadian firms BlackBerry and Solace are also participating in the IoT acceleration initiative  Canadian software-as-a-service (SaaS) accelerator L-SPARK and compatriot telecommunications services company TELUS have inked a partnership to launch …

KT Corp said it has already installed 15,000 base stations while rival carrier LG Uplus deployed 18,000 5G base stations Korean carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus are rapidly …

The StarlingX OpenStack project, launched on May 21, 2018, was created to address the need for an open source software platform that enables telco-grade applications and services to be deployed …

Infineon Technologies has released a new ‘trusted platform module’ (TPM) to protect data in industrial PCs, servers, industrial controllers, and edge gateways. Its new OPTIGA TPM SLM 9670 controls access …

Both vendors publicly working with AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile US on 5G With first-blush services turned up in the U.S. and a few other key global markets, operators are planning …

Logistics company UPS has completed the first commercial drone-based deliveries of medical samples to a private hospital and campus in Raleigh, in North Carolina. The flights have been green-lighted by …

The bids for 24 GHz spectrum continue to go up, with $1.63 billion in bids garnered through the first 32 rounds of bidding. Another three rounds will be held to …

The FirstNet-AT&T partnership is just one example of public safety LTE The standardization of mission-critical features in LTE has helped to foster a number of global efforts to use LTE …

Bosch has raised more than €1.5 billion in revenue from the implementation of Industry 4.0 techniques in its own factories, as well as its customers’ factories, during the past four …

The system offers in-building connectivity supporting three mobile carriers HALO by Mobile RF, a U.S. provider of turnkey wireless real estate sector solutions used solutions from compatriot firm JMA Wireless, …

The two companies aim to pilot the initial smart factory solutions next month Canadian firm Kontrol Energy and Toyota Tsusho Canada Inc. (TTCI) have signed an agreement to implement smart factory …

ZTE expects profits for the first quarter to reach almost $179 million Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation forecasted a first quarter profit of up to CNY 1.2 billion ($178.18 million) as …

After almost five years of talk, 5G is finally arriving. I had an opportunity to attend MWC Barcelona this year, and the innovations and challenges of 5G were on full …

The race to deploy 5G has begun around the world and it promises to make data access faster and more efficient. But, as mobile network operators (MNOs) such as AT&T, …

  Testing for 5G devices means navigating a new list of requirements in order to ensure devices’ functionality, get them certified and bring them to market on mobile operators’ emerging …

  As 5G development and deployment continues to ramp up, the necessary testing for 5G chipsets, devices and equipment presents a number of new challenges at both millimeter wave and …

  Inseego is enabling service provider and vertically-focused 5G investments We’re in the early days of 5G with service providers immediately focused on providing an enhanced mobile broadband experience to …

The Federal Trade Commission has won court settlements that will shut down four robocalling operations that were responsible for billions of illegal robocalls, the agency said. Under court orders issued …

The traditional, IP-centric way of building networks is simply unsustainable: The ever-increasing inefficiency of continually adding more IPs makes network operations overly complex and unmanageable. The new IP network must …

  As public safety users leverage new applications and use cases that rely on data services, they need to get comprehensive, reliable indoor coverage that supports not only voice but …

Germany-based Software AG has released a new self-service analytics tool to enable operational staff to rapidly spin-up analysis of real-time streaming data from industrial machines and solve and predict production …

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 …

2019 will be the year 5G finally starts to become a reality with large-scale field deployments. As the industry starts to converge on installation and maintenance best practices, the next-generation …