April 2019

Shenzhen Telecom focused on outdoor and indoor 5G Huawei and Shenzhen Telecom have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to create a 5G smart hotel in the Shenzhen, China. Under this …

Korean telco SK Telecom has signed an agreement with the Korea Military Academy (KMA) for the provision of innovative technologies, including 5G, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), the …

Germany’s telecoms regulator Bundesnetzagentur confirmed that Chinese vendor Huawei will not be excluded from 5G contracts in the country, the Financial Times reported Jochen Homann, the president of the agency, …

Moving from PoC to meaningful scale with smart cities investment When imagining a smart city, many people immediately think of pervasively connected infrastructure streaming valuable data that allows city managers …

Wireless technologies have been popular with consumers for several decades now (think Wi-Fi, cordless phones, etc.). The proliferation of smart devices has only fed the need for wireless advances, which …

AT&T Ready to Go is a great service idea whose time has finally come. Instead of you going to the store to buy your next smartphone or tablet, what if …

South African mobile operator MTN has launched a live 5G indoor solution at Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and International Convention Centre. MTN South Africa said this is the first time …

Nokia and Cellcom Israel have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deploy Sensing as a Service in Israel with the main aim of creating a real-time environmental data offering …

China’s government said at a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that Australia’s restriction on Chinese 5G technology was “obviously discriminative” and appeared to break global trade rules, Reuters …

Korean carrier KT Corp has officially launched commercial 5G services in the Asian nation, the telco said in a statement. KT Corp claimed to be the first service provider in …

On April 10, 2019, Canada’s ISED announced the 600 MHz provisional auction results.  This was two years after the FCC announced the results for the US broadcast incentive auction which …

If you are not already tired of Apple vs. Qualcomm lawsuits, there is another big one coming soon to the U.S. Southern California District Court in San Diego, starting from …

After 79 rounds, the Federal Communications Commission’s 24 GHz auction has raised nearly $1.989 billion in bids. Five rounds of bidding are being held each day at this point in …

The original Monarch system-in-package (SiP) from French chipmaker Sequans Communications has been made available Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT ‘accelerator programme’ for just $6.50. The new price point is a significant advance …

German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen will start construction of its own 5G mobile networks in 122 factories in Germany in 2020, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the German business magazine. …

AURORA, COLORADO — The black monopole macro sites and gray small cells went up easily, the architecture shifting seamlessly from LTE to non-standalone 5G New Radio and then to standalone …

Italian telco TIM and Swedish vendor Ericsson have installed a 5G demo area at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport. The new demo area will allow arriving and connecting travellers to …

French internet of things specialist Sigfox has announced the launch of a nationwide IoT network in Canada. Through the partnership with the Sigfox Global Network, Sigfox Canada can provide customers …

  Real-time facility data monitoring company FacilityConneX announced that it will collaborate with Dell Technologies to bring smart building technology to its campus in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. FacilityConneX highlighted that the …

Deutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial …

FCC has auctioned 1,500 megahertz of millimeter wave spectrum for 5G Later today (April 12) President Donald Trump and Aji Pai, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, will head …

AT&T recently claimed “fastest national network” status, based on crowdsourced, device-based Ookla Speedtest data — and this week, Ookla responded with a blog entry that provided more insights on the …

In my previous article in the series, I described the organizations and the process of creating cellular standards. I explained how it is an almost a magical process, where scores …

The craziness of the conference season, which has seen Enterprise IoT Insights cover both MWC 2019 and Hannover Messe 2019 in recent weeks, means content falls through the gaps. Sometimes, …

Spanish telecom giant Telefónica has launched the IoT Cybersecurity Unit, a new project focused on the securing the internet of things, the telco said in a release. The new unit combines …