Monthly Archives: April, 2019

Huawei, Shenzhen Telecom kick off 5G smart hotel project in China

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...

SK Telecom to deploy 5G for military academy in Korea

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

Germany’s regulator will not exclude Huawei from 5G contracts

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...

Selling smart cities: Go for grand slams or base hits?

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...

A review of long-range wireless power technologies–the future is now (Reader Forum)

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...

Kagan: AT&T Ready to Go improves wireless customer experience

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...

MTN South Africa launches 5G indoor solution at Kyalami Grand Prix circuit

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...

Nokia, Cellcom ink MoU to deploy Sensing as a Service in Israel

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...

China complains to the WTO about Australia’s Huawei 5G ban

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...

KT launches nationwide 5G services in Korea

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 Canadian 600 MHz spectrum auction by the numbers (Analyst Angle)

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...

Another Apple vs. Qualcomm epic court battle: What you need to know

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...

Auction nears $2 billion in bids

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...

Verizon drops price of Sequans LTE-M/NB-IoT chips to $6.50 for ThingSpace customers

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...

Volkswagen to build private 5G networks from 2020; invites tenders from kit vendors

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

Rural operators and 5G: Plan or plunge ahead?

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

TIM, Ericsson install 5G demo zone at Rome’s international airport

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...

Sigfox launches nationwide IoT network in Canada

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,...

Dell, FacilityConneX collaborate in smart building IoT project

  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,...

Deutsche Telekom: “People underestimate what it takes to manage a network”

Deutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived...

Trump, Pai to talk 5G and rural broadband today

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....

Test and Measurement: AT&T cites Ookla for fastest network claim; Ookla responds: Yes, but …

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...

Demystifying cellular patents and licensing Part 2: Patents are a monetization tool for innovators

In my previous article in the series, I described the organizations and the process of creating cellular standards. I explained how it is an...

AT&T talks cities: “We wouldn’t do it if it didn’t make sense, but it’s not about money”

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

Telefonica launches new unit to focus on IoT security

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...
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