Monthly Archives: June, 2019

How to maximize visibility into cloud deployments (Reader Forum)

A recent survey found that that 42% of IT professionals spend too much of their time on troubleshooting tasks and that cloud environments were...

Cisco to buy industrial IoT cyber-security firm Sentryo

Cisco is set to acquire French cyber-security firm Sentryo, with which it has worked to author digital change solutions in the industrial IoT sector. Headquartered...

Cellular IoT – Device security is as important as infrastructure security (Analyst Angle)

As the awareness of the transformative nature of 5G is increasing, the industry is slowly waking up to the enormous challenge of securing not...

Debating the fate of the C Band

WASHINGTON, D.C.--In the Federal Communications Commission's quest to free up more mid-band spectrum for 5G wireless services, the debate around the C Band is...

Smart cities: When a light is more than a light and a bus is more than a bus

There’s no master list of smart city use cases primarily because, in the right context, nearly anything could contribute to a smart city. However,...

Infosys, Microsoft ink partnership to deliver smart buildings solutions

  Digital services company Infosys announced a collaboration with Microsoft to deliver smart buildings and spaces (SB&S) solutions for the architecture, engineering, construction, facilities management...

Vodafone launches commercial 5G services in five Italian cities

  Italian carrier Vodafone announced the launch of commercial 5G services in five cities across the country. Initially, the 5G service will be available in Milan,...

Chinese government issues commercial 5G licenses

  China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has officially issued licenses for the launch of commercial 5G networks in the country. The 5G permits...

Do smart cities need 5G?

How to move from limited smart cities pilots to scaled deployments “Smart cities” is most certainly a nebulous term. At a high-level, it refers to...

Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – once and future kings of smart farming (part 3)

As we have heard, the UK’s 5G RuralFirst project is trying to do with 5G (or 5G-related tech) what the telecoms industry has failed...

#TBT: Sprint takes over PCS partnership; major pager outage aftermath; exploring priority access for public safety … this week in 1998

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...

LoRa and Sigfox get five-year boost with LTE-M and NB-IoT failures

LoRa and Sigfox have maintained and extended their market-share lead over their cellular equivalents LTE-M and NB-IoT, as the latter technologies have been “plagued...

AT&T releases weather data to help cities forecast and fight climate change

AT&T has made climate data from the US Department of Energy available to public and private colleges and universities, as well as local governments,...

Private network outlook: LTE, MulteFire and 5G NR-U

Private network deployments seen as a key enabler of industrial internet of things for large enterprises The notion of a private network, whether it's LTE...

AT&T asks FCC to consider higher-power CBRS transmission; Altice and others protest

As the Citizens Broadband Radio Service shared spectrum stands on the brink of readiness for early deployments, AT&T has asked federal regulators to reconsider...

A retrospective look at the future of communications (Reader Forum)

It’s become an annual tradition to publish my thoughts and opinions on where I foresee advancements, trends and growth in the communications industry.  Before...

KT to launch 5G-based smart factory solution in Korea in Q3

Korean telecommunications firm KT announced plans to launch an advanced smart factory solution based on its 5G network in the third quarter of the...

Japanese carriers to install 5G base stations on traffic signals: Report

  The Japanese government announced it will allow the country’s four mobile carriers to deploy 5G base stations on traffic signals, the Nikkei Asian Review reported. The...

A Q&A with Verizon SVP Adam Koeppe

Verizon leveraging integrated wireless, fiber engineering process to hasten 5G deployment Editor's note: This interview, based on a conversation during the Wireless Infrastructure Association's Connect...

Johnson Controls unveils Enterprise Management 2.0 platform

  U.S.-based Johnson Controls?announced the launch of Enterprise Management 2.0, a platform with cloud-based capabilities that enables enterprises to manage a building or an entire...

Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – and a ‘network of networks’ for smart farming (part 2)

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT, among others, are helping farmers to connect their work to the internet, as we have...

AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom strike deal on LTE-M roaming

AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom have switched on LTE-M roaming across their respective IoT networks in North America and Europe. The deal means LTE-M...

Who were the top mmWave auction winners?

US Cellular was one a top bidder in both millimeter wave auctions AT&T dropped nearly a billion dollars on 24 GHz spectrum in the recent...

Meaningful AI needs edge and cloud computing

NXP and Nvidia both investing in AI for edge use cases The vision for the combination of 5G and the internet of things revolves around...

Increasing network complexity requires network lifecycle solutions

Following acquisitions and internal alignment, SQUAN is ready to provide turnkey network engineering and construction In May this year, during the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s 2019...
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