Monthly Archives: August, 2019

Qualcomm CEO sees 5G ‘inflection point’ coming in 2020

LTE demand weakening as operators ramp 5G investment The pace of 5G network deployments is markedly faster than with LTE. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf expects...

Rakuten to deploy 4,000 edge servers for virtualized mobile network: Report

  Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten expects to deploy a total of 4,000 edge servers in Japan for the launch of its virtualized mobile network, the company’s chairman...

Synchronoss Technologies, Arrow Electronics launch IoT smart building solution

  Cloud and IoT specialist Synchronoss Technologies announced an agreement with Arrow Electronics to develop and bring to market a new end-to-end IoT smart building...

Volvo moves forward on road tests of automated trucks, self-driving cars

Volvo and Japanese logistics company Nippon Express expect to begin road tests of automated trucks during this month, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review. According...

Federal agencies’ spectrum review begins

NTIA asks federal agencies to focus the first round of review on their use of 3100-3550 GHz and 7125-8400 GHz In the latest step toward...

Cisco, Nokia, Vodafone join IBM blockchain to bring order, trust to supply chain

Cisco, Lenovo, Nokia, Schneider Electric, and Vodafone have joined IBM’s new Trust Your Supplier (TYS) blockchain project to bring efficiency, order, and accountability to...

AT&T CFO on enterprise 5G opportunity, T-Mo/Sprint merger

John Stephens calls out 5G for hospitals, manufacturing AT&T currently has its millimeter wave-based 5G service, dubbed 5G+, available in 21 cities with plans for...

What’s really happening with digital transformation? (Reader Forum)

To understand what’s really happening with digital transformation across the communications industry it helps to contrast conventional wisdom, or the hype cycle, with actual...

SBA Communications credits Q2 growth to carriers building 5G

SBA Communications CEO says substantial 5G network development will continue in the U.S. The second quarter was a strong one for wireless infrastructure company, SBA...

Call for ‘kill switches’ in connected cars, as fears rise of 9/11-style cyber-attack

A coordinated cyber-attack on connected cars in the US could case thousands of deaths and cripple national infrastructure, according to a new report from...

HPE buys one-time startup wonder MapR to bolster edge-cloud AI portfolio

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has acquired the business assets of big-data firm MapR for an undisclosed fee. California based startup MapR had raised $280...

Thailand’s $3.9bn One Bangkok zone to set “new benchmarks” in smart-city living

Detail of the design of Thailand’s new real-estate mega development, One Bangkok, has been revealed for the first time. The $3.9 billion project, billed...

Vision Zero: the Swedish road safety concept driving smart city policy

The Vision Zero concept remains a favourite of smart cities and smart traffic systems, as we cover them, and a go-to policy for politicians...

T-Mobile US claims first 5G SA data session in North America

T-Mobile US says it has conducted the first successful North American testing of a Standalone 5G New Radio data session, and that the test...

From routers to smartphones, Wi-Fi 6 devices are here today

Wi-Fi 6 devices are in-market with more on the way Developed in response to the ever-growing number of connected devices worldwide, Wi-Fi 6, based on...

SK Telecom to reach 1 million 5G subscribers next month: CFO

  Korean carrier SK Telecom expects to reach 1 million subscribers in the 5G segment in August, the company’s CFO Poong-Young Yoon said on a...

Sierra Wireless expects IoT solutions business to grow 12% this year: CEO

Sierra Wireless expects revenues from its IoT solutions business to expand by more than 12% year-on-year during 2019, the company’s President and CEO Kent...

DAS represents 40% of Boingo Wireless revenues in Q2: CFO

  Revenue from the distributed antenna system (DAS) segment represented 40% of Boingo Wireless' overall revenue in the second quarter of the year, up from...

AT&T launching two new video-focused services

AT&T TV pilot starting this summer; HBO Max to launch in 2020 With its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner and its massive portfolio of...

Current and IMS Evolve join on cold chain IoT solution, strike deal with US retailer

GE lighting division Current has paired up with UK industrial IoT company IMS Evolve on an IoT solution for making energy savings in cold...

Creating new competitive advantages with network APIs (Reader Forum)

Network Application Programming Interface (API) and programmability are transforming how businesses consume connectivity and the way service providers interconnect. The role of API has changed...

Kagan: How John Legere and Charlie Ergen plan to reinvent wireless

When the smoke clears and the T-Mobile, Sprint merger is complete, we may be hearing quite a bit more from both John Legere and...

Sprint has 32,000 small cells, 3,000 massive MIMO sites on air

Sprint reports $111 million net loss in Q1 2019 Sprint took a non-traditional approach to reporting its first quarter results last week, providing a "message...

UK operators welcome Ofcom move on spectrum, but warn about interference

The industry welcomed Ofcom’s move to release spectrum in the UK for private and shared usage, although UK operators said their support was contingent...

Cisco to ‘make sci-fi real’ as partner in $7.5bn Las Vegas smart city project

Work is set to start on a new $7.5 billion smart city development in the Las Vegas Valley, which seeks to use advanced connectivity,...
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