November 2019

The number of cellular IoT connections will reach five billion by the end of 2025, from 1.3 billion by the end of 2019, according to Ericsson. Around a half will …

FCC bars carriers which receive USF funding from buying ZTE, Huawei gear or services The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously moved to block the use of Universal Service Fund monies …

80% of Peruvian localities, most of which were rural, lacked internet coverage in 2016 Last week, an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Loon, which uses stratospheric, autonomous balloons to deliver mobile internet to …

Ericsson expects the global number of 5G subscriptions to reach 2.6 billion by the end of 2025, according to the latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report. In the June …

German regulators prepping to allocate private 5G spectrum Finnish vendor Nokia said it expects to provide 5G networks for small and medium-sized German companies following the opening of the application procedure for …

France plans to make 5G spectrum available in 50 megahertz blocks French regulator Arcep has published and submitted to the government the conditions for awarding licences to use frequencies in …

Bosch and Qualcomm have set up shop at the Smart Production Solutions (SPS) trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, this week to show industrial devices using time-sensitive networking (TSN) over a …

    Johnson Controls, a global provider of solutions for smart buildings, announced that it closed an agreement to purchase the?EasyIO Building and Energy Management System?(BEMS) product line, the U.S. …

  Innovations in mobile communications have transformed how people and enterprises buy, sell and deliver goods, as well as interact with one another. As a result, more than $3.9 trillion …

The new era of 5G networks dictates service providers (SPs) and network equipment providers (NEPs) what it takes to bring value to communication services not only via technology and operational …

Pre-Thanksgiving Greetings from Kansas City, Las Vegas (Bellagio flower display pictured), and Lake Norman.  Please note that next week we vary from our traditional format and will have a short …

We knew this day would come. Mike Sievert will replace John Legere as CEO of T-Mobile US in March 2020. Legere has been perhaps the most colorful and outrageous CEO …

Commercial 5G launch using low-band spectrum While AT&T has had a 5G network for close to a year now, the service has only been made available via hot spots exclusively …

Keysight Technologies has laid claim to being the first test equipment company to achieve Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) validation of a cellular vehicle-to-everything communications radio frequency conformance test case. …

German industrial giant Bosch, an early champion of privately operated industrial 5G for manufacturing, has confirmed it has applied for localised spectrum licenses in Germany and will trial private 5G …

ABB launched its new IoT Dashboard to improve usability and reduce maintenance in smart buildings, the company said in a release. The European tech firm highlighted that the new IoT …

Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has signed a Letter of Intention (LoI) with the Barcelona City Council to collaborate in facilitating investment for innovative new technology projects in the Spanish city, …

Trump meets with “Tim Apple” in Austin U.S. President Donald Trump urged Apple’s CEO Tim Cook to see if the company could  get involved in the deployment of 5G infrastructure …

The new 5G AR features and experiences will be developed at Verizon’s 5G Labs Verizon and Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, are now working together on 5G AR features and …

75 megahertz of 5.9 GHz spectrum are in play  This week U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai laid out a plan to reallocate 75 megahertz of the 5.9 GHz …

  As programmability expands from the core to the RAN, 2020 will be a tipping point According to Neeraj Patel, senior VP and GM of Software & Services at Radisys, …

Improbable as it seems, the chase might just be on. Having told Enterprise IoT Insights in the summer it has set a bonkers 2023 target of one billion IoT connections, …

Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy opened a process through which prívate companies will be able to apply for private 5G licenses, the ministry said in a statement. …

Oracle is expanding its Chicago Innovation Lab, which would allow more organizations to explore new technologies and strategies to bolster their digital transformation efforts, the firm said in a release. …

U.S. company CellAntenna Wireless, a specialist in distributed antenna system (DAS) solutions, recently announced the opening of its West Coast operations center in Silicon Valley. The new operations center, located …