2019

  In August 2018, the Australian government prohibited certain vendors from taking part in 5G deployments Australian carrier TPG Telecom has decided to cease rollout of its mobile network infrastructure …

  Companies including Audi, Daimler, BASF and Siemens have already expressed interest in obtaining spectrum for 5G applications Germany’s main industry associations is urging communications regulator Bundesnetzagentur to award local …

FirstNet build is essential to future 5G plans AT&T is currently using its millimeter wave spectrum to offer up a standards-based 5G service in parts of 12 markets. And, over …

  The project stipulates the connection of 140,000 municipal smart streetlights in Chicago and northern Illinois   U.S. firm Itron, together with power company ComEd have a new initiative aimed …

The total installed base of LoRa enabled chips and nodes reach around 80 million units at the end of 2018, according to California based semiconductor company Semtech, which owns the …

  Digital technology is just better In-building cellular coverage is all about distributing cellular signals to where they need to be: users. Traditional analog technology would take the cellular signal …

Norwegian real estate and tech firm Miris is building 20 data centres in business parks and residential areas in Norway during 2019 to support the smart city applications and services. …

Charges involve both violating sanctions against Iran and stealing device testing technology from T-Mobile US The U.S. Department of Justice is pursuing 23 charges against Huawei, its CFO and two …

While the situation most certainly reached a fever pitch this week, the tenuous nature of the relationship between Huawei and the U.S. goes back more than a decade. Here’s a …

  Deutsche Telekom also said it will start to review its network equipment procurement plans The deployment of 5G across Europe would be affected if governments ban Chinese vendor over …

  The new offering uses AI and automation to address telecom operators’ complexity challenges   Ericsson has launched a new artificial intelligence-based managed services offering for communications service providers. The …

With more than 75 billion devices connecting to the internet of things (IoT) by 2025, the use of IoT devices among occupants and equipment in smart buildings is expected to …

German-based global real estate service provider Ista, which offers energy efficiency monitoring and optimization for smart buildings, tested the network technology narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) in apartment buildings in collaboration with …

Still no details on mobile 5G launch Verizon on Tuesday reported its fourth quarter earnings, including a 1.9% year-over-year growth in service revenue, 1.2 million postpaid subscriber adds and year-over-year …

  The firm aims to deploy between 10,000 and 15,000 small cells this year Crown Castle expects to deploy approximately 20,000 small cell nodes in 2020 and beyond, CEO Jay …

Analyzing the long term impacts of FTC’s activist litigation In all the chaos of allegations, counter allegations, scores of testimonies, rebuttals, cross-examinations, and others, I humbly request that Judge Koh …

In simple terms, the prevailing wisdom is the more data, the better. More data equals better decisions, which equals better products, and more users. That is the theory, anyway. The …

Nokia’s biggest opportunity, it explains, is to go beyond its traditional customer base to serve industrial markets directly, with private networking solutions. The total market for private LTE, and later …

House committee probes whether FCC representatives urged carriers to game the legal system in support of recent infrastructure order The House Energy and Commerce committee has asked the Federal Communications …

  The 5G auction is expected to take place in the second half of March German communications regulator Bundesnetzagentur confirmed it had received applications from four companies to take part …

  Vodafone’s CEO Nick Read said that the debate about Huawei was taking place at a “simplistic level” U.K. telecom group Vodafone will continue to use gear from Chinese vendor …

  The new facility is expected to be inaugurated in April this year   Microsoft has signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation to locate its new artificial intelligence and internet …

CREtech, a commercial real estate technology event and content management company, announced the acquisition of RE:tech a research platform which disseminates information about PropTech funding trends.? The strategic acquisition, which …

German company Siemens has opened a fully automated battery factory in Trondheim, in Norway. The facility will produce batteries for the marine sector, including for ships, rigs, and other offshore …

As a telecom and wireless analyst and columnist for more than 30 years, countless companies have tried to get on my radar. Of that long list, only a small percentage …