2019

26 GHz trial projects include 5G for venues, lighting and transportation French telecom regulator Arcep has approved the first eleven initiatives to trial 5G technology using the 26 GHz band, …

Latest 5G financing moves part of larger US/China trade war The U.S. government is studying alternatives to facilitate financing to European 5G vendors Ericsson a Nokia in a move to …

A closer look at network automation investments from T-Mobile The complexity of 5G network management and service delivery will require network automation. In turn, network automation and the ability to …

Today, artificial intelligence (AI) adds new technologies to 5G research that can help address several challenges. This white paper examines the current opportunities to accelerate the future of 5G communications …

  5G is emerging. Industrial IoT is growing. Everyone has heard the phrase, it’s the next ‘big thing’. It’s faster internet, but what does it really mean for you? Check …

Semiconductor company Qorvo has agreed to acquire radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical system (RF MEMS) company Cavendish Kinetics, saying that the purchase will add to its capabilities in antenna tuning and improving …

Ericsson will also help Telia Norway modernize its entire radio network Ericsson will be the sole 5G radio access network (RAN) vendor for Nordic communications service provider Telia’s next-generation nationwide …

Report: Carriers will follow traditional DAS approach to large venues; open RAN a big opportunity for enterprise connectivity This is by no means new information but worth repeating: Carriers almost …

Silicon companies Arm, Bosch, NVIDIA, and NXP Semiconductors have joined with car makers General Motors and Toyota and automotive suppliers Continental and DENSO in a new alliance geared towards ‘making …

In a trio of announcements at Arm TechCon 2019 in San Jose yesterday (October 8), chip design company Arm walked the line on increasing flexibility and reducing fragmentation in the …

The very applications that make people excited about 5G are the same applications that are the riskiest In promising a faster and more reliable connection, 5G networks are creating new …

Rural UK users are skeptical about being able to access new 5G networks As 5G networks continue to sweep across the world promising to bring a new era of connectivity …

Only about 40% of mobile phone users want their carriers to automatically block all calls from numbers not in their contacts list — but that number nearly doubles for calls …

Schneider Electric and ThoughtWire combine digital twins for hospitals French firm Schneider Electric is partnering with Canadian IoT platform provider ThoughtWire on data integration and digital twins for the healthcare …

JLL Technologies tasked with proptech acceleration Global real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) announced the formation of JLL Technologies, a new business division created with the aim of …

Sumitomo’s smart city ambitions extend throughout Asia Japanese company Sumitomo and Vietnamese developer BRG Group have established a real estate development company through a JV scheme, with the main goal …

Letter to Microsoft lists off Huawei “evidence” A group of Republican senators sent a letter to Microsoft President Brad Smith stating that the FBI could share classified information with U.S. …

Increasingly complex networks, being built today to ultimately support billions of devices and dynamically provision the appropriate level of service, require network automation solutions to operate. And this paradigm will …

Multi-vendor, open RAN deployment from NTT DoCoMo highlights momentum For mobile network operators looking to upgrade to 5G, the vendor community is dominated by a limited number of end-to-end suppliers. …

US Vendor provides comprehensive toolkit coupled with peace of mind. Regional, rural and tribal operators in the U.S. occupy a vital niche, providing American consumers and businesses with the connectivity …

Much has been written about the benefits of Wi-Fi for restaurant guests and patrons, and about the ability to generate contextual marketing to support omni channel strategies. However, a stable …

Verizon and NEC claim existing fibre networks, rather than purpose-built fibre networks, can be used for optical sensing, to collect data on city traffic conditions and environmental measures. They suggest …

Network slicing. Major reductions in capex and opex. A better customer experience. These are all goals of NFV and SDN innovation but progress is slow and the need increasingly pressing. …

High-tech Hudson Yards a showplace for CRE connectivity Velstar?International, a global technology solutions provider, announced the deployment of a fully redundant, dual-path internet network into 555 West 25th Street in?New …

Telenor is already looking beyond what 5G can do for faster mobile download and streaming times Using Ericsson Radio System technology, Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor has launched the largest 5G …