2019

Air France will track all bags at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags from 2020. Around eight million pieces of baggage will be tagged each year, …

Federal regulators have given the official go-ahead for Initial Commercial Deployment of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service, and vendors and their customers are hitting the gas on deployments. In a …

IoT system includes drone imagery and real-time data processing Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica, the Directorate General for Traffic (DGT) and Spanish car marker SEAT have presented two cases in which …

Wi-Fi 6 recently gained certification from Wi-Fi Alliance Ruckus Networks announced that the?R750?802.11ax indoor Wi-Fi access point (AP) for ultra-dense client environments is Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 from the Wi-Fi Alliance. …

SK Telecom: “SA 5G will be the cornerstone of the true 5G era” Korean mobile operator SK Telecom (SKT) and network infrastructure vendor Ericsson have completed testing of an end-to-end …

Verizon focused on execution as Sprint/T-Mo merger looms, DISH preps entry and Altice Mobile goes live Cable companies entering the wireless market via mobile virtual network operator arrangements and the …

German industrial giant Siemens has announced it will acquire UK based Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), a supplier of advanced data modelling software for process industries, including the chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, …

  The U.S. semiconductor industry urged President Donald Trump to ease the ban on sales to Chinese vendor Huawei through the approval of export licenses, according to Bloomberg. “We encourage …

With Wi-Fi Certified 6, the rate of adoption will accelerate substantially Wi-Fi Alliance has released the Wi-Fi Certified 6 certification program, designed to ensure the best user experience based on …

Qualcomm made two announcements in the last couple of weeks that underpins much of their superiority in 5G technology, especially the millimeter wave (mmWave). First, they gave a name to …

Greetings from the Windy City, where yours truly (and the Editor) spent some time sightseeing, working, and enjoying the architecture (the Trump Tower is “huge”).  This week, we have space …

At the recent Chetan Sharma Consulting Mobile Future Forward (MFF) event, Synchronoss Technology CEO Glenn Lurie said the wireless industry is starting to go through a very unorganized period and …

The global cloud gaming market size is expected to reach $740 million by the end of 2025 SK Telecom has been deemed Microsoft’s “exclusive operating partner” for its cloud gaming …

Live video production company LiveU is working with a number of mobile network operators around the world to test the use of 5G for live sports and entertainment video streaming. …

Qualcomm: “The global rollout of 5G is exceeding expectations in both its speed and scale” With 5G just picking up momentum, operators are already looking to the second phase of …

  Chinese vendor Huawei’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has proposed selling the company’s current 5G know-how to a Western company as a way to address security concerns by the …

A private LTE network testing the use of the technology for distributed energy grid applications has successfully completed its first phase and is moving into its second. The trial network, …

  JMA said that it has received OnGo certification of its XRAN virtual baseband and Cell Hub radio product line as a multiple-radio system for the new Citizens Broadband Radio …

Japan’s Seven Bank and compatriot tech company NEC are developing a next-generation ATM which has a facial-recognition engine, NEC said in a statement. The new ATM is expected to replace old ATMs …

The mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Minera Las Bambas in Peru, the ninth …

Upswitching is going to be a problem for any operator using NSA 5G, but South Koreans have been particularly vocal about it South Korea’s claim that it launched the world’s …

  The U.K. government expects to make a decision soon about whether to allow Chinese vendor Huawei’s equipment to be used in 5G networks deployed by U.K. carriers, Reuters reported, …

  NuSutus, a Canadian provider of global enterprise communications and managed network solutions, has acquired compatriot firm Relight Solutions, a smart building integrator for commercial buildings. NuSutus said that this …

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced a new program designed to stimulate IIoT adoption across industry, IIC said in a statement. Named the IIC Accelerator Program, the program includes several initiatives …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past.  RCR Wireless News published three brief stories …