2019

A new smart farming initiative in Brazil, called ConectarAGRO, is seeking to make use of LTE and 5G connectivity, as well as satellite and microwave technologies, to enable 500,000 farms …

SAN FRANCISCO–With a call out from VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger during his opening keynote and numerous mentions from Dell Technologies-family executives, 5G was most certainly a topic of interest during …

AT&T to name a new head of AT&T Communications soon John Donovan, who heads up AT&T Communications, is planning to leave his post as of October 1. Donovan, 58, said …

Kubernetes is “as significant” as cloud and virtual machines, Pat Gelsinger says SAN FRANCISCO–VMware is betting big on Kubernetes as the container orchestration tool to facilitate software development and operations …

More than 20,000 AT&T wireline employees in nine southeastern states have gone on strike, protesting what they say are unfair labor practices. According to the Communications Workers of America union, …

  South Korea? three mobile carriers are already focusing on the provision of in-building wireless technology through 5G, Korean press reported. According to a recent report by Korea Times, SK …

Machine-to-Machine and internet of things provider Orbcomm was selected by Houston-based van truckload carrier Texas Freight Services to provide its in-cab solution across Texas Freight Services’ entire fleet of trucks. Orbcomm’s solution …

Among the 10 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., Chicago stood out as one of the highest-ranked cities in the country for mobile network quality, according to numbers from RootMetrics. …

While U.S. operators and regulators have focused on millimeter wave for 5G services, Europe is deploying using mid-band spectrum. Operators around the continent have activated commercial 5G for consumer services. …

Greetings from Lake Norman/ Davidson, North Carolina where everybody is working (including the neighbor kid, Caleb, pictured with the Editor and yours truly). This week, we’ll look at two studies …

  Huawei has launched its artificial intelligence (AI) processor – the Ascend 910 – as well as an all-scenario AI computing framework, dubbed MindSpore. “We have been making steady progress …

Opponents consider 5G small cell installations to be at best an eye sore and at worst a serious health risk 5G, the fifth generation of wireless technology, will give consumers access …

We have a very serious problem which I fear will have a long-term impact on our society. As an analyst, you know I love the world of smartphones, wireless, telecom …

Embedded SIM (eSIM) technology is gaining ground in the connected ‘things’ space, which requires subscriber identity modules (SIMs) to be remotely provisioned and tamper proof, and often miniaturised for IoT …

Last week’s remarkable decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (appellate court) consisting of three judges, finally brings some common sense into FTC’s bizarre antitrust …

The world’s first commercially deployed 5G cloud-based Radio Access Network is live in the U.S., Nokia said this week in a blog post. The company didn’t name the carrier or …

Chinese vendor Huawei is seeing a transition from traditional distributed antenna system (DAS) to digital indoor system (DIS) for in-building coverage in the Chinese market, Li Xin, CMO of DIS …

Korean operator LG Uplus announced plans to construct a smart port system powered by 5G technology that will enable unmanned cranes to be operated remotely to maximize efficiency in transporting …

Shared 5G infrastructure accelerated deployment in South Korea Chinese carrier China Telecom is considering a plan to share resources and costs in the deployment of 5G infrastructure with rival telco …

Ahead of annual showcase, VMware acquiring Carbon Black and Pivotal Software With its annual VMWorld event set to begin next week in San Francisco, VMWare this week announced a pair …

5G is just barely getting off the ground, but it’s not too early for “6G” research efforts — and Keysight Technologies is jumping in by joining Finland’s 6G Flagship Program, …

700 MHz, 3.6 GHz and 26 GHz are “pioneer” 5G bands in European Union While European regulators have articulated plans to auction millimeter wave licenses, all of the current and …

Fujitsu provided 5G gNBs in testing for NTT DoCoMo Fujitsu Limited and Qualcomm Technologies have achieved a non-standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR) data call on sub-6 GHz and mmWave spectrum bands. …

The acquisition gives Extreme Networks an edge in cloud management and Wi-Fi 6 In some ways, software-driven networking company Extreme Networks’ path to acquiring Aerohive Networks, a cloud-management networking company, began …