2019

Global 5G rollouts show no sign of abating, says GSA president Last week, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA)’s August 2019 5G Ecosystem Report confirmed that the number of announced 5G devices has passed a major …

Australian operator Optus Business has entered into an agreement with Myriota, a global specialist in nanosatellite Internet of Things (IoT), with a view to providing remote and regional connectivity for …

Challenge winners will take part in smart building PoC The?Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced the launch of the Smart Buildings Challenge, a program designed to give smart building technology suppliers …

More Huawei subsidiaries added to “entity list” The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) renewed a special temporary general license (TGL) allowing Chinese vendor Huawei to …

UPS took minority stake in autonomous truck company TuSimple Working with San Diego-based startup TuSimple, UPS has been using autonomous trucks to haul cargo between Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona …

The tech industry is a hype machine. The promise of something newer, faster, and better is unmistakably alluring. It’s why we fork over hundreds of dollars for the new iPhone …

Comparing 5G plans for Swiss operators Salt, Sunrise and Swisscom Speed testing authority Ookla maintains a handy global map tracking various categories of 5G deployments–pre-release, limited availability and commercial availability. …

Note this is a serialised version of an editorial report, called LPWA connectivity in IoT – who is winning what?’. It is continued from a previous instalment, which can be …

One of the first steps to combat unwanted spam robocalls is to authenticate the call and alert customers that an incoming call is — or isn’t — actually coming from …

  U.K. mobile operator Three has launched 5G services in the country with the initial offering of a high-speed 5G broadband service in parts of London, the company said in …

  Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, is likely to limit the scope of its mobile launch in October due to delays in the installation of …

  U.S. real estate software solutions provider MRI Software has expanded its presence in the proptech market in Australia and New Zealand via an acquisition, the company said in a …

Utility companies are looking to expand gigabit broadband in rural areas, says ADTRAN ADTRAN, Inc., an open networking and subscriber experience solutions provider, has developed the Total Access 5000 fiber access platform, a broadband access platform to …

Qualcomm working with local operators and government on millimeter wave 5G trial network Millimeter wave spectrum has been front-and-center in U.S. 5G deployments with AT&T, T-Mobile US and Verizon all …

Paul Challoner of Ericsson discusses role of dynamic spectrum sharing in deploying 5G services 5G means more network capacity and more network capacity means operators need more spectrum. While regulators …

Huawei is being backed into a corner and may be in serious trouble. They use the Google Android operating system globally in all their smartphones and wireless devices. The US …

Why is LoRaWAN better than Sigfox, NB-IoT, and LTE-M? It is not a query based on a statement of fact, to be clear; just a loose question, asked here of …

Demystifying cellular patents and licensing – Part 4  3GPP is this mystic organization that many seem to know, but few understand it. The key players of this efficient and well-regarded …

As our collective awareness of the environment continues to grow due to climate change, our surroundings and the way we interact with them are changing dramatically. Buildings and infrastructures are …

How much does a 5G modem improve performance? Ookla analyzed recent results from its Speedtest Intelligence data from July 2019 on Sprint and Verizon’s 5G networks, matching up results from …

  Vodafone Germany continued to expand its 5G coverage across the country, following the activation of the first 5G network in Berlin. Vodafone said that the first antenna in Berlin …

Network virtualization, automation key pieces of transition from LTE to 5G AT&T and Dell Technologies are combining their respective expertise in open source software to develop solutions to enable the …

Verizon captured P3 Group’s “Best in Test” title for the fourth time in a row, turning in the best score that the test company has recorded in its testing of …

Global mobility solutions provider Denso announced it is investing $1.4 million to launch a smart mobility ecosystem in Dublin, Ohio, with the main aim of enhancing transportation.  In the project, the company is …

  U.S. firm Atomic Data is seeing a growing trend of sport venues adopting in-building wireless infrastructure for the provision of Wi-Fi connectivity and other services for better fan experience, …