Yearly Archives: 2019

Telefónica puts new €2bn digital-change unit at heart of five-step reinvention plan

Telefónica has revealed a five-point reinvention plan to set it for “the next 100 years”. The strategy leans heavily into the digital transformation of...

Stealth CEO: 2020 will bring spotty 5G coverage, more data usage and heartbreak

In 2020, 5G will simply resemble Wi-Fi coverage As 2019 comes to a close, Shrihari Pandit, Stealth Communications CEO, discussed with RCR Wireless News what...

OpenSignal: Mobile video experience has improved globally, but US lags

Network download speeds don't necessarily reflect a good mobile video experience, OpenSignal finds The mobile video user experience is improving around the world, but the...

Nippon Gas to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities

Japanese utility firm Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) announced plans to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities in 2020 using a retrofitted gas meter reader...

‘You need a villain in the piece’ – private LTE threat to carriers is overplayed, says Nokia

Will carriers be ousted, or forced to cede ground, in the enterprise market with the rise of private networking and the liberalisation of spectrum...

Qualcomm, Siemens set up 5G SA private SA network for industrial apps

Qualcomm Technologies and Siemens have setup a joint proof-of-concept project at the Siemens Automotive Test Center in Nuremberg, Germany, demonstrating what it claims to be the first...

VoltServer raises $7.4 million funding to power entire buildings

VoltServer specializes in "digital electricity" U.S. firm VoltServer, the inventor of a new form of power called Digital Electricity, announced that it has raised a...

Ericsson to invest $240 million in 5G assembly line in Brazil: Report

Facility will produce 5G equipment for LatAm market Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson announced plans to invest 1 billion reais ($238.3 million) to install a...

Introducing the 5G core network functions (Reader Forum)

In the evolution of next generation mobile architectures, much of the focus is understandably on 5G New Radio – primarily, how much faster it...

6G preview: RF front-end is key to unlocking 1 Tbps wireless service (Reader Forum)

Everything about 6G networking is still up in the air, but a new whitepaper – the first of many to come – is the...

Synchronoss’ Lurie talks RCS and the goal of a single-app experience

Rich Communications Services are set to ramp up, and RCS may represent a chance for network operators to revamp their messaging services in the...

“I’d call ‘bull’ if Silicon Valley was making these claims” – BehrTech on MIOTY and TS-UNB

Made in Germany, commercialised in Canada, sold everywhere on the planet: that's the recipe to make low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking, the backbone connectivity technology...

Cisco: Cloud gaming is a ‘killer use case’ for 5G

2021 will see a 57% compound annual growth rate for gaming traffic on the Internet, according to Cisco report From Cisco’s point of view, developing...

Sony Electronics upgrades smart agriculture solution to include AI

Sony Electronics announced a software update for its smart agriculture solution aimed at providing agricultural customers with new AI-based imaging capabilities, Sony said in a release. These new...

Mobilitie to deploy campus-wide wireless network for Nova Southeastern University

Mobilitie 5G network will support up to 20,000 users U.S. company Mobilitie, a privately-held wireless infrastructure provider, announced that it will be bringing next-generation mobile...

India’s Tech Mahindra to set up 5G/6G innovation lab in Finland

6G a focus of study at Finland's University of Oulu Indian firm Tech Mahindra, a provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and...

Intel, MediaTek to make a 5G chip for PCs

PC makers have been experimenting with turning computers into something more like phones On Monday, Intel and MediaTek announced they are partnering to create 5G...

France not planning to exclude Huawei from 5G contracts: Report

  The French government is not planning to exclude Chinese vendor Huawei from its 5G networks, Reuters reported, citing a high-ranking official. “We do not target...

Public-private collaboration can play a major role in 5G success (Reader Forum)

  In many ways, government agencies and communications technology companies live in two different worlds. Occasionally, however, those worlds collide. When they do, amazing things...

Ahead of large-scale deployment, Verizon trials dynamic spectrum sharing

Ericsson is only major infrastructure vendor with a dynamic spectrum sharing product available Ericsson, Qualcomm and Verizon successfully tested dynamic spectrum sharing in over-the-air...

Nokia puts focus on healthcare, transport and security in Polish smart city deal

Nokia has struck a deal with the Polish city of Wroclaw to deliver new smart city services across healthcare, transport, education, security and local...

Cellular IoT to hit five billion connections by 2025, with LTE/5G taking a quarter

The number of cellular IoT connections will reach five billion by the end of 2025, from 1.3 billion by the end of 2019, according...

FCC blocks Huawei, ZTE gear from USF funding; requires rip and replace

FCC bars carriers which receive USF funding from buying ZTE, Huawei gear or services The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously moved to block the use...

Autonomous balloons to bring internet to rural Peru

80% of Peruvian localities, most of which were rural, lacked internet coverage in 2016 Last week, an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Loon, which uses stratospheric, autonomous...

Ericsson forecasts global 5G subscribers to reach 2.6 billion in 2025

Ericsson expects the global number of 5G subscriptions to reach 2.6 billion by the end of 2025, according to the latest edition of the...
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