February 2020

Viavi Solutions CTO: ‘The race for the best 5G network has only just begun’ As of January 2020, commercial 5G networks have been deployed in 378 cities across 34 countries, representing …

Enterprises want end-to-end 5G-IoT solutions and vendors who are partners, EY survey finds Enterprises are looking for a “coherent 5G-IoT vision” from their suppliers and want them to be partners …

  Korean telecommunications company SK Telecom announced that it will provide its 5G repeaters to support Deutsche Telekom?s customer trial for 5G indoor coverage in Germany. For the trial, SK …

  Sprint announced collaborations with Swiss operator Swisscom and Nordic carrier Telia to extend the Sprint Curiosity Internet of Things (IoT) platform to Europe. Sprint said that thanks to this …

  Chinese vendor Huawei has announced that it will build a new wireless communications product factory in France. In a release, the company said that the new automated and intelligent …

Keysight credits strength in global 5G ecosystem for its growth Keysight Technologies reported a record first quarter of 2020, with revenues up 9% to $1.095 billion. Profitability increased as well, …

  Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that its ME910G1-W1 module has been certified for use on AT&T’s LTE-M and narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) networks. Based …

More detail has emerged about the private industrial 5G operations Lufthansa has pegged to its new holding in the 3.7-3.8 GHz spectrum in Germany, with Vodafone emerging, as well as …

Nine operators will collaborate on the GSMA’s Operator Platform Project Nine telcos in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region said today that they are working together to develop a global edge …

  Honeywell has announced the launch of its new Forge Energy Optimization, a cloud-based, machine learning solution for smart buildings. The solution “continuously studies a building?s energy consumption patterns” and …

  Nokia announced the launch of its new end-to-end slicing network functionality for 4G and 5G New Radio (NR), claiming to the first vendor to offer this capability. In a …

  Ericsson announced that its Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) solution is commercially available, stating that the new technology is already live in a number of 5G networks around the world. …

US-based industrial networking company Itron has signed with local electricity provider Borås Elnät in Sweden to swap-in 46,000 smart electric meters and layer-in sensors and analytics across its grid infrastructure. …

Irish postal company and fleet operator An Post Mails & Parcels (An Post) has contracted Irish Sigfox operator VT Networks to equip and monitor “several thousand” roll cages and containers …

Note, this story has been referenced and updated in a new post, Lufthansa doubles-down with second private 5G trial – with help from Vodafone, which can be found here. German …

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The Wisconsin launch represents the first phase of a multi-year 5G network expansion In October, U.S. Cellular announced plans to rollout 5G technology for customers in Iowa and Wisconsin in …

BARCELONA–As we’re all acutely aware, Mobile World Congress 2020 was cancelled due to concerns around the spread of coronavirus. However, a small handful of largely journalists and analysts came to …

Virtual RAN solutions are critical in a 5G world, says VMware VMware, Inc. and Deutsche Telekom are collaborating on an open and intelligent virtual RAN (vRAN) platform. The platform, based …

The Broadband Forum CEO: ‘We are still working to define the jigsaw pieces of 5G’ As part of its work to “provide a practical roadmap to deliver 5G,” the Broadband …

  German telecommunications operator Vodafone said it is increasing the speed of existing 5G sites following the decision by Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) to approve the use of 5G …

  Rohde & Schwarz, together with European telecoms infrastructure provider Cellnex and Spinner, a specialist in radio frequency technology, is carrying out a trial of broadcast/multicast capabilities over 5G in …

One of the unsung but critical components that enable wireless communications are the filters which reside in the smartphone, and which are expected to proliferate in number in a 5G …

The trial aggregated 800 MHz of 28 GHz band spectrum Verizon, Samsung, Qualcomm and Motorola have released the results of their joint carrier aggregation trial conducted on Verizon’s live 5G …

CTO calls it a first-of-its-kind “Wi-Fi like” deployment; espouses benefits of open RAN BARCELONA–In the two years since being allocated mobile spectrum by Japanese regulators, Rakuten Mobile has built out …