March 2020

Ericsson DSS solution takes CTO Award at GLOMOs Dynamic spectrum sharing is poised to be a key technology operators will use to quickly scale out 5G coverage, ease the transition …

  Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has officially started accepting customer applications for its mobile service, scheduled to be launched next month. Rakuten Mobile is …

WBA: ‘speeds achieved by Wi-Fi 6E will rival those of 5G mobile networks’ Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has initiated the first phase of a series of Wi-Fi 6E trials using …

  Singapore telecom operator Singtel and Nokia have agreed to collaborate to develop and trial 5G network slicing capabilities, based on a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) approach, the Asian telco said in …

  U.S. firm Smart City Networks, which provides technology services for the convention industry, has renewed its service contract with the Charlotte Convention Center (CCC), extending their partnership to provide …

  What’s ahead for networks in 2020? From InfoVista’s perspective, some of the important steps forward will be to bring 5G indoor/outdoor planning capabilities together in an integrated fashion, and …

Connectivity has been the main blocker for industrial IoT, and not the fragmented hardware and software markets. So says Federated Wireless, one of the companies pioneering usage of private LTE …

Greetings from Charlotte, where we have turned the page on a value-destroying February with hopes that March brings some needed relief.  Here’s a snapshot of the carnage from the week …

  The rollout of 5G calls for radical changes in network architecture, technician knowledge and fiber deployed deeper into the network. To make sure those changes are successful and 5G …

Listen to the podcast here Finding and retaining talent are twin challenges facing our industry. Add in rapid company growth, and those challenges get more critical and severe. And yet …

The title best describes the current situation after the recent hearing in the more-than-yearlong saga between FTC and Qualcomm. On Feb 13th, 2020, a three-judge panel of the US Court …

Deutsche Telekom has installed a dual-slice private LTE ‘campus network’, hived off its public LTE network, at a BMW plant in Leipzig. Ericsson has supplied the networking gear for the …

5G Americas President: ‘5G is a transformational technology that is here to stay’ There is no doubt that 5G is taking over on a global scale at a much faster …

  Crown Castle expects to deploy approximately 10,000 small cell nodes in 2020, the company’s CEO Jay Brown said during a conference call with investors. “2019 was a terrific year, …

All four national carriers face fines over selling unauthorized access to customer location data The Federal Communications Commission is planning to fine the four national carriers up to $200 million …

  Australian operator Telstra has announced plans to allow customers early trial access to millimeter wave  5G spectrum with the launch of a mmWave 5G-enabled device by mid-year, the telco …

The in-store 5G deployment, which is not yet a guarantee, would begin with two stores this year According to The Wall Street Journal, Verizon is in talks with Walmart, the U.S.’ …

Amsterdam-based Ingy has confirmed it is using wireless mesh protocol Wirepas as the foundational technology for its smart lighting offer, and the key component to scale smart lighting for hundreds …

  U.S. firm JMA announced that its TEKO platform will provide industry support of two critical indoor deployment spectrum bands for New T-Mobile and Dish Network. The firm said that …

Cisco is working with Oxford University spin-out company Oxbotica on a UK trial to explore how autonomous vehicles can securely and automatically share data via public Wi-Fi hotspots. The idea …

New Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark taking over the role on Sept. 1 It’s been a rough few months for Nokia–a software problem delayed some Sprint 5G market activations and a …

AT&T just launched their new AT&T TV service. I’ve been using this service and am very impressed. This ups the game for every competitor. We are in the early days …