April 2020

AT&T low-band 5G coverage now includes 120 million people in 190 markets nationwide Just hours after reporting significant TV subscriber loses in Q1 2020, AT&T made headlines again, but this …

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on …

The Zigbee Alliance and the Digital Illumination Interface Alliance (DiiA), the organisation for DALI lighting control, are working together to bring further standardisation and system interoperability to IoT-based luminaires in the …

Federated Wireless has announced it has secured $13.7 million in additional Series C funding from existing investors Allied Minds and Pennant Investors. The funding will accelerate its partnership with Amazon …

The Facebook, Reliance Jio collaboration will involve bringing together JioMart with WhatsApp Facebook is making a $5.7 billion investment in Reliance Jio, translating to a 9.99% stake in the Indian …

  Ericsson is largely holding steady in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, with limited financial and operational impacts thus far — although company executives expressed concern about the …

  Everguard.ai, a developer of AI-based worker safety solutions, announced that it has joined the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program from Qualcomm Technologies. The Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program is …

Hitachi and Hitachi Building Systems recently announced that they will launch full-scale commercial operations with its EMIEW communication robot as one of their Lumada?solutions in the building field. EMIEW stands …

Parallel Wireless CEO: “We have an all G world for a long period of time” U.S.-based OpenRAN provider Parallel Wireless this week announced it was selected by the Ghana Investment …

Digi International has released a new line of cellular routers for critical infrastructure and intelligent traffic system applications. The company said it wants to be the “IoT connectivity player of …

  Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has partnered with compatriot mobile network operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom to install advanced 5G infrastructure on Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, …

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has said it will consider allowing the 900 MHz band in the US to be used by energy companies for private LTE and 5G networking. …

AT&T attributes approximately $600 million impact to COVID-19 pandemic AT&T this week withdrew all previous financial guidance based on uncertainty around the long-term impact the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will have …

This article continues from here. It is an excerpt from a full report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – from co-creation to co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to …

More than 40 masts have been attacked in the U.K. as a result of 5G conspiracy theories A new hospital in Birmingham, England is one of the latest victims of …

Mid-band spectrum support is increasing in 5G devices The number of commercially available 5G devices jumped 41% in the past month, according to new numbers from the Global mobile Suppliers …

2020 is going to be a pivotal year for the wireless industry.  On March 11th 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic as the number of global …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Bobby Napiltonia, NEXT Trucking (Ep. 3) 5G as enabler of smarter, more connected transportation systems Bobby Napiltonia, chief revenue officer of …

  Broadband connectivity has brought multiple significant benefits to rural America, from “911” emergency services access and remote learning to support for new local businesses. But the “rip and replace” …

US Cellular and Ericsson have added additional capacity to more than 200 sites In response to increased data usage as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, US Cellular, with …

The Federal Communcations Commission has voted unanimously to allow Ligado Networks to use L-Band spectrum at 1.6 GHz to provide a low-power terrestrial network aimed at supporting private 5G and …

  Chinese vendor Huawei reported revenues of CNY182.2 billion ($25.75 billion) in the first quarter of 2020, up only 1.4% year-on-year, the company said in a release. Huawei also said …

  China Mobile, the world’s largest operators in terms of subscribers, added 29.17 million 5G subscribers in the first quarter of 2020, the company said in its earnings release. The …

CISCO: ‘5G can really unleash a farm’s power’ As John Deere’s Director of Intelligent Solutions Nancy Post has explained to Enterprise IoT Insights, connected farming is becoming a more popular …

Thyssenkrupp Elevator and CommScope announced separate actions to help their respective customers to mitigate the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thyssenkrupp Elevator said in a release that it is …