April 2020

  Cisco has announced a number of initiatives to provide financing for customers in a move to try to mitigate the financial challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new …

  Chinese vendor ZTE announced it has secured the winning bid for the commercial 5G Standalone core network in China Mobile’s 2020 centralized procurement for new 5G SA core network …

  Regulators and automotive OEMs embracing C-V2X for vehicular connectivity We’re all familiar with the futuristic vision of highways filled with vehicles driving themselves while passengers, fully confident in the …

Samsung expects that in the coming years, an additional 15 nations will launch 5G mmWave services Samsung claimed that it achieved the fastest 5G speeds seen by the industry in …

Comprehensive Energy Services (CES) announced the creation of a new value-added partnership with Siemens Building Technologies to offer its customers the latest in the Building Automation Systems (BAS) field. The partnership allows CES, …

Canadian telco Shaw Communications is temporarily laying off about 10% of its workforce, driven by the “extraordinary and unpredictable conditions” of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The company said that the …

  5G networks have the characteristics of high speed, large capacity, low latency and low energy consumption, which will lead to great changes in all industries of the society, especially …

This 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 scale’. The report, part of …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Steve Douglas, Spirent (Ep. 2) 5G as a driver of industrial efficiency, sustainability Steve Douglas, head of 5G strategy for Spirent, …

The low-power and short-range segments of the wider IoT market, along with industrial majors, are seeking to re-engineer and innovate afresh in order to produce rapid low-cost IoT sensing solutions …

LitePoint is focused on 5G spectrum, devices and scaling for the RAN Adam Smith, director of product marketing at LitePoint spoke, with RCR Wireless News about how millimeter wave is changing …

The Trump administration is continuing with actions that cut telecom ties with China, including a new filing from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration that recommends that the Federal Communications …

The Lulea University of Technology in Sweden will demonstrate increased indoor connectivity capacity and improved performance once it expands its 5G testbed with an indoor system jointly developed by Nordic …

  Japanese carrier KDDI and Korean telco LG Uplus announced plans to launch Coretronic Intelligent Robotics Corporation (CIRC)’s G6.0, a drone compatible with smart drone platforms, in Japan and South …

Nex-Tech Wireless will also be implementing Ericsson Spectrum Sharing technology Kansas-based wireless carrier Nex-Tech Wireless will be deploying 5G using equipment from Ericsson. Specifically, the vendor will deliver its 5G …

  Taiwanese carrier Chunghwa Telecom aims to launch commercial 5G services in the third quarter of 2020 after Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) approved its information security plan, Taipei Times …

  The novel coronavirus may drive new innovation in the workplace, healthcare and in the application of big data analytics and artificial intelligence, according to a new survey of technology …

Paris based system integrator Altran is working with London edge-cloud startup Ori Industries to promote federated multi-access edge computing (MEC) so developers can deploy Industry 4.0 solutions on private LTE …

Cisco, Altiostar, WWT creating vRAN hardware/software/services bundle to drive 5G deployment Building a virtualized radio access network built of best-of-breed components made interoperable through the work of groups like the …

California-based Wind River is working with Chinese smart mining solutions provider Beijing Tage Idriver Technology Company on a software platform for autonomous mining vehicles for open-pit mining. The mining industry …

  Various countries are offering licensed millimeter wave 5G spectrum directly to private enterprises, and for good reason. Wifi hotspots are overloaded and cannot scale to meet the rapidly increasing …

The O-RAN is looking to revolutionize the way wireless communications systems are built. Their core tenants of using virtualized networks, white box hardware, and standardized interfaces aim to promote openness …

As many Communications Service Providers (CSPs) express interest in the potential of automation across the end-to-end network lifecycle as a critical element to reinforce and provide 5G and DevOps, it’s …

Sigfox Germany has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a range of sensors from Finnish IoT firm Connected Inventions. The new range includes sensors for monitoring dust, temperature, …

DSS key piece of operator plans to scale 5G Major operators around the world have tested and publicly discussed their plans to use dynamic spectrum sharing to rapidly scale 5G …