April 2020

Japanese companies Toyota Connected and NTT Data, a provider of IT services, announced a new business alliance to increase the functions and services of the Mobility Service Platform (MSPF) offered …

Robots will be distributed to 20 hospitals that provide care for COVID-19 patients, said AIS exec Recent numbers reveal that Thailand has reported a total of 2,369 COVID-19 cases and …

According to a survey, 65.7% of consumers aren’t very excited about 5G Now that Sprint and T-Mobile have officially merged into the “New T-Mobile,” cellular signal booster provider Waveform wanted …

Rakuten Mobile exporting open network approach to other operators Japanese company Rakuten Mobile announced the full-scale commercial launch of its mobile carrier service in the country. Rakuten Mobile, a unit …

Getting to the 5G future requires much more than just upgrading existing networks. Operators need a cohesive roadmap for moving to a virtualized, software-defined infrastructure. Operational excellence will be hinged …

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has put focus on various communications technologies, if only as an adjunct to disciplines like healthcare and government, and as a means to work and play …

For those consumers who waited until the last possible minute to upgrade their home Internet connections, finally moving up to high-speed broadband was likely a revelation. Everything got faster, certainly, …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Peter Linder, Ericsson (Ep. 1) Linder tracks the move from non-standalone 5G to standalone 5G Welcome to the inaugural episode of …

    The vision of 5G is cloud-native networks automatically delivering capacity on-demand. The reality, however, is that most operators are taking an incremental approach to cloudification and trying to …

  Cyber threats have no single home country and respect no borders. This makes effective cyber security a responsibility shared by equipment vendors, software developers, users, and all other stakeholders …

Q&A with leader of Finland’s 6G Flagship Program Finland is among the first countries in the world to kick off research on future 6G technologies, which are forecast to appear …

Mission critical IoT connectivity a goal of Cisco acquisition U.S. networking company Cisco announced the intent to acquire privately-held Fluidmesh Networks, a specialist in wireless backhaul systems, the former said in a …

Nokia and industrial firms partner to develop new building data-based applications Finnish companies KONE, Nokia, YIT, Caverion, Halton, Netox and VTT have founded an ecosystem known as KEKO, with the …

The LoRa Alliance has announced a certification programme for affiliate non-members to obtain LoRaWAN device certification. The new $10,000 affiliate programme covers full protocol testing, including of interoperability and radio …

Sigfox is offering to waive connectivity costs for US-based IoT projects developed on its connectivity infrastructure that seek to address critical challenges related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The French …

Swiss operator Sunrise has launched an IoT connectivity management platform to activate and monitor IoT SIM cards. It is targeted at smart manufacturing, smart farming, and smart sports stadiums. The …

NVIDIA will add to COVID-19 efforts with expertise in AI, biology and large-scale computing optimizations The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, launched by the federal government last week, is a …

Mission critical communications and broad IoT support among private network applicaitons For several years now, Nokia has been touting 5G as the enabler of Industry 4.0 efforts to digitize industries …

Industrial services firm PK Solutions is deploying private LTE in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band in the US for the oil and gas sector. It is working with Nokia and …

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DSS can ease the transition from non-standalone to standalone 5G For operators looking to quickly scale 5G, the DSS value proposition is crystal clear–instead of rolling trucks to re-farm spectrum …

Polish energy sector company PGE Systemy has appointed Nokia to deploy a pilot version of a private LTE network in the 450 MHz band. The 450 MHz band is being …

Celebrities are picking up 5G, COVID-19 theories, increasing their visibility Over the last few days, three separate cell tower fires have been reported in the U.K. and are suspected of …

U.K. carrier Vodafone has has written to the government calling for the planned auction of 5G spectrum to be dropped due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, local newspaper The Telegraph …

Smart building efficiencies continue despite building closures ABB Electrification has announced a number of measures to support its customers through the crisis caused by the widespread of the COVID-19 virus …