Monthly Archives: July, 2020

Orange takes Open RAN to Central African Republic

Open RAN deployments seeing traction is rural markets Parallel Wireless on July 16 announced it is working with multi-national carrier Orange to use its disaggregated...

What key technology inventions will drive the 5G expansion?

  It seems like yesterday that I first wrote about the five wireless inventions that defined 5G NR. At the time, 5G was not yet...

Nokia intros private 5G SA for industry, ties-up 5G mining deal with Sandvik

Nokia has announced the commercial availability of its industrial-grade standalone 5G (5G SA) solutions for private enterprise networks, alongside a new contract with the...

Well, technically… 1+1 becomes much more than 2: Sibel Tombaz, Ericsson (Ep. 2)

On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, Sibel Tombaz, head of 5G Highband and Active Antenna Systems at Ericsson, discusses Ericsson's dynamic spectrum sharing solution and the co-existence of 4G and 5G.

Ericsson holds steady amid pandemic, will boost 5G core R&D

The scale of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic's global impacts are becoming clear, Ericsson executives said, but the company was nonetheless able to deliver a...

GE Current, Pointr partner to enable location-based services in buildings

GE Current and Pointr announced a partnership to enable location-based services in large buildings such as retail premises, warehouses, workplaces and distribution centers. ??Now more...

Rain launches standalone 5G network in South Africa

  South African operator Rain has launched what it claims to be Africa’s first standalone 5G (SA 5G) network, in partnership with Chinese vendor Huawei,...

U.K asks Japan to collaborate on 5G network deployments

  The U.K. government has asked Japan to help in the deployment of 5G networks in the country, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review. The...

Ericsson CEO: Europe is behind on 5G and O-RAN won’t speed anything up

Is open RAN right for near-term rip-and-replace? Huawei equipment has been ordered removed from networks in the United States and the United Kingdom with speculation...

FCC pushes ahead with z-axis location requirements

The Federal Communications Commission has moved forward with and expanded requirements that mobile network operators provide vertical location information for wireless callers when they...

Fast-growing 5G market demonstrates complex challenges for smartphone OEMs (Analyst Angle)

The 5G smartphone market is set to rapidly expand in the next 12 months, with many mobile vendors looking to quickly develop their 5G portfolios....

Wi-Fi 6E will deliver fiber-like experience, bringing benefits to a number of key players

The biggest draw of Wi-Fi 6E is that these new, wider channels will allow for clean access While Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax, made headlines for offering...

Who disaggregated my RAN? Part 8: Orchestrating the Open RAN symphony (Reader Forum)

We left off in our series having looked at the virtualized and cloud-based open RAN. Now we move on to consider the orchestration part,...

Kagan: Why Synchronoss is currently doing so well

Why is Synchronoss Technologies performing so well especially when we are right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic? The reason is simply this:...

The Sunday Brief: Watch the comments

A warm North Carolina welcome to the dog days of summer.  The picture is of our pooch Abby serving as boat sentinel on a...

Test and Measurement: Mobileum acquires Sigos

Private equity-backed data analytics-based roaming and network security company Mobileum has picked up network roaming test and fraud detection company Sigos. Terms of the...

T-Mobile US launches free robocall blocking

T-Mobile US has launched a new, free robocall blocking service for its users. "Scam Shield" makes use of the STIR/SHAKEN framework for call authentication...

Top robocall and robotext coronavirus scams (Reader Forum)

As if the health risks of COVID-19 weren’t enough, robocall scammers are seizing on the chaos and confusion to fleece Americans out of their...

Cohesion raises $6.5 million to accelerate smart buildings projects globally

U.S. firm Cohesion, an early-stage smart building software-as-a-service company, announced that it has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to further invest in its...

Verizon delivers best wireless network quality according to users, says study

Higher uses of Wi-Fi calling improves user perception of wireless network performance A recent J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Wireless Network Quality Performance Study found that...

FCC takes further actions against Huawei, ZTE

U.S. push against Huawei gaining traction in Europe The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has begun the process of drawing up a list of telecommunications...

Vodafone urges UK government to abandon upcoming 5G auction

Facing Huawei rip-and-replace, Vodafone needs to reallocate capital U.K. telecommunications group Vodafone has called for the U.K. government to abandon an upcoming spectrum of 5G...

CSPs must evaluate different business models in booming gaming industry: Study

New report says there will be 3.5 billion gamers globally by 2024 ABI Research released a report concluding that nearly half of the global expected...

Private 5G to outrun public 5G for spend and spectrum – but it will take 15 years

Spending on private and shared enterprise networks will surpass spending on public cellular networks in about 15 years. The traditional operator community has a...

Kerlink teams up with Japanese distributor on LoRaWAN construction, agriculture apps

French IoT firm Kerlink has teamed up with Japanese medical devices and electronics distributor GISupply on a set of LoRaWAN-based IoT solutions for the...
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