August 2020

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Christian Block, Qualcomm (Ep. 19) 5G brings a new level of complexity to smartphone designs. To help its OEM partners, Qualcomm …

A new Bluetooth specification is being developed so wearable devices can participate in existing smartphone-based coronavirus (COVID-19) notification systems, being deployed with Bluetooth technology. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) …

Verizon has launched (relaunched?) an IoT marketplace on its ThingSpace platform for customers to purchase, activate and manage customised IoT solutions.It has also announced a five-year contract with German pharmaceutical …

Prominent industry leaders Inseego (device/endpoint), Qualcomm (chip) and Cisco (infrastructure) weigh in on the impact of rapidly evolving government policy – including recent actions such as U.S presidential orders tied …

Upgrading to T-Mo’s 5G SA: Big bucks for T-Mobile US made a splash with the announcement earlier this month that it had turned up Standalone 5G in an area encompassing …

5G technology has introduced some exciting possibilities for in-building functions. The “smart” buildings and manufacturing facilities of tomorrow will include new functions such as IoT, factory automation, machine learning devices, …

Those testing out the 5G pilot network will do so by playing a virtual reality or online game Russian mobile operator Beeline has launched what it believes will be its …

  Singapore carrier StarHub launched a 5G trial service in the country using the Nonstandalone (NSA) 5G architecture. The operator also announced plans to launch its commercial standalone (SA) network …

  China Telecom ended the first half of the year with a total of 37.8 million 5G subscribers and expects to reach 80 million customers in the 5G segment by …

Energy management specialist Schneider Electric and automation and investment firm Huck Capital struck a partnership to create a new company that will deliver energy-as-a-service to commercial and industrial buildings. The …

In 2017, President Donald Trump issued an executive order focused on cybersecurity that specifically called out the need for a federal response to internet-of-things-based botnet attacks. That led to a …

Huawei has put focus on the role of 5G to stimulate industrial revolution, and go beyond the traditional scope of cellular as a straight communications technology for voice and video, …

First, congratulations to Qualcomm for clearing their name by winning in the United States Appeals Court on a case brought by regulators. Based on what I have been reading and …

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit) gave a landmark decision in favor of Qualcomm, on Aug 11th 2020, in the long running antitrust case …

This week’s guest is RCR Wireless’s very own Executive Editor Kelly Hill. She takes us through some of her CBRS spectrum auction coverage and explains why she thinks video streaming is the best recent technological advancement. Hint: It involves “My Little Pony.”

The First Responders Network Authority board has a new chair: Robert Tipton “Tip” Osterthaler was nominated to the position today by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. Osterthaler is a retired U.S. …

  Qualcomm Technologies and China Broadcasting Network (CBN) announced that the two companies successfully achieved what they claim is the world’s first large-bandwidth 2×30-megahertz 5G data call demonstration in the …

  The government of Australia announced allocation limits for the country’s next 5G spectrum auction, which is scheduled to occur in March 2021. In a release, the government said that …

The autonomous vehicle corridor will go from Detroit to Ann Arbor Last week, Michigan announced that it is working with Cavnue, a subsidiary of Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, to explore the …

The Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), which is the regulatory body for the government-owned tech industry zone Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), announced that it has successfully upgraded its existing Integrated …

A week after the devastating derecho that struck Iowa with hurricane-force winds, carriers have reported to the Federal Communications Commission that nearly 60 cellular network sites across the state remain …

Mid-month greetings from “move in” weekend at Davidson College.  Attached is the “scene” at the College as they grapple with containing outbreaks while maintaining the liberal arts community that makes …

As the Priority Access License auction closes out another week of bidding, the focus of bidders has narrowed, with fewer than 100 licenses still in contention. Bidding in the Priority …

Microwave network equipment company Aviat Networks this week announced results of field tests conducted with Ameren and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), focused on exploring the effects of unlicensed …

Verizon CFO: 5G “created for business and society” Adding more millimeter wave-based 5G markets, building out mobile edge compute facilities, and expanding 5G coverage using Dynamic Spectrum Sharing–all 2020 priorities …