August 2020

Canadian company Sinclair Technologies, a Land Mobile Radio solutions provider, has launched two new product lines: a new series of economical mobile duplexers, and a complete Distributed Antenna System (DAS) …

As Windstream prepares to emerge from Chapter 11 bankrtupcy, it announced plans for a new, converged optical network spanning the U.S. Windstream will build out its National Converged Optical Network …

Greetings again from Charlotte/ Lake Norman.  Pictured is a double rainbow from July to celebrate a week of consistent market highs as well as a pretty darn good first earnings …

Over the last several decades, competitors in the wireless industry were all on the same path. However, over this last decade we have seen three completely different directions emerge. Let’s …

The rail transport division of Japanese industrial conglomerate Hitachi Group has announced a deal to acquire UK-based rail technology firm Perpetuum for an undisclosed fee. Perpetuum, based in Southampton, offers …

European enterprises are divided about adoption of AI for digital transformation, with two-in-five embracing AI technologies and two-in-five disinclined to engage with them. But the remainder are interested, and the …

Identifying colon polyps in real time as a scope moves to scan the inside of a patient’s organ. Tracking a basketball player’s position and speed as he moves through the …

HPE 5G Lab meant to facilitate multi-vendor integration, interoperability In previous generations of cellular, HPE has largely focused its telco core network efforts on subscriber data management. But with 5G …

The number of global unique mobile subscribers is expected to grow by 160 million from 5.7 billion subscribers in 2020 to 5.86 billion in 2025. 85% or more of mobile …

T-Mobile US claimed a global first with activation of standalone 5G in 600 MHz T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert and President of Technology Neville Ray, discussing the operator’s second quarter …

US Cellular reports net income of $68 million for Q2 While US Cellular CEO Laurent C. Therivel, who took over the post in early July, acknowledged that many aspects of …

  Canadian telecommunications operator Bell expects to expand its current 5G network to 28 additional markets this year, Mirko Bibic, president and CEO of Bell Canada, said during a conference …

  Chinese operators will build 800,000 5G base stations and have more than 200 million 5G subscribers by the end of 2020, Yang Chaobin, president of Huawei’s Wireless Network Solutions …

U.K. company Spica Technologies is developing a user-centric “workplace experience solution” for global insurance firm Zurich, which will initially be available to approximately 1,600 users at the insurers? new Quai …

To manage such highly scalable and recursively sliced 5G networks and to maintain the customer QoE and SLAs in real time, the OSS systems managing the operations must be autonomous …

Test equipment company PCTel saw its revenues drop 16% year-over-year, but overall profits were  up compared to the same period in 2019, the company reported this week. Total company revenues …

The Priority Access License auction appears to be winding down, with licenses still in contention in fewer than 350 U.S. counties out of more than 3,200. As of the close …

Brazil’s 3.5 GHz and the 26 GHz spectrum auction was delayed due to COVID-19 Ericsson and Claro Brasil are laying claim to the first 5G network in Latin America with …

The material used in the 5G concealment solution has ‘minimal losses in the range of 24, 28, 39 GHz frequency bands’ Telecom infrastructure provider Raycap has released a new drop-in …

  Taiwan Star launched its commercial 5G services in the country, Taiwanese press reported. The operator said that the coverage of its 5G networks in Taiwan’s major metropolitan areas has …

  5G networks in South Korea are currently showing poorer results than initially expected, with their download speeds and connection far lower than what telecom operators have initially claimed, Korean …

Smart building solution company Johnson Controls recorded revenues of $2 billion in its North America building solutions segment in fiscal Q3 2020, down 13% compared to revenues of $2.32 billion …

In an unexpected move, the Trump administration has abruptly withdrawn its re-nomination of Michael O’Rielly to the Federal Communications Commission, days after O’Rielly signaled that he was troubled by the …

Commercial CBRS deployments have officially kicked off, with a healthy device and equipment ecosystem to support the three-tiered spectrum sharing framework. The next big step for the technology is the …

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 …