Yearly Archives: 2020

South Korea announces initiative to boost the smart building market

    South Korea has launched a smart building technology project to bring more innovation to construction sites with an overall investment of 200 billion won...

Davos upgrades street lighting system with Signify

  Smart lighting specialist Signify is helping the city of Davos, in Switzerland, in achieving its sustainability goals as it upgrades both Davos’ streetlights and...

What ‘power users’ tell us about the 5G future

Who are the users most likely to be early 5G adopters, and what do they expect 5G to do for them? According to new data...

Ericsson CEO: 5G as a ‘foundation for innovation’

5G can reduce energy consumption, advance economic development and create jobs, Eckholm says With the 2020 installment of the World Economic Forum focused on fostering...

The New Rules of Employee Engagement With Rick Gallegos, CEO of Dale Carnegie Tampa

Listen to the podcast here What does employee engagement really mean? Our guest this week, Rick Gallegos, CEO of Dale Carnegie Tampa Bay, describes it...

Amazon trumps Google in smart home sales; smart lighting tops growth forecasts

The smart home market in Europe continued to grow in the third quarter of 2019, reaching almost 23.8 million units, an increase of 18.1...

Transport networks have to evolve as 5G scales

  Ericsson: “The performance of 5G is directly impacted by transport” When considering 5G, the current focus of industry discussion is largely on radio access --certainly...

Spending on factory data apps and analytics to rise 50% to $27bn in five years

Spending on factory data applications will grow from $18 billion in 2019 to just over $27 billion in 2024, a rise of 50 per...

World Economic Forum: 5G is all about ‘real-time remote control at scale’

Latency improvements of 5G and proliferation of the IoT will be disruptive to industries Autonomous fleet control, remote health monitoring, smart traffic control and the...

Why agility will be at the heart of 5G monetization (Reader Forum)

As the 5G digital services race begins, we now find communication service providers (CSPs) at various stages of planning, designing or deploying new infrastructure....

GCF, TCCA to tackle mission-critical certification

The Global Certification Forum and mission-critical standards and interoperability group TCCA are jointly launching a task force focused on certification for 3GPP-based mission-critical services,...

Liquid Telecom plans South African 5G wholesale launch for early 2020

Liquid Telecom has 56 megahertz worth of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band African wholesale operator Liquid Telecom is adding a 5G wireless network to...

Ericsson to establish 5G R&D facility in France in early 2020

Focus in on 5G software and security solutions Ericsson announced it will establish a new 5G R&D facility in France with up to 300 employees,...

SK Telecom to launch standalone 5G offering in H1 2020

SK Telecom tested SA 5G transmission on a multi-vendor network SK Telecom expects to start offering standalone (SA) 5G services in Korea in the first...

NextNav raises $120 million in debt to expand 3D geolocation services

    Three-dimensional geolocation specialist NextNav announced it has raised $120 million in debt and equity financing with the aim of launching phased 3D geolocation services...

Will 5G change the world? Views from the World Economic Forum

Titans of global government and industry are descending on Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World Economic Forum to explore the 2020 theme, "Stakeholders...

Ireland sets out five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to drive digital skills and tech

The Irish government has unveiled a five-year Industry 4.0 strategy to help manufacturing firms to respond to technological change.  The plan, announced last month, includes...

How to develop 5G security standards at a global scale

  As the underlying technology that comprises 5G has developed, a variety of industry groups, working hand-in-hand with national and international regulatory agencies, have collaborated...

The Sunday Brief: The unintended consequences of an attorneys general victory

Greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman/ Charlotte, North Carolina where winter has finally begun its return (picture is from earlier in the week when our...

Wi-Fi 6: Understanding the consumer and enterprise opportunities

  In a hyper-connected world, Wi-Fi 6 and 5G have a complementary relationship Ubiquitous access to connectivity has changed the way we all live and work....

Kagan: Qualcomm transforms automotive industry with 5G

Qualcomm briefed me on how their 5G technology is working with the automotive industry and transforming the driving experience. This briefing was very exciting...

Test and Measurement: Test and Measurement: Speedtest analyzes Puerto Rico networks’ earthquake damage

In the wake of a series of major, damaging earthquakes in Puerto Rico, Ookla Speedtest dove into its data from before and after to...

O2 partners up for UK OpenRAN project

O2 expects the commercial deployment of OpenRAN to accelerate over the next 18-24 months O2, the U.K. operator owned by Telefonica, will work with Mavenir,...

CenturyLink wins $1.6b Interior network services contract

CenturyLink announced this week that it has won a $1.6 billion network services contract with the U.S. Department of the Interior, to support IT...

Getting 5G right: Lessons learned from South Korea (Reader Forum)

South Korea was the first country to commercially launch a nationwide 5G network in April 2019, a feat made possible when all three of...
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