2020

    South Korea has launched a smart building technology project to bring more innovation to construction sites with an overall investment of 200 billion won ($173 million) within the …

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

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 from RootMetrics, there is a …

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 global sustainability, business leaders from …

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 as “discretionary effort.” An engaged …

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 per cent compared to the same …

  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 a key element given …

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

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 use of digital twins for …

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

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, including push-to-talk, video and data. The …

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 its existing fiber offering, and …

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, the Swedish vendor said in …

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 half of 2020, the telco …

    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 across the U.S., the …

Titans of global government and industry are descending on Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World Economic Forum to explore the 2020 theme, “Stakeholders for a cohesive and sustainable world.” …

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 €23.5 million of funding for …

  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 to ensure global scalability of …

Greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman/ Charlotte, North Carolina where winter has finally begun its return (picture is from earlier in the week when our dog, Abby, was chasing ~40 ducks …

  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. In tandem with the …

Qualcomm briefed me on how their 5G technology is working with the automotive industry and transforming the driving experience. This briefing was very exciting because it showed what tomorrow will …

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

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, DenseAir and WaveMobile to deploy …

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 modernization for the federal agency’s enterprise …

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