Monthly Archives: February, 2021

Sigfox chief Le Moan exits, replaced by USA boss, as IoT firm kickstarts new ‘evolution’

Sigfox co-founder and chief executive Ludovic Le Moan has stepped down from the French IoT firm with immediate effect. He has been replaced by...

mCloud signs MoU with Fidus Global to initially target 5,000 retail buildings in the U.S.

mCloud Technologies, a provider of asset management solutions combining IoT, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

Huawei catches a 5G break in the Dominican Republic

5G is scheduled to launch in the Dominican Republic later this year Earlier this month, The Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) launched the tender of...

TeraGo expands 5G fixed wireless tech trials in Toronto area

Canadian operator TeraGo announced it's expanding technical trials of its 5G fixed wireless service in the Toronto area. The initial trials, started last year at...

Making sense of the FCC C-Band spectrum auction payday (Analyst Angle)

To the uneducated, licensed spectrum is a valuable commodity. For carriers such as AT&T, Dish, T-Mobile, and Verizon to deploy next generation 5G access...

Liberty Global confident on closing Virgin Media/O2 JV by mid-2021: CEO

Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries said that a merger of its Virgin Media UK brand with Telefonica’s local mobile operator O2 was on track...

CSPs are undervaluing the 5G needs of 99% of world’s businesses: Report

42% of SMEs prefer to partner with a CSP on 5G, says report According to a report conducted by Omdia and BearingPoint//Beyond, the global potential...

Deutsche Telekom to build ‘a million square metres’ of private 5G at Hanover Fairground

Trade fair operator Deutsche Messe has secured a private 5G licence from German network agency BNetzA for the Hanover fairground in Germany, home to...

Editorial Webinar: 5G transformation: As technology matures, operators have to adapt

In its early days, 5G was, in many ways, not markedly different from advanced 4G in terms of networks and the services they delivered....

NGMN urges more options for transition to SA 5G

A new white paper (pdf) from the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance urges the industry to more fully develop multiple paths for operators to...

Network automation: ‘Everything comes back to data quality’

A data-first approach to operational excellence As operators consider any type of artificial intelligence- or machine learning-based network automation projects, "Everything comes back to data,"...

Singtel to hire 500 professionals for 5G, new tech roles in Singapore

Singapore operator Singtel plans to hire over 500 people in Singapore over the next two years to focus on 5G and other emerging technologies...

Austria remains a 5G pioneer, even as infrastructure fees threaten rollout

According to Ookla, Austria has 958 5G deployment locations In July 2020, Austria’s three largest mobile operators reported that the country’s 5G rollout was stalling,...

Dish inks seven new tower deals to boost its nationwide 5G effort

Dish has signed seven new tower deals to boost its nationwide 5G network infrastructure, the operator said in a release. Dish, which is in the...

Mobilitie installs 5G network at Chicago Government Center

    U.S. wireless infrastructure company Mobilitie is installing a 5G wireless network at Cook County?s George W. Dunne Office Building. Located in the heart of...

Verizon agrees deal for industrial robotics firm to bolster Industry 4.0 edge-5G portfolio

US carrier Verizon has signed a deal to acquire Austrian industrial robotics software company Incubed IT (stylized as incubed IT) for an undisclosed fee....

Well, technically… a little bit of friendly competition is always good: Intel’s Asha Keddy (Ep. 29)

On this week's episode, Asha Keddy, corporate VP at Intel, takes a closer look at the friendly, but fierce, competition between 5G and Wi-Fi...

Oil and gas sector dispenses with in-house IoT to splurge $712.7m on cloud analytics

Spending on big data and analytics in the oil and gas industry is increasing at a rate of about 75 percent per year, as...

Vodafone intros 10cm GNSS positioning to zone-in on ‘needle in industrial IoT haystack’

Vodafone is launching a higher-accuracy GNSS-based positioning technology for enterprises to remotely track vehicles, machines, and devices to within 10 centimetres, compared to around...

FCC focuses on partners, path forward for Emergency Broadband Benefit program

The FCC is working on how it will make available $3.2 billion that Congress appropriated to help subsidize broadband costs during the Covid-19 pandemic...

Cisco launches digitization program in Japan

  Cisco announced a collaboration framework with the government of Japan through Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) Program to drive mass-scale digitization across Japan in...

STC receives accolades as it expands its 5G network in Saudi Arabia

The STC 5G network is now in more than 47 cities Saudi operator Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has deployed its 5G network in more than...

Cable One to buy telecom firm Hargray Communications in $2.2B deal

In what Cable One’s President and CEO Julie Laulis is calling a commitment to rural America, the cable company is purchasing the remaining stakes...

Editorial Report: AI- and ML-based network automation: What’s the promise and what’s the reality?

As 5G continues its evolution toward broad digital enablement of the enterprise, the proliferation of artificial intelligence and machine learning in networks will be...

ABB installs intelligent building controls systems at NDB headquarters in Shanghai

  European tech company ABB says that it has supported the construction of the New Development Bank (NDB) headquarters in Shanghai by installing an intelligent...
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