Monthly Archives: March, 2021

Seven challenges to expanding the broadband workforce

The telecom industry is facing a workforce crunch as its networks transform: With increased reliance on software for network functions and management, new skillsets...

Over 572m smart electricity meters to be installed in APAC in 2021-25

  A total of 572.3 million smart electricity meters are forecast to be deployed in China, India, Japan and South Korea during the 2021–2025 period,...

Airspan Networks looks to ‘New Beginnings’ with plan to go public via merger

Airspan Networks plans to go public in the third quarter of this year via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company and use $166...

Selling 5G: From a transactional to consultative sales approach

The consumer-facing 5G value proposition today is fairly straightforward: faster speeds, lower latency, better reliability, enhanced security. But, as it stands, 5G isn’t being...

The Rudin Family, Crown Castle launch multi-tenant CBRS network at 345 Park Avenue

  The Rudin Family real estate firm, in collaboration with network infrastructure company Crown Castle, announced that 345 Park Avenue has become one of the...

Kagan: Qualcomm remains strong with 5G and patent portfolio

Over the last several decades, Qualcomm has been and remains one of the most powerful and important companies in the global wireless space. As...

The Sunday Brief: The essential economy in 2021—uneven, unstable, unemployed, and underwater

A break in the clouds from the COVID stay-at-home: For our neighbors: homemade cheesecake. For us: homemade boerewors (traditional South African farmer’s sausage) and the Editor’s chakalaka....

Taiwan Star targets 550,000 5G customers by end-2021: Report

Taiwan Star Telecom expects to reach 550,000 subscribers in the 5G segment at the end of the year, local new site Digitimes reported. This figure...

Nokia strikes deals for LTE smart-grid in Denmark, 5G university-campus in Japan

Nokia has announced a deal with Danish network operator and internet provider Cibicom to deploy an LTE network in the 450MHz band to underpin...

Rohde & Schwarz to help network providers guarantee private 5G for Industry 4.0

German test and assurance company Rohde & Schwarz has combined with Germany’s Industrial Radio Lab (IRL) in Dresden to investigate industrial 5G for mobile...

Editorial Report: 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....

Q&A: Verizon’s Adam Koeppe on how an evolving network affects workforce needs

As networks evolve, so do the skill-sets needed to design, deploy and maintain them. More software skills are needed at all levels as automation...

Following the sound: Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon platform for wireless audio

The Qualcomm platform tackles audio from the phone to the earbud Qualcomm is hoping to address consumer wireless audio frustrations with the announcement of Snapdragon...

Test and Measurement: Viavi Solutions gets a piece of Openreach network monitoring

U.K. network provider Openreach is using Viavi Solutions' Optical Network Monitoring System (ONMSi) to speed up its ambitious Full Fibre broadband deployment through remote...

Cox launches smart traffic pilot in downtown Las Vegas

  Cox Communications has launched a pilot partnership with the city of Las Vegas to trial its smart curbside management solution from Cox2M, which is...

Samsung reaches 5.23 Gbps 5G speeds using EN-DC, carrier aggregation

EN-DC enables mobile operators to use a 4G network to boost 5G speed, coverage Earlier this week, Samsung Electronics revealed that it has achieved a...

France ends February with 12,310 operational 5G sites

France had a total of 21,714 5G authorized sites as of March 1, of which 12,310 were declared technically operational by the local mobile...

EnOcean joins Cisco DNA Spaces to bring self-powered IoT devices to smart spaces

  German company EnOcean announced new solutions for facilities management, lighting, environmental monitoring, and space occupancy, which are fully integrated with the Cisco DNA Spaces...

Key takeaways from FirstNet’s annual report

The FirstNet Authority has made "significant progress" toward fulfilling its mandate to oversee and manage the build-out and operations of a nationwide cellular network...

Telia, Ericsson carry out 5G carrier aggregation trial in Norway

Telia and Ericsson have launched what it claims to be the first 5G carrier aggregation trial in Norway, with the aim of supporting Telia’s...

Air Force wants to use 5G in space, issues request for information

The Air Force is interested in 5G's mmWave, MIMO and RAN slicing capabilities At the end of 2020, AT&T brought 5G to three U.S....

Taiwan approves Asia Pacific-Far EasTone partnership for 5G

Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) gave conditional approval for Asia Pacific Telecom Co (APT) to share Far EasTone Telecommunications Co’s (FET) 5G frequencies using...

Vantiq partners with PrimusTech to target smart hospitals, commercial buildings

  California-based firm Vantiq announced a partnership agreement with Singaporean company PrimusTech for the development and deployment of real-time applications to boost digital transformation in...

#TBT: Motorola looks ‘beyond phones’; Intel launches Centrino; Wireless data set to grow … this week in 2003

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...

Keysight eBook: Improve Your mmWave Test Accuracy by 10X

If you’re making wideband signal analyzer measurements, magnitude and phase errors introduced by cables and fixtures may be impacting your results in ways you...
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