Monthly Archives: May, 2021

Rakuten Mobile’s 4G network reaches 80% of Japan’s population

Japanese mobile operator Rakuten Mobile said its 4G network already reaches 80% of the country’s population, with plans to reach 96% this summer. In a...

DZS and Andorix help QuadReal to complete fiber-based smart building transformation

  DZS, which focuses on packet-based mobile transport, broadband access, network orchestration and cloud-native automation solutions, announced that QuadReal Property Group has leveraged DZS FiberLAN...

umlaut: Next horizon for 5G competition will be latency, availability

Spectrum strategy is the first and foremost factor that is shaping U.S. wireless carriers' competitive position in 5G -- and that helps to justify...

Telefónica, Deloitte-backed 5G accelerator launches UK smart-city competition

UK-based 5G consortium 5PRING, which includes Telefónica and Deloitte, has partnered with local authorities in the West Midlands in the UK, a regional focus...

EE doubles 5G footprint in recent fiscal year: BT

U.K. carrier EE, part of telecom group BT, has doubled its 5G footprint in the recent fiscal year, with its next-generation offering currently available...

Test and Measurement: Anritsu strikes collabs for A-GPS, VoNR audio testing

Anritsu has teamed up with simulation company Orolia to put together Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) testing that meets 5G New Radio carrier acceptance requirements for multiple...

Mars brings in Microsoft and Accenture to drive smart manufacturing, supply chain

Mars is working with Microsoft and Accenture to bring new IoT and AI solutions to its manufacturing and supply-chain operations. The work is part...

Proximus, Nokia double speed and capacity of VSDL infrastructure with new tech

Belgian mobile operator Proximus hopes to cover 70% of the country’s households with fiber by 2028, a plan that involves extending the life of...

Chips are down until 2023, confirms IBM president

IBM president: 'The solution to the shortage involves exploring alternative ways to meet consumer demand' Towards the end of April, Intel and TSMC the...

FCC kicks off two pandemic relief connectivity programs worth $10 billion

The Federal Communications Commission this week officially launched two pandemic relief programs designed to improve access to and affordability of broadband services. Families across...

‘If you could deploy LoRa on a Sigfox network…’ – the case for low-power IoT crossover

Note this story is continued from a previous post, asking if it is 'time for Sigfox and LoRaWAN to call a truce – and...

Smartphones get the high score in gaming revenue, according to report

Smartphones account for the biggest source of gaming revenue — 43% of total revenue from all devices Smartphones appear to be dominating the global gaming...

AT&T to provide private 5G, MEC to USC’s cancer research center

AT&T Business CEO: '5G is going to be a game-changer for the healthcare industry' AT&T is deploying a private 5G network, as well as Multi-access...

ATIS’ Next G Alliance launches work program for 6G technology

North American mobile industry standards group ATIS’ Next G Alliance announced the launch of its technical work program and the formation of the key...

Couchbase Webinar: Enable Real Time Responsiveness and Zero Downtime for Applications

With the world going online and data doubling in volume every two years, applications that rely solely on the cloud for data storage and...

Telef?nica inks smart building partnership with Siemens

  The Spanish subsidiary of German firm Siemens and Telef?nica Tech, Telef?nica?s holding company for digital businesses with high growth potential, will be offering the...

Korean carriers add 2.61 million 5G subscribers in Q1

South Korea’s mobile operators added a total of 2.61 million 5G subscribers in the first quarter of the year, according to data from the...

#TBT: Let’s hear it for ‘internetworking’; Early moves for public safety priority access; The great digital migration is underway … this week in...

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...

Manufacturer WEG tests private and public 5G with Nokia and Anatel in Brazil

Brazilian electronic equipment manufacturer WEG is working with the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) and Finnish network vendor Nokia on parallel Industry 4.0 testbeds...

Massive IoT tech MIOTY wins Fraunhofer prize for ‘outstanding scientific achievement’

The Fraunhofer Society, the largest application-oriented research organisation in Europe, has given its annual prize for outstanding scientific achievement to the novel low-power wide-area...

Itron, Microsoft combine on ‘performant’ cloud-based smart meter management

Industrial IoT provider Itron, specialising in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, is working with Microsoft to provide cloud-based meter data management (MDM)...

Editorial Report: Telecom workforce needs in a 5G world

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...

Private 5G will ‘eclipse’ traditional telecoms – Quortus on its first 2,000 networks

“It will take time, but this provision of untethered enterprise value will eclipse the standard consumer telecoms market.” So says Mark Bole, chief executive...

Verizon ‘leans into the future’ of music entertainment with 5G-powered VR performance

Director of Verizon 5G Labs: 'Music artists can build entire worlds with 5G and MEC' “I was able to create my own world,” music artist...

5G user survey: Cloud gaming, AR and indoor coverage are hot; Wi-Fi gets snubbed

5G is already triggering changes in user behavior and indoor coverage is very important to early adopters, according to a new user survey from...
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