2021

Nokia has signed a deal with the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) to leverage industrial 5G, and other technologies, to drive the Industry 4.0 movement on the continent, as well as …

Japanese tech giant NEC has announced a new digital healthcare and life science business, as part of its stated mid-term strategy to develop new business units to drive growth for …

Spain-based Telefónica, as we have heard, is to establish regional network operations centres (NOCs) in Spain, Brazil, the UK, and Germany in order to manage private 5G networks on behalf …

As 5G quickly rolls out and expands towards the enterprise market, a more open telecom business model will spark a wave of customer-centric innovation among communications service providers (CSPs). 5G’s …

Comlinkdata will combine Opensignal with previously acquired Tutela into a business that will serve over 140 clients in more than 60 countries Opensignal is being acquired by analytics company Comlinkdata …

Vodafone has urged the UK government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT adoption into its forthcoming net-zero strategy blueprints, due to be published later this year. The …

What are technical and operational challenges in the midband spectrum for companies operating networks in the United States? In every spectrum band, there are some sort of challenges that wireless …

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three stories laying out the national mobile network operators’ plans for midband spectrum. Verizon has made no secret of where …

Multinational oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell has handed new industrial IoT monitoring contracts to a pair of local IoT suppliers, in the form of Rotterdam-based scale-up TWTG and …

  Verizon and the NFL announced a 10-year partnership with the aim of using 5G to support innovation and technology adoption throughout the league. The partners noted that the more …

Dish Network is asking the Federal Communications Commission for a special temporary authorization to use 600 MHz band spectrum currently licensed to Bluewater Wireless for a three month period with …

Verizon’s 5G millimeter wave network is now available in 82 cities, and its 5G Home Internet coverage now reaches 57 cities Last week, Verizon announced the expansion of its 5G …

Chinese vendor giant Huawei Technologies expects to launch 6G products around 2030, Chinese newspaper Global Times reported, citing the company’s rotating chairman Eric Xu Zhiju. According to a recent article …

The value of fiber for mobile network transport is undisputed: The enormous capacity and speed that fiber can enable is unmatched. But as operators bend ever more of their financial …

Midband spectrum is widely recognized to be the sweet spot for 5G deployments globally, due to its combination of large amounts of available bandwidth and better propagation characteristics than millimeter-wave. …

If you are trying to decide between buying wireless service directly from one of the big three carriers or an MVNO reseller, you need to know the difference. You need …

September greetings from the Midwest and Southeast.  Pictured is one of the many “Instawalls” in Kansas City that celebrate our local football team, the Chiefs.  We are excited about our …

The story of 5G in manufacturing is not new. In fact, it has been written and discussed many times, as enterprises first heard about the groundbreaking enhancements that 5G can …

NB-IoT was supposed to connect everything. It hasn’t. Instead, it has coughed and spluttered, and faced cries about its cost, ecosystem, and coverage. But something is afoot, finally, as devices …

T-Mobile US and AT&T are duking it out over performance honors in recently released network testing. Global Wireless Solutions, which released its annual national report that included testing in nearly …

Turntide Technologies, developer of electrification and sustainable operations technologies, announced the rollout of its new smart building solution, dubbedTurntide for Buildings. Turntide said that the new offering combines its Smart …

According to tech research firm ARC Advisory Group, 5G will play a key role in enabling the full potential of IIoT in the manufacturing field

5G “nomadic base stations” are geared toward industrial applications Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation announced that it has exclusively won the bid for 5G nomadic base stations from China Mobile Research …

Amid an evolving carrier perspective on leveraging the public cloud for telecom networks, Anritsu is deploying its mobile network service assurance solutions on AWS’ public cloud. The AWS news comes …

Finnish vendor Nokia has been selected by US Cellular for the deployment of the latter’s Standalone 5G core network. The European vendor said that the 5G SA deployment is expected …