Yearly Archives: 2021

Is cloud the great equalizer? Q&A with Deloitte about bridging the digital divide

Deloitte provides three reasons that the U.S. digital divide remains Following the digital divide wake-up call prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the reveal of...

French telcos had 13,322 operational 5G sites at end-April

France had a total of 24,219 5G authorized sites as of May 1, of which 13,332 were declared technically operational by the local mobile...

Chunghwa Telecom targets 10,000 5G base stations by end-2021

Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom expects to end 2021 with over 10,000 5G stations across Taiwan, the company’s president, Harrison Kuo, said during a conference...

Time for Sigfox and LoRaWAN to call a truce – and team up? Some say so

After years of fierce rivalry, stretching back to the early days of IoT in France, spilling over into open hostility in recent years as...

Fire in the hole! How industrial 5G will light a big-bang to remake the telecoms world

This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the...

Open RAN pioneer Accelleran raises €6.8 million to fuel ‘global expansion’

Belgium-based open RAN provider Accelleran has raised €6.8 million in a Series B funding round led by Cogito Capital Partners. The new funds will...

CommScope records revenues of $469m from venue and campus networks in Q1

  CommScope posted net sales of $469.6 million in its venue and campus networks business division in the first quarter of 2021, flat compared to...

CCA analysis estimates that 5-7% of RDOF funds will go to areas that already have broadband service

The Competitive Carriers Association says that it has conducted analysis of awards in the Rural Digital Opportunities Fund and found that as much as...

Verizon claims global IoT with ‘permanent’ roaming in North America, Western Europe

Verizon Business is claiming “global IoT connectivity”, after launching “permanent roaming options” in North America and Western Europe on a single SIM. It said...

Editorial Report: The state of ‘things’ in smart manufacturing – how enterprises are grasping for and grappling with industrial IoT

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and...

Semtech, EchoStar test satellite-enabled LoRaWAN for utilities, agriculture, maritime

Semtech is working with EchoStar Mobile, a mobile satellite services provider in Europe, to test satellite connectivity services enabled by the LoRaWAN protocol. The...

‘It must be there’: TIP’s OpenWiFi initiative will include WBA’s OpenRoaming standard

WBA CEO: 'As operators and enterprises adopt OpenWiFi, they will need OpenRoaming' The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has adopted the OpenRoaming standard for its OpenWiFi...

American Tower to sell 30% of its European business to CDPQ

American Tower Corporation (ATC) and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, announced that the latter will acquire a...

Telus to deploy 5G in 529 new Canadian communities by end-2021

Canadian telecoms operator Telus announced plans to expand its next-generation 5G network to an additional 529 new urban and rural communities across the country...

Talking About (Industrial) Revolution | The state of ‘things’ in smart manufacturing – how enterprises are grasping for and grappling with industrial IoT

In a new Q&A report series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with select industry leaders about how digital systems – including 5G, AI, IoT, and...

Samsung, Play to begin 4G, 5G interoperability trials in Poland

The trials will test the interoperability between Play’s 2G/3G legacy networks and Samsung’s latest solutions Samsung Electronics is beginning work with Polish mobile operator Play...

#TBT: PCS C-block winners celebrate; Standing by CDMA; Lucent’s Inferno … this week in 1996

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...

Cisco sees smart buildings as key to ‘democratizing enterprise IoT’

Cisco characterizes Power-over-Ethernet as a "fourth utility" in smart buildings In a new blog post, Cisco's Anoop Vetteth, vice president of product management for Enterprise...

Is Starlink service out of this world? Ookla gives a glimpse

Will Starlink's low-earth-orbit-based satellite broadband service actually be comparable to, or better than, terrestrial broadband? The company won nearly $900 million in funds from...

Michael Dell sees edge opportunity in the ‘do anything from anywhere world’

Dell Tech World focused on tech-enablement of "do anything from anywhere world" Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell kicked off the second virtual installment of the...

FreedomFi, Helium blaze ‘new 5G path’ with blockchain network deployment model

The peer-to-peer, blockchain 5G network will run on CBRS spectrum FreedomFi and Helium have partnered up to help mobile network operators (MNOs) accelerate their 5G...

India authorizes 5G trials with four vendors

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has authorized local carriers to carry out trials of 5G technology in the country. In a statement, DoT said that...

A Q&A with Philadelphia on the current state of smart cities

  Enterprise IoT Insights talked with Emily Yates, smart city director at the city of Philadelphia, to discuss the evolution of the smart city concept...

Data demand is causing spectrum deficit; what can operators do?

Adding more spectrum and more cell sites can help operators overcome the deficit Consumer data demand is skyrocketing and is only expected to keep...

J2 Innovations announces upgrade to software platform for smart buildings

  J2 Innovations, which is part of Siemens, has announced the release of FIN Framework 5.1, its latest upgrade of its software platform for smart...
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