2021

Amid the ongoing economic fallout from the global pandemic — and the prospect of a major federal infrastructure package that could include historic levels of telecom network investment — a …

Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo agreed to cooperate with 12 companies to move toward a “5G Open RAN Ecosystem,” with the objective to globally accelerate open radio access networks (O-RAN). The …

The Wi-Fi Alliance: ‘The value of Wi-Fi will reach $3.3 trillion this year’ The Wi-Fi Alliance published a recent report that 2021 will see the current annual global economic value …

Korean operator SK Telecom expects to end 2021 with approximately 9 million 5G subscribers, the company’s CFO Poong Young Yoon, said during a conference call with investors. The executive said …

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra supports enhanced intelligent Wi-Fi, OpenRoaming and Wi-Fi 6E Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 Ultra, announced in January, has a number of features aimed at eliminating a …

    The Chinese subsidiary of Japanese tech firm Hitachi Building Technology signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Telecom Guangzhou. ?The signing of the agreement is a result of …

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 up the time machine, put on …

Deutsche Telekom is working with The Things Industries (TTI), the industrial solutions division of LoRaWAN network provider The Things Network (TTN), to combine licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies …

Five key 5G NR technologies to enhance millimeter wave (mmWave) system performance and deployment efficiency in 3GPP Release 16 and beyond Since I wrote about how we solved the impossible …

Nokia said it deployed private LTE and 5G networks with 79 new customers in the final quarter of 2020, finishing the year with 260 enterprises on its books for private …

France-based telecoms operator Orange has said it will open nine ‘5G labs’ in Europe in 2021, for local enterprises to collaborate with the firm to bring [enterprise-oriented] 5G use cases …

Mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has convened with a Japanese-Thai consortium of telecoms companies, including NEC and Fujitsu, to develop an off-the-shelf private 5G system to sell to global enterprise customers. …

A bipartisan group of Senators has renewed an effort to pass a bill focused on coordinating federal efforts on telecom workforce development, including apprenticeships and emphasis on the needs of …

The first phase of the C Band auction, which involved spectrum between 3.3–4.2 GHz, wrapped up in mid-January, raking in an astounding $80.92 billion in bids, making it the most profitable …

South Korea ended 2020 with 11.85 million 5G subscribers, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT. In December 2020, Korean operators added approximately …

World Economic Forum launches EDISON Alliance focused on digital inclusion, digital divide Expanding access to reliable broadband–bridging the digital divide as its commonly referred to–isn’t a new concept; in fact, …

Comcast continues to treat wireless as a “strategic priority” within its businesses, and the company expects to see its wireless growth accelerate, according to executive remarks on Comcast’s most recent …

Singapore carrier StarHub started to deploy a 5G Standalone network in the last quarter of 2020 and it will be commercially available later this year, Chong Siew Loong, CTO at …

  Schneider Electric is seeing growth opportunities with the increasing demand for smart building solutions. The European company has been very active with the development of new solutions to allow …

The concern many industry watchers have seen coming for years was finally addressed by Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, and Tim Cook, Apple CEO. They say that we have created a …

The Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners, in Georgia in the US, has ‘filled the tank’ and pressed ‘go’ on a new Level 3 autonomous test vehicle, based on an open-source …

While the fundamentals the sports have changed very little, the requirements of the passionate fanbases have sprinted full speed ahead. Join us as we explore how leading sports stadiums are …

According to GSMA, 4G accounted for 52% of mobile connections in 2019 and will increase to 56% by 2025; meanwhile, 5G will roughly take 20% share.Unlike the moderate pace in …

Farming is just outdoor manufacturing, says John Deere; the whole concept of ‘smart manufacturing’ is only novel to cloistered production, taking place indoors, out of the rain. Farmers have been …

The promise of Open RAN rests, in part, on the concept that through the virtualizing and disaggregation of Radio Access Network components and software, new players and best-of-breed solutions will …