Yearly Archives: 2021

CTIA report: 5G will bring ‘massive jobs and GDP growth’

Amid the ongoing economic fallout from the global pandemic -- and the prospect of a major federal infrastructure package that could include historic levels...

NTT DoCoMo aims for a 5G O-RAN ecosystem with 12 partners

Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo agreed to cooperate with 12 companies to move toward a “5G Open RAN Ecosystem,” with the objective to globally accelerate...

The global economic value of Wi-Fi will hit $5 trillion by 2025: Report

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...

SK Telecom targets 9 million 5G subscribers by end-2021: CFO

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...

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra’s Wi-Fi features add up to ‘next-level mobile communication’

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...

Hitachi Building Technology inks smart buildings deal in China

    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...

#TBT: MWC up in the air; T-Mo/Sprint merger pending; the last pre-Covid Super Bowl … this week in 2020

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...

DT ties-up on dual-mode LTE-M/LoRaWAN, as LoRa 2.4GHz catches sail

Deutsche Telekom is working with The Things Industries (TTI), the industrial solutions division of LoRaWAN network provider The Things Network (TTN), to combine licensed...

What’s in the future of 5G millimeter wave?

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...

Private 5G steadies Nokia enterprise unit – despite lower group sales, ‘challenging’ 2021

Nokia said it deployed private LTE and 5G networks with 79 new customers in the final quarter of 2020, finishing the year with 260...

Orange to open nine 5G labs in Europe, with strong Industry 4.0 focus

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...

Japanese trio NTT, NEC, Fujitsu join with Thai telcos to pitch private 5G to Asia Pacific

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...

Telecom workforce bill re-introduced in the Senate

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

Will midband spectrum fend off 5G challenges from LEO satellites?

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...

South Korea ends 2020 with nearly 12 million 5G subscribers: report

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...

Verizon CEO: COVID has prompted five- to seven-year advance in digitalization

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...

Comcast Q4 wireless highlights: ‘Leaning into 5G’, exploring CBRS

Comcast continues to treat wireless as a "strategic priority" within its businesses, and the company expects to see its wireless growth accelerate, according to...

StarHub to launch 5G SA network in Singapore later this year: CTO

Singapore carrier StarHub started to deploy a 5G Standalone network in the last quarter of 2020 and it will be commercially available later this...

Interview: Schneider Electric believes pandemic will further accelerate development of smart building tech

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

Kagan: Apple’s Tim Cook and Tesla’s Elon Musk issue warning

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

Peachtree Corners puts Level 3 autonomous car on public road for ‘real-world’ V2X tests

The Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners, in Georgia in the US, has ‘filled the tank’ and pressed ‘go’ on a new Level 3 autonomous...

Episode Thirteen – The Connected Sports Fanatic

While the fundamentals the sports have changed very little, the requirements of the passionate fanbases have sprinted full speed ahead. Join us as we...

Altran White Paper: OpenRAN’s 2nd Mile – Considerations For An Efficient 5G Fronthaul

According to GSMA, 4G accounted for 52% of mobile connections in 2019 and will increase to 56% by 2025; meanwhile, 5G will roughly take...

‘Factories will learn from farms’ – how John Deere is putting Industry 4.0 on wheels

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

Cohere Technologies promises a ‘spectrum multiplier’

The promise of Open RAN rests, in part, on the concept that through the virtualizing and disaggregation of Radio Access Network components and software,...
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