Monthly Archives: July, 2022

2.5 GHz auction raises $100 million in first day

The Federal Communications Commission's auction of 2.5 GHz midband spectrum raised more than $103 million in its first day of bidding. The auction kicked...

Nokia announces 5-year deal with AST SpaceMobile

The cell satellite service will leverage Nokia’s AirScale products Nokia announced this week a five-year deal with AST SpaceMobile, the Texas firm with ambitions to build a...

2.5 GHz auction begins

Auction of midband spectrum in rural areas starts with a single, full-day round of bidding The first, day-long round of bidding on about 8,000 midband...

Rohde & Schwarz to take part in Germany’s 6G project

Rohde & Schwarz noted that the first global specification of 6G is expected within the next six to eight years Rohde & Schwarz announced it...

FCC commits additional funding to close the ‘homework gap’

FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel coined the term 'homework gap' in 2012 to describe the difficulty millions of students have when completing online school assignments The Federal...

Chinese telcos end June with over 927 million 5G subscribers

Chinese operators recorded a net gain of 28.2 million 5G subscribers in June China ended June with a total of 927.44 million subscribers in the...

Bell expands midband 5G, announces imminent launch of 5G SA

Earlier this month, Bell started to offer its 5G+ offering following the deployment of frequencies in the 3.5 GHz band Canadian operator Bell announced the...

Amazon beats the street, plans bigger cloud push

'We know AWS is a huge opportunity,' said the CFO Amazon reported second quarter results after the bell on Thursday, posting revenue of $121.2 billion, higher than...

Orange Spain’s 5G infrastructure continues to expand

Orange Spain is currently offering 5G services through frequencies in the 3.5 GHz and 700 MHz bands Spanish operator Orange is already offering 5G services...

Customer satisfaction drops as wireless staff turnover rises: JD Power

Amid a tight labor market still navigating the fallout from the global pandemic, staff turnover in wireless retail stores and customer service channels is...

What is the metaprise? Ericsson on the metaverse for enterprise

Metaverse for metacasts, metaservices, and metaproducts While the metaverse is still very much a nascent concept, it seems increasingly clear that telecom service providers and...

Telit to acquire Thales’ IoT unit for 25% of expanded, rebranded industrial IoT business

Italian-American IoT module maker Telit is to acquire the cellular IoT unit of French aerospace, defence, and security company Thales in return for a...

Sigfox back from the dead in South Africa – after customers rally, investors emerge

Sigfox is back from the dead in South Africa, after local Sigfox operator SqwidNet was canned a year ago by parent company Community Investment...

Ferry company Stena Line deploys dual-band LoRa/LoRaWAN for cargo tracking

Swedish ferry company Stena Line has deployed a dual-band LoRa/LoRaWAN-based network, with IoT gateways and devices in unlicensed spectrum, on its Stena Hollandica roll-on/roll-off...

Sweeping semiconductor bill passes the US Senate

The CHIPS Act proposes $59 billion of funding for semiconductor manufacturing and research in the U.S The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed the CHIPS bill,...

Qualcomm says its Snapdragon W5+ and W5 ‘change the game’ for wearables

Qualcomm exec: 'We changed everything about our wearable chipsets' Last week, Qualcomm unveiled the latest additions to its suite of wearable platforms, Snapdragon W5+ Gen...

5G subscribers in MEA region to reach 263m by 2026: Nokia

At the end of March 2022, all countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council region had launched 5G services commercially, according to Nokia 5G subscriptions in...

Sunderland takes smart-city 5G to uni areas; West Midlands wins £10m for 5G innovation

Sunderland City Council and the University of Sunderland in the UK have appointed BAI Communications (BAI), already engaged on a 20-year deal with the...

Editorial Report: The business case for 5G mmWave: Charting a path to ROI

While there are clear challenges associated with the propagation characteristics and cost of densely deploying 5G using millimeter wave frequencies, the high-band spectrum offers...

Rogers pledges $10 billion in network improvements

Separate cores for wireless and internet and AI-enhanced reliability are coming, said the CEO Rogers Communications said it will spend to spend CA$10 billion (US$7.78...

Windtre selects Ericsson for 5G SA deployment in Italy

The agreement also includes end to end support services with Ericsson network orchestration and automation Swedish vendor Ericsson has been selected by Italian telecom operator...

ExteNet Systems deploys 5G network for Circuit of The Americas

The Circuit of The Americas (COTA), a 1,500-acre motorsports and entertainment venue, is in Austin, Texas   Infrastructure company ExteNet Systems announced it would provide new...

‘Sigfox is the future Unabiz has to avoid’ – Unabiz seeks to unite broken IoT market

Philippe Chiu has been sleeping for three hours a night, he says, for six months. He has taken to power-napping, like he is “at...

#TBT: Sprint expands home femtocells; Mobile video, ticketing take shape; Moto seeks an iPhone of its own … this week in 2008

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...

Strong Qualcomm Q3 marked by long-term deal with Samsung

Qualcomm and Samsung extend patent licensing agreement through 2030 Qualcomm revenues are up across the company’s handset, RF front-end, IoT and automotive businesses based on...
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