RCR Wireless
  • News
  • Channels
    • 5G
    • 6G
    • BSS OSS
    • Carriers
    • IoT
    • Network Infrastructure
    • Open RAN
    • Private 5G
    • Telco AI
    • Telco Cloud
    • Test & Measurement
  • Resources
    • Reports
    • Webinars
    • White papers
    • AI Fundamentals
    • Analyst Angle
    • Editorial Calendar
    • Fundamentals
      • 5G NR Release 17
      • AI
        • Telco AI in 2025
    • Podcasts
      • Let’s Get Digital with Carrie Charles
      • Wireless Connectivity to Enable Industry 4.0 for the Middleprise
      • Well Technically…
      • Will 5G Change the World
      • Accelerating Industry 4.0 Digitalization
  • AI Infrastructure
  • Programs
  • Events
  • RCRtv
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
RCR Wireless
  • News
  • Channels
    • 5G
    • 6G
    • BSS OSS
    • Carriers
    • IoT
    • Network Infrastructure
    • Open RAN
    • Private 5G
    • Telco AI
    • Telco Cloud
    • Test & Measurement
  • Resources
    • Reports
    • Webinars
    • White papers
    • AI Fundamentals
    • Analyst Angle
    • Editorial Calendar
    • Fundamentals
      • 5G NR Release 17
      • AI
        • Telco AI in 2025
    • Podcasts
      • Let’s Get Digital with Carrie Charles
      • Wireless Connectivity to Enable Industry 4.0 for the Middleprise
      • Well Technically…
      • Will 5G Change the World
      • Accelerating Industry 4.0 Digitalization
  • AI Infrastructure
  • Programs
  • Events
  • RCRtv
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
Add RCR Wireless as a preferred source on Google
  • Qualcomm 6G Insights
  • Huawei Content Hub
  • Qualcomm – 6G Vision
  • OSS/BSS Channel
  • RCRTech Roundtable: AI Infrastructure
RCR Wireless
RCR Wireless
  • Advanced Mimo
  • Mobile mmWave
  • 5G Positioning
  • Green Networks
  • Metaverse
  • Automotive
  • Industrial and Wide-area IoT
Copyright 2021 - All Right Reserved
Home - Archives for James Blackman - Page 112
Author

James Blackman

James Blackman
James Blackman

James Blackman has been writing about the technology and telecoms sectors for over a decade. He has edited and contributed to a number of European news outlets and trade titles. He has also worked at telecoms company Huawei, leading media activity for its devices business in Western Europe. He is based in London.

  • Australia appoints UK firm to run drone analytics for decommissioning old mines

    by James Blackman November 29, 2019
    by James Blackman November 29, 2019

    The Australian government is to use drones and analytics to monitor the decommissioning and revegetation of mining sites in the north of the country. The department for the environment and …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • ‘The future bubbles up’ – IIC on the principles and practicalities of industrial IoT

    by James Blackman November 29, 2019
    by James Blackman November 29, 2019

    Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Big Apple seeks big data analytics chief, to take charge of algorithms

    by James Blackman November 28, 2019
    by James Blackman November 28, 2019

    Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, has issued an executive order to hire a new ‘algorithms management and policy officer’ to bring transparency and order to the …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Telefónica puts new €2bn digital-change unit at heart of five-step reinvention plan

    by James Blackman November 28, 2019
    by James Blackman November 28, 2019

    Telefónica has revealed a five-point reinvention plan to set it for “the next 100 years”. The strategy leans heavily into the digital transformation of industry and society, and sees the …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • ‘You need a villain in the piece’ – private LTE threat to carriers is overplayed, says Nokia

    by James Blackman November 27, 2019
    by James Blackman November 27, 2019

    Will carriers be ousted, or forced to cede ground, in the enterprise market with the rise of private networking and the liberalisation of spectrum in the 5G era? Nokia thinks …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • “I’d call ‘bull’ if Silicon Valley was making these claims” – BehrTech on MIOTY and TS-UNB

    by James Blackman November 26, 2019
    by James Blackman November 26, 2019

    Made in Germany, commercialised in Canada, sold everywhere on the planet: that’s the recipe to make low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking, the backbone connectivity technology in the IoT space, finally deliver …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Nokia puts focus on healthcare, transport and security in Polish smart city deal

    by James Blackman November 26, 2019
    by James Blackman November 26, 2019

    Nokia has struck a deal with the Polish city of Wroclaw to deliver new smart city services across healthcare, transport, education, security and local business incubation. Wrocław, on the Oder …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Cellular IoT to hit five billion connections by 2025, with LTE/5G taking a quarter

    by James Blackman November 25, 2019
    by James Blackman November 25, 2019

    The number of cellular IoT connections will reach five billion by the end of 2025, from 1.3 billion by the end of 2019, according to Ericsson. Around a half will …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Bosch and Qualcomm demo TSN over 5G, as manufacturing set for $4.7tn 5G boom

    by James Blackman November 25, 2019
    by James Blackman November 25, 2019

    Bosch and Qualcomm have set up shop at the Smart Production Solutions (SPS) trade fair in Nuremberg, Germany, this week to show industrial devices using time-sensitive networking (TSN) over a …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Bosch applies for private 5G licences, says owner-operator model is best for industry

    by James Blackman November 22, 2019
    by James Blackman November 22, 2019

    German industrial giant Bosch, an early champion of privately operated industrial 5G for manufacturing, has confirmed it has applied for localised spectrum licenses in Germany and will trial private 5G …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Sigfox hits magic sub-dollar mark for trackers in chase for one billion connections

    by James Blackman November 21, 2019
    by James Blackman November 21, 2019

    Improbable as it seems, the chase might just be on. Having told Enterprise IoT Insights in the summer it has set a bonkers 2023 target of one billion IoT connections, …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • BehrTech strikes deal to simplify IT/OT integration in industrial IoT charge

    by James Blackman November 21, 2019
    by James Blackman November 21, 2019

    BehrTech, licensee of the new MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology, has announced a deal to integrate business and operations data for enterprises seeking to deploy sensor and analytics solutions. BehrTech …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • ‘Spending like the Jetsons, living like the Flintstones’ – the trouble with smart-city 5G

    by James Blackman November 21, 2019
    by James Blackman November 21, 2019

    The Lord Mayor of Dublin cut through the glad-handing and future-selling on the main stages at Smart City Expo World Congress 2019 in Barcelona yesterday (November 20), revealing at once …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Sigfox intros private networking, closes on 15 million subs, claims big tracking contracts

    by James Blackman November 20, 2019
    by James Blackman November 20, 2019

    IoT network provider Sigfox will enable private ultra-narrowband networks from early 2020, starting in France, it has announced. The company said it is on track to pass 15 million connected …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • A ‘thin-layer’ OS is the only way to disruptive change in smart cities, says Siemens

    by James Blackman November 20, 2019
    by James Blackman November 20, 2019

    Tearing down departmental data silos in cities remains the dream for smart cities, and yet it is still out of reach. German industrial giant Siemens told Smart City Expo World …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Mastercard doubles smart cities club, with new joiners from US, Brazil, Australia

    by James Blackman November 19, 2019
    by James Blackman November 19, 2019

    Mastercard has more than doubled the intake of smart cities to its City Possible programme, convened at the end of last year to foster public-private collaboration in the smart cities …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • ‘Smart cities that fail to master AI will be left behind,’ says Singapore

    by James Blackman November 19, 2019
    by James Blackman November 19, 2019

    Singapore, ranked the smartest city in the world in certain polls, has warned cities they must get a handle on artificial intelligence (AI) if they are to succeed as ‘smart …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Nokia counts 120 private LTE customers, widens spectrum support, intros new devices

    by James Blackman November 19, 2019
    by James Blackman November 19, 2019

    Nokia has deployed private LTE networks with more than 120 customers across multiple industries and geographies, it has revealed.  The Finnish vendor said it had deployed almost two in five …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Nokia joins with Hitachi, Globalstar to push private LTE and 5G in Japan and Africa

    by James Blackman November 18, 2019
    by James Blackman November 18, 2019

    Nokia is working with Hitachi Kokusai Electric in Japan to deploy private LTE and 5G networks for industrial and government customers in Japan. It has struck a parallel deal in …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Walmart debuts ‘largest’ blockchain system for 70 trucking companies in Canada

    by James Blackman November 14, 2019
    by James Blackman November 14, 2019

    Walmart Canada has launched a blockchain-based freight and payment network for 70 third-party trucking companies carrying goods for 400-odd Walmart stores in Canada. The new platform, designed with Toronto-based blockchain …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Hugo Boss on how to make sewing machines sing – and see into the future

    by James Blackman November 14, 2019
    by James Blackman November 14, 2019

    German fashion house Hugo Boss has been applying advanced analytics to its production plants in four ways, it told IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona last week. These variously cover …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Telit intros iSIM software for LTE-M and NB-IoT modules, as revenues climb 8%

    by James Blackman November 14, 2019
    by James Blackman November 14, 2019

    IoT module maker Telit said revenues climbed 7.8 per cent to $274.5 million in the nine months to the end of September, compared with $254.7 million in the year-ago period. The …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Elisa rolls-out industrial IoT to 100 P&G factories, says ‘world will change’ with 5G

    by James Blackman November 14, 2019
    by James Blackman November 14, 2019

    Finnish telecoms company Elisa is supporting the digital upgrade of around 100 factories owned by US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble, following an initial rollout of IoT monitoring and …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Amazon, Intel and DISH sign up to spread IoT gospel according to LoRaWAN

    by James Blackman November 13, 2019
    by James Blackman November 13, 2019

    Amazon, Intel, DISH, Tata and Arduino, among others, have joined the LoRa Alliance variously as sponsor and contributor members, the group has announced. Amazon has joined as sponsor, along with …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
  • Telit releases twin NB-IoT modules to capture 2G upgrades in metering, cities, agriculture

    by James Blackman November 12, 2019
    by James Blackman November 12, 2019

    IoT module maker Telit has released two new narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) modules for smart metering, smart city applications, and smart agriculture applications. The firm said they are geared for companies …

    Read more
    0 LinkedinEmail
Newer Posts
Older Posts

White Papers

  • Norton eBook: The 2026 Telco Playbook

  • Enea White Paper: Why Intelligent AAA is the Swiss Army Knife of Telecom

  • CSG White Paper: Telco AI Enabler: Mediation’s Defining Role

  • Enea White Paper: Scalable Database Design for 5G and Beyond

  • Supermicro and NVIDIA Whitepaper: Powering sovereign AI at scale

Editorial Reports

  • NTN Integration Market Pulse Report

  • Report: Building 6G — Aligning technology, policy and purpose

  • Report: Rethinking the RAN

Webinars

  • Appledore Webinar: Closing the Agent-Ready Data Gap for Autonomous Networks

  • Mimosa Webinar – Build the Right Network

  • Webinar: Building 6G — aligning technology, policy and purpose

  • SIMCom Webinar: Scaling your next deployment – from plastic to provisioning

  • Webinar: Rethinking the RAN as AI, cloud and openness converge

Since 1982, RCR Wireless News has been providing wireless and mobile industry news, insights, and analysis to mobile and wireless industry professionals, decision makers, policy makers, analysts and investors.

Facebook Twitter Youtube Linkedin Envelope Rss

Useful Links

  • Subscribe
  • About RCR Wireless News
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Editorial Calendar
  • Archive
  • RSS
  • Wireless News Archive
  • Subscribe
  • About RCR Wireless News
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Editorial Calendar
  • Archive
  • RSS
  • Wireless News Archive

Edtior's Picks

AI-RAN’s payback is real, but it lives in network operations
NTN Integration Market Pulse Report
Schneider Electric and PTC consolidate industrial AI stack – but where’s the network?...

Latest Articles

AI-RAN’s payback is real, but it lives in network operations
NTN Integration Market Pulse Report
Schneider Electric and PTC consolidate industrial AI stack – but where’s the network? (Telco Diary)
The DAS decision hospitals can’t treat as an afterthought (Reader Forum)

© 2026 RCR Wireless News All Right Reserved. Developed by Eight Hats.

Cookie Policy | Privacy Policy

RCR Wireless
  • News
  • Channels
    • 5G
    • 6G
    • BSS OSS
    • Carriers
    • IoT
    • Network Infrastructure
    • Open RAN
    • Private 5G
    • Telco AI
    • Telco Cloud
    • Test & Measurement
  • Resources
    • Reports
    • Webinars
    • White papers
    • AI Fundamentals
    • Analyst Angle
    • Editorial Calendar
    • Fundamentals
      • 5G NR Release 17
      • AI
        • Telco AI in 2025
    • Podcasts
      • Let’s Get Digital with Carrie Charles
      • Wireless Connectivity to Enable Industry 4.0 for the Middleprise
      • Well Technically…
      • Will 5G Change the World
      • Accelerating Industry 4.0 Digitalization
  • AI Infrastructure
  • Programs
  • Events
  • RCRtv
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
RCR Wireless
  • News
  • Channels
    • 5G
    • 6G
    • BSS OSS
    • Carriers
    • IoT
    • Network Infrastructure
    • Open RAN
    • Private 5G
    • Telco AI
    • Telco Cloud
    • Test & Measurement
  • Resources
    • Reports
    • Webinars
    • White papers
    • AI Fundamentals
    • Analyst Angle
    • Editorial Calendar
    • Fundamentals
      • 5G NR Release 17
      • AI
        • Telco AI in 2025
    • Podcasts
      • Let’s Get Digital with Carrie Charles
      • Wireless Connectivity to Enable Industry 4.0 for the Middleprise
      • Well Technically…
      • Will 5G Change the World
      • Accelerating Industry 4.0 Digitalization
  • AI Infrastructure
  • Programs
  • Events
  • RCRtv
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe
@2020 - All Right Reserved. Designed and Developed by PenciDesign