Geoffrey Starks tapped to replace Mignon Clyburn on FCC A Senate-led pushback on the repeal of net neutrality, a rapidly shifting relationship between service providers and content producers, national intelligence …
AT&T fighting DoJ over Time Warner acquisition Executives from Sprint and T-Mobile US have been hitting the Hill hard seeking to gain consensus for a proposed merger that, if approved, …
Autonomous machines will use AI to transform manufacturing, logistics, agriculture and other verticals At the ongoing Computex event in Taipei, Taiwan, Nvidia announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) system designed …
C-V2X links vehicles to pedestrians, infrastructure, the network and other vehicles As trials pick up and automakers partner with telecom ecosystem stakeholders to advance vehicle connectivity on the way to …
5G has three primary use cases associated with it—enhanced mobile broadband, massive internet of things connectivity and ultra-reliable, low-latency communications for mission critical services. In the U.S. carriers are racing …
SoftBank vision fund putting $2.25 billion into GM’s Cruise Autonomous driving is a goal that most major technology and automotive firms are working toward. Simultaneously, network operators are looking ahead …
Now serves as Sprint executive chairman, SoftBank COO Last month Sprint and T-Mobile US (finally) agreed to merge to better compete against Verizon and AT&T. The combined company will be called T-Mobile …
Follows 5G R&D loans totaling $370 million from Nordic Investment Bank, AB Svensk Exportkredit The European Investment Bank (EIB), a nonprofit lender backed by the European Union, is loaning Swedish network …
Comcast deploys LoRaWAN in San Francisco; Laird gateway has Senet support baked-in From devices to connectivity, the internet of things (IoT) market is a crowded space. Cellular standards like LTE-M …
Digital health wearables unit returned to Withings co-founder as Nokia focuses on B2B In 2016 Nokia Technologies spent $190 million to acquire consumer-facing health wearables firm Withings. After standing up …
AWS exec lays out four principles guiding edge computing vision According to Satyen Yadav, general manager, IoT and edge services, Amazon Web Services, the network edge is all around us—at our …
Flexibility, scalability, time-to-market key drivers of SDN adoption Software-defined networking (SDN) provides the management and orchestration tools needed to operate increasingly complex and increasingly virtualized networks. For operators, SDN creates …
Biggest change in 5G core reflected in mission critical communications In December the 3GPP adopted the non-standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification and, following a meeting last week in South …
MulteFire brings flexible business models for operator, venue or neutral host ownership As MulteFire gains industry traction and moves toward initial commercialization with an eye on enabling internet of things-type …
Macro, small cells, fiber, data centers all part of network convergence Summarizing the programming at the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s ConnectX event in Charlotte, N.C., Jonathan Adelstein, president and CEO of …
Private, licensed networks needed to support mission critical IoT security, Full Spectrum CEO says While initial 5G deployments are focused on enhanced mobile broadband, the two other primary 5G use …
Private, licensed networks needed to support mission critical IoT security, Full Spectrum CEO says While initial 5G deployments are focused on enhanced mobile broadband, the two other primary 5G use …
Sprint, T-Mo combo brings advantageous 5G spectrum position 5G is being developed to support use cases that run the gamut from NB-IoT connected smart utility meters to devices capable of …
Enterprise owners becoming increasingly sophisticated when it comes to in-building technologies CHARLOTTE, North Carolina–In-building technology is a somewhat broad term that covers the solution sets that bring cellular and wireless …
Charlie Ergen casually made 5G announcement at Connect X CHARLOTTE, North Carolina–During a keynote session at the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s Connect X event, Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen put out the …
The FCC Chairman continued to quote Talladega Nights: “Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed” CHARLOTTE, North Carolina–U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai–the guy appointed to oversee telecom- and communications-related policy …
Disruption of cable TV space is priority of a combined Sprint/T-Mobile US From an ongoing attempt to block the AT&T/Time Warner merger to concerted efforts to keep Chinese network infrastructure …
Integrated RF front end and certification from operators like Verizon and AT&T creates powerful development platform The internet of things (IoT) space is a dynamic market that lends itself to …
Verizon sees four key elements of 5G: Fber, spectrum, sites and software Speaking with analyst Craig Moffett during the recent MoffetNathanson Media and Communications Summit, Verizon EVP, CTO and President …
Facebook’s Terragraph focused on multi-gigabit wireless in urban areas Densely populated urban areas are centers for demand of more bandwidth and faster wireless speeds. At the same time, these areas …
