Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst

NEW YORK–As the internet of things (IoT) continues to take shape, working toward projections of tens of billions of new networked devices by the end of the decade, there need …

5G trial in Waco will give way to commercial service this year Ahead of a planned commercial 5G service launch later this year, AT&T is continuing trial activities around the …

For service providers and enterprises, cloud adoption drives innovation NEW YORK–Oracle Executive Vice President Bob Weiler stressed to attendees of the Oracle Industry Connect event that now is the time …

Service providers can leverage network and acquisition to create new business models and revenue streams NEW YORK–Citing World Economic Forum numbers, Douglas Suriano, senior vice president and general manager of …

5G standards, spectrum and the continued investment in LTE Ahead of the industry trade association’s 5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium, set for May 16-17 in Austin, Texas, RCR Wireless News …

Oracle AI, machine learning solutions mark move toward automation The long view on telecommunications networking is automation of management and operational processes. This is highlighted with the advent of 5G, …

Chinese regulator Mofcom hasn’t signed off on Qualcomm proposal With the direct intervention of President Trump, Qualcomm withstood a hostile takeover attempt waged by rival Broadcom, but the San Diego, …

MTN Nigeria works with Huawei to reduce infrastructure TCO While its growth trajectory in the U.S. rural carrier market is currently up in the air, Huawei continues to enable rural …

Edge computing essential to supporting 5G use cases For business and consumers, new use cases and applications dependent on low-latency network connectivity are driving computing power to the edge of …

While commercialization of 5G as early as later this year is a high priority for Tier 1 carriers like AT&T or Verizon, for rural carriers the next-generation of cellular is …

Private LTE is a major MulteFire opportunity With the coming release of its 1.1 specification, the MulteFire Alliance has focused on the internet of things (IoT) as the market entry …

NVIDIA combining AI architecture with Arm machine learning platform Two leaders in the machine learning/deep learning field have joined forces to push artificial intelligence (AI) into the quickly growing ecosystem …

Putting AI on devices moves processing to the very edge of the network As 5G continues to develop in support of new latency-sensitive use cases, there’s a broad move to …

Nokia claims to be the global market leader in GSM-R for railroads Railroad travel is a mainstay of both commuter and long-distance mobility within Europe. As such, European Union regulators …

Device sensor data, app data, network data, “goes to Google,” Oracle VP says During a keynote presentation at the Competitive Carriers Association’s Mobile Carriers Show, Oracle Vice President of Strategic …

According to Ericsson, rural carriers have to invest for today while planning for tomorrow Rural carriers, while facing some of the same problems as the big guys like limited capex …

Carrier asked FCC for permission to demo 5G at AT&T SHAPE conference AT&T, which is planning to commercialize mobile 5G in a number of markets later this year, has asked …

European carriers expected to deploy 412,000 non-residential small cells this year Europe accounted for 13.7% of all non-residential small cell deployments last year, according to the latest report by the …

LAS VEGAS–Four regional carriers in the U.S. are working with Ericsson to realize the cost and performance benefits associated with moving network operations management to the network infrastructure vendor’s cloud-based …

High-band, high-capacity millimeter wave spectrum is seen as a key enabler of future 5G networks. In the U.S., major carriers have focused early millimeter wave trial work on the 28 …

28 GHz millimeter wave spectrum supported 5G trial demonstration A recent collaborative 5G trial in Japan allowed baseball fans to get a taste of how next-generation wireless networks will support …

Rule change applies to “provider-specific” signal boosters Cellular signal boosters provide a real benefit for both consumer and enterprise users; but some of the systems, which capture, amplify and distribute …

Pai looking to secure “networks and their supply chains,” in latest move against Huawei Ajit Pai, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, on Monday announced he would propose a …

Industry experts talk fixed wireless opportunity While the big four U.S. carriers are locked in a 5G arms race that comes with a good deal of marketing hype, there are …

3GPP already looking to Release 16 In December last year the 3GPP finalized the non-standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification, paving the way for early commercial deployments that will use …