Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst

AT&T gives a glimpse into 5G plans at Wells Fargo event; plans include a deeper dive on fiber, as well as a move to a real-estate-type tower model Scott Mair, …

Expect some FirsetNet builds by the end of the year, but pace will pick up in 2018 Earlier this week, AT&T and the First Responders Network Authority released state plans …

5G also projected to have a major impact on the Chinese economy A new report from China’s Acadaemy of Information and Communications Technology, as detailed by Chinese media outlets including …

Drone uses Visible Light Communication (VLC) to navigate indoors Philips Lighting, which has been making moves in the IoT space by leveraging its connected lighting platforms, is working with drone …

The International Telecommunication Union, a global telecom standards body, recommends that all nations allocate 1960 megahertz of radio spectrum by 2020; 35% of that total is needed to support “basic …

Verizon and AT&T execs talk IoT security In a new interview with Mobile World Live, Verizon Global Lead of IoT Security and International Strategy Harm Jan Arendshorst highlighted the security …

Verizon and AT&T execs talk IoT security In a new interview with Mobile World Live, Verizon Global Lead of IoT Security and International Strategy Harm Jan Arendshorst highlighted the security …

Actility CEO calls LoRa the LPWAN tech of choice for industrial IoT Low power wide area network (LPWAN) provider Actility has announced a deal with local network provider IoTCAN to …

Pivotal Commware raised $17 million to advance holographic beamforming tech for satellite and cellular systems Beamforming, a function of an antenna array, essentially adjusts the phase and amplitude of an …

LTE-M and NB-IoT enable capabilities for asset tracking, smart meters and other key IoT applications; plus drones controlled over commercial LTE networks Many industry watchers, including me, have referred to …

In California, challenges to small cells at scale include selecting the correct paint color and addressing concerns about health impacts Actual deployments of small cells has lagged behind perhaps ambitious …

LTE-M and NB-IoT enable capabilities for asset tracking, smart meters and other key IoT applications; plus drones controlled over commercial LTE networks Many industry watchers, including me, have referred to …

Ericsson projects 500 million 5G subscriptions by 2022, but European leaders express skepticism about the pace of innovation In a new report, Ericsson projects that North America and the Asia …

The term “signal booster” is often associated with a consumer-facing product meant to amplify indoor cellular coverage often in a residential setting. However, as enterprises increasingly look to self-fund in-building …

In-building wireless is a red hot market, particularly given the shift from carrier subsidized deployments to enterprise- or neutral-host led financing models. To better enable enterprise buyers, equipment vendors are …

Equipment costs could be major roadblock to 5G, reinforcing need for commoditization and virutalization 5G promises to be many things–an enhanced mobile broadband experience, support for massive internet of things …

Already a part of Cisco’s partner program, French low power wide area network firm Actility, which provides an internet of things (IoT) solution that covers networking and data management with …

Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank is active in a wide range of research, development and testing related to 5G network technologies. And, having recently acquired robotics firm Boston Dynamics, could be …

See how smart parking is being used in the U.S., China Germany Smart parking has emerged as a major IoT use case, perhaps for a number of reasons. First off, …

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of taking an approximately $125 cab ride from London’s Heathrow Airport to the Canary Wharf area, your drive from one side of the metropolis …

The challenge of improving connectivity for the enterprise involves multiple stakeholders: building owners, tenants, equipment suppliers, integrators, infrastructure providers and of course wireless carriers. Successful solutions are those that can …

In addition to small cell densification, C-RAN architecture paves the way to 5G LAS VEGAS–Phillip French, Verizon Wireless executive director of the West and North Central area, shared some insight …

LAS VEGAS–Kyung Mun, principal analyst of firm Mobile Experts, told attendees of the 10th annual DAS and Small Cells Congress, that both anecdotal and U.S. Census Bureau-backed data demonstrates that …

Although it’s not yet standardized or commercially available, the long-term vision of 5G is a unifying connectivity fabric–ultra fast, incredibly low latency wireless-that’s available everywhere and capable of connecting anything. …