Fundamentals

DISH Wireless EVP Eben Albertyn on lessons learned from building and operating a cloud native 5G Standalone Open RAN network After more than a decade of strategic spectrum acquisition, and …

Following on from the article last week, about “ecosystem linkage” in the private 5G market, Stephen Douglas, head of market strategy at Spirent, presents five key trends with cellular in …

Think Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny: “What is a git anyways?” The move to 5G Standalone is afoot, and operators are working out the kinks of instantiating network slices …

The move 5G Standalone and cloud native requires an overhaul of technology stack and organizational workflows While the industry is already beating the 6G drum, there’s still a lot left …

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), handling Wi-Fi industry cooperation and initiatives, has said Wi-Fi HaLow is ready to rock in “commercial IoT deployments across a range of sectors”. As such, …

This is not a definitive guide; this is not an exact science. But the logic is plain – to present a sensible way to think about devising an Industry 4.0 …

In case you missed it, SIM specialist Kigen hosted a webinar earlier this month about smart metering – but more about the impact of embedded SIM (eSIM) technology, actually, for …

In the sweep of everything that could be as construed as “tech,” artificial intelligence (AI) is leading the current hype cycle with visions of broad productivity gains enabled by cloud …

5G Standalone opens up opportunities for automation, network slicing, RedCap In 2023, Verizon activated a good deal of its deep C-Band spectrum holdings, expanded the footprint of its fixed wireless …

While 5G Standalone is often referred to as “real 5G,” is it really making any impact in the real world? Dozens of operators around the world have deployed 5G Standalone …

Is this a review of 2023, or a forecast for 2024? It could be either, on the grounds it looks backwards to look forwards, taking its cues from the past …

The sustainability North Star— “zero traffic, zero watt” The radio access network (RAN) is the biggest energy draw in a mobile network. Because of this, network infrastructure vendors and operators …

Some new-year reading, before the 2024 news agenda goes into over-drive; here, the enterprise team at RCR Wireless picks some choice long-form reports from 2023 about all-things IoT (low- and …

What are some realistic ways that operators can increase the sustainability of their mobile networks, while reducing operational expenditures related to energy usage? At the recent Telco Sustainability Forum virtual …

As conversations around global spectrum use for terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks coalesced at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Dubai, the future of wireless was top-of-mind. As work progresses on future …

Saving energy, in a network context, ultimately means that somewhere along the line, user experience could be impacted. Perhaps coverage or throughput ticks downward, or users are shifted from one …

A session at Telco Sustainability Forum, hosted by RCR Wireless last week, considered how private networks are a driver for enterprises to drive efficiency and productivity, and reduce their carbon …

Based on his insights gained over the past decade, Kristoff Van Rattinghe, chief executive at Belgium-founded IoT tracking firm Sensolus, discusses how IoT technology is developing and the trends companies …

Operators can gain energy efficiencies by using AI technology, but have to holistically consider AI and AIOps While the focus of  the Telco Sustainability Forum (available on demand here) is …

Market drivers for RedCap adoption are expected to involve both the desire to join the 5G ecosystem, and eventual LTE sunsets For a new technology, emerging is one thing. Taking …

Ericsson on how operators can work towards net-zero goals and deliver 5G sustainability without compromising performance “Our target as an industry, as a society, is very clear,” Ericsson Head of …

As operators invest in 5G sustainability, energy efficiency as a standalone target isn’t doesn’t take into account real-world networks In both the contexts of driving global demand for energy and …

Not really, and in fact, when it comes to the question of if Wi-Fi 7 will deliver new applications at all, it depends who you ask The latest update of …

Wi-Fi 7 might be stealing the spotlight, but that’s certainly not the only thing unfolding in wireless With the certification of the Wi-Fi 7 just around the corner, the wireless …

Private 5G networks are billed as a sort of silver bullet for business problems in a wide range of vertical markets. That said, adoption has been slower than expected, there’s …