Infrastructure

The parallel narratives around cellular 5G and Industry 4.0 are about to collide. China has said it will build 30 brand new ‘smart factories’ by 2023, all of them threaded …

The CBRS Alliance, the industry working group dedicated to wireless services in the 3.5 GHz ‘CBRS’ band in the US, has rebranded as the OnGo Alliance in order to advance …

So says International Data Corporation (IDC), forecasting the aggregated spending on radio access (RAN), core, and transport network infrastructure, in licensed, unlicensed, and shared spectrum. Last week, Dubai-based market intelligence …

The most important watchword in 2021 will be diversification. This will be key to growth for the mobile industry in the 5G era, on multiple levels. In the past, cellular …

The race to make 5G a viable platform for Industry 4.0 has shifted up a gear with the availability of shared CBRS spectrum for private wireless networks, and private 5G …

Technologies have always tended to converge. Smartphones are an example of this: a phone merged with a media player and a camera to create something unique, which performs multiple tasks …

Industry 4.0 is here, and private wireless is enabling industry verticals to capitalize on the promise of this ‘fourth industrial revolution’. 2021 will see a major transformation in automation of …

The UK government has announced a further £28.3 million in joint public-private funding to support nine new 5G testbeds, as part of its £200 million campaign to leverage 5G to …

2020 has been a year of reckoning with a devastating human toll. Technology was a silver lining. It has helped us – as people, businesses and societies – to cope …

Technology investments are typically made to solve specific business problems. Smart manufacturing is about more than investments in digital transformation and the attendant technologies. Smart manufacturing, at its core, is …

Technology investments are typically made to solve specific business problems. Smart manufacturing is about more than investments in digital transformation and the attendant technologies. Smart manufacturing, at its core, is …

2020 has seen the greatest acceleration of digital transformation and automation in history. As the world looks to emerge from Covid-19, the reality that this will not be the last …

Investments in shared and unlicensed LTE and 5G spectrum will reach $4bn by 2024, according to Dubai-based market intelligence outfit SNS Telecom & IT. The forecast comes on the back …

US electricity and gas utility Ameren is to deploy a private LTE network in the 900 MHz band for customers in Missouri and Illinois. It is the first licence to …

Abel Mayal, senior vice president of technology and marketing at Airspan Networks, offers six pointers on the year ahead for 5G networking developments in the broad enterprise sector. 1 | …

As IoT deployments continue to scale and solution requirements become more predictable, the market will recognize the clear distinction between carrier-grade low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and those that fail to …

2021 will be the year industrial IoT gets ‘massive’, when companies decide, after the impact of Covid-19, to make change, and to accelerate their digital transformation. In technology terms, a …

While the Covid-19 global pandemic upended the world’s expectations in 2020, fortunately, the technology industry has weathered the challenges as an essential component of daily life. Innovations in 5G and …

The hype around industrial 5G – the only 5G hype worth getting hyped about – has been knocked off course, after the 3GPP standards group said Release 17 of the …

If there was ever a critical proof-point for the efficacy of IoT technologies, then this is it: the coordinated global shipment of coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines. This is the moment, arguably, …

One thing that became abundantly clear during the Covid-19 pandemic was the importance of the supply chain throughout the enterprise. From the factory floor through distribution to retail stores and …

Samsung and IBM are to collaborate on on-premise industrial 5G and edge computing to drive the Industry 4.0 market, they have said. The pair want to combine their expertise in …

Qualcomm has released a new ‘services suite’ that pulls together full-stack tech IoT componentry into a modular plug-and-play IoT solution for cities and city-based ‘verticals’. The chip-maker declared it has …

Ericsson is readying a new ‘maritime mesh network’ solution, based on LTE and 5G, as an alternative to ‘high-cost, high-latency, low-throughput’ satellite-based communication for the shipping industry, which it has …

As we look forward to 2021, we must also reflect on this past year. In addition to tragic human cost, the pandemic cast a spotlight on the ability of business …