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This week on IoT Innovation, RCR Wireless News takes a look at Horizon 2020 IoT and 5G, the European Union's €80 billion plan to drive job and economic growth while keeping the EU competitive globally
IoT Innovation is sponsored by Anritsu and Telecomcareers, a leading...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with Accedian Networks about network QoS related to SDN, NFV and 5G
On today’s show we have an interview with Scott Sumner, VP of...
The Internet of Things is bringing new players into the wireless ecosystem and creating new opportunities for carriers. While mobile operators see opportunities in asset tracking, mobile health monitoring and industrial IoT, vendors are focusing on the low power, short range connectivity solutions that...
The connected car opens many topics related to testing. Simulating safety systems, checking for interference, looking at the safety from malicious external influences. This report will look at the challenges at hand and highlight some of the key players working to solve them.
What you...
This report will look at the current Global State of the Union of LTE as a baseline for discussion of VoLTE deployments. The topics that are helping and hindering VoLTE becoming more widespread will be covered along with interim generations of LTE on the...
RCR Wireless News talks with experts across the mobile ecosystem on key trends for the upcoming year, including the impact of new architectures and emerging technologies on networks and the telecom business. Topics to be covered include predictions on assessments of the status and...
KT aims to launch 5G trial services in 2018
Japanese company NEC Corporation and Korean telecoms carrier KT completed of a Proof of Concept (PoC) trial for a 5G wireless backhaul solution that utilizes E-Band spectrum (70 GHZ-80 GHz).
The PoC was conducted at Phoenix Park...
The Chinese firms will cooperate on SDN, NFV, 5G and IoT
ZTE signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Telecom Beijing Research Institute to develop a number of technologies including software-defined networking, network functions virtualization, "4G" and "5G," and the "Internet of Things."
Under terms of...
Carrier tested millimeter waves in the 28 GHz band
Korean telecom operator SK Telecom and compatriot vendor Samsung Electronics claimed to have successfully tested a "5G" system using 28 GHz spectrum in an outdoor environment. The two firms said the millimeter wave technology applied to...
T-Mobile 5G plans are set for a boost as the carrier filed applications for experimental spectrum license usage around its Washington headquarters
T-Mobile US is moving on plans to begin testing of “5G” technologies, filing applications with the Federal Communications Commission to use experimental spectrum...
In a meeting today with the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, Federal Communications Commissioner Chairman Tom Wheeler touched on the future of "5G" and the attendant spectrum resources.
Wheeler, looking to the future of the "Internet of Things," connected cars and...
Here’s the thing about Mobile World Congress: exhibitors are working hard to dazzle attendees with splashy, show-stopping demonstrations of cutting edge technology, although oftentimes that technology is years from being commercialized and having a real impact on your life.
For instance, at the show this...
Looking to help speed the development of 5G technology related to millimeter wave spectrum, NYU Wireless opened up a channel simulator tool based on the group's research and experiments. NYU Wireless is a Brooklyn, New York,-based research center focused on next-generation wireless networks and...
Sprint CFO Tarek Robbiati says the struggling U.S. carrier is looking to the future and "5G" with its as-yet unspecified network improvement plans, which revolve around a densification strategy.
Robbiati made the remarks this week during Deutsche Bank's Media, Internet and Telecom conference.
“We’re not building a...
Builds on 5G MoU signed by Ericsson, China Mobile
Ericsson said it is joining China Mobile's 5G Joint Innovation Center program to accelerate development of next-generation wireless networks. The program looks to establish a cross-industry ecosystem and setting up an open lab to provide a...
QIVICON smart home platform reaches more than 40 partners
German company Gigaset Elements has jointed Deutsche Telekom’s QIVICON smart home platform, which will add new protocols in the coming months.
The QIVICON platform has an open architecture and is designed to integrate with multiple connected devices...
The global "Internet of Things" – projected to amount to more than 20 billion connections by 2020 – is taking shape with dedicated networks expanding across the globe. Sigfox is a major player in this space with dedicated IoT networks live in 14 countries...
Low oil prices mean petroleum producers need to spend and invest more carefully than ever, and the "Internet of Things" is helping. Last year, Royal Dutch Shell realized a $1 million return on an $87,000 investment in digital technology to monitor oilfields in some...
Initiatives like Germany’s Industrie 4.0 and Made in China 2025 seed regional IoT economy
The "Internet of Things" promises to connect 20 billion previously unconnected objects by 2020. As the IoT takes shape, some global regions, largely due to government-led planning, are emerging as likely...
Tech leaders agree self-organizing network technology will be key to managing complexity of next generation 5G mobile networks
"5G" technology is envisioned as a network of networks, blending different types of access technologies to create a seamless user experience marked by incredibly high throughput and...
Learn about InterDigital’s support of 5G and the Internet of Things, as well as the company’s role in the standards-setting process
Discourse in the telecommunications industry is currently focused on next-generation 5G mobile networks, which, through dramatic increases in throughput coupled with decreases in latency,...
Enterprise and businesses are at the cusp of a major transformation, a new wave of industrialization based on IoT
IoT will involve the intersection of powerful supply and demand factors that will cause a tremendous amount of change and value creation. Beyond the economic benefits of business use-cases...
Look inside AT&T's Austin Spectrum Lab with RCRtv
AUSTIN, Texas – In an unassuming building in Austin, Texas, AT&T engineers can recreate virtually any network condition in the high-tech Austin Spectrum Lab, which will also serve as ground zero for the carrier’s upcoming trials of "5G."
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Iain Gillott dives into the importance of mobile video services to the need for 5G services
Last May, I wrote an article about over-the-top mobile video becoming the next battleground between the major mobile operators. Not wanting to toot our own horn too loudly, but...
