BROWSING: Opinion

Connected devices have a key role to play in era of pandemics (Reader Forum)

Technology has a history of helping to track and treat viruses. And, with the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, people are rightly asking themselves how new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), AI, and Big Data can be...

Post-pandemic IoT – three ways to fight COVID and recover business (Reader Forum)

The crisis we face with the COVID pandemic must provide us with lessons to avoid making the same mistakes again. This is because, in an increasingly globalised world, sadly this will not be the last pandemic. Once the initial phase of health alerts has...

Kagan: Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf on 5G wireless growth

Last week on a CNBC interview, Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm discussed how the company is dealing with the challenges of Covid-19 and how the pace of 5G wireless transformation is not slowing down. Let’s discuss how Qualcomm and the entire wireless industry are...

Why COVID-19 will accelerate the rise of experience service providers (Reader Forum)

What happens when the demand for new experiences becomes endless?  There is no going back to before the COVID-19 pandemic. The world better understands that a lot of experiences we used to do in-person can now be done digitally. Social distancing has created a ripple...

Online is the new normal and connectivity is king (Reader Forum)

COVID-19 has fundamentally shifted the ways in which we live and do business, and it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future having accelerated a transition into a new way of life almost overnight.  For enterprises, this has been highly disruptive. The coronavirus...

How wireless operators have risen to the COVID-19 challenge (Reader Forum)

  Chief among the many shockwaves stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. is the country’s rapid transition to remote work. And with this disruption has come a dramatic transformation in the volume of wireless network traffic and in consumer connectivity habits and behavior:...

Wi-Fi Alliance expects more than 300 million Wi-Fi 6E devices in 2021

Wi-Fi Alliance exec: 'Think about what we can accomplish with what we’ve just been given with Wi-Fi 6E' Wi-Fi Alliance’s Senior Vice President of Marketing Kevin Robinson told RCR Wireless News that the Alliance is thrilled about the FCC’s decision to open 6 GHz for unlicensed...

How to manage your network during the coronavirus pandemic (Reader Forum)

If you thought the election of Donald Trump was a game-changer, or Britain’s departure from the EU was a shock, 2020 would like to have a word with you. It’s already been the most disruptive year in a generation or more, with entire nations...

The role of Wi-Fi in a 5G World (Reader Forum)

Google trends is a fascinating tool that provides unparalleled insight into what people across the world are thinking and doing. A quick glance at the search trend for the term “5G” reveals a growing interest in this wireless connectivity technology  (in case you are curious, here is...

Network densification will depend on traffic need, carrier capability

Nokia: 'Network densification key to enable 5G to deliver on the promise extreme speeds, ultra-low latency' While network densification is critical to truly deliver the benefits promised by 5G, like low latency and speed, it will not be heavily needed everywhere. According to Nokia's Global...

5G and the age of pandemic: A look at the US (Reader Forum)

Overview Wireless technology is central to interactions with families, friends and coworkers, so we expect our devices and networks to be there when needed.   In this pandemic, questions are already being asked:  When consumers abruptly changed locations and traffic patterns, were the networks ready...

Is 5G the telecom silver bullet? (Reader Forum)

The race to roll out 5G technology is well underway. But 5G represents far more than the previous major transition, where, from 3G to 4G, we simply enjoyed faster speeds and greater coverage. 5G will power multiple use cases, many of them new and...

Kagan: Companies that grow through COVID-19

As we have all seen, there are quite a few business segments, industries and companies which are not only surviving but thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic. These companies should also continue to do strong business going forward because they are “essential” to our society....

Rising to the challenge: How the wireless broadband industry is responding to the COVID-19 crisis (Reader Forum)

2020 is going to be a pivotal year for the wireless industry.  On March 11th 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic as the number of global infections continued to rise. Since then, governments throughout the world have enforced strict social distancing...

Wi-Fi muscles in on 6 GHz (Reader Forum)

When you think of 6 GHz and wireless, it’s natural to think of 5G. It’s the top end of the LTE frequency range, and above where you think of other wireless technologies like Wi-Fi operating. But it turns out that Wi-Fi has been feeling...

Kagan: Telehealth, telemedicine grows during COVID-19

Suddenly telehealth and telemedicine has popped onto our radar. This technology has been around for a while and growing, however things are now rapidly advancing. The response to COVID-19 has put it on the fast-track. Expect to see rapid growth in this sector going...

Automation is key to testing, managing and optimizing 5G networks

VIAVI: 'With 5G, the whole paradigm has to shift about how networks are managed' VIAVI Director of Marketing Kashif Hussain spoke with RCR Wireless News about the results of VIAVI's State of 5G Deployments Report, admitting that he found himself quite surprised by the volume...

Homeworking–the new normal (Reader Forum)

Reliable indoor mobile coverage can ease home broadband capacity challenges during the global health crisis  As the regular rules for business and social interactions are being torn to shreds as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, homeworking is an important lifeline for U.K. companies trying...

LitePoint: ‘5G’s real opportunity for growth is in the enterprise’

LitePoint is focused on 5G spectrum, devices and scaling for the RAN Adam Smith, director of product marketing at LitePoint spoke, with RCR Wireless News about how millimeter wave is changing the test and measurement game and where 5G's biggest growth opportunities lie. Q: What is LitePoint...

A CSP’s guide to 5G and DevOps (Reader Forum)

As many Communications Service Providers (CSPs) express interest in the potential of automation across the end-to-end network lifecycle as a critical element to reinforce and provide 5G and DevOps, it’s fair to say that digital transformation has become a prevalent topic of discussion. But while...

A new world of digital experiences and efficiencies is coming–provided we can get 400 GbE right (Reader Forum)

For those consumers who waited until the last possible minute to upgrade their home Internet connections, finally moving up to high-speed broadband was likely a revelation. Everything got faster, certainly, but the changes went much deeper than speed. Late adopters hadn’t realized it, but...

Can today’s 5G meet the expectations of instant gratification? (Reader Forum)

We live in an era where everything is moving extremely fast. The pace of technology innovation is wiring our brains to expect instant gratification – be it from devices and applications we use or sadly even from people we interact with. The instant download...

The industry continues to make progress in the fight against robocalling – even though we still have a long way to go (Reader Forum)

Robocalls are the number one complaint to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), comprising roughly 60% of all complaints to the organization.  In the past three years alone, the number of robocalls has doubled to an estimated more than 50 billion calls per year in...

The telco business model needs a dynamic overhaul (Reality Check)

  Despite all the recent advances in technology, the actual business of telecoms has been slow to move with the times. Take dynamic pricing as an example, a practice common across many industries. Using dynamic pricing, businesses can set flexible tariffs based on current market activity....