This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...
Rogers vowed to pursue its purchase of Shaw, commenting that the pair will work together to 'highlight the many benefits of the merger'
After two days of mediations with Canada’s Commissioner of Competition, Canadian telco Rogers Communications failed to negotiate its way to acquiring Shaw...
Two Senators are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to pursue more information about just how much TikTok data is available to company representatives in China or Chinese security services, after recent press reports contradicted assurances given by a TikTok executive to Congress during...
An Ohio man formed a broadband company on paper that used association with the federal EBB program to defraud consumers, the FCC says
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a fine of more than $220,000—the maximum it can impose—for an Ohio man whom the agency...
Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr has asked Google and Apple to remove popular social media app TikTok from their application stores, saying that the app "harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being accessed in Beijing."
Carr cited a Buzzfeed News...
Vodafone has suggested the industrial 5G market in the UK will be skewed unfairly towards elite private enterprises, in position to invest more easily in their own private network infrastructure, and collectively screwed out of £7 billion per annum in potential economic gains, mostly...
Nine projects in six states will be funded in the latest round of the $980 million program
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration continues to portion out federal broadband funds, with the latest approved projects covering nine grants totaling more than $7.7 million to boost...
In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington DC, and Paris rounded out the top 10, meaning Europe and Asia Pacific contributed...
The free-to-join forum is open to all companies, standards groups and universities, standards groups and universities
The Metaverse Standards Forum, launched jointly by technology and telecoms giants yesterday, aims to foster industry-wide cooperation on interoperability standards needed to build the open metaverse.
Neil Trevett, president of Khronos...
SpaceX says that if 12 GHz spectrum is used for terrestrial 5G networks, it could result in outages for its Starlink space-based internet service as much as three-quarters of the time and render the service "unusable for most Americans."
The company submitted new technical analysis...
Critical Communications World (CCW) in Vienna this week (June 20-23) told the now-familiar story of how an influential industrial sector, which has existed in a horizontal tech vacuum until now, is coming to terms with its future as an extreme vertical in a broader...
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee unanimously approved an amendment that calls for up to $10 billion in proceeds from a future auction of 3.1-3.45 GHz spectrum to be used to support Next-Generation 911 (NG911) deployments.
The amendment passed the House Subcommittee on Communications and...
There is bipartisan support at the Federal Communications Commission for making voluntary rules around network resiliency into enforceable ones.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is circulating new draft rules that are aimed at helping to reduce cellular network outages after natural disasters, largely by codifying an...
Vulnerable aircraft radio altimeters must be retrofitted; Verizon anticipates an 'accelerated and defined schedule'
Verizon, AT&T, aviation industry players and federal regulators say they have come up with a series of steps that will balance continued protection of aircraft radio altimeters from potential interference by...
Right, let’s see how good my notes are two days later; shortly following a shot-across-the-bows from a top analyst at a London private 5G event (Omdia’s Pablo Tomasi at Private Networks in a 5G World), Sweden-based Telia and Germany-based Deutsche Telekom, on behalf of...
The European Space Agency said that these 5G-based experiments took place in January and February 2022
Engineers have connected Japan and Europe via space-enabled, next-generation 5G telecommunication links for the first time, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a release.
The agency noted that the...
How are some cities actually using IoT, new technologies and ever more sources of data? The mayors of three Indiana cities discussed their journeys with tech at a panel yesterday at an event highlighting Perdue University's efforts to support and development various smart city-related...
Coursera CEO: “If you don’t have connectivity, you’re starving both access to the skill development and the access to the economic opportunity”
As it typically does, the World Economic Forum uses its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, as a platform for business and political leaders...
The Federal Communications Commission is considering modifying the rules for one of its high-cost rural broadband deployment programs to support 100/20 Mbps service.
The agency has opened public comment on a proposal that would increase available support to some of the smallest, most rural...
India is to say ‘no’ to direct spectrum allocations to enterprises for private 5G and Industry 4.0, as provisioned in most other major industrial markets, according to reports. Instead, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended that leases for enterprise-owned private 5G...
When it comes to 5G and spectrum, there are a lot of complicating factors at work. While previous generations of cellular technologies typically brought new spectrum into play, 5G is making use of familiar sub-6 GHz frequencies that have been foundational to cellular networks,...
The Federal Communications Commission has authorized nearly $200 million from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund for broadband deployments in 26 states and the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory.
The agency said that the funding, which will be extended over the next 10 years,...
The EU is in grave danger of “throwing out the baby with the bathwater” in its prospective attempts to reform SEP licensing with interventions for the purported benefit of European Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in IoT.
Europe was once preeminent in cellular communications with...
