Policy

Reliability of broadband service is the single most important characteristic to consumers and definitely more important than speed, according to a new survey from the Fiber Broadband Assocation. A full …

Vodafone added 24 million IoT SIM connections in the 12 months to September 30. Its total connections count stood at 136 million at the end of the period, at the …

Auction now shifts to an assignment phase for individual spectrum blocks The 3.45-3.55 GHz auction of 100 megahertz of midband spectrum has wrapped up its first phase after 151 rounds, …

A new estimate from CCA and CostQuest pegs the cost of deploying 5G in places that carriers are unlikely to build out commercially What would it take to cover the …

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo discusses the $65 billion in broadband funding While the $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal that has passed Congress has yet to be signed, U.S. Secretary of Commerce …

The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal that has been passed by Congress will put $65 billion into broadband expansion, affordability and middle-mile infrastructure, alongside other investments in transportation infrastructure, electric …

Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms …

The Scotland 5G Centre, a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened a private 5G network testbed in Dumfries in the south of Scotland, to …

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Department of Defense are weighing what 5G-related prize challenges might look like, drawing in comments from industry. In January of …

President Joe Biden has designated Acting Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the FCC officially, while nominating a fifth commissioner to fill out an empty seat and a …

In an address to the Free State Foundation, Federal Communications Commissioner Nathan Simington continued a conversation that he says has “ruffled a few feathers”: Receiver standards. In his remarks, Simington …

Meanwhile, new third-party analysis finds that 22.5% of US households don’t have home internet and more than a quarter million still rely on dial-up The Federal Communications Commission says it …

Between device hijacking, data breaches, and intellectual property theft, there are many known risks associated with a cybersecurity compromise in internet of things (IoT) applications. At the same time, many …

The Federal Communications Commission is taking a new look at the spectrum needs of public safety and the internet of things, and the agency officially rescinded rules passed under the …

Interest margin on $2 billion Ericsson credit line is tied to sustainability KPIs Sustainability, aspects like power consumption of 5G networks and the applications those networks support that can boost …

The program reimburses carriers with fewer than 10 million customers for removing Huawei and ZTE gear from their networks The Federal Communications Commission will start accepting applications on October 29 …

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has returned to China after reaching agreement with U.S. prosecutors, concluding a three-year extradition battle.

The Federal Communications Commission has parceled out a first wave of $1.2 billion in emergency connectivity funding, which the agency says will help to connect more than 3.6 million students …

Nokia has signed a deal with the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) to leverage industrial 5G, and other technologies, to drive the Industry 4.0 movement on the continent, as well as …

Vodafone has urged the UK government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT adoption into its forthcoming net-zero strategy blueprints, due to be published later this year. The …

Microsoft and Nokia have partnered with the South Australian Government to combine ‘space technology’ and terrestrial 5G in service of local industry, including as the basis for digital change in …

The University of Birmingham in the UK has devised a plan to be “the world’s smartest global campus” by deploying IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to link academic research …

AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission to establish rules around how much midband spectrum that a 5G service provider can hold, saying that such rules “are needed to ensure …

If the main event – the big report from which this article is taken – makes the case for operator-led management of private industrial 5G networks, with a primary investigation …

Just how much midband spectrum is needed for 5G, anyway? The default telecom answer to this type of spectrum question seems to be, “As much as we can get” – …