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The year LPWAN loses its WAN – The Things Industries on 2025

Kicking of the 2025 version of RCR Wireless' annual crystal-ball gazing – to consider how the broad Industry 4.0 market (covering private networks, industrial IoT, edge computing, AI analytics, and everything else) might develop in the next 12 months – the ever-ready Wienke Giezeman,...

Gen AI in action – what business leaders need to know (Reader Forum)

The level of attention on generative AI (gen AI) in business is no longer a surprise. It promises game-changing disruption – faster and more cost-effective operations, improved customer and employee experiences, and a competitive edge. The fact is that gen AI is evolving at...

Robocalls surged ahead of the 2024 election — Now telcos must meet the moment (Reader Forum)

As the 2024 US Presidential Election approached, political robocalls and robotexts surged. Potential disinformation campaigns, scams and AI-generated deepfakes may hae been increasingly used to attempt to confuse and mislead the public, posing potential risks to voters and further eroding trust in the voice...

Solving UK water leakage with sub-gigahertz IoT (Reader Forum)

Water leakage is a critical issue affecting residential and commercial properties across the UK, with severe financial, environmental and operational consequences. The rising cost of water bills, paired with the prevalence of insurance claims for water damage, highlights the urgency of finding innovative solutions...

Four ways software-based networks are essential to overcome the rural digital divide (Reader Forum)

Bridging the digital divide is more than a matter of convenience — it’s essential for ensuring equitable access to critical services and opportunities The digital divide in rural America is a persistent issue, with millions of people lacking access to reliable high-speed internet. According to...

Raising CBRS power levels would undermine its vital spectrum sharing capabilities (Reader Forum)

At the 13th Americas Spectrum Management Conference, Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez acknowledged a fundamental truth about our current spectrum landscape: “In today’s spectrum reality, shared spectrum has to be part of the discussion.” Simply put, no more greenfield spectrum is available, so we must prioritize...

The cost of data: Reducing operator overheads with chip migration (Reader Forum)

You can’t put a price on data. Or can you? A staggering 92% of all internet access now comes via mobile phone, and by 2025 the industry will have reached the once-distant milestone of more than 1 billion active 5G connections. This is good...

6G will merge human, physical and digital realms — that matters (Reader Forum)

We are standing on the precipice of a technological change that will fundamentally reshape the way we live, work and play. The advent of 6G era technology promises to blur the lines between physical and digital realms in ways that were once the stuff...

Kagan: What is Private Shared Wireless Network and why you should care?

Since it began in the 1970s, wireless has historically been an ever-growing, always-changing and important sector of the telecommunications industry. In recent years, we have seen it expand to new sectors like FWA with wireless broadband and to Private Wireless. Now the Private Shared...

Streamlining council waste management with IoT and LPWAN (Reader Forum)

UK local councils are grappling with severe financial strains, with projections suggesting that 20 percent could face insolvency by 2025. These councils are challenged to maintain essential services, including waste management, amidst increasingly stringent budgets and regulatory demands. To address these issues, councils must...

Simplifying global IoT for trackers – why LTE-M is best (Reader Forum)

IoT connectivity has been a game-changer in the asset tracking landscape. Personal devices, pets, vehicles, international packages, or any kind of asset can all easily be tracked through the cloud. This has opened the door to innovative use cases that have transformed global shipping,...

5G-Advanced is a game changer for smart energy and smart grid networks (Reader Forum)

As global demand for more efficient, sustainable energy systems grows, the adoption of 5G technology has already begun to show its potential in transforming industries, particularly through its applications in smart energy and smart grid networks. But now, the next evolutionary step — 5G-Advanced...

Telecom providers’ key to growth? Embracing cloud services (Reader Forum)

Cloud services have evolved beyond mere storage solutions, supporting a wide range of applications from smart home connectivity to advanced document sharing, and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for photo enhancement and digital content organization. Expanding product offerings and boosting revenue As service...

Powering manufacturing operations with next-generation industrial connectivity

In today’s business and technology landscape, organizations across industries are being challenged to reimagine their manufacturing and supply chain operations, differentiated product and service offerings and customer experiences to drive innovation, reduce time to market and improve efficiency and productivity. These capabilities disrupt traditional...

The promise and peril of chiplets for IoT (Reader Forum)

Custom builds, better performance, lower costs — it’s easy to understand the hype of chiplets in the Internet of Things (IoT). These modular chip components, originally developed for high-performance computing, are now making significant inroads into the world of connected and embedded devices, offering...

Key considerations for dark fiber agreement negotiations (Reader Forum)

Increasing demand for fast and secure bandwidth has resulted in a surge in transactions for fiber optic networks. Everything from smart devices to cloud services has accelerated the demand for scalable, secure and reliable fiber optic networks. Meanwhile, public funding has poured into the...

Open RAN intelligent control—from vision to reality (Reader Forum)

Among the most celebrated principles in the Open RAN paradigm, softwarization and disaggregation have taken center stage in discussions on the commercialization and deployment of O-RAN systems. A less frequently discussed principle that these two elements enable is programmability—the ability to dynamically and algorithmically...

How can MVNOs access data and use gen AI to their advantage? (Reader Forum)

Data doesn’t just support decisions; it drives them. For mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), access to data is the one key differentiator upon which all other differentiators depend. MVNOs are typically faster and more agile than their traditional MNO counterparts, “renting” network access and avoiding...

The killer AI app for network operators? It’s OSS (Reader Forum)

New Generative Artificial Intelligence (gen AI) use cases seem to emerge each day across geographies and verticals. Everyone is on the hunt for more and it’s easy to see why. A recent Deloitte GenAI Pulse survey found that 79% of respondents, all business and technology...

The possibilities at the edge are closer than you think (Reader Forum)

At a recent conference, several leading Tier 1 operators shared compelling business cases demonstrating how edge-generated data can deliver significant benefits to customers. These benefits include improved productivity, quality, safety and real-time decision-making. The scenarios they presented illustrate what lies ahead as we move...

AI and the generational divide (Reader Forum)

AI has become an almost ubiquitous part of everyday life. It underpins and augments huge volumes of business and consumer technology platforms, analysing data, making predictions, and boosting productivity. However, concerns and reservations about the use of AI still exist — and it appears that...

The future of home broadband networking (Reader Forum)

The concept of the “connected home” has been around for quite some time. Beginning with something as simple as connecting multiple computers to one Wi-Fi router, today’s connected home can now also include multiple TVs streaming videos; gaming devices interacting with other devices in...

Using smartphones to navigate life, Gen Z Is a target for scammers (Reader Forum)

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, Gen Z has emerged as a prime target for scammers. It’s been reported this generation is more than four times as likely to fall for online scams compared to Baby Boomers. It’s not simply youth that makes them targets....

Network decommissioning — a once-in-a-generation sustainability opportunity for telcos (Reader Forum)

Across most developed economies, the scale of telecom equipment decommissioning — the process of retiring legacy infrastructure — is continuing at an astonishing pace. These markets were the first to adopt earlier generations of communications technology at scale, but they now need to make...