‘If this were easy, it would already be done’: Nsight’s insights on rural broadband
"The business models are extremely complex and there is a lot of risk embedded in this," says Nsight's Brighid Riordan
Brighid Riordan is the CINO...
Roambee buys Swiss IoT firm Modum to serve rising demand for pharma tracking
Santa Clara IoT tracking company Roambee has acquired Switzerland-based cold chain monitoring outfit Modum, which specialises in the pharmaceutical market. Roambee said the deal...
Accenture to acquire network testing company umlaut
Accenture to 'significantly scale' network engineering capabilities with umlaut acquisition
Accenture will be acquiring German network engineering, testing and analytics company umlaut for an undisclosed...
Vodafone selects strategic partners for commercial O-RAN deployment
UK-based carrier Vodafone has selected Dell, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Wind River, Capgemini Engineering and Keysight Technologies to jointly deliver the first commercial deployment of...
Samsung expands vRAN capability to support C-Band
Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has recently announced that its commercial 5G virtualized RAN (vRAN) now supports its latest C-Band Massive MIMO radios.
In a release,...
Harris County increases efficiency In 150 public buildings with Honeywell tech
Harris County, in Texas, is deploying a next-generation security system in its buildings with the aim of making them more efficient and easier to...
Where Open RAN comes in (Reader Forum)
In 2021, positive forecasts of the Open RAN market start gaining ground in the industry. It is predicted that the total RAN market will...
The Sunday Brief: Verizon’s value creation strategy: More cable MVNO, more coverage, more products
Greetings from Davidson/ Lake Norman, NC, where Carolina heat and humidity have descended, causing daily afternoon storms like the one pictured nearby. This week,...
Kagan: 6G wireless data speeds of 10 Gbps spark interest
We are all talking about how 5G is changing everything, but 6G is coming on quickly and that is even more disruptive. With their...
CSPs are proceeding with caution in the race to monetize the 5G edge, according...
IBM expects unprecedented 5G hypergrowth to begin around mid-decade, and the decisions made by CSPs today are critical
The cloud hyperscaler dominance over legacy media...
Deutsche Telekom reaches 50 cities with 5G via 3.6GHz spectrum
German operator Deutsche Telekom said that its 5G service based on 3.6GHz frequency is already available in around 50 cities across the country, where...
Coordinated G7 effort toward genuinely open and interoperable standards will unlock the full potential...
This weekend sees the G7 meetings take place, which gives Britain a chance to stake its place in the world order post-Brexit. The recent...
Silicon Labs releases IoT hardware and software for Wirepas Massive mesh networks
Austin-based chip-maker Silicon Labs has released a hardware and software solution for large-scale mesh networks based on the Wirepas Massive protocol. It has partnered...
Japan’s Azbil Corporation to develop new IBMS solutions in Singapore
Japanese firm Azbil Corporation announced that it has started developing new digital solutions for use with intelligent building management systems (IBMS), with support from...
GSA reports continued growth of 5G device ecosystem during May
The number of announced 5G devices has surpassed 800 for the first time and now stands at 822 announced 5G devices, according to the...
Huawei: Moving forward with software (Analyst Angle)
The transcript of a recent internal presentation by Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei attracted much attention in the press and was interpreted as a strategy...
How Thomas Concrete mixed industrial IoT to set foundation for digital change
Digitalization probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about concrete. But Thomas Concrete Group recognized that digital transformation through...
Telenor Bulgaria launches 5G network in more than 60 locations
Previously, Telenor Bulgaria had only conducted 5G trials
On Thursday, Telenor Bulgaria officially launched its 5G network in more than 60 locations across the country,...
AT&T touts C Band 5G call testing
AT&T is claiming a C Band first, saying that it has successfully completed 5G field test calls using test devices and a Mobile Test...
‘Peanut butter and jelly’ – Verizon on private 5G and MEC, as the jam...
Verizon Business CRO describes private 5G and MEC as like "peanut butter and jelly"
Today Verizon Business announced its new private 5G network offering, On...
European IoT spending to exceed $200bn in 2021, says IDC
Internet of Things (IoT) spending in Europe is expected to reach $202 billion in 2021 and will continue to experience double-digit growth through 2025,...
Siemens finally intros ‘industrial 5G’ router, flagging public and private 5G integration
Siemens has released its first ‘industrial 5G’ router, the Scalance MUM856-1, announced at the end of 2020, showcased at Hannover Messe in March, and...
‘Choice and control’: Dell reveals open, cloud-native solutions designed for CSPs
Dell is also introducing new reference architectures and an Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab
Dell Technologies launched new cloud-native network infrastructure that includes a full stack of open,...
Finnish, Japanese research groups announce alliance to boost ‘6G’ R&D
The Finnish 6G Flagship research program coordinated by the University of Oulu and the Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium of the Japanese Ministry of Internal...
Broadband funding, everywhere: A rundown of major federal efforts
One of the biggest barriers to closing the digital divide has long been cost – it simply costs so much to put in the...