New television service and ad platform come from AT&T mega-merger
Last week the U.S. Department of Justice lost its bid to block AT&T's $85 billion merger with Time Warner. That hurdle cleared, what's next for the combined service provider and content producer? AT&T Chairman and...
Senators and representatives will have meeting to reconcile the two versions of the annual defense bill
The U.S. Senate has approved an amendment to the annual defense spending bill which threatens a recent agreement between the Department of Commerce and Chinese vendor ZTE to lift...
Vapor IO working with Crown Castle to deploy edge data centers
Large, centralized data centers house the racks, servers and other hardware needed to support cloud services, content delivery networks, customized enterprise workloads and other functionality. With the emergence of 5G and the latency reductions...
While 5G could be deployed without Artificial Intelligence (AI) and edge compute, intelligent edge will be essential to new revenues and lower costs for 5G.
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The New York City government said awardees will have the right to use existing light and utility poles to deploy new wireless infrastructure
The New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has released a request for proposals (RFP) for firms who wish to...
The Chinese vendor invited Australian security agencies to meet with the firm R&D specialists to better understand its technology
Chinese vendor Huawei may be prevented from taking part in the deployment of Australia’s 5G networks due to national security concerns, according to published reports.
The Australian...
Affirmed Networks benchmarks vEPC performance
Network virtualization is most certainly a process, but one that's imperative to the evolution from hardware-driven connectivity to much more flexible software control. While operators approach softwarization differently, many see deployment of a virtual evolved packet core (vEPC) as a...
Verizon's pre-commercial 5G technology runs mixed reality on 5G successfully
Imagine walking through a building that you are designing long before the structure has been built. You’re able to see what your design looks like, down to the doorknobs, and how it feels to walk...
5G entering the trough of disillusionment
The hype cycle is a tool developed by Gartner to help understand how particular technologies are regarded in terms of the reality of expectations as compared to how the technology is used over time. There are five phases: the...
Traditionally, development kits and advanced toolsets allow designers to quickly and efficiently leverage new technologies. Integrating and aggregating In-Building wireless architectures is one of those areas where development expertise can help engineering teams rapidly and seamlessly adopt new technologies and bring them to market...
The fog of trade war continues to creep in. While The South China Morning Post reported yesterday that China’s regulatory agency the Ministry of Commerce, or Mofcom, finally approved Qualcomm’s $44 billion deal to purchase NXP, the news service Reuters said its sources close...
Verizon has negotiated a tentative deal with the mayor of San Jose, California that will enable the carrier to deploy new network infrastructure while furthering San Jose's smart city goals, from smart parking to traffic management.
San Jose's city council will review the terms of...
AT&T planning San Jose 5G launch in first half of 2019
Noted tech hub San Jose, Calif., certainly has the attention of AT&T and Verizon. Today both companies announced agreements with the city centered on massive build out of small cells and implementing a variety...
Diverse requirements of 5G services command co-creation beyond telecoms
Massive support for the internet of things is a major aspect of 5G. And we're not talking about consumer IoT like wearables or smart home devices; we're talking about billions of devices driving digital transformation for...
Microsemi and China Telecom are working prepare optical transport networks for an avalanche of 5G use cases.
Semiconductor company Microsemi and China Telecom's Beijing Research Institute are working on 5G-ready optical transport solutions, Microsemi announced yesterday.
Key to the effort is the DIGI-G5 chipset, Microsemi’s optical...
Ericsson, Intel, China Mobile complete standard-compliant call
Sticking to its aggressive timeline for finalization of the standalone 5G New Radio (NR) specification, the 3GPP yesterday approved the details of Release 15 building on the work completed in December related to non-standalone 5G NR.
Michael Thelander, president...
Operators pursuing 5G differently in the U.S., Europe and APAC
LONDON—As with previous generations of cellular connectivity, there are many reasons for an operator to want to claim a world's-first in terms of deploying and offering a commercial service—there's inherent marketing and brand equity benefits...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
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NXP Semiconductors released a radio frequency front-end product line for creating massive multiple-input, multiple output (mMIMO) systems.
NXP Semiconductors announced the availability of its 5G RF front-end portfolio for massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, a key ingredient of 5G networks. This group is the most recent...
National Instruments and IP-software startup NanoSemi are collaborating to add NanoSemi’s linearizer to NI’s PXI systems to help test 5G New Radio front-end designs. The addition will streamline some of the advanced 5G testing and add machine-learning capabilities through digital pre-distortion algorithms.
The target customers...
Senators move to reinstate ZTE ban as Department of Commerce said ZTE must replace its entire board of directors within the next 30 days
Adding a new wrinkle to the ZTE saga, a bipartisan group of senators is trying to reinstate the ban on the...
Korea's top mobile carrier partners with drone maker DJI to add live- streaming high-def video to drones.
Korean mobile operator SK Telecom and China-based drone-maker DJI have agreed to co-develop high-performance, high-definition live video streaming capabilities for drones for use on mobile networks. A live, real-time,...
Millimeter wave cell density and building penetration
LONDON—Millimeter wave frequencies will be a central part of delivering the ultra high capacity data throughput associated with 5G, but, given its unique propagation characteristics, putting high-band spectrum to work is a challenge.
During a keynote session at 5G...
Among the lessons we can learn about where the wireless industry will head come from an understanding the past success. At its roots, the wireless industry has grown due to technological progress in the design and manufacture of semiconductor-based equipment and mobile devices. That...
