New York City and Salt Lake City will both become large-scale testbeds for smart city and 5G technologies, having won funding from the National Science Foundation and a consortium of wireless industry companies under the Platform for Advanced Wireless Research program.
PAWR provides $50 million...
5G standards, spectrum and the continued investment in LTE
Ahead of the industry trade association's 5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium, set for May 16-17 in Austin, Texas, RCR Wireless News caught up with 5G Americas President Chris Pearson to get a preview of some of...
China Mobile to leverage Nokia equipment to build optical transport network
China Mobile has chosen Nokia to supply equipment for its regional optical transport network.
An optical transport network serves as a protocol for forwarding network messaging across optical fiber networks. It consists of a collection...
Chinese regulator Mofcom hasn't signed off on Qualcomm proposal
With the direct intervention of President Trump, Qualcomm withstood a hostile takeover attempt waged by rival Broadcom, but the San Diego, Calif.-based chipmaker is still very much at a transition point--Looking to diversify its vertical focus,...
Core network virtualization
Network operators are virtualizing their core networks in an effort to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. By enabling virtualization in the core network, service providers can significantly decrease operational expenditure (OPEX) and capital expenditure (CAPEX), while accelerating the delivery of...
KDDI planning to spend $186 million over five years
Japanese telecommunications company KDDI has inked a partnership with compatriot venture capital firm Global Brain Corp to establish KDDI Open Innovation Fund 3 (KOIF3), a fund that will invest in venture firms that could generate synergies...
COLLEGE PARK, Md.--Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr discussed the role of workforce development in supporting 5G roll-outs and making federal regulations "5G-ready" to encourage private sector investments in the next generation of wireless technology.
Carr's remarks came during a discussion with Jonathan Adelstein, president and...
AutoAir project aims to accelerate validation and development of connected cars
U.K company Millbrook said it will create the country’s first independent 5G testbed for connected cars under the recently announced AutoAir project. The main aim of this project is to bring 5G technologies to...
The Small Cell Forum also forecasts carriers in the region to install almost 850,000 small cells by 2025
North American enterprise are forecast to deploy a total of 400,000 small cells during 2018, up compared to 292,000 the previous year, according to a recent study...
Carrier capital spending is expected to pick up this year after an investment lull, according to new analysis from Dell'Oro Group.
"After two consecutive years of declining capex trends, we believe there are reasons to be optimistic about the future," wrote Stefan Pongratz, Dell'Oro's lead...
On the path to 5G
The telecommunications industry is undergoing an evolution in preparation for the commercialization of 5G. The fifth generation of mobile communication networks promise to deliver faster speeds, shorter delays and increased connectivity. To make good on these promises, several network operators...
Edge computing essential to supporting 5G use cases
For business and consumers, new use cases and applications dependent on low-latency network connectivity are driving computing power to the edge of the network. For AT&T, edge computing is a key part of supporting new technologies, including...
UK carriers have paid £1.35 billion ($1.9bn) in the first stage of bidding for new 3.4 GHz radio spectrum, for use with 5G services, including high-bandwidth IoT-based concepts like autonomous driving. The new 3.4GHz allocation is the first bandwidth to be made available for...
COLLEGE PARK, Md.--Fiber deployment is critical for both current networks' capacity needs and preparation for 5G networks, but it also poses significant deployment challenges.
Panelists at the Wireless Connect event at the University of Maryland discussed the hurdles ahead for sufficient network density for future...
Network slicing and 5G
Network slicing has received significant attention among telecom operators, especially with the commercialization of 5G networks on the horizon. Based upon the principles of network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN), network slicing is expected to play a major role...
While commercialization of 5G as early as later this year is a high priority for Tier 1 carriers like AT&T or Verizon, for rural carriers the next-generation of cellular is a little further out. But, when the time comes, commercialization can proceed more quickly...
Verizon said nearly 62% of all wireless deployments last year were small cells
Verizon Wireless announced plans to install small cells in Napa, California, during 2018 in a move to expand its current coverage in the region famous for its vineyards.
The telco said it has...
Industry 4.0 and the internet of things among focus of 5G lab
Telecom Italia (TIM) and Ericsson have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Municipality of Genoa, the Liguria region and Liguria Digital to launch a 5G digital lab to explore the benefits of...
February 22 is a big date in the history of mobile broadband for several reasons. On that date last year, the FCC approved the first devices using LTE-U, a new technology that brought the benefits of LTE cellular technology into unlicensed spectrum, enabling consumers to...
As 2G and 3G networks shut down, more and more IoT devices need to quickly migrate to next-G capability. Get ahead of impending network sunsets with a better understanding of what to plan for when migrating to 4G and beyond.
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Carrier asked FCC for permission to demo 5G at AT&T SHAPE conference
AT&T, which is planning to commercialize mobile 5G in a number of markets later this year, has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to demonstrate 5G in the 28 GHz millimeter wave band....
Cisco will provide networking expertise for 5G RuralFirst project will create an end-to-end testbed system to test
Cisco announced it will lead a project to create a complete end-to-end rural 5G testbed system for trials of new wireless and networking technologies and services in the...
This year will be foundational for 5G, but legacy telecom systems and the need for new revenue sources pose potential stumbling blocks for the industry, according to Deloitte's annual report on the outlook for the telecommunications industry.
Craig Wigginton, global telecommunications sector leader for Deloitte...
Linux Foundation launches DANOS project
The Linux Foundation recently introduced the Disaggregated Network Operating System (DANOS) project, with a code release slated for the second half of this year.
DANOS is based upon AT&T’s "dNOS" software framework, which the company first unveiled last year. It was...
