Verizon and SK Telecom announced they will collaborate on co-developing 5G specifications, thereby strengthening their existing 5G collaboration.
South Korean operator SK Telecom and U.S. operator Verizon have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at SK Telecom’s headquarters in Seoul to co-develop 5G specifications and conduct...
5G network testing
There are several major players in the push to make 5G a reality: standards bodies, telecom operators and other organizations and enterprises are all testing aspects of the next-generation network in preparation for its 2020 standardization. Here are several examples of the network testing...
Global IoT platform revenues are expected to continue to grow fast and reach $3.3 billion by 2021. We discuss IoT platform trends with Berg Insight.
Berg Insight expects global IoT platform revenues to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.8 percent between 2015...
The Federal Communications Commission is eliminating requirements for historic preservation review for small cells that do not adversely impact historic sites. The agency said “physically small deployments like DAS and small cells” will be exempt from the Section 106 review process. Section 106 of...
What is massive MIMO?
Before going into “massive MIMO,” a potential enabler of 5G, it is important to understand the technology behind the traditional, smaller scale MIMO (multiple-input/multiple-output). MIMO deployment uses multiple antennas that are located at both the source (transmitter) and destination (receiver). Those...
NIWeek panel, making 5G a reality
AUSTIN, Texas--At NI Week 2016, Mike Santori, vice president of product marketing at National Instruments, spoke of the steps needed to bring future mobile network standards into reality, during a panel discussion titled Making 5G A Reality.
Santori said, in...
5G radios are still on the drawing boards, but wireless carriers are already taking the next-generation wireless standard into account as they budget for the years ahead. No one knows for sure what the evolving 5G standard will specify, but carriers are starting to...
As IoT developers get more experienced, more choose a vertical specialization. There, the smart home reigns, and interest for industrial IoT is steady.
According to a survey by VisionMobile among more than 16,500 developers around the globe, “The State of the Developer Nation Q3 2016”,...
What is a time-sensitive network?
A time-sensitive network (TSN) is a set of Ethernet standards that will allow time-synchronized low latency streaming services through 802 networks. TSN delivers mechanisms to create distributed, synchronized, hard real-time systems over standard Ethernet. These systems use the same infrastructure...
Telstra plans to conduct a 5G trial in September using Ericsson’s 5G radio test bed. Here is how the Australian operator is preparing for it.
Australia-based operator Telstra has started upgrading its Australian network’s wireless core with network function virtualisation (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN)...
The Singapore telco also demonstrated end-to-end low latency live video streaming over 5G
Singapore telecommunications operator Singtel and Swedish vendor Ericsson carried out what the companies claimed to be the first live demo of potential of 5G technologies in Southeast Asia.
The demo used Ericsson’s 5G...
Industrial group Bosch is entering the consumer mobility sector with the launch of a connected scooter sharing service in Berlin.
Coup is the name of a new connected scooter sharing service launched in Berlin by industrial group Bosch, in partnership with BCG Digital Ventures, the...
Peter Cochrane also doesn't think 5G will supplant Wi-Fi
In a new piece published by Computing, Peter Cochrane, the former CTO and head of research for BT, upends predominant industry discourse around 5G.
Cochrane is skeptical the telecom industry will be able to deliver on the...
A public access city-wide LoRaWAN IoT network has been launched in Sydney, enabling anyone to connect a device and obtain sensor data.
A public access LoRaWAN IoT network has been launched in Sydney, allowing academia, startups and businesses to take advantage of the data gathered...
The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) and Digital Greenwich have partnered to co-create and trial new 5G smart city technology.
The University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), one of Europe’s largest research centre dedicated to 5G, has partnered with the Royal Borough...
Connected car features are already in high demand among prospective car buyers, but consumers’ willingness to pay for those varies.
Connected vehicles will account for 55 percent of annual global new vehicle sales in 2020, according to IHS Markit. By then, the analyst firm expects...
The smart building: A laundry list of potential benefits
Smart buildings are expected to save money in more ways than one might think. Yes, they can significantly reduce energy and operating costs, but there are a number of expected not-so-obvious benefits gained from implementing a smart...
Whoever takes over as CEO of Ericsson will have their work cut out as the telecoms infrastructure vendor faces multiple challenges.
The board of director of Ericsson announced yesterday the company’s CEO Hans Vestberg was to leave his position with immediate effect. The decision to oust Hans...
Reducing costs with smart building
Thanks to the smart building, today's structures are alive, equipped with technology that allows for automated processes of things that have, for hundreds of years, lived in dormancy.
Many older buildings have the capability to become smart buildings, but owners and...
What is a smart building?
A smart building is any structure that uses automated processes to automatically control the building’s operations including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security and other systems. A smart building uses sensors, actuators and micro-chips, in order to collect data and manage it...
The smart city market is set for explosive growth, but ongoing smart city deployments may be missing the mark.
Despite a rapid increase in smart city deployments around the globe, few projects are at scale and financially sound. Furthermore, many smart city solutions deployments fail...
Qualcomm this week reported strong quarterly earnings, and CEO Steve Mollenkopf said the chipmaker is poised to be a leader in "5G."
During an earnings presentation, executives explained that revenue for the third quarter, which ended June 26, amounted to $6.03 billion, beating Wall Street...
Using high-band 70 GHz spectrum, Huawei and Vodafone achieved a data rate of more than 20 Gbps in a recent test of 5G mobile network technology.
According to Mobile World Live, the test took place in the United Kingdom and, in addition to the 20...
Mississippi-based regional service provider C Spire is using Nokia equipment to test a fixed wireless "5G" use case; so far the tests have achieved network speeds up o 2.2 gigabits per second to deliver an ultra-high-definition video stream.
C Spire, which provides fiber transport, internet...
