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Dish continues to lose wireless customers, down 188,000 in Q2

Dish Network's numbers were down across the board for the second quarter of this year, and it continued to post six-figure losses for both its pay-TV and its wireless subscribers. Dish saw retail wireless net subscribers drop by about 188,000 in the second quarter,...

The case for a converged 0G-WAN standard to deliver Europe-wide IoT (Reader Forum)

Patrick Griffin, Chief Product Officer, Heliot Europe, the largest Sigfox network operator in the European Union; here, he expands on the importance of the new unlicensed LPWAN working group proposing a new 0G-WAN standard to deliver network redundancy, reliability, and scale to support a...

Understanding enterprise wireless: Part 3—cellular vs. Wi-Fi

In the third installment of a four-part podcast series presented in partnership with Nextivity, Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Kowal reiterates the importance of both cellular and Wi-Fi in enterprise connectivity. However, he points out that Wi-Fi does have limitations, and as enterprises invest in...

The first rule of 5G club – and other lessons from Private Networks Europe Forum

A panel session at Private Networks European Forum earlier this month put the spotlight on the discipline of private 5G and edge system management, specifically, where traditional mobile operators are increasingly facing-off with rival factions in the developing Industry 4.0 supplier market. These other...

Private 5G rocks, says private 5G provider – with bigger savings, returns than Wi-Fi 6

More research from a private cellular network provider into the business value of private cellular networks says… private cellular networks rock, compared to enterprise Wi-Fi. Well, of course they do – the findings echo previous total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) calculations, from Nokia and others (and they...

Solving RF systems for advanced multimode cellular and Wi-Fi applications: Opportunities and challenges (Analyst Angle)

The adoption of 5G continues to thrive in the mobile market, with a raft of device types beyond smartphones set to form part of the wider ecosystem, extending to new industries and a wide array of device categories, including automotive, Extended Reality (XR), Personal...

Eutelsat and OneWeb to create satellite broadband behemoth – with IoT promise

France-based Eutelsat and UK-based OneWeb have signed a provisional takeover deal, which values OneWeb at $3.4 billion, and would, if pursued and passed, would create a European satellite rival for the likes of SpaceX-owned Starlink. The pair have agreed to combine their satellite connectivity...

Nordic to bring IoT RAM expertise in-house with deal for US firm Mobile Semiconductor

Nordic Semiconductor has announced it is to acquire US firm Mobile Semiconductor, a specialist in embedded memory technology for microcontrollers (MCUs) and systems-on-chip (SoCs). Mobile Semiconductor already supplies static RAM (SRAM) memory-hardware in all of Nordic’s wireless IoT devices including its nRF52 and nRF53...

GCF joins with 5G-ACIA to ‘investigate’ industrial 5G certification needs

The Global Certification Forum (GCF) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly investigate industrial 5G certification needs. The pair said they will share information on industrial IoT use cases and related requirements for testing...

Qualcomm seeks to remake physical retail – as touchless, frictionless and filled with IoT

Qualcomm Technologies has identified physical retail as a key growth sector for its IoT chip business. The sector has been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, it said, and requires urgent and drastic attention. Retailers can bring a new level of customer experience and...

5 wireless technology trends to keep on your radar in 2022 (Reader Forum)

In an increasingly connected world, the need for data and network capacity has become the driving force that prompts wireless technology innovation. As development into 5G technology advances, connected systems will continue to grow in complexity and reliance on one another. This increase in...

From vehicles to vaccines (and BLE to NB-IoT): five key asset tracking use cases

1 | FedEx + BLE – for tracking vaccine shipments FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for other emergency pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. Customers in the aerospace and retail sectors will...

How packetizing fronthaul helps 5G to scale, and decreases TCO

Ericsson: “To achieve the long term goal of 4G and 5G in a Virtualized RAN, we first must create a unified packet network for all the RAN transport interfaces.” Introduction 2019 saw mobile operators across multiple continents launch 5G networks giving customers a glimpse of...

#TBT: Cellular vs. PCS; Motorola sued over paging play-by-play; Need a cell? Rent it … this week in 1996

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! Cellular vs. PCS From...

Verizon transforms Yahoo into a wireless service provider

The web services provider is now called Yahoo Mobile Ever since purchasing Yahoo in 2017, Verizon has been working hard to diversify the web services provider’s business strategy in order to make it more profitable. The most recent development on this front is Yahoo’s transition...

Qualcomm: The destinies of 5G and Wi-Fi 6 are intertwined

Wi-fi has always been symbiotic for cellular, Qualcomm exec says Between Qualcomm’s reveal of its new Snapdragon Ride Platform, a two-chip autonomous vehicles platform designed to help automakers and Tier 1 suppliers achieve true vehicle autonomy faster and the announcement of aptXTM Voice audio, a...

Telenor to test 5G against the rigors of the Arctic climate

Residents of the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard will be among the first in Norway to test the 5G network In a unique test of 5G’s capabilities, Telenor has the launched a 5G pilot on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The pilot, which will officially commence...

Signal boosters could alleviate mobile dead spots for UK retailers

Nextivity, Pan RF collaboration seeks to alleviate mobile dead spots, low data-throughput and dropped call challenges Nextivity’s recent partnership with Pan RF will provide Cel-Fi signal boosters to alleviate the problem of mobile dead spots in the U.K.’s retail environment. According to Colin Abrey, VP...

Disaster Tech Lab: Using cellular in disaster response

Increased digitalization is impacting disaster response and recovery Coverage, power and backhaul. Those three pieces are fundamental to any working cellular network, but they can be awfully hard to come by during a response to a natural or humanitarian disaster. Disaster Tech Lab specializes in providing...

Cellular-satellite start-up UbiquitiLink raises $5.2 million

Cellular-satellite start-up UbiquitiLink, which aims to connect regular cellular phones via a netowrk of low-earth-orbit nanosatellites, raised a second round of seed funding this week, snagging $5.2 million and bringing its total raised to $12 million. UbiquitiLink said that the money will speed up...

Wilson Amplifiers White Paper: The Cell Phone Signal Booster Guide 2019

Cell phone signal boosters (aka passive DAS, repeaters, and BDAs) have grown tremendously in the consumer and enterprise space since 2013 when the FCC began industry certification. As the industry grows, Wilson Amplifiers has compiled a definitive guide on recommended cell phone signal boosters...

Proptech Webcast: Cousins Properties Tech Talk

Join us for the opening episode of In-Building Tech?s PropTech Webinar series. PropTech has emerged as a force to be reckoned with and investments keep flowing in by the truck load. Commercial real estate assets are being transformed into technological wonders thanks to our incessant...

Cellular under the tree in ’83: The first commercial cellular call in America

Editor's note: Keith Radousky, president of RadVisory 5G, shares his personal recollection of the first commercial cellular call, in October 1983 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.  This past weekend marked the 35th anniversary of the first commercial cellular phone call in America on October 13,...

Analyst Angle: Lines blur between cellular and Wi-Fi

  This increasingly variegated platform drives the requirement for coexistence between 5GNR, LTE and unlicensed technologies — close integration at core and even radio level now, and a harmonized migration path both to 5G and future IEEE 802 standards. The two tracks may not converge...