As a bipartisan bill to combat robocalls head to President Donald Trump's desk, the Federal Communications Commission and the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission continue to pursue broader deployment of a standards-based call authentication framework designed to help better identify -- and hopefully, reduce...
More than 74% of multi-family housing residents cited pre-installed Wi-Fi solutions as an important amenity
Following trials that yielded “exceptional results,” Comcast’s Xfinity Communities unveiled Wi-Fi Ready, an offering in which wireless modems are pre-installed in multifamily units. The logic behind the offer is simple:...
Construction companies are quickly adopting artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and IoT networking to drive efficiencies and maximize operating margins. That’s because tech companies have figured out how to make it easy.
As the engineering and construction industries continue to grow, especially in North America, an...
Greetings from the Mile-High City, the Queen City, and the City of Angels. Attendees of the Mobile World Congress – Americas were greeted with multi-story advertisements on buildings touting original content, a reminder that investment in the TMT (telecom/ media/ technology) industry can take...
The new MVNO kids are the block have set their sights on the coveted postpaid market, and they are succeeding in capturing a large chunk of growth while offering an experience that generally meets and can even succeed the experience of the underlying network(s)...
First, Comcast entered the world of wireless a few years ago with Xfinity Mobile. Then, a year later Charter entered with Spectrum Mobile. Since that time, we have been waiting for Altice to enter and that’s just what they did recently with Altice Mobile....
The number of certified Zigbee IoT products and platforms in the market for smart homes and cities has passed 3,000, according to the Zigbee Alliance.
The alliance’s certification programme seeks to establish quality standards and levels of interoperability among Zigbee products for product developers,...
5G technology will more closely tie cable and wireless together than ever before
It has been sometime since cable companies Comcast and Charter announced that they will be expanding into the wireless space. The impending 5G technology has more closely tied cable and wireless together...
Congratulations to T-Mobile US and Sprint on finally getting DoJ merger approval. This has been one helluva ride, and it’s not over yet, but we are closer than ever. Now that the deal is done, what comes next? Let’s take a closer look at...
At an FCC summit on robocalls, major service providers discussed their progress on testing and implementation of the SHAKEN/STIR specifications aimed at combatting robocalls and illegal call spoofing.
The STIR/SHAKEN specifications aim to authenticate and verify the identity of the party that is calling, including...
The Zigbee Alliance is coordinating efforts from the likes of Amazon, Comcast, Landis+Gyr, NXP, Osram and Schneider Electric to make smart home and IoT products easier to develop, deploy, and sell across ecosystems.
The new All Hubs Initiative, driven by a Zigbee Alliance workgroup, is...
Innovation, new competitors and a changing industry are both a threat and an opportunity. Something I call the “sticky-bundle” is helping existing companies hang onto and stabilize their customer base as their industry transforms around them. Let me explain how and why the sticky-bundle...
Altice, Comcast, Charter all interested in CBRS
In the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to open up the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band under a shared access model that prioritizes users based on a three-tier licensure scheme. One of...
Annual shipments of Zigbee chipsets will reach one billion by 2023, mostly in smart home sensors, accounting for 85 per cent of IEEE 802.15.4 mesh network devices. Half a billion Zigbee chipsets are already circulation, according to research firm ON World.
The Zigbee Alliance said...
Charter and Comcast are both using Verizon spectrum for mobile services
As traditional cable companies increasingly enter the wireless area and wireless companies look to leverage their networks to provide mobile video content, Charter Communications entered the fray June 30 with the launch of its...
Enabling enterprise IoT applications key focus of Comcast's LoRaWAN network
As cable-giant Comcast continues to build on its core business with services typically dominated by more traditional wireless operators, its Xfinity Mobile MVNO play, for instance, the Philadelphia-based company continues to grow its enterprise IoT...
Ford's former CEO Mark Fields and Comcast's Vice Chairman Neil Smit join Qualcomm's board of directors
Qualcomm has appointed two new directors to its board of directors: former president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, Mark Fields, and Kornelis (Neil) Smit, vice chairman of Comcast.
The men...
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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The new IoT-based solution combines Comcast’s IoT service machine with Neptune LoRa-enabled water meters
Comcast’s internet of things service, machineQ, and U.S water technology company, Neptune Technology Group, have announced a collaboration on an IoT solution designed to accelerate smart city projects focused on advanced...
Comcast deploys LoRaWAN in San Francisco; Laird gateway has Senet support baked-in
From devices to connectivity, the internet of things (IoT) market is a crowded space. Cellular standards like LTE-M and NB-IoT are seeing widespread support from operators while proprietary tech like LoRa is drawing...
Comcast has hooked up the “epicentre of IoT” by making live its LoRaWAN-based machineQ service in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California. The launch, one of 10 new machineQ networks to go live in recent weeks, will stimulate local start-ups and developers to...
Some of the cities in which LoRaWAN networks are now available include Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Miami and Washington D.C.
California-based semiconductor and software company Semtech announced that Comcast’s enterprise internet of things network service MachineQ has connected operational LoRaWAN networks to 10...
Charter Communications aims to to launch a MVNO through a partnership with Verizon
U.S. cable operator Charter Communications expects to launch mobile services through a mobile virtual network operator by mid-year, the operator’s chairman and CEO, Thomas Rutledge, said during a recent conference call with...
Comcast is offering free home automation services to some 15 million subscribers
While it's traditionally regarded as a cable company, Philadelphia-based Comcast provides quad-play services with its pay television, home internet, landline telephony and Xfinity Mobile services. Given this converged network footprint and existing subscriber...
