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5G-IoT (‘trademark’) connected ambulances come to India

India-based health-tech company LifeSigns has announced 4G/5G-based IoT hardware and airtime tie-ups with India-based IoT solutions provider Hetrogenous and London-based IoT airtime provider FloLIVE to launch a connected ambulance solution in the country. The LifeSigns product, called LifeConnect, uses medical sensors and live video...

Tower Semiconductor, Adani seek government support for $10B chip plant in India

Located in India's western state of Maharashtra, the chip plant will produce analog circuits and wafers Israel's Tower Semiconductor has partnered with Indian conglomerate Adani Group on a $10 billion project to build a new chip facility that the pair said will bolster India’s position...

India designates 12 new smart industrial cities – to take total to 2

The Indian government is to build a total of 12 new industrial smart cities in various states to drive domestic manufacturing in the country. These join eight urban manufacturing centres that are already under development. The department of industry and trade revealed progress with...

Nokia sees profits slide 32%, eyes second-half sales jump

Nokia saw its (“comparable”) operating profit slide by 32 percent in the second quarter of 2024, finishing at €423 million, versus €619 million a year ago. Sales fell alongside, down 18 percent at €4.466 billion in the quarter, from €5.438 billion. It put the...

Four in five using AI, says TCS – as it brings gen AI and IoT support for enterprises

India-based IT consultancy and system integrator Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched a generative AI aggregation platform for enterprise customers and a new IoT lab in the US, with a stated remit to support sensor deployments feeding into developing industrial AI projects. It has...

Satellite operator Kinéis targets IoT market in India

Satellite IoT operator Kinéis has a deal with Hyderabad-based space engineering solutions provider Dhruva Space to produce compatible devices and solutions to grow low-power satellite IoT applications in India. Kinéis will have a constellation of 25 nanosatellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) by early 2025....

Nokia signs R&D deal with Indian transport institute to develop 5G logistics solutions

Nokia has signed a research and development (R&D) deal with the Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya university in India, formerly the country’s National Rail and Transportation Institute, to develop 5G and 6G solutions for the country’s transport and logistics sector. Their joint work will address solutions...

Actility to “overhaul” IoT in Italy, boost IoT in global agriculture

France-based low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, is working with Italian IoT provider Urbana Smart Solutions to “overhaul” and extend Italy’s IoT infrastructure. The deal will see Urbana manage the rollout of LoRaWAN infrastructure “throughout Italy”, and the integration of combined...

Airtel, Google Cloud partner on enterprise cloud and AI

Airtel is training more than 300 experts on Google Cloud services at a managed services center in Pune Indian telco Bharti Airtel announced today a long-term partnership with Google Cloud to develop and provide cloud and generative AI products to its existing business customers, which...

Nvidia bets on India with Tata Group, Reliance Industries AI partnerships

Nvidia CEO said India 'possesses size, data, and skill' necessary to be a leader in AI Nvidia announced new partnerships with Indian conglomerates Tata Group and Reliance Industries to develop language models for business and consumer AI applications, cloud infrastructure and generative services in...

#TBT: Top ‘metaplaces’; India wraps up 5G spectrum auction; FCC’s 2.5 GHz auction crawls along … this week in 2022

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 those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Consolidated Comms sells...

Proximus to acquire India’s Route Mobile for $721 million

Proximus Opal provides cloud-based telecom platforms for enterprise customers such as Salesforce and TikTok creator Bytedance Proximus Opal, a unit of Belgian telecom service provider Proximus Group, announced plans to buy an almost 58% stake in cloud communications platform-as-a-service company Route Mobile, to the tune...

Vodafone Idea confirms advanced negotiations with vendors for 5G

Vodafone Idea also said it has concluded device testing of all major OEMs on its upcoming 5G mobile broadband network Indian operator Vodafone Idea confirmed “advanced talks” with a number of vendors in order to define its final strategy for the deployment of 5G in...

Cellular IoT module market jumps 14% – led by China, Quectel, Qualcomm, NB-IoT

Cellular IoT module shipments rose by 14 percent in the 12 months to the end of 2022, with China leading the way for regional shipment volumes India leading the way for regional shipment growth, NB-IoT leading the way for low-power IoT volumes, LTE CAT1.bis...

Spectra expands TIP OpenWiFi architecture in India

TIP OpenWiFi is an open source-based Wi-Fi architecture that leverages open-source development and automated testing Indian managed service provider Spectra has expanded its deployment of Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenWiFi solutions to cover more of its Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) and enterprise customers. TIP OpenWiFi is an...

#TBT: US companies make plays in India’s spectrum auction; PCS, 900 MHz auction set to resume; Could it be CDMA’s year? … 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 those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! US companies partner...

Celona on CBRS-bashing by old telco crowd – plus global expansion, growth verticals

Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad for the US economy...

AWS opens second India region

Hyderabad joins Mumbai as AWS expands its Asia Pacific presence Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Monday the general availability of its second region in India. The new Hyderabad region, located in the state of Telangana, is called ap-south-2 and has launched with three Availability Zones. Regions...

#TBT: 19 Sprints and counting; Verizon preps Wi-Fi calling; Vodafone invests in India … this week in 2015

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 those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! 19 Sprints and...

Foxconn, Vedanta sign $19.5B semiconductor factory deal for India

The new factory will be built in the Indian PM’s home state of Gujarat Taiwanese semiconductor giant Foxconn and Indian mining conglomerate Vedanta have announced a deal with the Indian government to build one of the first semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the country. The $19.5...

IBM, Airtel build secure edge services for Indian businesses

A look inside the companies’ three-prong strategy with IBM’s head of cloud, 5G, and edge IBM on Wednesday announced a partnership with Indian telco Bharti Airtel to bring forth a massive edge computing project that will include 120 network data centers across 20 cities in...

Reliance Jio plans $25B Indian 5G buildout

The company is also working with Google on an “ultra-affordable” 5G handset, said its chairman  With its 5G spectrum auction behind it, the government of India is putting the pressure on regional Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to quickly spin up 5G service for Indian consumers...

89% of Indian consumers plan to upgrade to 5G: Ookla

Further, 48% intend to upgrade to 5G 'as soon as possible,' Ookla reported India recently concluded a 5G spectrum auction in which the country’s operators spent a total of total $19 billion for spectrum across 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz,...

India concludes $19 billion 5G auction

The rollout of 5G is expected to begin in India in October 2022 The 5G spectrum auction in India, approved earlier this year, has concluded and according to the country’s telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, carriers purchased a total $19 billion worth of spectrum. As expected, Reliance...