Swiss IoT module maker u-blox is to phase out its loss-making cellular IoT business, the firm has said. The division has over 200 employees; jobs are expected to go with its closure. It made revenue of CHF 27 million ($29.6 million) in the first...
The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) has taken a licence with specialist US private network provider Anterix to use the local 900 MHz band for private LTE across its service areas in Texas. The agreement builds on its purchase of 900 MHz licenses from...
RCR Wireless does not normally pay so much attention to pay-walled market analysis reviews, but in the circumstances, and as a point of difference…
Another day, another analyst review of the private 5G market; this one, by UK-based Kaleido Intelligence, looks to have made a...
The Utility Broadband Alliance (UBBA) and the 450 MHz Alliance (450A), working differently to develop private 4G and 5G networks for utility operations, have signed a deal to collaborate on the same. The former has focused mostly so far on private LTE (4G) for...
Dutch chip firm NXP Semiconductors has signed a deal to buy Austria-based automotive software solution provider TTTech Auto for $625 million. TTTech Auto, with around 1,100 engineering staff, produces safety systems and middleware for software-defined vehicles. The firm, including its management team and intellectual...
As Greil Marcus said of Bob Dylan, somewhere between Nashville Skyline and Blood on the Tracks: what is this shit? Because the newest ‘magic quadrant’ study from Gartner, which holds a Bob-like influence in the heritage pop canon of telecoms and IT research (partly...
Ireland-based core network provider Druid Software has raised $20 million in venture funding to expand its private 4G/5G deployments in the defence, shipping, and utilities markets, it has said. The funding round was co-led by Boston-based J2 Ventures and Singapore-based HICO Investment Group, which...
The private 5G Standalone network will utilize spectrum allocated to BSNL
Indian state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), in partnership with Indian IT systems integrator Echelon Edge, has reportedly secured a contract with Coal India Limited (CIL) to install a private 5G network at...
The Port of Valencia (Valenciaport) in Spain is in the process of deploying a private 5G network to connect more than 25,000 handsets, tablets, vehicles, cameras, sensors, drones, and other devices, applications, and services. It has taken a 20 MHz chunk of the local...
With several shakeups over the past few years, the state of the low power wide area networking (LPWAN) market is not always clear. However, the reality is that all the pieces are in place, and market demand paired with continuous technology evolution is fueling...
Taiwanese advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and private network provider Ubiik is lining up a private LTE-M (LTE Cat-M1) solution for deployment in the unlicensed 915 MHz ISM band. It means 3GPP-based cellular IoT technology, offering low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) connectivity for IoT comms, will...
Cellular IoT is evolving rapidly, driven by three distinct trends: the growing demand for actionable data, advancements in edge processing, and the long-anticipated shift from 4G to 5G NR. These trends are not just reshaping the technology landscape, but redefining how businesses, networks, and...
Here’s an early bet, straight out of the gate: 2025 will see the rise (at last!) of so-called ‘smart labels’ – potentially printable battery-less IoT silicon-and-SIM stickers that can be attached to low-value packages, even to envelopes, to track their journey and status in...
Belgium-based telecoms group Proximus has created a new global business, Proximus Global, to combine its three international units – BICS, Telesign, and Route Mobile – under a single brand, and to tap their “huge potential for cross-selling and collaboration”. The idea is to establish...
In 2025, the demand for smart IoT tracking technologies, including smart labels, will reach new heights.
Pre-parcel anxiety is a growing phenomenon among today’s shoppers, characterised by an obsessive need to track their parcels. Studies show that 90% of consumers check their parcel status...
Vodafone Business sees sustainability as a strategic imperative and customer demand
As Vodafone Business sees its customers pushing the boundaries on sustainability, it is taking the same strategy: both as part of its own strategic telecom sustainability imperatives, and also to meet the demands of...
The internet of things (IoT) continues to grow apace as more industries connect devices for commercial and operational reasons. Transforma Insights forecast global IoT connections to land at 18.2 billion this year, with a projected rise to 20.4 billion next. It is a linear...
US chip-maker Silicon Labs has said it has shipped four million Wirepas sub-GHz RF mesh IoT units for India’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) initiative, to go in smart electricity meters. The Indian government set new rules in 2021 to reduce losses and improve operational...
A couple of announcements from Germany-based IoT MVNO 1NCE: the firm has introduced a new global certification program for software ‘integrators’ to streamline IoT development and accelerate IoT innovation; as well, announced a couple of weeks back, 1NCE has renewed its cloud deal with...
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial enterprises is reshaping the way organizations view and implement cloud strategies. Industrial enterprises generate a staggering amount of data – from factory sensors to supply chain systems – and leveraging this data effectively is becoming...
There will be over 100 million Wi-Fi HaLow devices, geared for mid-range IoT applications in 850-950 MHz spectrum, in circulation by 2029, reckons ABI Research. The projection describes the creation of an entire market, effectively; there are only “several million” Wi-Fi HaLow-enabled devices in...
Nokia Bell Labs, the research and development (R&D) arm of Finish vendor Nokia, is working with the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), the Fraunhofer Society’s electrical engineering group, and Charité, Europe’s largest university hospital, in Germany to look at how sub-terahertz (sub-THz) wireless technologies...
Note, this is a transcript, more or less, of the opening address at Industrial 5G Forum (still available on-demand) at the start of November; printed here for posterity, and to make up the numbers, but also because it works as an op/ed piece about...
The IoT landscape is poised for innovative developments. Central to this transformation is LoRaWAN, which has steadily established itself as a cornerstone of IoT innovation. LoRaWAN enables low-power, long-range connectivity, making it ideal for applications ranging from smart utilities to remote agriculture. But what...
