BROWSING: LTE

Qualcomm to appeal massive fine levied by European Union

Fine related to Qualcomm agreement with Apple regarding LTE chipsets The European Union Commissioner of Competition Margrethe Vestager this week announced a $1.2 billion fine against chipmaker Qualcomm, alleging the U.S. company influenced consumer choice through an exclusivity arrangement with Apple. Qualcomm has said it...

Collision Communications Achieves 98.8% of What is Theoretically Possible with M-MIMO

  Collision provides a flexible and scalable software-only solution that allows massive performance increases to any vendor's M-MIMO system for LTE and 5G. Similar to the advantages it has demonstrated with its C-RAN technology, Collision Communications has applied its unique signal processing techniques and expertise to...

Challenges in 5G Commercial Deployment

  As 5G networks’ commercial deployment approaches, research in standardization, technologies, services, ecosystem, and deployment modes are increasingly deepening. It has been proven that services, rather than technologies, are the main driving forces of network development. Therefore, the functions and performance required for the implementation...

Qualcomm partners with Jaguar Land Rover vehicle connectivity

In the long-term move towards autonomous vehicles divorced from the typical design paradigm of front-facing seats, steering wheels, pedals, etc...vehicles are becoming increasingly connected. Passengers and drivers can use network-based services to support a range of use cases including vehicular telemetry, personalized infotainment and...

CommScope launches new ultra-wideband 4×4 MIMO antenna

CommScope has launched a new antenna with a particularly broad range of frequency support, that pushes multiple-input-multiple-output technology on the tower to 4x4 at 1400-2700 MHz, with low-band support at 694-960 MHz as well. Upendra Pingle, VP of CommScope's base station antenna and Heliax product...

Top 50 of 2017, Part 3: New leadership at Verizon, nationwide LAA

Editors note: This week we’ll take a look back at the 50 stories that drew the highest level of engagement from our RCR Wireless News community.  Hans Vestberg on transition to Verizon and the next five years After serving for six years as the CEO of...

3GPP fun facts, Part 3 (Analyst Angle)

Editor's Note: SRG has been participating in 3GPP standardization meetings since September 2015 when the standards body held its first workshop on 5G.  Prior to that initial 5G workshop, SRG closely followed the various standardization efforts since they provide great insight into the future capabilities...

Top 50 of 2017, Part 1: Millimeter wave, LTE call flow, Title II and more

Editors note: This week we'll take a look back at the 50 stories that drew the highest level of engagement from our RCR Wireless News community.  What is millimeter wave and how does it fit into 5G? Millimeter wave spectrum is the band of spectrum between 30 GHz and 300...

For operators, 5G is all about network efficiency

Massive support for IoT, as well as coexistence between LTE and 5G, are key points 5G is synonymous with speed, but there's more to the next generation of mobile networks than that. Massive support for the internet of things (IoT) and mission critical communications are...

FirstNet documents reportedly leaked in Vermont

Vermont has already decided to opt in to AT&T's build-out of a nationwide public safety LTE network, but leaked documents from consultants' assessments of the First Responders Network Authority plans in Vermont have made some state officials fear that they could face a lawsuit...

New Hampshire opts out of FirstNet

Governor Sununu says the state will pursue build-out with Rivada Networks New Hampshire has become the first state to opt out of AT&T's nationwide build-out of a public safety LTE network for the First Responders Network Authority, as the Dec. 28th deadline approaches for all...

#TBT: Cell phones at Blockbuster; Apple tests LTE waters; T-Mo gears up for network expansion … this week in 2012

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! Pick up a...

Leveraging LTE for an always-on PC

MAUI, Hawaii--Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 mobile platform is a fundamental part of most smartphones. Now that same technology is coming to personal computers. At the Snapdragon Technology Summit, ASUS and HP announced new PCs billed as always-on--no waiting for the OS to kick-in; open the...

Ericsson to carry out 5G trial in Saint Petersburg next year

Russian telcos aims to deploy large 5G trials during the Fifa World Cup 2018 Ericsson and Russian telco Rostelecom announced they will carry out a 5G trial at the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. The two companies said the trial is scheduled for the first half...

Enhanced Machine-TypeCommunication (eMTC) – LTE for Massive IoT

Managing the communication needs of IoT devices is a work in progress. There are a number of short-range and long-range wireless network protocols — Bluetooth, BLE, Zigbee and LoRaWAN, to name a few—that have their place but also have limitations, especially when it comes...

Enhanced Machine-Type Communication (eMTC) – LTE for Massive IoT

Managing the communication needs of IoT devices is a work in progress. There are a number of short-range and long-range wireless network protocols — Bluetooth, BLE, Zigbee and LoRaWAN, to name a few—that have their place but also have limitations, especially when it comes...

How beamforming and Massive-MIMO are advancing mobile networks

Improvements in MIMO technology support advanced mobile network capacity and 5G commercialization MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) isn’t new technology. Early research on multi-channel transmission systems dates back to the 70s, with significant progress for cellular networks gaining traction in the 90s. However, the use...

#TBT: LTE debuts, FLO TV flops, Google talks mobile … this week in 2010

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! ITU ratifies 4G...

Enabling Global Deployment of LTE IoT Devices with SAW-less Radio Design Architecture

This white paper explains how Sequans’ Single-SKU technology works through a design technique that eliminates the need for surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters in the radio front-end architecture of an LTE system, thereby enabling a single hardware design to work in any LTE band...

Enabling Global Deployment of LTE IoT Devices with SAW-less Radio Design Architecture

  This white paper explains how Sequans’ Single-SKU technology works through a design technique that eliminates the need for surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters in the radio front-end architecture of an LTE system, thereby enabling a single hardware design to work in any LTE band...

Five key takeaways from the Ericsson Mobility Report

Ericsson Mobility Report estimates 5G will cover 20% of people by 2023 LTE will be the dominant mobile technology by the end of this year, but 5G is just around the corner, according to the new Ericsson Mobility Report. Here are five key takeaways from the...

Analyst Angle: Innovation in the 5G communications platform and the IoT

  At a conference entitled Patents in Telecoms & the Internet of Things, at George Washington University in the District of Columbia last week, I was perturbed to hear a speaker mischaracterizing the communications standards as platforms of preexisting technologies upon which IoT innovation will...

#TBT: Users tune out mobile TV; big fish get bigger; Qualcomm ditches CDMA Rev. C … this week in 2008

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! The market tunes...

Wireless in the enterprise. A deeper reach, a more active role for venue owners

The role of wireless infrastructure in the enterprise has been steadily expanding since the introduction of Wi-Fi – so for about two decades. In some Asian countries, operators have deployed in-building infrastructure in the enterprise for a long time, driven by high indoor usage...