Categorically, it seems, private 5G has helped some businesses stay on track during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic over the last 12 months. That was the message last week from Lufthansa Technik, the aircraft services division of German airline Lufthansa, speaking at a private LTE...
The Telit FN980 5G module series is ideal for bandwidth-intensive enterprise applications, enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to quickly leverage the operator’s 5G Ultra Wideband and 5G Nationwide networks
London, January 20, 2021 – Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced...
The CBRS Alliance, the industry working group dedicated to wireless services in the 3.5 GHz ‘CBRS’ band in the US, has rebranded as the OnGo Alliance in order to advance its role as the go-to support group for the shared spectrum initiatives around the...
The most important watchword in 2021 will be diversification. This will be key to growth for the mobile industry in the 5G era, on multiple levels. In the past, cellular networks and services have been supplied, deployed and monetized by a relatively small number...
Nokia announced an agreement with Tideworks Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrix, to deploy Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) at the Port of Seattle, Terminal 5.
The vendor said that deployment of Nokia’s digital automation service platform with LTE/5G private wireless networking will deliver...
The Covid 19 pandemic has helped accelerate private cellular network adoption, and will continue to do so in 2021. But it has also highlighted a new digital divide (which is not going away anytime soon) between vertical sectors that have and have-not prioritized access...
In the past few years, we’ve seen exponential growth in the adoption of industrial IoT devices and connections. This year, in addition to that surging growth, the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred organizations to accelerate their adoption of remote management for these deployments. Whether they...
Without accurate maps, it’s impossible to know what communities lack wireless services or how much it will cost to reach them
One thing that the COVID-19 global health crisis has taught us is that wireless connectivity is not a luxury but a necessity. Millions of...
LAA proved a major boom for operators looking to max out the capabilities of LTE networks. Similarly, MulteFire sparked significant interest in using cellular in unlicensed for private networking purposes.
Now, as 5G is evolving and scaling, bringing the latest generation of cellular into unlicensed...
Samsung and IBM are to collaborate on on-premise industrial 5G and edge computing to drive the Industry 4.0 market, they have said. The pair want to combine their expertise in private 5G networks and edge computing, in the shape of Samsung’s 5G smartphones and...
Adam Koeppe, Verizon’s senior vice president of network planning, caught up with RCR Wireless News to discuss how the operator is tackling the growing interest in private LTE and 5G networks in the enterprise space. When it comes to providing reliable and secure private...
Verizon will deploy its network solution to more than 9,000 Walgreens, Duane Reade locations
Verizon Business will deploy its Network as a Service (NaaS), an all-encompassing network solution, to more than 9,000 Walgreens and Duane Reade retail locations across the U.S. in what Verizon Business’...
Mark Bole, the CEO of Quortus, a private mobile network software provider, caught up with RCR Wireless News to discuss what enterprise decision makers should keep in mind when deciding if, how and where to use private cellular in their facilities and how enterprises...
RCR Wireless News · Private wireless podcast – 2020, the year everything changed (episode #3)
2020; what a year! As society has sought new ways to work amid the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the telecoms industry has accelerated deployments of cellular-based LTE and 5G...
LAA proved a major boom for operators looking to max out the capabilities of LTE networks. Similarly, MulteFire sparked significant interest in using cellular in unlicensed for private networking purposes.
Now, as 5G is evolving and scaling, bringing the latest generation of cellular into unlicensed...
Global investment in Wi-Fi infrastructure in the industrial space will grow from $1.7 billion in 2021 to $6.9 billion in 2030 at a compound rate of almost 17 percent per year, as the latest Wi-Fi 6 generation of the technology is deployed to support...
Cigarette brand Philip Morris International has signed a deal with Italian tower operator INWIT to build a 4G LTE network at its new €1 billion research and production plant in Bologna, in Italy, to headline the firm’s developing Industry 4.0 agenda.
The facility makes combustion-free...
This week, Suparna Kumar, VP of Engineering at Celona, comes on the podcast to discuss the future of private LTE and 5G networks, using her strong engineering background to explore the challenges and opportunities they present.
As 5G starts making its way into broader deployment, new bands and technologies are bringing additional complications to the Radio Access Network: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, massive MIMO and millimeter wave, just to name a few.
How do you efficiently test, optimize and troubleshoot in a...
In the last few months, we have seen society’s embrace of technology accelerate dramatically. Automation, Artificial Intelligence, virtual experiences, autonomous vehicles and robotics have all become much more accepted as humanity realized what those technologies could mean to human progress. The global pandemic has...
Verizon is buying rural wireless operator Bluegrass Cellular, which provides service to about 210,000 customers in 34Â counties across central Kentucky.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed; it's expected to close late this year or early next, pending Federal Communications Commission approval. Verizon said...
Ericsson and China Telecom said they have successfully completed what they claim is China’s first 5G Standalone (SA 5G) data call on a commercial network using Ericsson's spectrum sharing technology.
In a release, the Swedish vendor said that the milestone was achieved recently on China...
A video call connected from the stratosphere topped off a recent test of an autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft, as Loon and HAPSMobile successfully put a telecommunications payload into the upper reaches of the atmosphere and used it to deliver LTE connectivity.
Video from the test shows...
Driving interoperability, ecosystem development, and future innovation
Today, we take it for granted that our wireless devices and applications just work out of the box —smartphones can connect, make calls, and receive and send data anywhere in the world; laptops can seamlessly connect to any...
