Global revenues from cellular IoT modules increased by 58 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with the year-ago period, with more than 40 percent of the total revenue in the period in China. 5G-based IoT modules contributed to nearly a quarter of...
President and CEO Cristiano Amon has previously called Qualcomm the 'ticket to the metaverse'
Qualcomm has announced a $100 million-dollar metaverse fund, pledging to offer financial support in the form of investments and grants to those creating foundational technologies and content experiences for the emerging...
TIM said that the 5G Standalone network will be activated once the 3.5 GHz spectrum becomes available for local carriers
Brazilian carrier TIM said it has completed the implementation of its 5G Core Standalone (SA) network in the country.
The South American operator noted that its...
Wi-Fi 7 will bring new and significant capabilities that will reshape how we use and think about Wi-Fi. As the industry continues to define Wi-Fi 7, one truth about all previous generations is clear: implementation will drive differentiation. With an eye toward realizing the...
Movandi CEO and Founder says that the mmWave market needs more alliances like the one it forged with Qualcomm
Qualcomm and Movandi are teaming up to generate more momentum around 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) technology by combining the capabilities of mmWave small cells powered by...
The metaverse has been getting lots of attention ever since Facebook changed their name to Meta several months ago. However, in the real world we have been talking about it in the industry for quite a long time using different names and terms. That...
Last year Qualcomm rolled out its vision of leveraging a unified technology roadmap to grow its end market well beyond smartphones and grow addressable market 7-fold over the next decade to $700 billion. Now the company is rapidly executing on that plan with across...
Although Wi-Fi 6 and 6E are still making waves in the enterprise and consumer markets, Wi-Fi 7 is here and it brings exciting new features that enable peak performance. In this episode of the Powering the Future of Wireless Connectivity Podcast,
AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon all expanding 5G FWA to capture consumer and enterprise businesses
Last week during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Qualcomm announced an update to its 5G Fixed Wireless Access Platforms to include support for Standalone 5G using mmWave frequencies, introduction of its...
Qualcomm said the platform will feature Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G Modem-RF Systems for Fixed Wireless Access
Italian telco Fastweb and Qualcomm Technologies announced plans to commercialize 5G Standalone (SA) millimeter wave (mmWave) on Qualcomm's 5G Fixed Wireless Access Platform Gen 2.
In a statement,...
After being badly battered by the global pandemic, Mobile World Congress (MWC)—the mobile industry's biggest show, is back to its old glory. It will again be the place where futuristic technologies and products are revealed as well as market trends are set. If you...
As it continues to focus on addressable market growth as a function of moving core mobile expertise into high-value adjacencies, Qualcomm dropped a massive amount of news—16 press releases, in fact—as CEO Cristiano Amon took the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The...
US private networks and small cells provider Boingo Wireless is working with Qualcomm to “streamline” IoT deployments for enterprise customers, it has said. The Los Angeles firm has joined Qualcomm’s ‘smart cities accelerator’ programme, and is offering integrated Qualcomm-based IoT solutions with its own...
The massive MIMO radios will be used in Rakuten Mobile network in Japan and sold globally by Rakuten Symphony
Qualcomm and Rakuten Symphony are confident that they'll crack the code for Open RAN compatible 64T/64R massive MIMO radios that can rival integrated solutions from a...
The talk of the outsized role of cloud players in Open RAN is as old as talk of Open RAN itself. After prolonged anticipation, the collaboration between traditional telco and cloud players is finally coming to fruition. The recent HPE and Qualcomm announcement about...
MFA, formerly the MulteFire Alliance, has released a set of ‘technology blueprints’ for industrial 5G networks and devices to help enterprise users, device makers, and application developers select key 3GPP features for their specific 5G private network deployments and solutions. The new work was...
If you think the successive generations of Wi-Fi are coming far more quickly than before, you are not wrong. While Wi-Fi 6E is relatively new, and Wi-Fi 6 devices are ramping up now, the industry is already readying the next step, Wi-Fi 7. There...
Qualcomm inline accelerator card tapped for Open RAN virtualized distributed units
Along with the gaining traction of commoditized telecom hardware and disaggregated Open RAN architectures, HPE is leaning into the telecom market with the creation of a Communications Technology Group and development of its Open...
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Verizon makes mmWave...
Preamble puncturing makes it possible to "carve out a thin slice" of spectrum that has interference on it
Preamble puncturing is an optional feature introduced in Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax that improves spectral efficiency by allowing a Wi-Fi 6 access point (AP) to transmit a...
Operators can deploy 5G more sustainably than 4G, and use the combo of 5G and IoT to help enterprises become more sustainable
Download the report "The green credentials of 5G and IoT" here.
In many ways, 5G and IoT were made for one another. The...
On the path to $700 billion, Qualcomm reports growth in handsets, RF front-end, automotive and IoT
A little less than three months after laying out its 10-year growth plan at an investors event, Qualcomm this week report a record first quarter with year-over-year revenue growth...
Qualcomm is now promising net-zero emissions by 2040 by first reducing its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 50%
Qualcomm has supported the Paris Agreement since 2015, with Nate Tibbits, the company’s senior vice president of Government Affairs, calling it a “strong...
