The FiRa Consortium, the organisation looking to build the IoT market around the burgeoning ultra wideband (UWB) technology, is taking on new members at a decent rate. Germany-based wireless test company Rohde & Schwarz is the latest to sign up, as an associate member....
5G SA is the next phase of next-gen network rollouts
Samsung and Deutsche Telekom completed the Czech Republic’s first 5G Standalone (SA) trial in Pilsen. During the trial, the two companies verified the performance of 5G SA Multi-User, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) technologies using Samsung’s massive...
The Texas chip manufacturing plant would produce 3-nanometer processors
Reports indicate that Samsung's semiconductor manufacturing arm is considering an approximately $10 billion investment in a fab in Texas that would produce chips on a 3-nanometer (3nm) process.
This wouldn’t be the company’s first Texas plant....
More snowy and chilly greetings from Jefferson City and Willard, Missouri, as well as the Tar Heel state, where we anxiously await next week’s warmup. The opening picture is from a Zoom presentation last week to the Colorado Wireless Association (COWA). A terrific discussion...
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 can aggregate T-Mobile's 600 MHz and 2.5 GHz 5G bands
Samsung this week debuted its latest flagship, the Galaxy S21, with across-the-board feature advancements and, of course, support for non-standalone and standalone 5G both sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave. Of interest n...
At CES 2021, Samsung introduced new consumer robot concepts
At this year’s virtual CES, Samsung’s President and Head of Research Sabastian Seung made the company’s goal of enhancing the at-home experience very clear.
“Our world looks different, and many of you have been faced with...
5G is the fastest-growing mobile technology in history and is being adopted four times as quickly as LTE was when it was introduced, as 5G Americas observed in a new report. For impatient customers, 5G and the new applications it will power cannot come...
Samsung revealed that it achieved a 5G Standalone Core data processing capacity of 305 Gbps per server and latency improvement in a mobile network environment using Intel’s second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and the Intel Ethernet Network Adapter E810 with Enhanced Dynamic Device Personalization...
Samsung and IBM have announced plans to jointly advance Industry 4.0 by providing new enterprise mobile edge computing and private 5G networks solutions that run on Samsung’s 5G-enabled Galaxy devices. The pair also said that the collaboration will leverage IBM’s industry solutions driven by...
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...
Ericsson’s shares fell 8.2% after trading began in Stockholm
Ericsson announced that it’s taking Samsung to court in the U.S., alleging that the South Korean company failed to deliver on contractual commitments concerning royalty payments and patent licenses.
In a statement, Ericsson said that case involves...
Mercedes-Benz has integrated its in-car voice assistant system with the home-based Samsung-owned SmartThings platform to enable drivers and passengers to interact with connected devices in their homes. It is the first native in-car system to be linked with smart home functions, claim the pair.
The...
Last week I virtually attended the Qualcomm 5G Summit 2020, which is their annual conference where they talk about what they have accomplished in the past year, where they are today and what their plans are going forward. Let me share a few key...
Samsung will supply the 5G private network with its RAN for mid-band and mmWave spectrum, and cloud-native core
Samsung Electronics and Kyocera Communication Systems (KCCS) are engaging in their first collaborative project to implement a dedicated 5G private network at a Japanese manufacturing facility. The...
Canadian operator Rogers Communications has expanded its 5G network to reach 130 towns and cities across the country, the carrier said in a release.
In January 2020, Rogers Communications had initially launched 5G in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.
Other large cities covered with 5G technology...
Korean telecommunications operators SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus have ordered 28 GHz 5G base stations from compatriot company Samsung Electronics for the first time, Korean press reported.
According to the reports, these are the same base stations that U.S. carrier Verizon recently ordered from...
On this week's episode, Suruchi Gupta, Samsung's senior professional of sales and head of 5G collaboration, discusses the company's commitment to helping create an open telecom ecosystem that supports multi-vendor interoperability.
Samsung’s 5G vRAN, virtual core, MEC, and management and analytics will be central to the collaboration
Samsung will deliver 5G network solutions built on Red Hat's hybrid cloud portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat...
Let’s frame the Open RAN value proposition to better understand the benefits of disaggregating radio hardware and software, trading single-purpose equipment for general-purpose hardware and moving vital network functions into the cloud. First and foremost, network economics need to change; for 5G, and LTE,...
5G end-to-end network slicing will allow for the creation of new services and business models
Samsung Electronics and KDDI completed a 5G end-to-end (E2E) network slicing demonstration with a RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) in Tokyo, Japan yesterday. The demo, which tied together Samsung’s virtualized core,...
Intel has secured licenses from U.S. authorities to continue supplying certain products to Chinese vendor Huawei, Reuters reported, citing an Intel spokesman.
According to the report, the licenses are now required to make a transaction with Huawei or a listed affiliate involving any equipment using...
In-building 5G mmWave solutions will bring high throughput, great capacity, high reliability indoors
Verizon has begun trials with Samsung, and recently completed similar trials with Corning, that test new 5G mmWave in-building solutions, which the operator hopes will extend the footprint of its 5G network...
Every time I see the frontline users chugging along those thick, heavy, oversized rugged phones, I feel there should be a way to make them sleek, and stylish like consumer phones, without compromising on the functionality. And I am delighted to say that Samsung...
