Breaking the energy curve as 5G matures requires network modernization and energy-smart operations
The landmark Paris Agreement, signed in 2015, brought sustainability to the global stage in a major way. Just as nations have established their own sustainability strategies, so too have large global corporations,...
Turn of the decade calls for revitalized global climate action
The ongoing global warming and climate change are now exposing humanity to future threats, and their consequences are already impacting many regions of the world and affecting hundreds of millions of human lives as we...
Ericsson portfolio update aligns with goal to help operators break the energy curve with sustainable 5G infrastructure and operations
Ericsson announced today seven new RAN products the company billed as delivering "sizeable energy savings and up to 10-fold capacity increases with minimal or no added...
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...
Discarded fishing nets are a significant threat to marine life and the planet at large
Days ahead of its Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung announced that its high-end Galaxy S smartphone will be made from a “new material” comprised of plastics found in discarded fishing nets.
While...
Operators can become greener with the deployment of 5G and use 5G to propel sustainability initiatives in other sectors
Telecommunications and technology firms the world over are focused on delivering 5G- and internet of things-based solutions—as well as a litany of complementary tech like artificial...
AWS: 'The cloud can do more than modernize programs; it empowers governments to streamline operations and work towards long term sustainability goals'
Ever the over-achiever, Amazon has established its own sort of sustainability pledge, calling it "The Climate Pledge". The pledge, founded in partnership with...
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...
Verizon's chief sustainability officer: 'We’re committed to reducing our environmental impact and supporting the transition to a greener grid'
Peters Suh, industry lead for North America at Accenture’s Communications & Media, told RCR Wireless News that even as 5G leads to more network efficiencies and to use cases...
Verizon chief sustainability officer believes that technology companies have a unique and heightened responsibility to curb climate change
Verizon announced seven new Renewable Energy Purchase Agreements (REPAs), which add up to approximately 910 megawatts (MW) of projected renewable energy capacity. According to James Gowen, senior vice...
Eighteen months ago, in the middle of the first COVID-19 wave, we launched a study to learn more about how businesses were using IoT. We sought to discover if IoT was helping them cope with the unprecedented challenges caused by the global pandemic. The...
At CES 2022, Qualcomm’s VP of economic strategy claims that the green outlook for 5G greatly surpasses that of previous generations of cellular technology
LAS VEGAS - During a panel discussion at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Kirti Gupta, VP of economic strategy at...
In this episode of Will 5G Change the World?, Ericsson Chief Technology Officer for North America, Mike Murphy, discusses how network infrastructure modernization and other factors can help operators break the energy curve as the upgrade to 5G. Further, Murphy discusses Ericsson's own sustainability initiatives, and shares his thoughts on how 5G can enable other applications with positive impacts on sustainability.
Mankind needs change and fast. The best-case scenarios from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) require aggressive mitigation of global carbon emissions, calling for them to fall to levels from 40 to 70% lower than their 2010 levels.
As the climate crisis...
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Kiva Allgood, head of IoT, Ericsson:
1. The edge is closer than ever
“As enterprises become ‘digitized’ and enable more connected machines, sensors and solutions, computing in the cloud won’t be fast enough to optimize performance in real-time. Enterprises will need computing near the edge. This...
The Spice Girls have been back again (at writing) nwith a reunion tour and a souvenir t-shirt. It is a nostalgia trip, for sure – in terms of the songbook at play, and the industrial mechanisms grinding into gear behind it. To be clear,...
Stockholm is a ‘lighthouse city’, alongside Cologne and Barcelona, in the European Commission’s GrowSmarter project, one of three to receive support in the first ‘Smart Cities and Communities’ (SCC1) call under the Horizon 2020 funding stream, the biggest innovation fund in Europe, with €80 billion allocated through...
