Monthly Archives: June, 2018
U.S. senators, White House work to save deal to lift ban on ZTE
Senators want to ban the Chinese vendor from selling products to critical technology or infra assets
U.S. senators are working on a potential deal with...
Key takeaways from Sprint, T-Mobile US’ Senate testimony
The message coming from T-Mobile US and Sprint executives as they work to convince legislators that their proposed merger will be of benefit to...
Agtech 5G use cases: Demo-day startups crave connectivity
Two agtech startups from demo day need 5G more than others.
SALINAS, California -- Salinas — the "salad bowl of the world" — grows agricultural...
South Korea’s LG U+ likely to buy Huawei equipment for 5G network
The Korean carrier said it will also buy 5G equipment form additional vendors
Korean mobile telephony operator LG U+ is likely to acquire network equipment...
Rambus fires CEO
Another semiconductor company fires CEO for bad behavior.
Rambus' board of directors fired its CEO, Ron Black, on Thursday. The semiconductor and intellectual property company...
Bosch launches new AI research lab in Pittsburgh
The new AI facility will focus on advanced research in artificial intelligence technologies
Bosch has officially launched its Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) research...
Analyst Angle: Cellular inventions trigger avalanche of activities among companies
Major innovations in cellular technologies arise largely from the substantial Research and Development (R&D) investments and inventions of relatively few companies, followed by widespread...
Expectation vs. reality — where are CSPs in their development of partnership ecosystems? (Reality Check)
In 2018, with the commoditization of voice and data services firmly in the cards, the digital market appears to be the market of choice...
Motor cars and gas turbines: Two ‘predictive downtime’ use cases from Hitachi
As we have seen already, through separate discussion of Hitachi’s approach to ‘predictive quality’ and ‘dynamic scheduling’, the digital transformation of industry is multi-faceted....
Test and Measurement: P3 identifies interstate ‘white spots’
P3's crowdsourced data finds LTE coverage gaps
Interstate highways are often one place where people assume they will have solid cellular coverage -- and that's...
Senet claims LoRaWAN in 80 markets, invites towercos to join its LPWA market
US IoT company Senet has expanded its LoRaWAN capabilities to over 80 markets. It has also introduced a raft of server enhancements for its...
AT&T among 15 operators to commit to GSMA’s IoT security guidelines
Mobile operators from every region have backed the GSMA’s new IoT security guidelines. AT&T is the only US operator so far to have committed...
Finnish telco Elisa claims world’s first commercial 5G network launch
Elisa said it is already selling 5G subscriptions for the recently launched service
With the advent of a new generation of network technologies come the...
China Unicom inks 5G partnership with Huawei
Huawei said the 5G partnership will focus on cooperation in end-to-end 5G technical verification and cooperation with vertical industry partners
China Unicom and Huawei have...
China Mobile, Huawei demo remote vehicle control via CV2X and ‘5G Era LTE’
The demo, carried out during MWC Shanghai, used vehicles provided by Chinese manufacturer SAIC
China Mobile, together with Huawei and Chinese state-owned automotive manufacturing company...
Cloud-RAN accelerated during industry group demo at MWC
Industry group puts an accelerator on cloud-RAN
Lenovo, China Mobile, Xilinx, Radisys and Napatech jointly demonstrated a cloud-RAN solution that supports heterogeneous acceleration hardware and decouples software...
Kagan: A reality check for the Sprint and T-Mobile FCC merger application
Sprint and T-Mobile US recently filed their application with the FCC for approval to merge. In that application, they both state they are in...
Qualcomm adds auto, cable execs to board of directors
Ford's former CEO Mark Fields and Comcast's Vice Chairman Neil Smit join Qualcomm's board of directors
Qualcomm has appointed two new directors to its board...
AT&T launches FirstNet dealer program
AT&T expands FirstNet distribution channels
AT&T continues to expand FirstNet's retail presence, with the launch of a new dealer program aimed at expanding the distribution...
Microsoft’s Azure IoT Edge gets official release, security updates, certified modules
Microsoft has made its Azure IoT Edge service ‘generally available’, and added new categories including device management and security to its Azure IoT Edge...
#TBT: Power players of ’97; free pagers galore; Sprint launches new markets … this week in 1997
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...
Smart city alliance looks to establish open source LPWA interface and mesh network
A group of internet-of-things (IoT) companies has established an alliance with cities and utilities to develop an open source wireless interface and data format...
Market for environmental gas sensors to reach $3bn by 2028, says report
The market value for environmental gas sensors will be worth more than $3 billion by 2028, according to a new report from market research...
Softbank to “make real the promise of smart cities” in Dublin’s Docklands testbed
SoftBank will join Dublin City Council's smart city programme and its Docklands District testbed with a remit to make the “opportunity of smart city...
Belden, JMA Wireless ink partnership to offer smart building solutions
The two firms said the new partnership combine Belden’s solutions with JMA Wireless’ DAS, antennas and basebands
Belden, which focuses on mission-critical signal transmission, has...