2018

The second week of October was the annual 5G Americas annual Analyst Forum held in Dallas, Texas. The event was kicked off by the Chairman and CTO of T-Mobile US, Neville Ray (@NevilleRay). Just a few highlights to start off …

Small cells will be key to enterprise, industrial 5G applications HONG KONG–During its annual 4G/5G Summit, Qualcomm executives repeatedly called out the role 5G could play in opening up new enterprise and industrial applications. Because the vast majority of connected …

“5G is ready for business,” Ericsson exec says HONG KONG–Qualcomm Technologies President Cristiano Amon opened up the company’s 4G/5G Summit by telling the assembled crowd that 5G “will be a reality” next year as networks go live in the U.S., …

  Crown Castle said its pipeline of contracted small cells nodes to be constructed over the next 18-24 months stands at 35,000 Crown Castle expects to deploy between 10,000 and 15,000 small cells in 2019, CEO Jay Brown said during …

  Twilio said the new platform for T-Mobile’s NB-IoT platform will be available for beta access in early 2019   Cloud communications platform company Twilio has announced the creation of a new developer platform for T-Mobile US’ narrowband internet of …

  Rogers Communications said telcos need to negotiate access to this infrastructure with municipal governments and landlords Operators willing to deploy 5G infrastructure will need to have access to certain city infrastructure including ducts and poles, Canadian telecom operator Rogers …

IBW is taking off, driven by a convergence of technologies (small cells and CRAN, new DAS architectures, MEC, CBRS, MulteFire), connectivity needs (IoT, enterprise and venue applications, high-capacity/low-latency connectivity in venues), and business models (private networks, neutral hosts). This webinar …

Gartner identifies 10 tech trends to watch next year Autonomous “things”, digital twins and an “empowered edge” are some of the top — but perhaps not fully recognized — tech trends to watch in 2019, according to Gartner. “The future …

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we …

The vast majority of enterprises are struggling with the business case for blockchain, even among those already working with the distributed ledger technology. They are also struggling with interoperability issues, and, despite its promise of immutability, confidence in its security …

Fifteen years ago, my favorite wireless phone was a smartphone called Palm. Then as the years passed the Palm was not updated enough, my new favorite wireless phone was a smartphone called Blackberry. Then came the Apple iPhone and Google …

Ontario’s former privacy commissioner has resigned from her consulting role at Google’s sister company Sidewalk Labs over its failure to guarantee citizens’ personal data would be protected at its Toronto smart-city development. Ann Cavoukian resigned from Sidewalk Labs, owned by …

Almost three quarters (73 per cent) of the total sales of industrial robots go to just five markets. Their identity (see below) is hardly surprising; they are the world’s leading nations for manufacturing. What is notable from the new World …

Annual sales of industrial robots to factories has increased by 114 per cent over the last five years, according to a new report. Sales are expected grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13 per cent over the next …

But flagship 5G Android devices are due out in 2019 HONG KONG—“We believe that we are poised to really transform the world, reinvent whole new industries and enrich lives with the impending launch of 5G.” That was the message from …

New Ruckus Networks offerings add flexibility to Wi-Fi financing In today?s hyper-connected world, the lack of reliable and consistent Wi-Fi can have a devastating impact on worker productivity and customer experience and lead to a substantial loss of revenue for …

Verizon also extends to fee waiver to new counties Verizon network recovery crews are playing a game of whack-a-mole in the Florida Panhandle as clean up efforts related to the Oct. 10 landfall of Hurricane Michael continue. The carrier sustained …

  Driven by high-definition TV, video interactive services, and also with the emergence of the IoT and 5G era, optical transport networks are stepping from 100G to 400G and 1T, according to Yan Xia, director of ZTE’s New Jersey Lab. …

Getting the value out of data and app-based interactions among PropTech trends CHICAGO–JLL Spark,?the PropTech investment arm of commercial real estate services firm Jones Lang Lasalle led by veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Mihir Shah and Yishai Lerner, is in the …

  Verizon will work with Urbanova to deploy smart city solutions in the city of Spokane   Verizon and Urbanova, in collaboration with the city of Spokane, Washington, have inked a partnership for the development of smart city solutions. Under …

  The Canadian carrier said the deployment will start in Ontario by the end of this year Canadian carrier Rogers announced its plan to launch an LTE Cat M1 network (LTE-M) to provide IoT-based services across Canada. The telco said …

There is growing emphasis around the importance of building IoT systems that offer reliable connectivity, enterprise-grade security, and extended device lifecycle management. Investing in the right technology partners can help overcome many of the challenges developers and companies face when …

To continue scaling, on-boarding for IoT devices needs to be simplified, accelerated Internet of things devices connected to public, private or hybrid clouds for centralized management and data analysis can create wide-ranging business benefits for nearly any type of enterprise, …

Anritsu and reverberation chamber testing company Bluetest are collaborating on 5G over-the-air testing capabilities, Bluetest’s second recent partnership in 5G OTA testing. Anritsu’s Radio Communications Test Station MT8000A and Bluetest’s OTA Reverberation Test System RTS65 have been integrated in order …

Huawei partnered with AI specialist YITU to develop Intelligent Campus Scalable security for enterprise complexes is the primary goal of the “Intelligent Campus” solution announced this week at Huawei Connect in Shanghai. The new product was co-developed by the Chinese …