Yearly Archives: 2018

Italian government raises a preliminary $2.87 billion in 5G auction

The Italian government confirmed Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Wind Tre, Iliad and Fastweb submitted offers for 5G frequencies The Italian government raised a preliminary 2.48 billion...

GWS ranks AT&T as ‘best network’

GWS says recent U.S. mobile network testing is its most-comprehensive ever AT&T was rated the best mobile network, in what benchmarking company Global Wireless Solutions...

Boingo sees MDUs as big growth opportunity

Elauwit acquisition gives Boingo inroads into apartment connectivity segment LOS ANGELES—Looking out over the UCLA campus and the 405, Boingo Wireless CEO David Hagan discussed...

5G NR: Massive MIMO and Beamforming – What does it mean and how can I measure it in the field?

  Massive MIMO (mMIMO) and beamforming are buzzwords widely used in the telecom industry when referring to 5G and latest advancements of LTE. The challenge...

Blockchain technology in the telecom industry: Part 3 (Reader Forum)

Editor’s note: Click here for part 1 and here for part 2 of this three-part series on blockchain technology in the telecom industry. The first six...

LTE-M and NB-IoT will carry 75% of asset tracking by 2023, claims report

Cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks running on LTE-M and NB-IoT technologies will account for three-quarters of the installed base of asset trackers in 2023,...

SMEs must urgently embrace cultural and technological change, says Siemens

German manufacturing giant Siemens has issued a rallying cry to small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to urgently embrace cultural and technological change, and grasp the...

Operator cooperation, new ecosystem is key to ending messaging disintermediation (Reader Forum)

Since the first text message was sent in 1992, messaging as a method of communication has exploded in popularity. Free unlimited texting was incorporated into the majority of mobile operator...

Analyst Angle: Are you skeptical about 5G millimeter wave?

If you are, think again! In the cellular value chain, the most conservative and last holdouts in making any kind of public announcements are...

GetWireless and Nextivity WhitePaper: Value-added distributors drive adoption of enterprise cellular coverage solutions

In the competitive world of enterprise cellular connectivity, teaming up with the right value-added distributor can make all the difference in market expansion and...

Value-added distributors drive adoption of enterprise cellular coverage solutions

  In the competitive world of enterprise cellular connectivity, teaming up with the right value-added distributor can make all the difference in market expansion and...

T-Mo taps Ericsson for 5G, to the tune of $3.5B

T-Mobile US deal follows $3.5 billion Nokia agreement in July T-Mobile US has signed a $3.5 billion, multi-year contract with Ericsson for 5G network deployment....

Verizon tops P3 network speed analysis — but Sprint has a surprisingly good showing

P3 dives into network speed comparisons Verizon users are able to achieve the fastest average and top network speeds most often, according to analysis by...

Cyber threats to utilities, and what to do about them

There was a time that physical attacks by one country on another occurred only during open war. In the past few decades, however, cyber...

Samsung to recruit 1,000 data scientists for New York AI research hub

Samsung said it aims to employ about 1,000 specialists globally in the AI field   Samsung announced plans to open a new artificial intelligence research centre...

Sigfox eyes “heavy” expansion in the US, targeting logistics and utilities sectors

  Sigfox said it will focus on Russia, China and India to boost growth next year   French internet of things connectivity provider Sigfox is looking to...

Western IoT brands lose 15% share in 12 months as China ramps up NB-IoT focus

Well established North American and European manufacturers of M2M and IoT devices have seen their share of global shipments slip by 15 per cent...

Verizon to open four new 5G Labs by the end of 2018

  The new facilities will be located in Washington DC, Palo Alto, Waltham and Los Angeles   Verizon will open four new 5G Labs this year, with...

Sprint, Nokia to demo massive MIMO for 5G NR

Nokia Bell Labs invented massive MIMO, a key part of Sprint 5G strategy Sprint’s approach to 5G isn’t just an approach to 5G. It’s also...

AT&T expands mobile 5G plans

AT&T names new 5G cities, focuses foundries on application development Ahead of Mobile World Congress Americas, which begins tomorrow in Los Angeles, AT&T made a...

Why ultra-low 5G latencies are not assured, and Europe is worst placed

The physics of time-division duplexing in radio communications means 5G could, in certain frequency bands, struggle to achieve the ultra low latencies it promises....

10 smart building tech companies every building owner should know

Today, many new startups are leveraging the proliferation of the internet of things, machine learning and energy savings solutions to bring about massive innovation...

Blockchain technology in the telecom industry: Part 2 (Reader Forum)

Editor's note: Click here for part 1of this three-part series on blockchain technology in the telecom industry. Blockchain applications in the telecom industry `1. Blockchain in...

NFV — The need for virtualized acceleration and offloads (Reader Forum)

The ideas around Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), each in their own right, have been around in the industry for many...

Cyber threats to industrial control systems

If you want to do real harm to a country attack its infrastructure — utilities, for example — and its economic base — its...
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