Yearly Archives: 2018

AI and 5G go hand-in-hand for network operations

As network attacks get more sophisticated, AI can help with threat detection As it continues to develop, 5G will become increasingly complex. The need to...

China Tower raises $6.9 billion in Hong Kong IPO

  China Tower said it would use part of the proceeds to build new towers and upgrade existing infrastructure Chinese state-owned telecommunications tower company China Tower...

DAS accounts for 37% of Boingo Wireless’ revenues in Q2

  Boingo said it has 78 DAS venues and 11,500 DAS nodes in backlog Revenue from the distributed antenna system (DAS) segment accounted for 37% of...

Innovation Watch – Intelligent automation and control startups

A conundrum facing the intelligent building ecosystem is that most large BAS systems are based on proprietary platforms aimed at commercial properties over 500,000...

Qualcomm turns to IoT to drive growth

Qualcomm sees opportunity in enterprise, industrial and consumer IoT During its analyst day in San Diego, Qualcomm Technologies' executives discussed the company's overall strategy to...

Carrier call-blocking services effective at identifying robocalls, study finds

Study tested carrier services for identifying and blocking spam calls A study by analyst firm Mind Commerce found that services offered by wireless network operators...

Are you really ready for 5G? (Reality Check)

Using AI-driven analytics to please customers and streamline operations in a 5G world Every day we’re being bombarded with emails, blogs, and vendor dissertations about...

Arm launches Pelion IoT, closes acquisition with Treasure Data

Arm looks to move IoT from pilots to production Treasure Data, an enterprise data management company, has been acquired by Arm for an undisclosed sum,...

Verizon launching mobile 5G in 2019

Motorola provides device support with snap-on 5G "mod" Building on its planned commercialization of fixed 5G for residential broadband in four markets this year, Verizon...

Johnson Controls outperforms in Q3 on smart building solution demand

Johnson Controls International, (JCI) a leading producer of HVAC and building control systems, reported strong Q3 earnings, propelled by organic growth and margin expansion...

Can One-Touch Make-Ready increase broadband competition? (Reader Forum)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to adopt the long-awaited “One-Touch Make-Ready” (OTMR) regulatory framework today that will allow new entrants in the...

Gigabit network deployments up almost 40% since last year, Viavi says

Gigabit internet service, including gigabit LTE, is expanding and the U.S. in the lead, reports Viavi Global access to gigabit internet services is on the...

FCC to start millimeter wave auction Nov. 14

24 GHz and 28 GHz up first with more millimeter wave auctions in the works High-capacity millimeter wave frequencies are key to delivering the multi-gigabit-per-second...

802.11ax gaining momentum as routers and access points hit the market

802.11ax designed to boost Wi-Fi in congested deployment scenarios The next enhancement to the IEEE Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ax, is poised to hit both enterprise and...

Commscope sees benefits from NA partnerships despite impacts in margins

  Commscope also highlighted the firm is well-positioned to capture business opportunities in the 5G field Commscope expects to see future benefits from partnerships with large...

Sprint has distributed over 260,000 Magic Box small cells: CEO

  The carrier said that tests of Massive MIMO for 5G deployments are very promising Sprint has already distributed more than 260,000 Magic Box small cells...

On record Q2, Boingo expands Wi-Fi footprint with acquisition

Boingo buying student, multi-family Wi-Fi provider Elauwit Networks On Aug. 1 Boingo Wireless, in addition to announcing a 21.6% year-over-year growth in Q2 2018 revenue...

5G tapped by Audi for automotive manufacturing

5G will simulate remote production environments Two giants of the automobile and technology world have teamed up to bring 5G technology to meet the high...

“First of its kind” LoRaWAN IoT project launches in Montreal

LoRaWAN being leveraged for smart transportation The City of Montreal is turning to the Internet of Things (IoT) to digitalise its public transport, with the...

T-Mobile US CEO: Building 5G in 30 cities this year, nationwide in 2020

Legere updates on T-Mobile US, Sprint merger T-Mobile US executives, who are working with counterparts at Sprint and federal officials on a proposed merger, provided...

#TBT: Razr peaks; touchscreens take over; Verizon picks up Rural Cellular … this week in 2007

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...

Proposed FCC rule threatens farmers (Reader Forum)

The right mobile broadband infrastructure could deliver big productivity gains to U.S. farmers as the internet of things lets them analyze data about crops,...

State of Georgia, AT&T think of the children with new IoT project

Internet of things (IoT) technology is to be installed in school zones across the state of Georgia to improve road safety for children. The...

Sprint reports wireless growth as network investment plan continues

Sprint adding 2.5 GHz support to macro sites; 15,000 small cells on-air Under the direction of new CEO Michel Combes, Sprint today reported Q1 2018...

AI makes a better salesperson than a network engineer (Reality Check)

In the relatively rare instances that artificial intelligence is already part of a telecommunications network, it is generally there to optimize connectivity and the...
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