Monthly Archives: April, 2019
AT&T, Sprint settle ‘5GE’ marketing lawsuit
Sprint and AT&T have settled a lawsuit over AT&T's marketing use of "5G Evolution" to promote its LTE Advanced network.
According to a brief...
Bell Labs President says 6G will mix physical, digital and biological systems
Bell Labs researching 90 GHz for future 6G
Marcus Weldon, president of Nokia Bell Labs and the vendor's chief technology officer, made clear in a...
UK greenlights Huawei to take part in 5G contracts: Report
The U.K. government has cleared Chinese company Huawei to participate in parts of the country’s 5G rollouts, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Huawei will be kept away...
Hitachi enters robotic SI business in North America
Japanese giant Hitachi entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a robotics business operated by American firm JR Automation Technologies. The acquisition price for...
Nokia CEO on 5G: ‘The question is not who wins, but how do we all win?’
Global 5G discussion marked by "confrontational" language
With President Donald Trump recently entering the 5G global discourse and furthering the characterization of deployment as an...
UK aerospace firm tests Wi-Fi 6 in industrial 5G setup, with BT, Cisco, HPE, Intel
UK-based Mettis Aerospace, manufacturer of components for the likes of Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, is to test Wi-Fi 6 for connecting industrial machines and...
Zendrive Webinar: Data In, Safety Out: How 5G Will Disrupt Driver Safety
The increased speed of 5G promises to breed new expectations for mobile consumers. With its super-fast connectivity, intelligent network, and the ability to transmit...
Verizon posts solid Q1, looks forward to 5G dynamic spectrum sharing
Verizon reported solid first quarter numbers and provided new details into its 5G strategy, as it continues with early deployments.
CEO Hans Vestberg said...
Huawei launches 5G-powered hardware for self-driving cars
Chinese vendor Huawei has launched what it claims to be the world’s first 5G-powered hardware for self-driving cars.
The Chinese firm launched the MH5000 module,...
Itron to deploy IIoT network in Australia to support smart lighting solutions
U.S. firm Itron, a technology company that specializes in products and services for energy and water resource management, VINCI Energies’ Electrix and Transport Canberra...
Austin-based Facility Solutions Group launches smart building division
Facility Solutions Group (FSG), a specialist in lighting, electrical, technology and signage solutions, announced today the launch of a new business division to focus...
Qualcomm, Samsung to supply modems for 5G iPhone, analyst says
5G iPhone slated for 2020 release, report says
Now that Qualcomm and Apple have settled ongoing litigation and agreed to a six-year patent licensing and...
A Q&A with Chaobin Yang, president of Huawei’s 5G product line
Huawei has 40 5G contracts
Chinese vendor Huawei has already secured 40 contracts to build and operate 5G networks, the company’s rotating CEO, Ken Hu...
Why has the process of RCS messaging been so painfully slow (Reader Forum)
It's been over 25 years since Neil Papworth of Vodafone sent the first ever text message.
Since then SMS has remained exactly the same. There...
Wi-Fi edges European fight over driving tech, despite noisy 5G rearguard
Europe moved a step closer to rejecting 5G for autonomous vehicles in favour of wi-fi based communications last week, after the European Parliament voted...
Revenue from smart street lights to hit $1.7bn by 2026, surge 31% per year
Annual revenue from smart street lights will grow at compound annual rate of 31 per cent to reach $1.7 billion in 2026, reckons ABI...
How America fell in love with slushies again – a tale of natural flavours and smart dispensers
US frozen drinks company Freezing Point, parent to slushie brand Frazil, has partnered with Norwegian engineering firm 7Sense to develop a low-cost, retrofittable cellular...
Software security flaws and human behavior are major network vulnerability points, Ixia finds
Software security flaws -- including those with available fixes that haven't been applied -- and human behavior continue to be the top sources of...
Commerce Secretary appoints new spectrum committee members; new FirstNet board member sought
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee -- better known as the CSMAC -- has a new roster of 30...
Huawei’s Q1 revenues up 39% year-on-year
Huawei posted revenues of CNY179.7 billion ($26.8 billion) in the first quarter of 2019, an increase of 39% year-on-year, the company said in a...
Signify installs connected lighting system at Toyota Stadium in Japan
Toyota Stadium also invests in LEDs to support flicker-free UHD 4K broadcast
Dutch company Signify?(formerly Philips Lighting) has installed its connected lighting system?Interact Sports?at the...
Smart Dubai completes phase one of UAEPASS initiative
Smart Dubai has announced the completion of the first phase of the UAEPASS initiative — its nation-wide program for digital identity — integrating seven...
Can (will) U.S. operators learn anything from Korea’s shared 5G deployment model?
If 5G is a race the US needs to win, why not run faster?
In the U.S., Verizon and AT&T have deployed 5G in...
FCC Commissioner: 5G requires 20,000 tower technicians
5G will support 22 million jobs by 2035, researchers say
Brendon Carr, a commissioner on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, sees community colleges as key...
Kagan: Can T-Mobile, Sprint merger be saved?
Last week I gave an interview to Bloomberg about my thoughts on the trouble the T-Mobile, Sprint merger is suddenly having. Plus, we are...