Monthly Archives: December, 2019
Sierra Wireless on 2020: IoT integration, sub-6GHz 5G, Industry 4.0
Cloudification of IoT accelerates
Philippe Guillemette, chief technology officer, Sierra Wireless:Â
“The complexities that companies experience building out and maintaining IoT infrastructure has hindered growth of the sector,...
Sigfox on 2020: Three key areas for growth and democratization of IoT
Ajay Rane, vice president for global business development, Sigfox:
The IoT, and the networks that devices run on, are poised for growth and maturity in...
Verizon on 2020: “IoT is a generational aspiration – the future is now and it’s exciting”
Steve Szabo, head of global products and solutions for IoT, Verizon Business:
"Digital transformation is a hot topic, but it is not a new topic....
LoRa Alliance on 2020: Private networks, platform advances, edge computing
Donna Moore, chief executive and chairwoman, LoRa Alliance:
"Industrial IoT (IIoT) has advanced by leaps and bounds this year as companies have realized the amount...
Kagan: 5G wireless is center of CES 2020 universe
So much of the hot, new and innovative technology we will see at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show centers around one core technology, wireless....
Mobilitie works to deploy indoor wireless systems in Seattle
U.S. company Mobilitie, a privately-held wireless infrastructure provider has started to construct an indoor wireless system for the Russell Investments Center, an iconic skyscraper...
Nokia inks agreement with Vodafone to rollout 5G network in Australia
Vodafone Hutchison Australia announced a partnership with Nokia for the deployment of its 5G network in the country, the vendor said in a release.
Nokia...
Industrial Controls launches building automation business unit
Industrial Controls announced the launch of a new business unit, ICD Building Automation, which is focused on helping commercial building owners and managers improve...
Boingo Wireless deploys DAS at Portland International Airport
Airport DAS installs are a key revenue driver for Boingo
Boingo Wireless, a distributed antenna system (DAS) and Wi-Fi provider, has expanded its network footprint...
Seoul plans to deploy city-wide LoRaWAN IoT network
Semtech parterning with local government on LoRaWAN
Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that the Metropolitan Government...
Italian telcos to accelerate 5G fixed wireless access
Operators will shared RAN infrastructure to accelerate 5G fixed wireless access
Italian operators Fastweb and Linkem signed a long-term agreement to accelerate the deployment of...
China expects 5G to reach all prefecture-level cities by the end of 2020
There are already 126,000 5G base stations deployed in China
All the 300 prefecture-level cities in China are expected to be covered by a 5G...
Saudi carriers accelerate deployment of comercial 5G networks
Zain planning 2,000 5G towers in initial rollout
Mobile operators in Saudi Arabia have been accelerating the deployment of 5G networks across the Kingdom during...
NTT DoCoMo promotes Japanese 5G gear in Asia Pacific trials
NTT DoCoMo plans to deploy 10,000 5G base stations by 2021
Japanese telecommunications operator NTT DOCOMO has recently completed trials in Thailand and Singapore aimed...
Focusing in on wireless in 2020 with 20/20 vision (Reader Forum)
Most would agree that while the wireless sector started 2019 off strong, it did not maintain its momentum for the whole year. Although 2019...
Mobile security trends to expect in 2020 (Reader Forum)
Network monitoring and security issues are nothing new for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), but the game has changed; new threats, risks and opportunities are...
mmWave auction bids clear $5 billion
The Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing Spectrum Frontiers auction of millimeter wave spectrum has raised more than $5.3 billion in bids, after 24 rounds.
More than 14,100...
5G is coming to town: Verizon turns up six more cities
As New Year's Eve and Verizon's self-imposed deadline for having 30 cities on its 5G "nice" list approaches, the carrier is doling out 5G...
The heat is on: As 5G fever builds, US mobile operators need to keep a sharp focus on the secondary device market customer experience
While we don't know exactly when and how quickly the fifth generation of smartphone technology, or 5G, may spread beyond a handful of large...
LTE-M, NB-IoT and the remote update challenge (Reader Forum)
LTE-M and NB-IoT networks are being cited as the next evolution for cellular IoT deployments. These new, low-power, low-cost networks will enable a new...
2020 will be the year when the industry begins to stem the tide of robocalls (Reader Forum)
While 2019 was the year the telecom industry and regulators increased their actions to address illegal robocalls with default call blocking and the launch...
Test and Measurement: ‘Compelling’ 4G plans could flip most 3G hold-outs, OpenSignal says
What will it take to get users who are still holding onto 3G rate plans and devices to give them up so carriers can...
Digital transformation to go? The 80/20 rule in IT/OT ‘co-creation’, and how to scale IoT
Note, this is an excerpt from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to...
ABI on 2020: 5G wearables, self-driving trucks, yadda yadda – what won’t happen in 2020
Analyst house ABI Research has pulled together its big guns in each vertical sector to consider how technologywill change things in 2020 – or,...
Ericsson on 2020: ‘IoT at the edge is a boon for telcos’ – 5 IoT predictions
Kiva Allgood, head of IoT, Ericsson:
1. The edge is closer than ever
“As enterprises become ‘digitized’ and enable more connected machines, sensors and solutions, computing...