November 2020

Market research firm TechNavio is predicting a short-term slump in the automated test equipment market as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic, followed by a rebound and growth through 2024. TechNavio said that the industry can expect “negative growth …

  Smart buildings specialist Johnson Controls announced the launch of a new flexible service suite to its customers in the Middle East and Africa. The new service suite will leverage Johnson Controls OpenBlue digital technology to power remote and contactless …

The demo featured a commercial end-to-end Open Fronthaul interface based on O-RAN specifications In October, the O-RAN Alliance conducted its second Global O-RAN Alliance plugfest, an event that boasts the goal of testing and demonstrating “the growing maturity of the …

German operator Vodafone Germany announced that its 5G network currently covers 10 million people across the country. In a release, the carrier said that its 5G technology has been recently activated in 300 new cities and municipalities across Germany. “We …

Huawei Technologies expects 5G users to account for 20% of total mobile users in China and South Korea by the end of June 2021, Ryan Ding, president of Huawei’s carrier business group, said during a presentation at the company’s Global …

A new generation of cellular technology, operating in newly opened mmWave frequency bands, is promising a major shift in the in-building wireless space. Most cellular network traffic is generated indoors, and some of the early 5G use cases around sports, …

Ask consumers about how they store and access their photos, videos, documents and more in the cloud, and chances are they will mention providers such as iCloud, Amazon Drive, DropBox, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. This is not surprising, considering …

In less than a year, COVID-19 has upended lives around the globe. The need for social distancing and avoiding in-person activity as much as humanly possible has forced people everywhere to become increasingly reliant on networks to get work done …

With the world thrust into going virtual by the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is no doubt that the data and technology space is seeing an uptick. In fact, they may probably be one of the industries seeing unbelievable growth now. …

The mobile industry divides the available airwaves for cellular systems into two broad categories: the frequencies below 6 GHz (Frequency Range 1, for standards purposes) and the frequencies above 6 GHz (FR 2). Sub-6 GHz frequencies are the ones which …

  Wireless network equipment company Cambium Networks says that it has joined the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program to connect smart applications using its Gigabit wireless fabric solutions. Cambium Networks delivers wireless broadband solutions to connect smart devices within enterprises, …

Qualcomm Ventures has announced new investments in four companies to help advance innovation and accelerate 5G adoption within the ecosystem. The investments were made through Qualcomm Ventures’ 5G Ecosystem Fund. The companies include Celona, an enterprise networking platform provider that …

Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, expects its 4G network to cover 96% of the population in Japan by summer 2021, the company said in a statement. The operator said that the base station development rate …

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 up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy …

The University of Surrey in the U.K. has launched its 6th Generation Innovation Center (6GIC). The new center aims to be a global research hub focused on advanced telecommunications engineering that brings together the physical and virtual worlds, enabling teleportation, …

Djoliba is based on a terrestrial fiber optic network coupled with undersea cables In an effort to address growing connectivity needs in West Africa, Orange and its subsidiaries have announced the commercial launch of Djoliba, a fiber backbone consisting of …

In case you missed it, a Deutsche Telekom-backed 5G sky-network is gearing up for launch – offering country-wide 5G coverage for a decently-sized European country with just 60 masts – and no site rentals to speak of. As covered over …

Germany-based industrial IoT specialist MYNXG has recruited Nokia to deploy a private 5G campus network at its development centre Nuremburg to run the rule over the technology as a platform for industrial-grade networking and integrate with its own IoT platform …

Verizon has rolled out 5G-based edge computing with AWS to Dallas and Miami, taking the total city-count for their combined infrastructure to seven cities in the US. The setup is geared towards trials of a number of new latency-sensitive industrial …

About $32 billion will be spent on industrial IoT platforms for smart manufacturing by 2025, and the number of industrial AR connections will surge by 57 percent per year in the period to 20.9 million in 2025. So says market …

Giving a nod to the increasing importance that cellular Fixed Wireless Access is playing in operator strategies, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has formed a new 4G/5G FWA advocacy group. The GSA previously had a working group with founding …

  Spanish carrier Telefónica and Gestamp, which is a multinational company that designs and manufactures automotive components, have implemented a 5G-connected factory use case in one of Gestamp’s plants in Barcelona. The project, which claims to be the first digitised …

Ericsson equipment is bringing 5G to Estonia’s three largest cities — Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu — on Telia’s existing spectrum. The partners expect that by the end of 2020, a total of 20 sites will be up and running. Telia …

Remote testing event included Rel. 15 rail transportation capabilities 1,350 tests. 169 test sessions. 50 new test cases. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s most recent plugtest event for mission-critical technologies achieved an interoperability rate of 95%, which the organization says …

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) said that its board had approved an investment to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Arizona with an overall capital of $3.5 billion, according to a report by Reuters. The investment is part of the plan …