November 2020

  The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) decided to put on hold a 5G spectrum auction scheduled to begin on November 10 after a court in Stockholm issued a ruling suspending parts of its decision that had excluded Chinese …

5G may be a single technology, but the spectrum that each mobile network operator uses to deploy its 5G makes a significant difference in the performance and user experience under the umbrella of “5G”. It’s hard to make an apples-to-apples …

LTE Home Internet started as a pilot project and now covers around 580 towns and cities T-Mobile this week yet again expanded the reach of its LTE-based fixed wireless access home broadband service, which now reaches 580 towns and cities. …

  Wireless infrastructure firm Mobilitie and venue owner/partners AEG and MGM Resorts International have partnered to provide 5G connectivity to T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The T-Mobile Arena is home of the NHL?s Vegas Golden Knights, UFC, concerts, championship sporting …

  Boingo Wireless added 300 new distributed antenna systems (DAS) nodes in the third quarter of 2020 and ended the period with a total DAS portfolio of 138 venues. Seventy-three of those venues are now live ,with another 65 in …

New IBM hybrid cloud offering geared toward enterprise adoption of 5G and edge computing For operators investing billions in building 5G networks, the real revenue opportunity is not in selling enhanced services to consumers but, rather, in standing up differentiated …

  Public transport is integral to a city’s prosperity and its citizens’ wellbeing. Besides providing the infrastructure to get people from point A to B, transport operators are responding to citizens’ needs to remain connected and productive on public transport, …

Introduction As an eventful 2020 draws to a close, the telecommunications industry is looking forward to building a future in which connectivity is truly ubiquitous and accessible for all. To help achieve this goal, operators will continue to accelerate their …

From remote work to home-based education, wireless connectivity allows us to quickly adapt in an ever-changing world You may have just finished an online videoconference from your home office, helped your kids log in for a remote class at the …

The launch of commercial 5G services is accelerating around the world, and the expectations for new use cases and opportunities they will drive are high.  Much of the promise of these new use cases will come with the implementation of …

Sarah Yost, NI’s senior business development manager, discusses why it’s too soon to get excited about 6G, as well as how the company’s software-defined radios are supporting the PAWR program, which is, among other things, exploring how to build drone …

French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group has appointed Orange to deploy an indoor 5G network from Ericsson at a factory in France to run the rule over its value as a springboard for Industry 4.0, and as a foundation stone for …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Vish Nandlall, Dell Technologies (Ep. 25) Joseph Conrad, the innovator’s dilemma, creative destruction, Carlota Perez, Canadian indie rock band The Rheostatics…it’s all here. Dell Technologies’ Vish Nandlall, vice president, Technology Strategy …

RCR Wireless News · Private Wireless Podcast – Deployment Models (ep. 2) In the second episode of the new Private Wireless Podcast series, Enterprise IoT Insights talks with Nokia about the key issues for enterprises looking to deploy private wireless solutions …

In this report, learn how manufacturing leaders are using digital thread technology to analyze and improve enterprise value streams in near real time. Further, gain insights into how the powerful combination of digital twins–the digital blueprint of machines, controls, and …

  Korean carrier SK Telecom announced plans to form a joint venture with German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom (DT) this year with the main goal of developing 5G technology, SK Telecom said in a release. They will each hold 50% …

In a mmWave world, turning a corner or spinning in your desk chair might very well mean your device losing the signal. While high frequencies have been used for point-to-point network backhaul links, cellular carriers have never before made common …

  Brazilian mobile operator Claro, owned by Mexican telecommunications group America Movil, announced plans to expand its 5G service in 12 additional cities before the end of the year. Claro’s 5G service will reach Brasília, Porto Alegre, Goiânia, São Luís, …

The new AWS cloud region is expected to become active in mid-2022 Amazon Web Services revealed big plans to spend $2.8 billion to build a second AWS cloud region in India. The new region, located in the state of Telangana …

  Smart building tech and service company Honeywell posted revenues of $1.3 billion in its building technologies business segment in the third quarter of the year, down 8% compared to revenues of $1.41 billion in the year-ago period. The building …

Orange will take control of about 881,000 customers buying fixed and mobile service bundles French mobile operator Orange is purchasing a 54% stake in Telekom Romania Communications (TRC) from Deutsche Telekom’s OTE. As a result, Orange has bought its way …

Dish 5G won’t be live in a major market until Q3 2021 David Barden, managing director and senior telecommunications equity research analyst at Bank of America-Merill Lynch, on a third quarter earnings call last week asked Dish Network Chairman Charlie …

T-Mobile is launching their new pay TV offering called TVision. With a growing list of new competitors, will this be successful? Let’s take a look at the growing industry, the new and existing competitors and the secret to a successful …

  A Recap – the Ubiquitous Edge Platform This is the second of two blog posts that explore the concept of a ubiquitous multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform that universally addresses edge computing needs, from customer premises to regional telco …

Private cellular specialist Citymesh has struck a deal with Proximus to offer mobile and fixed telecom services on the Proximus network in Belgium, running alongside localised cellular services in its own spectrum.  The agreement on mobile services extends to a …