Yearly Archives: 2020

AT&T finally launches a 5G hotspot for consumers

The 5G hotspot uses Wi-Fi 6 and can support up to 32 Wi-Fi devices AT&T has announced the Netgear Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot Pro, the...

Deutsche Telekom, OVHcloud join forces in the ongoing cloud battle

The pair are creating a public cloud platform in a number of European markets Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has teamed up with French cloud and...

Only 18% of US consumers aware of different types of 5G spectrum: study

  Only 18% of U.S. consumers have heard of and understand the difference between the 5G network band types such as mid-band or high-band (Millimeter...

Comba Telecom supplies 5G base station antennas to 3 Hong Kong

  Network infrastructure provider Comba Telecom says that it has teamed up with mobile operator 3 Hong Kong  to implement comprehensive 5G mobile network coverage,...

Four new solutions for building re-occupancy

  Building owners and managers around the globe are taking actions to support building re-occupancy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. These are some of the solutions...

Smart manufacturing will drive 10-fold jump in AI-based IoT services – to $10bn by 2026

The IoT market for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services will reach $1.09 billion in 2020 and grow to about 10-times the...

Kagan: T-Mobile needs to update its marketing strategy

Marketing plays a significant role in the long-term success of any company, product or service. That’s the lesson T-Mobile learned several years ago under...

CenturyLink rebrands as Lumen, focused on Industry 4.0

Centurylink is rebranding itself as an enterprise-focused business named Lumen Technologies and positioning its offerings as a global platform for Industry 4.0. "With Lumen, we...

Dynamic network function placement is essential in the 5G era

  Network function (NF) placement, or homing, is a set of smart algorithms which deploy services automatically across multiple sites and multiple clouds, based on...

Europe bolsters cloud-native private 5G for Industry 4.0 with FUDGE-5G kickoff

The technology and government sectors both love an acronym, but FUDGE-5G? Really? It seems a stretch; a random mnemonic to brand a rather complex-sounding...

Well, technically… reliable mobile device usage is business critical: Julie Purves, B2M Solutions (Ep. 10)

On this week’s episode, Julie Purves, CEO and founder of B2M Solutions, discusses mobile analytics in the time of COVID-19 and the growing role that mobile devices play in the workplace. She also explores the question: Are failing devices making your employees sick?

FedEx intros BLE tracking solution ahead of COVID-19 vaccine shipments

FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for other emergency...

Dish officially gets more time to build out its licenses — and only 5G will do

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has officially granted Dish Network until mid-2023 to meet build-out requirements for its AWS and lower 700...

Nokia will provide Dish Network with 5G core software

Dish plans to build out its 5G network by 2023 Following “months of joint testing,” Nokia and Dish Network have entered an agreement in which...

Connexin secures $103 million to expand its smart city business in the UK

  U.K. smart city company Connexin announced it has raised an initial commitment of up to £80 million ($103 million) in funding to further strengthen...

Telefonica to provide 5G coverage in Spanish stadium

  Spanish carrier Telefonica announced that it will deploy 5G at the Abanca-Riazor stadium in A Coru?a, Spain. The venue, home of the Real Club Deportivo...

Ericsson achieves 5.4 Gbps throughput on C Band network at Texas HQs

The C Band network consists of an Ericsson 64T64R AAS radio, baseband and Router 6000 Ericsson has reached what its calling "a new performance benchmark"...

The promise and pitfalls of Open RAN (Reader Forum)

It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention. But it should not mean intervention. Such is potentially the case with the proposed effort...

Verizon to buy Tracfone for up to $6.9 billion, bolstering its prepaid position

Verizon has agreed to spend up to $6.9 billion to buy prepaid mobile virtual network operator Tracfone from America Movil, expanding its focus on...

NVIDIA pursuing ‘giant AI opportunity’ with $40B Arm acquisition

SoftBank retaining small ownership stake in Arm; NVIDIA paying in cash and stock U.S.-based NVIDIA on Sunday announced it had struck a deal with Japanese...

Austria raises $240 million in its second 5G spectrum auction

  Austria raised a total of 202 million euros ($240 million) in a new 5G spectrum auction, the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications...

The Sunday Brief: Market-by-market CBRS Auction 105 results–is more sharing in the works?

September greetings from Davidson, where we celebrated the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs season opener with a red velvet cake.  The only thing more...

Deloitte to build robot-powered smart factory at Wichita State

Deloitte and Wichita State University are building a new 60,000-square foot (5,500 square metre) smart factory showcase facility on Wichita State’s Innovation Campus, already...

SK Telecom, Samsung, HPE, Intel partner on 5G NFV development

  Korean carrier SK Telecom and compatriot company Samsung Electronics announced that they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and...

Zain accelerates 5G network deployment in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian carrier Zain KSA has accelerated the rollout of 5G services in the country with new deployments in the cities of Qurayyat, Ras...
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