Monthly Archives: March, 2021
Editorial Report: What’s the status of 5G globally? Spectrum, deployments and customer trends
Many expected 2020 to be the year of 5G. Then the pandemic hit. And now there’s talk of 2021 being the year of 5G....
Hitachi buys US software firm GlobalLogic for $9.5bn in ‘biggest deal’ for Japanese tech
Hitachi is to acquire Silicon Valley-based digital engineering services company GlobalLogic for $9.5 billion. The firm will be integrated into the Japanese firm’s Hitachi...
Editorial Webinar: What’s the status of 5G globally? Spectrum, deployments and customer trends
Many expected 2020 to be the year of 5G. Then the pandemic hit. And now there’s talk of 2021 being the year of 5G....
Potter acquires SureCall?s ERCES?s business
Potter previously acquired TowerIQ as it builds out public safety portfolio
Potter Electric Signal Company announced the acquisition of SureCall?s emergency responder communication enhancement systems...
Samsung kicks off KDDI’s 5G network rollout on 700 MHz
KDDI following a low-, mid- and high-band 5G strategy with plans to spend $4 billion by 2025
Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has announced it has...
Huawei reports small increase in 2020 sales, profits despite U.S. sanctions
Huawei reports it was up 3.8% year-over-year in 2020 with China accounting for 65% of revenues
Chinese vendor Huawei reported its sales revenues reached CNY...
Ericsson focuses on vRAN with hybrid physical/virtual Open Lab
Ericsson Open Lab carrier partners include KDDI, Ooredoo, Orange, SoftBank, and Turkcell
In support of the broad industry move toward cloud-based radio access networks running...
Saudi Arabia designates entire 6 GHz band for unlicensed use, paving way for Wi-Fi 6E
WBA CEO: "Other countries pay close attention to Saudi Arabia’s example"
Saudi Arabia is the first country in the Middle East, Europe or Africa to...
If 5G device shipments hit 2021 expectations, 5G can claim ‘mainstream’ status
LitePoint exec: 'When compared to 4G, 5G attach rates are one to two years ahead'
LitePoint, a wireless device testing company, saw a 10x increase...
Arm intros Armv9 architecture to propel ‘next 300 billion chips’ on wave of AI, IoT, 5G
Arm has unveiled its first new architecture in a decade to raise performance and security in the “next 300 billion Arm-based chips” to be...
Swedish 5G and LoRaWAN firm Netmore announces IoT network rollout in Ireland
Sweden-based IoT operator Netmore Group, new parent of Nordic IoT Networks, has said it is building a nationwide LoRaWAN network in Ireland, starting in...
Looking for fast networks? NYC is the place to be, Rootmetrics says
The most-populous market in the U.S. -- New York City and its surrounds -- is also the fastest, according to a new ranking of...
Nokia switches on NB-IoT for Saudi Mobily to target energy, transport, health sectors
Nokia has deployed an NB-IoT network for mobile network operator Saudi Mobily in the 800 MHz band in Saudi Arabia. The pair said they...
First electricity meters supporting DLMS over LoRaWAN start to rollout
Chinese manufacturer Wasion and French IoT software provider Acklio have introduced an electricity meter supporting Device Language Message Specification (DLMS) communications over low-power wide-area...
FTC will not petition US Supreme Court in Qualcomm antitrust case
The FTC believes that Qualcomm’s licensing practices demonstrate anticompetitive behavior
In September 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
T-Mobile US tunes TVision; pivots to YouTube TV, Philo
In its efforts to capture home internet service marketshare from major cable companies, T-Mobile US is scaling up LTE- and 5G-backed fixed wireless access....
Siemens Smart infrastructure to deploy Comfy solution for Arvato?s European offices
Focus of Siemens/Comfy partnership is workplace intelligence
Siemens Smart Infrastructure will rollout its Comfy workplace intelligence platform at Arvato Financial Solutions? 30 European offices, the...
Argus improves offering for vehicle manufacturers with Microsoft Azure IoT
Focus on cloud-based automotive cyber security monitoring
Israeli company, Argus Cyber Security, a specialist in automotive cyber security, has collaborated with Microsoft Azure IoT and...
Telefonica Deutschland reaches 30 German cities with 5G technology
Telefonica Deutschland building out 5G using 3.6 GHz; plans to deploy in 700 MHz and 1800 MHz
German operator Telefónica Deutschland / O2, controlled by...
Poised for success—a new market for connectivity (Reader Forum)
Despite being hailed as a breakthrough technology, NB-IoT connectivity has so far failed to live up to its initial hype, with delayed deployments, and...
5G takes ‘different muscles’ – Accenture on how to serve industry with telecoms (and vice versa)
This conversation will form part of the narrative in the forthcoming Enterprise IoT Insights report on industrial 5G SLAs, out at the start of...
Well, technically… it’s the amount of spectrum that is transformative: NCTA’s Danielle Piñeres (Ep. 35)
Danielle Piñeres is vice president & associate general counsel at NCTA where she focuses on wireless spectrum policy issues. On the latest episode of...
Telia intros private LTE/5G enterprise offer using ‘public’ spectrum in Norway
Sweden-based Telia has launched a private LTE and 5G network solution for enterprises in Norway using its licensed spectrum, otherwise used for its public...
Dell Technologies White Paper: Building the 5G RAN: Virtualization and openness accelerate deployment and time to revenue
5G, along with companion technologies like mobile edge computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence, is viewed as foundational to digital transformation of enterprises in...
A new approach is needed for policy and charging in 5G (Reader Forum)
Globally, telecoms spent over $8 billion in 5G infrastructure last year, while in the U.S. alone operators spent more than $80 billion on 5G...