Monthly Archives: April, 2021
Comcast sees record additions as its wireless business reaches break-even
Comcast's wireless business added 278,000 total lines during the first quarter of 2021, its best quarter to date, and it reached a break-even point...
America Movil not expecting higher capex levels due to 5G: CEO
Mexican telecom giant América Móvil's expected launch of 5G in certain markets will not represent a boost in its planned capex for this year,...
Ericsson launches dual-band radio for improved 5G frequency capacity
Ericsson said it is launching a three-sector dual-band radio to help communications service providers (CSPs) increase their Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) 5G frequency capacity.
In...
Test and Measurement: NI reports record first quarter revenue
NI recorded its best-ever first quarter revenues: $35 million, up 8% compared to the same period in 2020. Geographically, NI saw revenues up 1%...
Nokia CEO calls Q1 results ‘a clear improvement year-on-year’
Nokia reported growth in enterprise market and now tallies 290 private wireless customers
Before 5G was even commercially available and certainly before "private networks" and...
Johnson Controls inks partnership with the International Well Building Institute
Smart building specialist Johnson Controls announced a global partnership with the International Well Building Institute (IWBI), with the aim of promoting global application of...
The three layers of Verizon’s network-as-a-service offering explained
Verizon exec: 'The network-as-a-service offering includes connectivity, technology and management layers'
At the end of 2020, Verizon Business announced that it will deploy its Network-as-a-Service...
The shift to software-based networks means a workforce shift as well
Back in 2017, an EY telecom survey asked telecommunications CIOs and CTOs what they thought were the biggest opportunities and obstacles facing them in...
Sierra Wireless White Paper: Business-Critical IoT Connectivity Solutions: Key Management Challenges
Businesses are becoming more reliant on their IoT connectivity as services evolve, with greater emphasis on overall cost reductions as well as increasing revenue...
Silicon Labs intros new range of Wi-SUN SoCs for smart meters, lights, cities
Austin-based chip-maker Silicon Labs has announced a new range of system-on-chips (SoCs) with support for Wi-SUN, an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like...
What’s the point of 5G if the latency is lost in the middle? ‘Data is baggage, otherwise’
This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the...
LoRaWAN duo SenRa and Senet expand in India – and into Middle East, Asia, Africa
India-based LoRaWAN provider SenRa has expanded its network operation to 74 cities in India, and has claimed a rush of deals with the likes...
Orange supplies Russian mining firm with Wi-Fi based RTLS to grade, sort raw coal
Russian coal mining company Raspadskaya has deployed a Wi-Fi based real-time IoT tracking solution from Orange Business Services to help sort different grades and...
T-Mo US has fastest, most available 5G network, according to OpenSignal
T-Mobile users connected to 5G nearly one-third of the time, according to OpenSignal report
Since the release of OpenSignal’s previous report in January, the availability...
Taiwan Mobile’s 5G coverage reaches half of Taiwan’s population
Taiwan Mobile announced that its 5G coverage has reached 50% of the country's population.
In a release, Taiwan Mobile also said it had already built...
HqO obtains new financing to expand global footprint
HqO, a tenant experience operating system for commercial office buildings, announced it raised $60 million in Series C funding from leading venture capital and...
NTT, Fujitsu target open architecture through strategic alliance
Japanese companies NTT and Fujitsu Limited formed a strategic business alliance to conduct research in the mobile communications and optical transport fields, with the...
Qualcomm beats EPS guidance in Q2 as it executes 5G strategy
"Qualcomm enters the 5G era with our whole company stronger and more resilient," outgoing CEO Steve Mollenkopf says
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf kicked off the...
GE adds Verizon 5G to testbed, hopes to connect one million devices per square mile
GE Research’s 5G Mission Leader: '5G can accelerate the path to everything'
Verizon Business and GE Research have announced the development of a cross-industry testbed...
Vodafone and Qualcomm to advance Open RAN with 5G Massive MIMO designs
Open RAN and virtual RAN have gotten so much media attention lately that some even call it just “hype.” But there is no denying...
#TBT: AT&T turns up NB-IoT; China Unicom trials 5G; Softbank invests in Loon … this week in 2019
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...
Network monitoring – the ‘only way’ to know what you’re really getting from private 5G
This article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights report on Industrial 5G SLAs. The full article, including additional sections, along with the...
Scarborough, Maine, migrates smart street-lighting from Echelon to Dhyan
The town of Scarborough in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks...
Swiss Post, Swisscom offer LoRaWAN-based SmartButton for one-click postal services
Swiss Post has developed a battery-operated optical identification (OID) device, the SmartButton, running on LoRaWAN, to offer consumers and businesses a means to order...
FCC grants SpaceX permission to fly Starlink satellites at lower altitude to improve performance
SpaceX has been granted permission to fly its low-earth-orbit Starlink satellites at a reduced altitude, in part to improve the performance of the company's...