Monthly Archives: September, 2021
Atos, Johnson Controls partner to provide decarbonization services for buildings
French IT company Atos and smart buildings specialist Johnson Controls announced a global partnership with the aim of helping private and public sector customers...
Open RAN Transformation Virtual Event
The road to open and virtualized networks is paved with challenges. Join Keysight for the Open RAN Transformation event and hear from industry and...
Hybrid work to trigger new investments across space and workplace software: Survey
A new survey by research firm Verdantix revealed that that real estate firms are planning new technology investments across employee workplace experience, asset management...
University of Birmingham, Siemens partner to create smart campuses
The University of Birmingham, in partnership with Siemens, is combining digital sensor and analytics technologies as well as artificial intelligence, with the aim of...
Boost unveils first exclusive 5G phone
Dish's Boost Mobile is touting the affordability of its first exclusive 5G device, the Celero5G, which the company said fills a gap in the...
Samsung will deploy 5G vRAN in KDDI’s mid-band network
Among other capabilities, virtualized networks will enable 5G network slicing
Samsung is deploying its cloud-native, fully virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for mid-band spectrum...
Vodafone and partners test Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) disaggregation
Open RAN isn't the only place Vodafone sees the importance of disaggregation. It's also fixed its sights on Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs)
Softbank buys Loon’s HAPS patents
Loon's work on stratosphere-based communications will live on through Softbank, HAPSMobile
In the wake of Alphabet winding down its stratospheric communications initiative, Loon, Softbank and...
Kagan: Qualcomm shows 5G wireless helps environmental sustainability
Qualcomm recently released a new report titled, “Environmental Sustainability and a Greener Economy: The transformative role of 5G.” This report points to the many...
We built this (smart) city… on blockchain and LoRaWAN – San José picks peer-to-peer IoT
The city of San José in Silicon Valley, in California, has struck an arrangement with blockchain-based LoRaWAN provider Helium to extend broadband access to...
Bell Labs Consulting Webinar: The business imperatives of 5G mmWave-A techno-economic evaluation of business attractiveness, revenue potential, and cost-effectiveness
There is considerable pressure on telecom operators to return their shareholder's value, particularly considering 5G investments. Most 5G networks have been commercially rolled out or planned using sub-6 GHz spectrum....
Ericsson intros new IoT Accelerator facility to connect cellular IoT devices to AWS, others
Ericsson has introduced a ‘cloud connect’ function into its IoT Accelerator platform to make it easy for enterprises to connect cellular IoT devices to...
Ingenu to launch 72 LEO satellites into space – to build ‘largest space IIoT network’
IoT connectivity company Ingenu has announced a plan to launch 72 satellites into space to support low-power machine communications for the smart energy, manufacturing,...
#TBT: AT&T takes a Leap; Ericsson debuts the Radio Dot; US leads in LTE subs … this week in 2013
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...
Qualcomm adds apps, functions, members to smart cities IoT accelerator
Qualcomm has said its smart cities accelerator project has expanded to over 400 members. Industrial 5G system integrator Booz Allen Hamilton, which works with...
Ericsson adds Cloud Connect to IoT Accelerator to tap Amazon Web Services
Ericsson Cloud Connect enables secure IoT cellular connections using Amazon Web Services public cloud endpoints.
Extreme Networks, WBA deliver OpenRoaming to Portugal’s Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
IPV is the first organization in Portugal to participate in WBA OpenRoaming
Extreme Networks has implemented support of Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) OpenRoaming at Portugal’s Polytechnic Institute of...
Quortus research indicates ‘burgeoning excitement’ for private networks
91% of those surveyed believe their network woes are directly tied to the limitations of macro public networks, according to Quortus
New research commissioned by...
Lexmark chases $50bn opportunity with launch of new IoT services business
Print services company Lexmark has launched a new IoT portfolio for manufacturing companies to monitor usage of their connected devices in-market, and provide their...
Overhauling network deployment: The 5G era requires intelligent, data-driven rollout procedures
Network deployment was once based on a series of manual and sequential phases such as design, engineering, installation and acceptance. However, the introduction of...
AT&T, Corning strike domestic fiber deal
AT&T had to cut back on its fiber plans for 2021 due to supply chain issues
AT&T has lined up an expanded fiber deal with...
What is Kubernetes and what does it mean for 5G?
Kubernetes is cloud software container management that can help carriers with 5G Network Functions Virtualization
Nokia Webinar: Guaranteeing the best service with FWA
Fixed wireless access (FWA) is – at long last – a viable tool in the toolkit, thanks to a combination of technological advances and...
Semtech hails new ‘zero-maintenance, zero-carbon’ energy-harvesting LoRa solution
Semiconductor maker Semtech has announced a new LoRa-based solution, combining a power-efficient microcontroller and an edge tracker module, that harvests ambient energy from the...
Massive IoT starts to come online as NB-IoT roaming and billing get sorted, says BICS
International cellular provider BICS has said it has NB-IoT roaming coverage in a dozen countries, with new NB-IoT deals being signed at a faster...