June 2022

As part of the smart buildings deal, Accenture will assist Johnson Controls by implementing edge technologies on the OpenBlue platform   Smart buildings specialist Johnson Controls and Accenture are collaborating to deliver and operate two new OpenBlue Innovation Centers, the …

China Broadnet, previously known as China Broadcasting Network, had secured a 5G license in 2029 China Broadnet has become the fourth mobile operator in China to offer 5G services in the country, according to Chinese press reports. The new player’s …

CHT is in process to upgrade mid-band 5G base stations in an estimated 2,000 sites in Taiwan Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the largest telecoms company in Taiwan, has begun upgrading its installed Ericsson base of mid-band Massive MIMO radios, …

More greetings from the 49th state, where Jim and the editor wrapped up their trip last week.  Pictured here is the main boat dock in Seward, Alaska (a TelAlaska/ American Broadband exchange).  Slightly off camera to the left of this picture is …

Mavenir says its Evolved Packet Core (EPC) will help rural carrier service RINA better scale to 5G services.

Spending on IoT-based asset tracking solutions, for monitoring goods in transit, will reach $45 billion globally by 2027, according to Juniper Research. The total spend will jump from $16 billion in 2022, representing growth of 184 percent over the five-year …

Ireland-based Druid Software has announced a deal to supply private LTE and 5G componentry to German critical comms system integrator Hytera Mobilfunk (HMF). HMF has developed a “brand new private 5G radio solution”, called 5G Smart Box, which will utilise …

Nephio, the Kubernetes project for carrier-grade multi-cloud network automation, continues to build momentum with dozens of new participants.

The LoRa Alliance expects over 2,000 delegates in Paris next week (July 6-7) for the LoRaWAN World Expo, billed as its first global jamboree event for the LoRaWAN community, and the wider IoT market beyond. It is set to be, …

Whatever Vodafone’s intention when polling 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and whatever its conclusion from their responses, one thing is also clear: business is hard in this economic climate. What also seems apparent, reading between the …

The 5G autonomous driving test used infrastructure deployed by TIM, Magenta and Deutsche Telekom   The 5G-CARMEN project, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Bruno Kessler Foundation, demonstrated the outcomes of an autonomous driving pilot that connected …

Rogers and Shaw last week agreed to sell Freedom Mobile, the cellular business owned by Shaw, to Montreal-based Quebecor Canada’s competition bureau is expected to ask Rogers Communications to sell Shaw Communications’ cellular unit Shaw Mobile to overcome competition concerns …

Public cloud spending grew 26% for the first quarter of 2022, according to new research from SRG, which predicts strong IaaS and SaaS growth.

Softbank, continuing its interest in high-altitude communications, says it has successfully tested a tethered autonomous aerostat during a field trial in Japan. Working with U.S.-based Altaeros Energies (in which Softbank is an investor), the two companies say they “achieved stable …

Ericsson said that more than 20 5G SA networks were already operational globally by the end of 2021 The number of 5G Standalone (SA) networks at a global level could reach nearly 40 at the end of 2022, according to …

Building upon its lean heritage and by avoiding the mistake of digitalizing and automating wasteful or inefficient processes, Siemens transformed its factory in Congleton, U.K. into a sustainable, make-to-order factory, where customer orders are automatically obtained and pushed through to …

In order, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Beijing, London, and Seoul ranked as the top five smart cities, or ‘digital cities’, in a new study by Economist Impact. New York, Sydney, Singapore, Washington DC, and Paris rounded out the top 10, meaning Europe …

Viasat President: ‘5G has the potential to enhance the warfighter’s ability to produce and make sense of mission-critical data’ Viasat has received a four-year research award from the Department of Defense (DoD) to run 5G experiments in support of the …

New spectrum options and technology present enterprises with private network challenges and opportunities.

The Government of India expects to award 5G frequencies during July 5G is projected to account for almost 40% of mobile subscriptions in India – 500 million – by the end of 2027, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report. …

SoftBank said it aims to realize a next-generation network for autonomous driving in Japan by leveraging its expertise in vehicle communications with May Mobility’s autonomous vehicle technology   Japanese operator SoftBank and U.S. autonomous vehicle technology company May Mobility have …

The survey showed that 45% of surveyed businesses are planning to make investments in 5G by 2023 A survey carried out by UK5G, which focuses on accelerating the adoption of 5G in the U.K., found that 70% of the surveyed …

The free-to-join forum is open to all companies, standards groups and universities, standards groups and universities The Metaverse Standards Forum, launched jointly by technology and telecoms giants yesterday, aims to foster industry-wide cooperation on interoperability standards needed to build the open metaverse. …

SpaceX says that if 12 GHz spectrum is used for terrestrial 5G networks, it could result in outages for its Starlink space-based internet service as much as three-quarters of the time and render the service “unusable for most Americans.” The …