The manufacturing sector is gradually adopting wireless and automation technologies as it embraces the Industry 4.0 concept, Alper Yegin, chair of the Technical Committee and vice-chair of LoRa Alliance, said …
December 2022
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Is connectivity a deal breaker to Industry 4.0 success? >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Malaysian government to review 5G plans: Report >
The new government said it will revise 5G plans due to the lack of transparency in the process Malaysia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced that his administration will …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">mmWave: Fueling the future of 5G FWA >
Millimeter-wave technology for 5G continues to advance and build upon the lessons of early deployments and devices. Just in time, too, because the 5G Fixed Wireless Access market has gained …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Three Wi-Fi 6E deployments in the US >
Forty-four percent of service providers, technology vendors and enterprises plan to adopt Wi-Fi 6E in the next 12-18 months: Report In October, the Wireless Broadband Alliance released its Annual Industry …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AT&T, federal partners launch data portal for weather resiliency planning >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
A new information portal makes the climate-change-related data that AT&T uses to inform its own network resiliency planning available to communities so that they can access free, sophisticated data on …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Verizon Consumer CEO out >
Manon Brouillette is headed out the door as the head of Verizon’s consumer business, after less than a year on the job Verizon announced Monday the departure of Manon Brouillette, the …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Private 5G networks – A tale of three tactics (Reader Forum) >
New manufacturing paradigms such as industrial automation come with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements that apply both to companies’ production processes as well as the underlying telecommunication systems. As …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">FCC begins granting 2.5 GHz licenses >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
The midband spectrum is mostly available in rural areas The Federal Communications Commission has officially granted the first batch of recently auctioned 2.5 GHz overlay licenses, from an auction which …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Samsung supplies new O-RAN-compliant radios to NTT Docomo >
NTT Docomo had selected Samsung Electronics as its 5G network solutions provider in March 2021 Korean vendor Samsung Electronics recently announced that it is supplying a variety of 5G radios …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Deutsche Telekom’s 5G infra reaches 94% of German population >
Deutsche Telekom highlighted that more than 80,000 antennas are currently transmitting 5G German carrier Deutsche Telekom said its 5G network already reaches 94% of the country’s population. In a release, …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Vodafone CEO Nick Read to step down at year’s end >
CFO Margherita Della Valle takes over the top role as interim CEO while the board looks for a permanent replacement Multinational telco Vodafone announced Monday that its CEO of four years, Nick …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Global FWA connections to exceed 100m by end-2022: Ericsson >
Ericsson also forecasts that the number of global FWA connections will reach over 300 million by 2028 The total number of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) connections is forecast to reach …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Kagan: Facebook, Meta can recover if Mark Zuckerberg does the right thing >by Jeff Kaganby Jeff Kagan
Over the course of one year, the stock price of Facebook, or Meta by its new name is tanking. There is a solution to this problem. That is if Mark …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Test and Measurement: PAWR gets a $2.8 million R&D boost >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research receives additional National Science Foundation funds The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research program, which operates a number of 5G testbeds across the U.S., has received …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">re:Invent 2022 highlights Amazon’s MEC and RAN efforts >
Vodafone, Intel and others showcased new solutions leveraging AWS technology Amazon Web Services (AWS) held its annual re:Invent event in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. The week-long fête spanned the depth and …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">India to reach 31 million 5G connections at end-2022: Ericsson >
Ericsson forecasts a total of 690 million 5G subscribers in India by the end of 2028 5G subscriptions in India are expected to reach 31 million at the end of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">AMD and Viettel complete 5G silicon trial in Vietnam >
Viettel began testing commercial 5G services in parts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2019 AMD announced the successful completion of a 5G mobile network field trial with Viettel Group’s …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Airtel to connect 200,000 smart meters >
Under the terms of the deal, the Indian telco will deploy its proprietary IoT platform ‘Airtel IoT Hub’ India’s largest telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, announced that it has won …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Is AFC the answer to Wi-Fi’s low-power problem? >
Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) is a spectrum use coordination system designed specifically for 6 GHz operation In order for unlicensed Wi-Fi 7 (or 802.11be) devices to play nice in the …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Dell’Oro: Open RAN beats Q3 expectations >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
“The Open RAN train continues to … accelerate at a faster pace than expected,” analyst firm says Open RAN revenues for the third quarter of 2022 more than doubled on …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Swisscom launches 5G FWA services for enterprise customers >
Swisscom said that 5G FWA technology can also be used as a 5G mobile backup Swiss operator Swisscom announced the launch of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) for business customers, the …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">FCC grants SpaceX partial permission to launch Starlink Gen2 >
The federal agency sharply curtailed the number of satellites Starlink sought to launch, citing orbital safety concerns The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday granted private space firm SpaceX partial …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">The top testing challenges in 6 GHz Wi-Fi operation: Part 2 >
Wi-Fi 7 brings a host of new flexibility features; they all have to be tested A previous article discussed the challenges associated with breaking the 6 GHz barrier and with …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Celona on CBRS-bashing by old telco crowd – plus global expansion, growth verticals >
Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">The two types of emerging edges >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
One of the most basic questions about edge computing has been one of definition: Where is the network edge? Is it in a regional data center, in an enterprise premise, …