American Tower Corporation (ATC) and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, announced that the latter will acquire a 30% stake in ATC Europe. ATC said that the transaction is valued at over 1.6 billion …
Canadian telecoms operator Telus announced plans to expand its next-generation 5G network to an additional 529 new urban and rural communities across the country by the end of the year. The 5G expansion plan includes deployments in 187 communities in …
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has authorized local carriers to carry out trials of 5G technology in the country. In a statement, DoT said that the permits were given to Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Vodafone Idea and MTNL, which …
Enterprise IoT Insights talked with Emily Yates, smart city director at the city of Philadelphia, to discuss the evolution of the smart city concept and the main challenges currently faced by cities willing to implement smart city initiatives as …
J2 Innovations, which is part of Siemens, has announced the release of FIN Framework 5.1, its latest upgrade of its software platform for smart buildings, smart equipment and IoT applications. The latest upgrade, to be released in beta shortly …
German operator Deutsche Telekom has built up 5G capacities at 75 locations across Germany in the past eight weeks, the carrier said in a release. Deutsche Telekom said it had implemented Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) to upgrade these LTE sites. …
German company EnOcean has launched its EnOcean IoT Connector, describing the new offering as “an ideal link between IoT data from energy harvesting sensors and IoT applications” that makes the integration of EnOcean products easier. The IoT Connector translates …
Finnish operator Elisa said its 5G network already reached over 100 locations across the country, covering half of Finland’s population. During the first months of the year, Elisa’s 5G network was expanded in various parts of Finland. Recently, the construction …
mCloud Technologies, which provides asset management solutions combining IoT, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics, announced that it is bringing cleaner air to the head office of Cadence Financial Group, a wealth management group affiliated with Raymond James …
South Korea ended March with a total of 14.48 million 5G subscribers, up from 7 million 5G users in May 2020, local news agency Yonhap reported, citing data from the Ministry of Science and ICT. The total number of 5G …
American Tower Corporation (ATC) has been investing in more efficient and scalable power solutions at many of the company’s sites to be ready for the requirements of U.S. carriers extending their 5G networks nationwide, the company’s President and CEO, Tom …
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, CEO Daniel Hajj said during the telco’s Q1 results call. The operator confirmed it will invest …
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 a release, the Swedish vendor said that the launch of Radio 6626 will benefit carriers …
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 Well building standard. Under the terms of the agreement, the two organizations say they …
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 over 6,000 5G 3.5GHz cell towers by the end of last year, offering 80% 5G …
HqO, a tenant experience operating system for commercial office buildings, announced it raised $60 million in Series C funding from leading venture capital and commercial real estate firms. Previous investors Accomplice, Insight Partners, JLL Spark, Navitas Capital, DivcoWest, Allegion …
Japanese companies NTT and Fujitsu Limited formed a strategic business alliance to conduct research in the mobile communications and optical transport fields, with the aim of expanding into the global market and delivering sustainable infrastructure. In a joint statement, the …
75F has announced it has been selected to take part in Google’s Climate Accelerator program. Launching in June, the three-month program will grant 75F access to Google’s facilities, engineering and machine learning expertise. In a release, the firm said …
VMware has announced the launch of its VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN, a platform that enables Communication service providers (CSPs) to virtualize radio access network (RAN) functions and implement an open RAN architecture. “A modern, open, and disaggregated RAN offers …
Chinese vendor Huawei’s business felt the impact of the ongoing U.S. sanctions in the first quarter of the year, with a 16.5% year-on-year decline in revenues. In a release, Huawei reported revenues of CNY152.2 billion ($23.5 billion) in the first …
Australian tenant experience platform Equiem has acquired Vicinitee – British Land?s digital property management platform, used across more than 150 buildings throughout the U.K., including Broadgate, The Shard and The Gherkin. Equiem said that Vicinitee?s additional property management functionality …
Singaporean operator Singtel said it is paving the way for the launch of a 5G standalone (SA) network across the country. The telco said it has already deployed 5G SA sites across the island in areas such as Orchard Road, …
U.K. operators O2 and Vodafone have announced a new deal to trade airwaves to create more efficient blocks of 5G spectrum. The two operators already share mast infrastructure in parts of the U.K. The carriers noted that this new deal …
The Covid-19 pandemic is having a huge global impact, clearly. Enterprise IoT Insights talked with technology vendors and market analysts to analyze the impact of the pandemic on smart cities and to understand what new challenges, opportunities and use …
Crown Castle finished the first quarter of 2021 with 40,000 towers and approximately 80,000 small cells on-air or committed in backlog as well as 80,000 route miles of fiber concentrated in the top U.S. markets, the company’s CEO Jay Brown …
