Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a key gauge of smart manufacturing ROI Technology investments are made to solve specific business problems. In our technology-enabled world, enterprises of all sorts are allocating precious capital to make their operations “smart.” For manufacturers, becoming …
Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst
Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst
Sean focuses on multiple subject areas including 5G, 6G, Open RAN, hybrid cloud, edge computing, and Industry 4.0. Prior to his work at RCR, Sean studied journalism and literature at the University of Mississippi then spent six years based in Key West, Florida, working as a reporter for the Miami Herald Media Company. He currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Pilot in Wales scaling up to 2,600 Open RAN sites in Wales and England In August this year, Vodafone U.K. turned on its first Open RAN site at the Royal Welsh Showground in Powys, Wales. That particular project used software …
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Analysts pressed Verizon on millimeter wave 5G network coverage during sell-side analyst meeting T-Mobile US Vice President of Technology Neville Ray is confident in the carrier’s 5G “coverage leadership.” Speaking recently at the virtual BCG/New Street Research 5G Conference, Ray …
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The coming year will see a marked acceleration in several key broadband network trends, brought on by global COVID-related changes to work, education, and entertainment as well as momentum in next-generation network investments. As we wrap up the year and …
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Azure for Operators built on three principles: partnerships, ecosystem development and infrastructure monetization Microsoft, given its established position in distributed cloud computing, enterprise relationships, and massive developer community, sees the confluences of 5G, edge computing and an operator focus on …
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RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Mike Murphy, Nokia Nokia’s Mike Murphy, CTO of Americas, discusses 2020 5G milestones and looks ahead to 2021, talks Open RAN and the role of government in supply chain diversification, considers …
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Vodafone uses dynamic spectrum sharing in Germany and Netherlands In reporting its H1 financials today, Vodafone Group CEO Nick Read said the multi-national operator is focused on “5G built right,” marketing language used for some time in the U.S. by …
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LTE Home Internet started as a pilot project and now covers around 580 towns and cities T-Mobile this week yet again expanded the reach of its LTE-based fixed wireless access home broadband service, which now reaches 580 towns and cities. …
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New IBM hybrid cloud offering geared toward enterprise adoption of 5G and edge computing For operators investing billions in building 5G networks, the real revenue opportunity is not in selling enhanced services to consumers but, rather, in standing up differentiated …
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RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Vish Nandlall, Dell Technologies (Ep. 25) Joseph Conrad, the innovator’s dilemma, creative destruction, Carlota Perez, Canadian indie rock band The Rheostatics…it’s all here. Dell Technologies’ Vish Nandlall, vice president, Technology Strategy …
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Dish 5G won’t be live in a major market until Q3 2021 David Barden, managing director and senior telecommunications equity research analyst at Bank of America-Merill Lynch, on a third quarter earnings call last week asked Dish Network Chairman Charlie …
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100 million people will be covered by T-Mobile US 2.5 GHz 5G by year-end, nationwide by the end of 2021 In providing third quarter fiscal reporting this week, T-Mobile US executives provided an update on the progress of integrating the …
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RF front-end business sees significant year-over-year gains with global mmWave investments creating growth tailwinds Reporting its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2020 results on Wednesday, Qualcomm Incorporated CEO Steve Mollenkopf reflected on an “extraordinary year” both in terms of transitioning …
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“The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns … illustrate the same process of industrial mutation–if I may use that biological term–that incessantly revolutionizes the economic …
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Today in the United States, the three Tier 1 service providers are all offering “nationwide” 5G coverage. T-Mobile is using its 600 MHz and AT&T and Verizon are delivering with Dynamic Spectrum Sharing. And with the recent release of the …
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TVision streaming service builds on LTE-based home internet service In recent months, T-Mobile executives have pegged the number of radio sites their crews are touching as upward of 700 per week in their effort to put the 2.5 GHz spectrum …
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RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Jennifer Alvarez, Aurora Insight (Ep. 24) Aurora Insight Co-founder and CEO Jennifer Alvarez discusses the firm’s spectrum and infrastructure mapping technology, separates 5G marketing from 5G reality, and talks through the …
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Xilinx looking to grow its role in mass 5G network deployments Santa Clara, Calif.-based AMD, which specializes in high-performance CPUs and GPUs for data centers and PCS as well as gaming SoCs, today announced a “definitive agreement” to acquire Xilinx …
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C-V2X is viewed in the industry as key to supporting self-driving cars In addition to being a big personality—blunt-smoking guest appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, anyone?—Elon Musk is perhaps the most prominent face associated with the push toward self-driving …
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Potential product partnership with Dell Technologies and VMware? South Korea has been and still is a leading mobile market. In the context of 5G, the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT said there were 7.86 million 5G users at the …
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DT COO: “The edge will become the center of gravity for digital transformation” There’s an adage that 5G is the first generation of cellular born in the cloud. If you look at the commercial 5G networks up and running today, …
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Verizon CEO says with 5G in place, mission is to sell Last week with the launch of the iPhone 12 line up, Verizon turned on nationwide 5G and is continuing to deploy its millimeter wave spectrum in urban cores, stadiums …
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Nokia taps Qualcomm 5G RAN platform for indoor Smart Node base stations Continuing its momentum in supporting 5G infrastructure, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., today announced a “full portfolio of 5G infrastructure semiconductor platforms,” including support for macro base stations supporting massive …
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T-Mobile In Early August, T-Mobile claimed a world’s first with the launch of a nationwide standalone 5G network that uses its 600 MHz spectrum. T-Mo initially launched its 600 MHz 5G network last year and reached nationwide coverage–200 million people …
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Standalone 5G and edge compute bring enterprise value The ability to deliver a network slice is the long goal of the transition to standalone 5G. At a high-level, a network slice is an end-to-end logical partition of a network that …