BROWSING: 5G

Enterprise IoT Summit: 5G in 5 years

Panel: 5G in 5 years Moderator Brenda Boehm, Chief Strategy Officer at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is joined by a panel of experts including Kevin Robinson - Vice President, Marketing, Wi-Fi Alliance; Dr Rashmi Misra, WW GM Digital Video Services, Communications and Media Solutions, HPE; Chuck...

Fixed wireless access: The first phase of 5G

Fixed wireless access: The first phase of 5G Moderator Dan Meyer, Editor-in-Chief at RCR Wireless News is joined by Boris Maysel, Director Business Development, Siklu Communication; Farooq Khan, CEO, PHAZR, Inc and Berge Ayvazian, Wireless 2020 to discuss fixed wireless access the the initial development phase of 5G...

How spectrum policy drives 5G innovation

How spectrum policy drives 5G innovation Moderator Berge Ayvazian of Wireless 2020 is joined by Dileep Srihari, Director, Legislative & Government Affairs, TIA; Derek Kerton, Founder of Telecom Council and Fred Campbell, Director of Tech Knowledge and former Chief of the FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau to discuss how...

5G trends: 3GPP Release 13 and its implications for IoT

3GPP Release 13: Implications for IoT Jeff Smith, Managing Partner of Quantum IoT, explains the implications of the 3GPP Release 13 for the Internet of Things (IoT), at the 5G trend track at the Enterprise IoT Summit in Austin, Texas. https://youtu.be/lJ6u1mY9D2A Jeff Smith is Managing Partner of QuantumIOT...

5G trends: Telecom Council Startup Review on 5G

Telecom Council Startup Review on 5G Member of the Telecom Council including Derek Kerton, Founder of Telecom Council; Jaime Fink, Co-founder and CTO, Mimosa; Thomas Lee, Vice President, Innophase, Farooq Khan, CEO, PHAZR, Inc and Brian Baird, Co-founder & CIO, Expeto take the stage at the Enterprise IoT Summit...

Enterprise IoT Summit: 5G trends

5G Trends: Opening comments Dan Meyer, Editor-in-Chief at RCR Wireless News and Brenda Boehm, Chief Strategy Officer at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), kick off the 5G trends session at the Enteprise IoT Summit in Austin Texas. https://youtu.be/fVNAdQZhKG0 Dan Meyer started at RCR Wireless News in 1999 covering...

Mobile carriers see gigabit LTE as step closer to 5G

Gigabit LTE represents a step forward for operators as they move towards 5G deployments. Gigabit LTE, which refers to mobile telecommunication operators offering LTE-based download speeds of up to one gigabit per second, made its debut in Australia at the end of last...

U.S. Department of Commerce removes ZTE from trade blacklist

ZTE agreed to pay $1.19 billion in penalties for the illegal shipment of equipment to Iran and North Korea. The United States Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security removed ZTE from its trading blacklist after the China-based telecommunications equipment vendor agreed...

T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T unleash network enhancements with latest Samsung S8

Carrier aggregation, 4x4 MIMO, 256 QAM, LTE-U, HPUE and 5G are just some of the support technologies claimed by T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T. Samsung’s launch of its latest Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphone models is sure to have an impact on the device...

5G, IoT use cases will require edge intelligence, end-to-end security

Learn how Cradlepoint is approaching the software-defined, multi-WAN future of 5G As 5G continues to take shape at the standards levels, service providers and vendors are aggressively breaking down new, Internet of Things use cases that will be made possible with the ultra-low latency...

ETSI renames MEC focus with expanded view on hetnets, LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi

ETSI’s MEC plans were signified with a name change and expanded focus to include hetnets using LTE, 5G, fixed broadband and Wi-Fi technologies. Highlighting the rapidly expanding scale and scope of mobile edge computing on the greater telecommunications space, the European Telecommunications Standards...

5G for IoT: Applications and use cases

Panel: 5G for IoT - Applications and use cases Moderator Dan Meyer, Editor-in-Chief at RCR Wireless News is joined by Peter de Nagy, President, Acommence Advisors and Tri-Chair, Tech Titans IoT Forum (Tech Assoc of North Texas); Jake MacLeod, President and CEO, GreyBeards Consulting, Caroline Chan, VP, GM...

Reality Check: The inevitable convergence of IoT, analytics and visuals

The internet and greater use of IoT are set to be significant pieces of technology altering innovation and how people interact with the world. Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Reality Check section is where C-level executives and advisory firms from across...

SoftBank expanding Tokyo 5G tests into the 28 GHz band

SoftBank 5G tests ongoing in 4 GHz and 4.5 GHz bands Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank recently acquired a license to expand tests of 5G communications in the 28 GHz band. The company already has already begun testing 5G in the 4 GHz and 4.5 GHz...

3GPP agrees on plan to accelerate 5G NR – the global 5G standard – for 2019 deployments

Why? What? How? An insider’s perspective. If you were like me and the 100,000+ other attendees, you were at Mobile World Congress (MWC) last week in Barcelona, Spain, and were inundated with 5G everywhere. However, unlike me, hopefully you got to return home at the...

Finding the connection between 5G and CORD

Support for the central office re-architected as a data center design continues to grow, but what the connection between CORD efforts and 5G? On this week’s “NFV/SDN Reality Check,” we speak with Radisys on the connection between the telecommunication industry’s move...

Nokia throws LTE hardware support behind 600 MHz spectrum band

Nokia test included end-to-end LTE call, use of 20-megahertz spectrum block, 256 QAM, and four-way uplink diversity and 4x4 MIMO antenna technology. Nokia said it has completed prestandard testing of commercial hardware compatible with the 600 MHz spectrum band, which is...

Huawei unveils investment plan for New Zealand

New data center and research labs are part of Huawei project. Huawei announced an investment plan to open a data center and research labs in New Zealand; founder and permanent CEO Ren Zhengfei made the announcement during a visit to the country.  Huawei said it's...

Hong Kong announces roadmap for 5G spectrum availability

Regulator looks to open up 5G spectrum during 2019 and 2020. Hong Kong’s Communications Authority announced plans to open up new spectrum for "5G" services in the 26 GHz and 28 GHz bands in 2019, and in the 3.4 GHz to 3.7...

Chip-level IoT enablement is about more than connectivity

With its new SoC, Sequans includes LTE connectivity along with the horsepower necessary for increasingly complex IoT applications At this point, there are well established IoT use cases like wearables, environmental sensing and asset tracking, but when the connectivity power of 5G is factored in,...

The direction of 5G and IoT coming out of MWC 2017

What impact did news from this year’s Mobile World Congress event have on the direction and pace of 5G technology and IoT deployment models? On this week’s “Carrier Wrap” we speak with Dan Hays from PwC’s Strategy& division to get his views...

How we will get to 5G

The hopes for what 5G can accomplish are a testament to mobile’s triumph. Mobile has been so successful, on such a massive scale, that it has become the largest technology platform in human history. The promise of 5G is taking everything we have learned, evolving...

The difference between IoT today, and IoT as supported by 5G

SAN FRANCISCO – There's a big difference between the internet of things as we know it today and truly massive IoT, which is what "5G" technology aims to support. That was the message Matt Grob, EVP and CTO at Qualcomm, shared with attendees of...

For service providers, virtualization is an opportunity to rethink the network

Signaling-control delivered via software sets the stage for the explosion in IoT devices, as well as 5G, while accelerating innovation Virtualizing telecommunications networks is a costly and expensive task. But, given the increasing complexity of existing networks, coupled with the continued and dramatic growth of...

Analyst Angle: Another next-gen mobile technology revolution – in voice with VoLTE and digital assistants

Voice communication may not have the hype of high-speed data services, but VoLTE and digital assistants show the market has next-generation potential. Editor’s Note: Welcome to Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on...