Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, a unit of e-commerce giant Rakuten, is likely to limit the scope of its mobile launch in October due to delays in the installation of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Rakuten likely to launch limited mobile services due to rollout delays: Report >
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Operators will struggle to monetize 5G, NB-IoT, LTE-M in M2M market, says report >
Cellular M2M value-added service revenues will account for only 14 per cent of the total revenues gained on the top of straight cellular M2M connection revenues, in the next five …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Demystifying the LPWA Technology Market Hype: Identifying the key Vertical IoT applications driving market growth >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
As the LPWA technology market continues to evolve, it is faced with fierce competition from Sigfox, LoRa, NB-IOT, LTE-M, and other LPWA technologies. This competition has also fueled significant market …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">APCO2019: First look at FirstNet’s network reinvestment priorities >by Kelly Hillby Kelly Hill
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — The First Responders Network Authority will be receiving about $18 billion in payments from AT&T over the 25-year-term of its contract to build out and operate the …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">“There’s nothing you can’t do with LTE” – talking ports and private networks with Druid Software >
The rise of private cellular networks has been a key narrative recently in the story of industrial transformation, propelled by the emergence of advanced data analytics (AI), distributed sensing and …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">China Mobile to take advantage of 4G infra for 5G deployments: Report >
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile services provider, plans to leverage base station sites and transmission facilities used for 4G services to deploy its 5G network cost-effectively, Chinese press …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Amazon applies for new CBRS test license; AWS amps up IIoT work in private LTE >
Amazon has applied with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a temporary license to work in the CBRS band in California to test and analyse the performance of new 3.5 …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Elisa and Ericsson to offer private LTE for industrial and emergency services >
Finnish operator Elisa is offering enterprise customers and public safety agencies a private LTE solution, after trials with Swedish vendor Ericsson during the first half of the year. Ericsson said …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Rakuten to deploy 4,000 edge servers for virtualized mobile network: Report >
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten expects to deploy a total of 4,000 edge servers in Japan for the launch of its virtualized mobile network, the company’s chairman and CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani said …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">UK operators welcome Ofcom move on spectrum, but warn about interference >
The industry welcomed Ofcom’s move to release spectrum in the UK for private and shared usage, although UK operators said their support was contingent on effective coordination measures to protect …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Verizon intros LTE-based meters and management to PenLight power system >
Peninsula Light Company (PenLight) has appointed US carrier Verizon to upgrade its power distribution system in Washington State with an LTE-based system, comprising smart electricity meters and a data analytics …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">“It’s only a question of time” – Siemens and Ericsson on the promise of industrial 5G >
Industrial giant Siemens, reticent on the subject until now, has been gushing in its support of 5G for industry, as a means to automate and animate digital factories, and bring …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">FCC approves CommScope, Federated and Google ESCs for CBRS >
ESC approvals a key step in commercializing CBRS Commercial access to the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band by operators and enterprises continues to take shape as the complex …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">After successful trial, ROKiT to expand Wi-Fi installation across India >
ROKiT hopes to provide “affordable and life changing service to millions of people” ROKiT, a self-labeled humanity first telecom company, has completed its first test of the company’s wide-area Wi-Fi XL system in New Dehli. The …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">NYU’s Wireless founder to be inducted into Wireless Hall of Fame >
Ted Rappaport’s research with NYU paved the way for the commercialization of 5G New York University (NYU) Professor and Founding Director of the research center NYU WIRELESS, Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport will …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">What are dual-slice ‘campus networks’? Deutsche Telekom on LTE and 5G slicing for industry >
Deutsche Telekom is offering industrialists so-called ‘campus networks’, which offer a kind of proto-slicing as a pre-cursor to slicing-proper with 5G networks. But its recent work in the Port of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Smart ports: seven practical challenges for port authorities and terminal operators >
The Marseille Fos port in southern France is leading the new French Smart Port in Med initiative, with an ambition to “build the port of the future”. It has a …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Advancing public safety communications to save more lives >
The In-building Public Safety Communications market has been a hot topic of conversation in the United States, and has evolved to become a global topic with the advancement of …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Exploring enterprise private network opportunities >
Cradlepoint highlights enterprise private network use cases The notion of an enterprise private network, whether it’s LTE or 5G deployed in unlicensed, licensed or shared spectrum, is a hot …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Port authorities and terminal operators: private networks and public slices in sea ports >
Sea ports have become a primary focus for the telecoms sector as it maps out potential customers for private communications networks, particularly as the industrial space at large hits upon …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">China Unicom selects Nokia to support 5G deployment in Beijing >
Nokia announced that China Unicom has selected the Nokia optical fronthaul solution to power its 4G and 5G networks in China’s capital Beijing, supporting the operator’s commitment to deliver 5G during …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Why co-evolution of 4G & 5G matters, suggestion on 5G migration: ZTE >
ZTE considers that the co-evolution of 4G and 5G networks is a key issue as these two technologies will be sharing many resources and will be offering each other …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">“A million private networks in the US” – boom time beckons for industrial LTE and 5G >
The rise of private industrial networking should be measured by the number of new networks, and network operators, and not by the number of cell sites, reckons Italy-based industrial networking …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">Corning White Paper: Future-Ready Mobility >
Every enterprise mobility infrastructure investment made today will be expected to migrate to 5G. Infrastructure with a future-ready posture will minimize the surprises in that LTE to 5G transition. Corning’s …
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< class="penci-entry-title entry-title grid-title penci_grid_title">National Instruments White Paper: What does 5G mean in 2019? >by Ben Stoneby Ben Stone
Every year, the wireless community gathers at Mobile World Congress to get a glimpse at the latest cellular technology. This year was notable for all of the new innovations and progress …