BROWSING: LTE

How to cost-effectively deliver multi-carrier in-building coverage

  Nextivity’s Supercell helps enterprises make the most of small cell signals There are three foundational facts that are shaping the in-building cellular market. We know that the vast majority of mobile traffic originates from inside buildings; similarly, we know that modern businesses, regardless of size,...

Private LTE works for public-safety drones, says Nokia after tsunami trial

Private LTE works as a control and communications technology for drones, said Nokia, after concluding a test flight of a drone on a private LTE installation in Japan. The Finnish vendor worked with Sendai City in the centre of Tohoku Region, northeast of Tokyo...

LTE Networks & IoT Create Smarter Smart Cities

  Cities are becoming smarter by producing greater public-sector efficiencies through sensors, IoT, LTE connectivity, and data analysis. The change of culture and technology is causing towns, cities, counties, and even entire states, to adapt to technologies that help lower costs, increase productivity, and improve...

SMEs can ‘punch above their weight’ with carrier-IoT as-a-service, says Vodafone

Small and medium sized enterprises can “punch above their weight” in global markets by taking IoT as-a-service from mobile operators. Where large organisations will go it alone, and develop their own IoT platforms internally, smaller companies must seek specialist partners. At the same time,...

Killer questions in IoT: Should enterprises wait for 5G to start IoT?

It seems, almost, like a daft question, except the hype around 5G is so all-consuming it threatens to eat complementary IoT technologies alive – most of which have the distinct advantage of being available already. It is dangerous ground, because IoT installations need time...

Nokia and Microsoft bundle private LTE and Azure IoT for operators

Microsoft and Nokia are offering a private LTE and IoT bundle for operators and enterprises. UK based BT is the first operator to resell the package, offered as a managed service. The arrangement, which sees the Microsoft’s Azure based cloud and analytics offered with...

American Tower sees different layers for 5G coverage in the U.S: CEO

  American Tower expects the deployment of 5G in the U.S. will have different approaches considering specific topographic and population characteristics, the company’s President and CEO James Taiclet said during a conference call with investors. “In our view, 5G will likely have a number of layers...

Rohde & Schwarz White Paper: LTE mobile network optimization – a definitive guide

Long term evolution (LTE) provides global mobility and a wide range of services that includes voice, data and video for subscribers and delivers new revenue streams and cost saving for operators. However, in order to get best performance and efficiency out of an LTE...

UK regulator confirms new 5G spectrum auction in 2020

  U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom has confirmed plans to release additional spectrum for the provision of 5G services in spring 2020. In a statement, Ofcom said that the auction will include 80 megahertz in the 700 MHz band and 120 megahertz in the 3.6-3.8 GHz band...

Private LTE and 5G network market to reach $8 billion by 2023

Report: The private LTE and 5G network market "will only continue to grow" In the era of constant connectivity, private LTE and 5G networks have the potential to become the preferred approach to deliver wireless connectivity for a host of environments and use cases. Some...

MulteFire Alliance opens test lab for 1.9 GHz private LTE devices in Japan

The MulteFire Alliance has announced the launch of its MulteFire 1.9 GHz certification programme, to ensure devices conform with its MulteFire 1.1 specification. The 1.9 GHz certification will test eNodeB devices in the 1.9 GHz band in Japan, verifying that devices can effectively interoperate...

Four prime sectors for industrial LTE in private or shared spectrum

The steady liberalisation of radio spectrum for private and shared usage in various markets, along with the growing realisation among traditional network operators that their licensed spectrum mat be better used for dedicated applications in under-covered locales, means the industrial set has a number...

Cisco believes 5G will benefit rural UK, but will it?

Rural UK users are skeptical about being able to access new 5G networks As 5G networks continue to sweep across the world promising to bring a new era of connectivity to consumers and enterprise users, an important conversation around the future of rural connectivity has...

Huawei lands role in Malaysia 5G rollout

Huawei will provide 4G and 5G services to Maxis as it prepares for 5G rollout Yesterday, Huawei Technologies entered a formal agreement with Maxis, one of Malaysia's major telecommunications companies, to provide 5G radio equipment, services and knowledge to help build the country’s 5G network. After...

Vodafone opens LTE band for private usage, as EU races US on spectrum innovation

Vodafone is the first network operator in the UK to sub-license unused LTE / 4G spectrum under UK regulator Ofcom’s new spectrum policy, which seeks to bolster rural and indoor coverage, and drive industrial transformation.  The deal signals a race for spectrum innovation, according to...

5G, blockchain, and tracking – the Marseille model for smart ports

The Port of Marseille Fos, in France, has new discussions with Orange about 5G, a developing relationship with IBM on blockchain, and a host of collaborations with local industry around port innovation, geared towards container handling, traffic management, cyber-security, and renewable energy.  Stéphane Reiche, general...

Dense Air strikes deal to build ‘neutral host’ 5G smart-city network in Portugal

Dense Air, a subsidiary of network infrastructure vendor Airspan, has signed a deal with the city of Cascais in Portugal, a municipality in the Lisbon district, to build a 5G smart-city test network that makes use of its local 3.6GHz spectrum holding, to support...

Qualcomm seeks 2cm lane accuracy on C-V2X positioning for autonomous cars

Qualcomm is working with California-based Trimble to make high accuracy positioning solutions for cellular vehicle-to-everything services (C-V2X) in connected and autonomous vehicles. Qualcomm said it will host Trimble’s RTX sitioning software library on its Snapdragon platforms for the vehicle market. Qualcomm’s 4G and 5G based...

Samsung Networks explores new 5G enterprise use cases

Samsung Networks opened its 5G Innovation Zone this year Samsung Networks may not be the most well-known business within the South Korean conglomerate’s entire organization, but it has been going strong for about 40 years, beginning in the Korean market before expanding. RCR Wireless News...

5G rollouts accelerate as LTE growth continues

Amid growing 5G deployment, LTE growth remains strong According to 5G Americas, global LTE subscriptions are nearing 5 billion worldwide, and there have been a quarter billion new LTE connections added around the world in the second quarter of 2019. The data, gathered by Ovum, shows...

Canadian telcos strike reciprocal LTE-M roaming deals with AT&T

  Canadian telecom operators Bell, Telus and Rogers have struck roaming partnerships with AT&T to provide their business customers access to AT&T's LTE-M network across the United States. Bell, which claims to be the first telco to launch LTE-M services in Canada, said that the reciprocal...

Ericsson: ‘5G is not a single thing’

4G and 5G will coexist for much longer than previous generations of mobile broadband PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island—For Peter Linder, Ericsson’s vice president of marketing and communications in North America, the most important thing for policy makers and businesses to understand about the next generation of...

Disaster Tech Lab: Using cellular in disaster response

Increased digitalization is impacting disaster response and recovery Coverage, power and backhaul. Those three pieces are fundamental to any working cellular network, but they can be awfully hard to come by during a response to a natural or humanitarian disaster. Disaster Tech Lab specializes in providing...

NREL private LTE pilot moves to second phase

A private LTE network testing the use of the technology for distributed energy grid applications has successfully completed its first phase and is moving into its second. The trial network, constructed at the National Renewable Energy Lab's location in Golden, Colorado, uses 900 MHz spectrum...