The design of some 5G auctions is
artificially inflating prices or inefficiently
distributing already scarce spectrum resources, industry association GSMA said
in a release.
“Auctions can and do fail when poorly designed,” said Brett Tarnutzer, head of spectrum for the GSMA. “We’re seeing a worrying trend of badly...
How will incoming cellular technologies transform smart manufacturing? In the first installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of LTE and 5G in the future of manufacturing.
How will incoming cellular technologies transform smart manufacturing? In the first installment in a new series on smart manufacturing technologies, UK-based global editor-in-chief editor James Blackman looks at the role of LTE and 5G in the future of manufacturing.
This year, our vision for 5G is finally turning into a commercial reality as global mobile operators and device manufacturers have started to launch commercial 5G NR networks and mobile devices that include smartphones, laptops, and more. In many regions of the world, mmWave...
Inside the factory of the future, everything will be fluid, except for the floors, walls, and ceilings. Industrial assets – machines, devices, and vehicles – will be animated by 5G technologies, and made intelligent by edge and cloud analytics, enabling factory owners to swap-around...
Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics and compatriot carrier KT announced the a new partnership to deploy what the companies claim is the world’s first Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) service through a public safety LTE (PS-LTE) network, Samsung said in a release.
The NB-IoT service...
The industrial 5G market will benefit from the consumer 5G market, with network deployments starting in earnest in late 2019 and early 2020, as industrial devices take advantage of the muscular combination of connectivity, compute power, and security brought to bear in 5G smartphones....
Finnish vendor Nokia will build a private 5G test network for Chinese auto-maker FAW to spur digital transformation of its industrial machines and processes.
The pair have signed a “strategic” memorandum-of-understanding to carry out joint research into “smart connected cars, industrial IoT, smart manufacturing...
Car maker Audi, like other giants of German manufacturing, is sitting on a tranche of vacant radio spectrum that has been liberated by the German telecoms regulator for test purposes ahead of its official release as an industrial band with the country’s wider 5G...
Semtech opens-up and makes-free its LoRaWAN Academy
Semtech, the Californian chip-maker that owns and licenses the LoRa technology, is offering free educational modules via its LoRaWAN Academy for students, engineers, developers, and enterprises developing LoRa-based IoT solutions.
The LoRaWAN Academy launched in late 2017 and initially...
Another from the MWC 2019 vaults, which has so far slipped through the gaps of a hectic quarter at Enterprise IoT Insights. This time, we catch up with Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, to discuss how the US carrier...
With the increasingly global adoption of LTE/4G technology, greater opportunities for private LTE networks are emerging. According to ABI Research, by 2025 those sectors using private LTE will create a market worth $16.3 billion – a CAGR of 45 per cent since 2018.
ABI...
The original Monarch system-in-package (SiP) from French chipmaker Sequans Communications has been made available Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT ‘accelerator programme’ for just $6.50.
The new price point is a significant advance on the magic $10 mark for IoT chips that was breached in the middle of...
German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen will start construction of its own 5G mobile networks in 122 factories in Germany in 2020, according to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the German business magazine.
Volkswagen, the largest automaker by worldwide sales, has issued a tender to network equipment vendors....
Deutsche Telekom said private networks are easy to talk about, but hard to manage, at Hannover Messe 2019 last week, swatting away the perceived jeapordy for operators in the industrial 5G debate.
Adel Al-Saleh, member of the board at Deutsche Telekom and chief executive...
The craziness of the conference season, which has seen Enterprise IoT Insights cover both MWC 2019 and Hannover Messe 2019 in recent weeks, means content falls through the gaps. Sometimes, it is really good content, too.
One of the better conversations from MWC 2019,...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled “Orange on LPWA: ‘If there’s no improvement in the radio, we’ll keep the same system’.” Click here to go to the previous article.
The storm of digital change that 5G connectivity will unleash is...
5G has officially arrived, and as the new comes in, the old
goes out – and that’s as true for networks as for anything else. The 3G network
sunset is the turning off of those networks, as mobile network operators shift
spectrum, the lifeblood of cellular, to...
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled “Orange on IoT: ‘We’re different; we take innovation to the customer’”. Click here to go to the previous article.
The role of Orange Business Services as a “carrier-grade systems integrator” might sound familiar (see...
AURORA, COLORADO--Private LTE may be attracting attention, but private cellular networks are not a new model, according to industry experts at a Besen Group seminar on private LTE ahead of the Competitive Carriers Association's Mobile Carriers Show this week in Denver.
"This isn't actually...
Having effectvely reduced the discipline of network operations to an elaborate marketing exercise, to sell look-alike SIM cards and airtime bundles, it seems the new 5G era has telecoms operators sounding different, again. It seems like their personalities are coming through, at last.
This...
In Germany, they’ve made a verb out of the UK’s protracted divorce from the European Union: ‘to Brexit’ - sich verabschieden, aber nicht gehen (to say goodbye, but fail to leave). It was a joke doing the rounds at Hannover Messe 2019 last week,...
HANNOVER, Germany--Rival network infrastructure vendors Nokia and Ericsson staked out slightly different stances regarding how to bring private networks to industries at Mobile World Congress. The conversation on what makes a private network private continued this week at the Hannover Messe industrial fair.
Before we...
HANNOVER, Germany--Nokia has made clear it sees private networks for industrial users as a market segment with huge potential. And, this week at the Hannover Messe industrial trade fair in a country with a massive industrial economic base, Stephane Daeuble, Nokia's head of industry...
