Wireless infrastructure firm Mobilitie and venue owner/partners AEG and MGM Resorts International have partnered to provide 5G connectivity to T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The T-Mobile Arena is home of the NHL?s Vegas Golden Knights, UFC, concerts, championship sporting events and numerous annual awards shows...
Boingo Wireless added 300 new distributed antenna systems (DAS) nodes in the third quarter of 2020 and ended the period with a total DAS portfolio of 138 venues. Seventy-three of those venues are now live ,with another 65 in backlog, the company?s CEO Mike...
Public transport is integral to a city’s prosperity and its citizens’ wellbeing. Besides providing the infrastructure to get people from point A to B, transport operators are responding to citizens’ needs to remain connected and productive on public transport, especially longer journeys, and to...
Sarah Yost, NI’s senior business development manager, discusses why it's too soon to get excited about 6G, as well as how the company’s software-defined radios are supporting the PAWR program, which is, among other things, exploring how to build drone applications on top of...
Korean carrier SK Telecom announced plans to form a joint venture with German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom (DT) this year with the main goal of developing 5G technology, SK Telecom said in a release.
They will each hold 50% of the joint venture and each...
Brazilian mobile operator Claro, owned by Mexican telecommunications group America Movil, announced plans to expand its 5G service in 12 additional cities before the end of the year.
Claro’s 5G service will reach Brasília, Porto Alegre, Goiânia, São Luís, Manaus, Belém, Guarulhos, Santos, Santo André,...
The new AWS cloud region is expected to become active in mid-2022
Amazon Web Services revealed big plans to spend $2.8 billion to build a second AWS cloud region in India. The new region, located in the state of Telangana in the Hyderabad tech hub,...
Smart building tech and service company Honeywell posted revenues of $1.3 billion in its building technologies business segment in the third quarter of the year, down 8% compared to revenues of $1.41 billion in the year-ago period.
The building technologies segment generated profits of $282...
Orange will take control of about 881,000 customers buying fixed and mobile service bundles
French mobile operator Orange is purchasing a 54% stake in Telekom Romania Communications (TRC) from Deutsche Telekom’s OTE. As a result, Orange has bought its way into a business that serves...
A Recap – the Ubiquitous Edge Platform
This is the second of two blog posts that explore the concept of a ubiquitous multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform that universally addresses edge computing needs, from customer premises to regional telco data centers. If you haven’t yet...
Private cellular specialist Citymesh has struck a deal with Proximus to offer mobile and fixed telecom services on the Proximus network in Belgium, running alongside localised cellular services in its own spectrum.
The agreement on mobile services extends to a wholesale-based mobile virtual network operator...
Telstra and Ericsson have struck a deal to bundle localised edge-based 5G connectivity and compute functions for enterprises in Australia. The pair are looking to develop a reusable “edge cloud solution”, out of a test model deployed already with an unnamed financial services company,...
A1 Austria is working with Nokia to deploy private LTE and 5G networks for enterprises in Austria. The pair have already worked together to deploy private wireless campus networks in Austria for Vienna Airport, automotive manufacturer Magna Steyr, and a government-funded 5G Playground in...
American Tower has agreed to acquire InSite Wireless Group, which owns, operates and manages approximately 3,000 communications sites, primarily in the U.S. and Canada.
The portfolio includes more than 1,400 owned towers in the U.S., over 200 in Canada and approximately 70 distributed antenna system...
CommScope posted net sales of $511.8 million in its venue and campus networks business division in the third quarter of 2020, down 2.4% from prior year, primarily driven by declines in its indoor copper enterprise unit.
Results in this business segment were partially offset by...
Italian carrier TIM and cell tower company INWIT started a collaboration to deploy small cells in Italy’s major cities with the aim of supporting the development of 5G.
The two companies said that the collaboration will begin in the cities of Milan and Genoa where...
NAD determined that some of T-Mobile's 5G claims are misleading
After an examination of T-Mobile US’ claims about its 5G network, the National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs has found that the carrier’s ads have been potentially misleading consumers.
While NAD determined that some...
In a vote split along party lines, the Federal Communications Commission continued its press to minimize local barriers to network deployment by allowing excavation and deployment of equipment up to 30 feet beyond a site boundary without triggering additional review.
Republican commission members framed the...
Multi-link operation and deterministic low latency are two Wi-Fi 7 key features
It’s only been a little over a year since the W-Fi Alliance released the Wi-Fi Certified 6 certification program, followed by Wi-Fi 6E not too long after, but excitement around Wi-Fi 7 is...
5G mmWave is a truly transformative technology that delivers the next-level performance and user experience beyond what is possible with lower band spectrum. After more than a decade of advanced R&D and ecosystem trials, we are now seeing commercial 5G mmWave service offered by...
The Australian government expects to carry out two 5G spectrum auctions during 2021, the Ministry of Communications said in a release.
In April 2021, it has scheduled a spectrum tender to award high-band 5G spectrum (in the 26 GHz band), which will enable fast, high-capacity...
French telecommunications regulator Arcep said it will award 5G spectrum licenses to local mobile operators in the short term after a frequency positioning auction was recently completed.
The regulator said that 5G networks are formally allowed to begin commercial operations on November 18.
Last month, Arcep...
The installed base of connected building automation systems in Europe and North America is forecast to 34.4 million in 2024, compared to an estimated 20.5 million systems in 2019, according to a new research report from IoT analyst firm Berg Insight.
Berg Insight estimates that...
Although 5G deployments have started, many challenges are ahead for both operators and platform vendors.
5G DIVERSE USE CASES AND EVOLVING STANDARDS
To understand the challenges, it is instructive to compare 4G to 5G use cases. 4G has one main use case: mobile data.
5G, on the...
