The pandemic has highlighted the importance of personal data and digital connectivity, to the detection, treatment, and prevention of COVID-19. The major social media platforms for search, marketing, and transactions involve the collection and use of personal data in historic proportions in ways that...
Spanish infrastructure company Cellnex Telecom has acquired Finnish private networking specialist Edzcom for an undisclosed fee. The deal was announced in the company’s six-month business update for the period to the end of June, alongside the purchase of Arqiva's Telecommunications division in the UK...
Enlighted, which specializes in building IoT platforms, announced the availability of its workplace digital contact tracing solution to help employees return safely to offices, manufacturing facilities and pharmaceutical labs.
The company said that its new offering provides digital contact history for employees who self-report testing...
German operator Deutsche Telekom has selected Ericsson for a new multi-year agreement to deploy the carrier’s 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) across Germany.
Under the terms of the deal, various mobile sites will be upgraded to the latest 5G technology standard over the next few...
As the U.S. Department of Defense moves forward with exploration of the role that 5G will play in its future, Verizon announced this week that it is lighting up 5G service at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, California.
MCAS Miramar is home to...
As operators invest in 5G networks and chart a course toward service revenues, scale is a key piece of winning consumer and enterprise business while also realizing the network resource and spectral usage benefits that 5G can unlock. However, achieving scale requires not just...
UK based telecoms provider Vilicom has struck a deal with Danish power company Ørsted to design and deploy an LTE network at its Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. On completion, in 2022, Hornsea Two will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world.
The...
With the global 5G network rollout, mobile network operators need dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) between 4G and 5G networks to speed transition of 5G services.
Keysight’s DSS software solutions can help you test your base stations to ensure the simultaneous transmission of LTE and 5G New Radio services and...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operators in terms of subscribers, added 14.4 million 5G subscribers in June, the telco said in its website.
The carrier said it ended the first half of 2020 with a total of 70.2 million 5G subscribers, compared to 6.7 million...
Bractlet, an?Austin, Texas-based smart building software company, has launched its tiered?Bractlet?Intelligence Platform, a software and intelligence solution for commercial real estate owners.
The new offerings complement the company's existing Bractlet Simulation product and make it easier for customers to experience the Intelligence Platform based...
China would consider imposing trade restrictions on European vendors Ericsson and Nokia’s businesses in the country if European nations continued to block Chinese vendor Huawei from participating in 5G contracts, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The newspaper stated China’s Ministry of Commerce is considering adding...
With PAL auction set to start, the final phase of CBRS commercialization is not far off
The Priority Access License auction for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz will begin on Thursday, with a field of 271 bidders vying for the largest-ever...
It seems like yesterday that I first wrote about the five wireless inventions that defined 5G NR. At the time, 5G was not yet deployed. Today, however, we are in the midst of rapidly expanding 5G’s global footprint. To date, over 70 mobile operators...
Nokia has announced the commercial availability of its industrial-grade standalone 5G (5G SA) solutions for private enterprise networks, alongside a new contract with the mining division of Swedish tool manufacturer Sandvik for deployment of a 5G SA network at its test mine in Tampere,...
The scale of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic's global impacts are becoming clear, Ericsson executives said, but the company was nonetheless able to deliver a "solid quarter."
Ericsson reported essentially flat year-over-year sales, but said that its network segment grew by 4% from the same period...
GE Current and Pointr announced a partnership to enable location-based services in large buildings such as retail premises, warehouses, workplaces and distribution centers.
??Now more than ever, technology can help businesses deliver an optimal working environment for workers,? said Ed Davis, director, corporate development and...
South African operator Rain has launched what it claims to be Africa’s first standalone 5G (SA 5G) network, in partnership with Chinese vendor Huawei, the latter said in a release.
Rain's standalone 5G is currently available in the South African city of Cape Town ,covering...
The U.K. government has asked Japan to help in the deployment of 5G networks in the country, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review.
The request came after the U.K. government last week decided to ban Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies from supplying 5G equipment to U.K telcos.
Under the new...
Is open RAN right for near-term rip-and-replace?
Huawei equipment has been ordered removed from networks in the United States and the United Kingdom with speculation that other European markets could soon follow. Advocates of open radio access network technology see this an opportunity to take...
The biggest draw of Wi-Fi 6E is that these new, wider channels will allow for clean access
While Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax, made headlines for offering faster speeds and improved capacity thanks to features like the use of OFDMA and multi-user MIMO, Wi-Fi 6E refers to...
U.S. firm Cohesion, an early-stage smart building software-as-a-service company, announced that it has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to further invest in its platform, which helps commercial real estate operators integrate their buildings? systems and enhance tenant experiences.
The startup said its application bridges...
Higher uses of Wi-Fi calling improves user perception of wireless network performance
A recent J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Wireless Network Quality Performance Study found that higher uses of Wi-Fi calling improves user perception of wireless network performance. According to the study, the 42% of wireless...
U.S. push against Huawei gaining traction in Europe
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has begun the process of drawing up a list of telecommunications equipment deemed to pose a security risk for the country as part of the agency’s efforts to limit the reach...
Facing Huawei rip-and-replace, Vodafone needs to reallocate capital
U.K. telecommunications group Vodafone has called for the U.K. government to abandon an upcoming spectrum of 5G spectrum following the government decision to ban the use of Huawei gear in future networks.
Vodafone U.K. CEO Nick Jeffrey said...
