Closing the urban/rural digital divide and expanding broadband access has been a federal policy goal for decades, and there are multiple new and existing programs underway that attempt to address disparities in broadband access across the United States.
The United States is a country of...
U.K. carrier EE’s 5G service in now live in 80 towns and cities across the country, the company said in a release.
EE, part of U.K. telco BT, initially launched 5G technology in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham and Manchester in May last year. Other...
Ligado Networks has raised more than $100 million in a first wave of investment for the build-out of its planned 5G/IoT network, even as a federal agency recently asked the Federal Communications Commission to pause and reconsider Ligado's ability to operate in its L-Band...
Canadian company Kontrol Energy announced that following the successful completion of UL certification for its building automation technology, SmartSuite, it has now commenced CE certification for the European and global markets.
Achieving the UL product safety certification allows Kontrol to sell its SmartSuite technology in...
As digital services evolve and users continue to demand faster speeds and higher connectivity, network densification is proving to be a key driver for enabling successful 5G networks. Through the process of increasing available network capacity through the addition of more cell sites, 5G...
45% of survey respondents said their companies are “moving rapidly” towards 5G commercial deployment
In a recent survey conducted by Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network in partnership with A10 Networks, mobile service providers reported substantial progress in the deployment of commercial 5G networks, with most...
Shenzhen planning to deploy 30,000 5G base stations by the end of 2020
China’s Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport is fully covered by 5G technology, Chinese news service Xinhua reported.
Since the beginning of 2020, the airport has accelerated the construction of a 5G network by building...
Focus on reducing energy consumption in smart buildings
UAE-based Lootah Real Estate Development (Lootah) said it currently using smart building technology to reduce energy consumption and the costs of maintenance and utilities for building tenants and owners.
The real estate developer has partnered with International Real...
5G is meant to be flexible so its radio access network should be too
Nokia is unique compared to its competitors Ericsson and Huawei in that the company has amped up messaging around open RAN generally and, specifically, its role in balancing open, interoperable interfaces...
Hong Kong’s smallest mobile operator, SmarTone, announced the launch of commercial 5G services in the territory using Ericsson’s Dynamic Spectrum Technology (DSS).
The carrier said it adopting an integrated approach of combining high, mid and low spectrum bands to build a "robust" 5G network in...
In research for a new report on industrial AR, Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Farid Bichareh, smart factory chair at the Industrial Internet Consortium and chief technology officer at research and engineering firm AASA (and also at subsidiary LiFi solution provider 01LightComm). Bichareh...
Australian carrier Telstra is already offering commercial 5G services in 47 cities across the country, ahead of its target of reaching 35 urban areas before the end of June.
Channa Seneviratne, a network engineering executive at Telstra said that the company’s 5G service already reaches...
California-based Kiana Analytics, which provides proximity solutions to organizations worldwide, announced that it has been selected by the?Swiss Federal Railways?(SBB), the national railway company of Switzerland, to assist with optimizing its work space for its flexible workforce.
Kiana says it delivers a mobile and cloud-enabled...
As Ansel Adams put it, "There's nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept
The story of open RAN is nuanced. Beyond the formidable technology piece, geopolitics inform how the ecosystem of open RAN proponents are framing the issue, which is becoming increasingly...
Network operators are looking to segment their private LTE and 5G offers for enterprises into gold, silver, and bronze tiers to distinguish between standalone systems using slices of public networks, managed services using privately-licensed ‘vertical’ spectrum, and plug-and-play installations running in unlicensed bands.
So says...
Swedish telcos Telia and Tele2 have announced the launch of 5G commercial networks in the country.
In a release, Telia Sweden said it inaugurated its first major commercial 5G network in Stockholm on May 25. The network, which has been up and running for a...
Honeywell? launched an integrated set of solutions to help building owners improve the "health" of their building environments, the firm said in a release.
The aim of the new solutions is to comply with social distancing policies, and help reassure occupants that it is safe...
The developer community working with LoRa-based IoT solutions took stock of Semtech’s new LR1110 module at a virtual meet-up last month, and declared it a “pretty unique piece of silicon”. The LR1110 is the latest in a flurry of dual-mode silicon that appears to...
German football club FC Bayern M?nchen has partnered with Deutsche Telekom to offer 5G connectivity at its Allianz Arena stadium.
In a statement, FC Bayern M?nchen said that 5G mobile connection is now available and complements the previous LTE network. It added that fans will...
WIA CEO: 'towers are as just important for 5G as anything else'
While moderating a panel at this year’s Connect(X) virtual conference event, WIA President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein remarked that in a world consumed with 5G, it’s important to remember that towers are just...
Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Delta Electronics has used its IoT technology in combination with Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud computing services to develop two smart building solutions, Digitimes reported.
According to Microsoft Taiwan, the two new smart building solutions are air-conditioning anomaly detection and Bluetooth smart...
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, has signed a 5G network sharing agreement with China Broadcasting Network (CBN), giving the market leader access to the TV provider’s 700 MHz spectrum.
The companies confirmed that they would jointly fund and deploy...
When you see the many announcements around innovation in OpenRAN for 5G, what you may not realize is that the 4G and 5G-only OpenRAN approach is only suited for greenfield deployments. So, what does that mean for brownfield or existing wireless networks? There are...
Most of the continental United States is covered with mobile broadband, however there are still many communities and land areas where coverage does not exist, mostly in rural and hard-to-reach places.
Why?
The high cost and low ROI associated with using traditional terrestrial backhaul to build...
