Qualcomm has more than 70 Wi-Fi 6-enabled devices and more than 200 AP and gateway designs
Last month, the FCC opened up the 6 GHz frequency band for use by Wi-Fi 6 technology, a decision that is receiving substantial industry praise. Qualcomm is no different,...
Canadian company BrainBox AI, which specializes in autonomous building technology, announced the closure of a CAD12 million ($8.59 million)?convertible debt round, which would allow the firm to fund its business expansion North America and international markets like the U.K., Ireland, and Australia.
The company noted...
Microsoft confirmed acquisition of Affirmed Networks in March
Microsoft made big telco moves ahead of its earnings call last week with the acquisition of Affirmed Networks and announcement of Azure edge products for both carriers and enterprises. And, on the April 29 call with analysts,...
Nokia CEO says the company has 70 5G deal wins and 21 live networks deployed
On its Q1 earnings call, Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri said that while the company’s revenues took a small hit — EUR200 million in net sales — due to...
The first quarter was a mixed bag for Comcast, which saw notable gains in its broadband and wireless services, while its theme parks, television and film production all have been largely shut down under shelter-in-place rules and that had a steep impact on profits.
Company...
Canadian company PCL Construction announced a partnership with AOMS Technologies, a supplier of internet of things (IoT) technologies for smart buildings and construction sites.
Through this partnership, PCL and AOMS Technologies aims to focus on IoT enabled ?smart construction? projects.
The companies said that the partnership...
Australian carrier Telstra has upgraded its 5G radio access network (RAN) coverage footprint across Australia, connecting a cloud-native 5G Core (5GC) network to handle new 5G standalone traffic.
Telstra used equipment from Swedish vendor Ericsson for the network upgrade.
The 5G upgrade means that Telstra already has...
Network usage has shifted dramatically since mid-March, when the COVID-19 pandemic began having significant impacts in the U.S. As enterprises and government agencies cope with the impacts of abrupt shifts to large-scale telework, the use of business applications and video conferencing has skyrocketed. VPN...
HAPS Alliance includes Ericsson, Nokia, SoftBank, DT, Telefonica, China Telecom, Bharti Airtel and Loon, among others
A coalition of companies are aiming for the stratosphere as a "multi-billion dollar market opportunity" in telecommunications, planetary observation and weather prediction and modeling—including five traditionally terrestrial cellular network...
Veritas Solutions Group,?a provider of smart building infrastructure solutions, has officially launched operations.
Veritas said it will unify the engineering branch of MIH Systems Group, a provider of commissioning services, under one new and comprehensive brand.
The company will offer smart infrastructure services and solutions for buildings...
South Korea tech giant Samsung Electronics expects to see a slowdown in 5G investments in the second quarter of the year due to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, JongMin Lee, VP of Samsung's mobile communications business, said during the firm’s earnings call.
“It...
Vodafone: 'This trial more than justifies our faith in the value, practicality of broadband convergence'
Yesterday, Metaswitch announced that its Access Gateway Function (AGF) solution has been successfully tested by Vodafone in the industry’s first implementation of the 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence (WWC) Access Gateway...
The 5G networks of tomorrow will need to strike the right balance of products and solutions in order to address the complexities of rolling out and servicing the applications that this new standard will foster.
There is no silver bullet when it comes to transforming...
Nokia’s enterprise business showed growth of almost 20 percent during the first quarter of 2020, compared with a year ago, on the back of continued sales momentum for private LTE networks to the industrial sector.
The Finnish firm, in the process of fielding a hostile...
Due to COVID-19, remote working has become a huge talking point; but even before the pandemic, remote working was trending upwards. While having employees work from home provides a number of benefits like lower overhead costs and improved productivity, the sudden boom in the...
The decision last week by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make 1,200MHz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band in the US available for unlicensed usage, covering low-power operations over the full allocation and standard-power devices in 850MHz of the band, is a...
The coronavirus pandemic has transformed how many around the world work, learn, and live. Now more than ever, access to secure, modern connectivity is essential to supporting and maintaining teams, communities, and other human-to-human interactions and relationships.
On April 29, join us for an inspiring...
The Chinese government has set new regulations for critical information infrastructure operators to buy tech equipment, which could potentially represent new obstacles for foreign vendors.
The new regulations, which were announced by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), require that domestic critical information infrastructure operators...
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has launched RunMyBuilding, a smart building integration and management platform for all physical and digital services across a building or campus.
Fujitsu noted that the new offering has the capability to be integrated into wider smart city digital environments.
RunMyBuilding by Fujitsu...
Bharti Airtel is a member of the O-RAN Alliance and TIP
Bharti Airtel has deployed Altiostar’s open virtual radio access network (vRAN) solution across multiple major cities in India, making it the first Indian operator to deploy vRAN-based 4G network. Bharti Airtel plans to develop...
Wi-Fi Alliance exec: 'Think about what we can accomplish with what we’ve just been given with Wi-Fi 6E'
Wi-Fi Alliance’s Senior Vice President of Marketing Kevin Robinson told RCR Wireless News that the Alliance is thrilled about the FCC’s decision to open 6 GHz for unlicensed...
By 2025, almost one quarter (23 percent) of all private LTE and 5G networks will be deployed by smart cities, either at local or national government level. Other major industrial sectors to negotiate their own spectrum and manage their own wireless networks will be,...
5G is here and it is redefining expectations - and rewriting standards - with regards to data processing requirements like volume, velocity and latency. The 5G revolution also creates new opportunities for CSPs roll out new revenue generating applications, transform their OSS/BSS systems, or...
5G technology will be key for future projects in the smart buildings segment as building owners and managers will be able to use this tech to improve services at buildings and integrate 5G with other technologies such as artificial intelligence and IoT. To know...
