Federated Wireless has announced it has secured $13.7 million in additional Series C funding from existing investors Allied Minds and Pennant Investors.
The funding will accelerate its partnership with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to offer connectivity-as-a-service, which has seen most business in the...
Ericsson is largely holding steady in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, with limited financial and operational impacts thus far -- although company executives expressed concern about the possibility that 5G deployments could be delayed in Europe, and warned that the longer national...
Hitachi and Hitachi Building Systems recently announced that they will launch full-scale commercial operations with its EMIEW communication robot as one of their Lumada?solutions in the building field. EMIEW stands for Excellent?Mobility and?Interactive?Existence as?Workmate.
The robot provides a range of services to support works in...
Parallel Wireless CEO: "We have an all G world for a long period of time"
U.S.-based OpenRAN provider Parallel Wireless this week announced it was selected by the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications to provide cellular systems to extend connectivity into underserved and unserved...
Digi International has released a new line of cellular routers for critical infrastructure and intelligent traffic system applications. The company said it wants to be the “IoT connectivity player of choice”.
The firm said it is working to “align” enterprise customers and IoT solutions in...
Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has partnered with compatriot mobile network operators China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom to install advanced 5G infrastructure on Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, according to Chinese press reports.
China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless network operator, said its 5G...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has said it will consider allowing the 900 MHz band in the US to be used by energy companies for private LTE and 5G networking.
The move is a response to a long-standing request by private networking firm Anterix, which...
More than 40 masts have been attacked in the U.K. as a result of 5G conspiracy theories
A new hospital in Birmingham, England is one of the latest victims of the growing — and false — belief that 5G is somehow causing or spreading the...
2020 is going to be a pivotal year for the wireless industry.
On March 11th 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic as the number of global infections continued to rise. Since then, governments throughout the world have enforced strict social distancing...
Broadband connectivity has brought multiple significant benefits to rural America, from “911” emergency services access and remote learning to support for new local businesses. But the “rip and replace” bill recently signed by the President puts these benefits – and many of the operators...
US Cellular and Ericsson have added additional capacity to more than 200 sites
In response to increased data usage as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, US Cellular, with Ericsson support, has begun to increase capacity for customers in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, New Hampshire,...
Chinese vendor Huawei reported revenues of CNY182.2 billion ($25.75 billion) in the first quarter of 2020, up only 1.4% year-on-year, the company said in a release.
Huawei also said its net profit margin for the quarter was 7.3%, down from 8% in Q1 2019.
In the...
China Mobile, the world’s largest operators in terms of subscribers, added 29.17 million 5G subscribers in the first quarter of 2020, the company said in its earnings release.
The carrier said it ended March with a total of 31.72 million 5G subscribers, compared to 2.55...
CISCO: '5G can really unleash a farm’s power'
As John Deere’s Director of Intelligent Solutions Nancy Post has explained to Enterprise IoT Insights, connected farming is becoming a more popular endeavor for the modern farmer, and as smart farming gains attention, technologies like artificial intelligence,...
Thyssenkrupp Elevator and CommScope announced separate actions to help their respective customers to mitigate the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thyssenkrupp Elevator said in a release that it is providing select hospitals and medical customers who are being impacted by the COVID-19 virus in?North...
Federated Wireless has gained another $13.7 million in funding from current investors, to bolster the company's resources to deliver Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum-based private networks as well as leverage 6 GHz spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission is expected to soon open up...
5G smart factories get additional support as a host of new IIoT capabilities emerge
As part of Qualcomm’s efforts to further support industry IoT applications, the company provided live over-the-air demonstrations of upcoming 5G industrial IoT capabilities such as Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), enhanced...
Alaskan operator GCI turned up its first 5G network sites on Friday, which the company said makes it the northernmost 5G wireless carrier in the U.S. and the first operator in Alaska to offer 5G.
GCI made good on a 2019 promise to launch 5G...
Korea’s main telecom operators expect to commercialize an ultrafast mmWave 5G network this year, The Korea Herald reported, citing industry sources.
According to the report, the mmWave 5G service will be initially available for the business-to-business segment. Operators have not yet finalized investment plans for...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $4.5 million in funding for training programs for professionals who interact with distributed energy resources, including smart building technologies, solar energy systems, storage systems and electric vehicles.
These professionals include those that lead the nation?s emergency response and resilience...
Tech hub Shenzhen working toward blanket 5G coverage
The municipal government of China’s Shenzhen city plans to deploy a total of 30,000 new 5G base stations during 2020, Chinese press reported.
According to local municipal authorities, this deployment will allow Chinese carriers to provide full 5G...
The new 5G network in Hungary uses the spectrum in the 3.6 GHz frequency range
Last week, Magyar Telekom and Ericsson officially brought 5G to Hungary, launching intial services in parts of Budapest, the town of Zalaegerszeg and Magyar Telekom’s headquarters in Könyves Kálmán körút....
When you think of 6 GHz and wireless, it’s natural to think of 5G. It’s the top end of the LTE frequency range, and above where you think of other wireless technologies like Wi-Fi operating. But it turns out that Wi-Fi has been feeling...
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The number of mobile customers are fairly fixed. And they will all pay roughly the same amount per month for service.
If you’re a carrier wanting to recover the cost of implementing 5G, you’ll want to get smart about the opportunities...
