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BMW talks €30bn future-tech fund, new blockchain experiment, plus COVID impact

German car giant BMW will invest €30 billion in “future-oriented” technologies during the next five years. The group has confirmed it will expand a blockchain pilot for purchasing front lights to suppliers of other car parts. The announcements, made at the end of last month,...

Huawei, China Unicom launch 5G Indoor Massive MIMO solution

Chinese carrier China Unicom and Huawei jointly announced the launch of a 5G indoor distributed massive multiple-input-multiple-output solution, both companies said in a release. This solution applies 5G massive MIMO technology to improve 5G capacity of indoor networks, the companies said. In the first year of...

Promoting the Employment and Advancement of Diverse Talent for 5G With Tom Marciano & Iris Dawson

Listen to the podcast here Most companies recognize the importance of diversity and inclusion (D&I). But they may find themselves short of their goals when it comes to implementation. This week’s guests are from a Top 100 Certified Minority Business. It has a nearly equal balance...

Arson, sabotage at Dutch cell towers as 5G conspiracy theories spread

Growing 5G conspiracy theories thought to be behind the attacks Attacks against cell towers appear to be spreading like wildfire. Just a week after three separate cell tower fires were reported in the U.K., the Netherlands' National Coordinator for Security and Counter-Terrorism (NCTV) confirmed that...

Beijing close to reach 2 million 5G subscribers: Report

  The number of 5G users in China’s capital in Beijing has reached the 2 million threshold after Chinese telecom operators launched 5G commercial services more than five months ago, Chinese press reported, citing data from Beijing’s municipal government. As of March 30, a total of...

Open RAN just one vector of technological and economic openness

Being open to collaborative problem solving accelerates time to innovation, return Open radio access networks are a hot topic in telecom right now with major, multinational operators looking to break out of the big, end-to-end vendor ecosystem potentially in favor of smaller companies working together...

Team Telecom to review foreign participation in US telecom services

Team Telecom will now have 120 days to conduct national security reviews of license applications Sporting the colloquial name “Team Telecom,” the new committee established by the Trump Administration via an executive order aims to enhance national security by assisting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...

Microlab enables wireless coverage and capacity in new SoFi Stadium

Stadium connectivity and network densification among Microlab priorities U.S. firm Microlab, part of Wireless Telecom Group, announced that its wideband products for 5G deployment were designed in and selected for the new indoor/outdoor SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. Microlab said that its products are being used to enable network...

JMA joins COVID-19 fight with open-source ventilator design, manufacturing capabilities

PREVAIL NY project result of week-and-a-half engineering sprint As COVID-19 continues to take a toll on global healthcare systems, personal protective equipment like surgical and n95 masks are in short supply as are mechanical ventilators, which are used to provide breathing assistance to patients being...

Cradlepoint: ‘COVID-19 is transforming wireless tech in education, healthcare’

Moving forward, education and healthcare will lean on wireless technology more heavily, says Cradlepoint CMO One of the primary challenges of battling COVID-19 is delivering reliable connectivity to the millions of students now attending classes from home. While the virus is affecting every single one...

CBRE partners with Negawatt Utility to serve smart buildings in Hong Kong

CBRE?s Property Management Team and proptech company Negawatt Utility have announced a strategic partnership with the goal of delivering building management and energy saving technologies to buildings in Hong Kong. Under the terms of the agreement, CBRE will leverage its client network and professional capabilities to help landlords...

AIS 5G, robots join the COVID-19 fight in Thailand

Robots will be distributed to 20 hospitals that provide care for COVID-19 patients, said AIS exec Recent numbers reveal that Thailand has reported a total of 2,369 COVID-19 cases and 30 fatalities since January, and while faring better than some, the country is still fighting...

Editorial Webinar: IT/OT Convergence in the 5G Era

Getting to the 5G future requires much more than just upgrading existing networks. Operators need a cohesive roadmap for moving to a virtualized, software-defined infrastructure. Operational excellence will be hinged on OSS/BSS transformation to take advantage of automation and real-time data analysis. To translate those...

Editorial Report: Dynamic Spectrum Sharing – Driving 5G to Scale

    The vision of 5G is cloud-native networks automatically delivering capacity on-demand. The reality, however, is that most operators are taking an incremental approach to cloudification and trying to understand where to direct capex given the need for holistic modernization in addition to...

Nokia, KONE and other Finnish firms form smart building data ecosystem

Nokia and industrial firms partner to develop new building data-based applications Finnish companies KONE, Nokia, YIT, Caverion, Halton, Netox and VTT have founded an ecosystem known as KEKO, with the main goal of creating the global standard in building data ecosystems. The project is supported by...

PK Solutions taps Nokia, Cradlepoint to offer private LTE in CBRS for oil and gas sector

Industrial services firm PK Solutions is deploying private LTE in the 3.5 GHz CBRS band in the US for the oil and gas sector. It is working with Nokia and Cradlepoint on the offer. PK Solutions, part of the PK Companies group, is based in...

Keysight Webinar: RF Back to Basics Seminar

Experience our popular live RF Back to Basics seminar, now available on-demand. Do not miss this opportunity to learn RF measurement, design, and simulation techniques from the comfort of your desk. Keysight experts will cover the RF signal chain, network and signal analysis, signal generation...

The Dynamic Spectrum Sharing value proposition–scale and standalone

DSS can ease the transition from non-standalone to standalone 5G For operators looking to quickly scale 5G, the DSS value proposition is crystal clear--instead of rolling trucks to re-farm spectrum for 5G on a site-by-site basis, a software upgrade can be remotely pushed to base...

Nokia deploys private LTE at 450 MHz for Polish smart grid operator PGE Systemy

Polish energy sector company PGE Systemy has appointed Nokia to deploy a pilot version of a private LTE network in the 450 MHz band. The 450 MHz band is being adopted across Europe for smart grid applications. PGE Systemy’s private wireless network could upport up...

ABB Electrification offers free digital solutions this year due to COVID-19

Smart building efficiencies continue despite building closures ABB Electrification has announced a number of measures to support its customers through the crisis caused by the widespread of the COVID-19 virus globally. Effective March 27 and until the end of the calendar year, ABB Electrification will waive the fee...

Creativity in Times of Crisis: Leading and Managing (Newly) Remote Employees With Stephan Dohrn

Listen to the podcast here When companies shift to remote work, they usually do it gradually, with a plan in place. But over the past few weeks, many companies have gone from little remote work to almost 100 percent remote. Our guest this week is Stephan...

Samsung demos world’s first video call on AWS

Samsung: 'MCPTX opens a new horizon in advancing public safety' Samsung Electronics announced the successful demonstration of the world’s first video call on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform using Mission Critical Push-to Talk, Data and Video (MCPTX), a communications capability developed specifically for first...

Enhancing mobile mmWave technology for expanded capabilities, better efficiencies

Infrastructure buildout costs and device power saving among key KPIs for operators With the 3GPP Release 16 Stage 3 freeze scheduled for June 2020, Qualcomm took to its test networks and system simulations to highlight some of the key 5G mmWave technology enhancements and features...

Global edge computing initiative aims to accelerate adoption for ‘everyone’

MobiledgeX CEO: 'Seamster is meant to help everybody in the world be successful when it comes to edge computing' Seamster, the global edge computing initiative dedicated to enterprise use case exploration and adoption, launched this week during a virtual event with support from members from...