French firm Sequans
Communications announced that Samea Innovation, a provider of wireless products
and design services, is using Sequans? Monarch GM01Q module to provide the LTE
connectivity for its new Sensoriis Smart Building Wireless Sensor.
The
Sensoriis device is an advanced IoT solution designed to monitor, collect, and
analyze...
French telecommunications regulator Arcep confirmed that all four mobile operators in the country are qualified to take part in an upcoming 5G spectrum auction, the regulator said in a release.
At the same time, the regulator officially confirmed it has postponed the process due to...
SoftBank and KDDI announced that they established a joint venture to promote the deployment of 5G in rural areas across Japan, both firms said in a release.
The joint venture, dubbed 5G JAPAN Corporation (5G JAPAN), is based on a previous agreement announced by the two...
Network operators told the FCC that voice has emerged as the "new killer app"
In a call this week, wireless and wireline providers told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai that fixed network traffic is up between 20-35% across their networks, while cellular network traffic...
Roughly 85 million people are now working from home due to COVID-19
As a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 57.7% of the U.S. began working from home, according to a new report commissioned by Waveform, a cellular signal booster provider. The good news is...
Estonian tech company Ninja
Solutions transformed an office building in capital Tallinn into a contactless
mode, the firm said in a release.
The doors and elevators of the
building are accessed via smartphone, and the building does not require
physical security staff. Rented
areas require biometric verification, accessed through...
China Mobile spending $5.2 billion on 5G gear
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, awarded most of a CNY37.1 billion ($5.2 billion) 5G contract to compatriot vendors Huawei and ZTE, Chinese news service Beijing News reported.
According to the report, Huawei won...
Wide-area 5G enhancements coming as signal processing and full-duplex technologies evolve
More than 100 operators on six continents have deployed 5G networks, according to data compiled by Ookla. And, with 5G here now and already making an impact on consumers and businesses, the next step...
FCC scheduled to vote April 23 on new rules for unlicensed use of 6 GHz
After taking fairly extensive public comment, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission at its April 23 open meeting will consider new rules that would open 1200 megahertz of the 6 GHz...
Smart networks are loose clusters of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, located around the world. Their networks serve as lightweight intermediate servers for thousands of data companies that depend on full access to publicly available data around the world. Millions of completely legally leased...
Nokia exec: 'You cannot do 5G properly without taking advantage of cloud computing technologies"
To demonstrate just how varied Nokia’s approach to 5G is, the Finnish company’s Global Head of Mobile Networks Marketing Sandro Tavares explained to RCR Wireless News that its 20 global 5G...
Ericsson will help connect more children to their teachers while they wait out the threat of COVID-19
Last Thursday, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott announced the closure of all schools in the state for in-person instruction for the rest of the 2019-2020 school due to the...
Chinese vendor Huawei recorded revenues of CNY858.8 billion ($123 billion) in 2019, up 19.1% year-on-year, while its net profit reached CNY62.7 billion, up 5. 6% versus 2018, the company said in its annual report.
Huawei invested 15.3% of its 2019 revenue – or CNY131.7 billion...
The U.S. Department of Energy?s
(DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced a
Request for Information (RFI) seeking public input on a potential funding
opportunity to demonstrate and evaluate the capacity of energy-efficient buildings
to interact with one another and the grid to provide greater...
As the U.S. Navy sends its two massive medical ships to New York City and Los Angeles to provide additional hospital beds and free up local resources to treat COVID-10 patients, FirstNet-AT&T is boosting its coverage in both locations in support of the ships'...
Dell Technologies working with Orange Business Services, BT on edge enablement
We’re still in the early stages of 5G deployments but there’s already a strong focus on distributing computing capabilities to the network edge, whether that edge is defined as a telco central office, enterprise...
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...
5G technologies will be the key pathway that will enable the full implementation of IoT in smart buildings, Coretrust Capital Partners managing principal, Thomas Ricci, told In-Building Tech.
?Per our mission, Coretrust teams strive
to deliver excellence in customer service and utilize innovative technology to
enhance tenant...
With 3GPP Release 16 being finalized soon, let’s have a look at some of the highlights it will bring to C-V2X. When C-V2X was introduced in 3GPP Release 14, it was focused on enabling basic safety use cases . Release 16 builds on Release...
We must 'rewire' our brains for what we use cellular for, says Ericsson's head of 5G marketing, North America
RCR Wireless News caught up with Ericsson's Peter Linder, head of 5G marketing, North America, to discuss what sets 5G apart from previous generations of cellular...
German company United Internet's CEO, Ralph Dommermuth, said that the construction of subsidiary 1&1 Drillisch’s 5G network would experience delays due to current measures adopted in the country to prevent a further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, local paper Handelsblatt reported.
The executive...
Over the past several years, there has been a growing interest in the use of accelerators on standard servers to improve workload performance. It started with GPUs to accelerate AI/ML and is now growing to include FPGAs, SMART-NICs on servers and other low-power embedded...
US Cellular CTO: ‘For 5G, you really need all the spectrum bands available’
US Cellular began its 5G journey in two of its most vital markets, Iowa and Wisconsin, launching its first networks early this year. While the operator has already delivered next-gen services to...
Korean carrier SK Telecom ended January with a total of 2.2 million subscribers in the 5G segment, according to the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT.
This figure represented a market share of 44.7% in the 5G segment.
SK Telecom said it has increased customers’ 5G...
