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GSMA announces 2020 GLOMO award winners

The GSMA GLOMO awards highlight those at the forefront of mobile innovation BARCELONA--The GSMA released the winners of the 2020 Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards, which call out the companies and individuals at the forefront of mobile innovation. The awards include a variety of categories, but...

ZTE has racked up 46 5G commercial contracts globally

  Chinese vendor ZTE reported that it has already secured a total of 46 5G commercial contracts around the world. The vendor noted that these 5G contracts cover major markets across China, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. ZTE also highlighted that it has already carried out 5G cooperation with...

Huawei launches new products in the Wi-Fi 6 space

  Huawei has unveiled its AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 series products, including 10 new Wi-Fi 6 access point (AP) models. These new offerings were announced at the company?s 2020 product and solution launch event in London last week. Huawei highlighted that these new products are ideally suited to...

The edge gets smarter

  Progressive enterprises are pursuing software-defined Edge compute solutions with operating models powered by analytics, automation and machine communications to improve productivity, service-levels and cost structures. With hundreds of devices and sensors connecting to a network, wired connections are becoming expensive. At the same time,...

US organizations increase investments in smart building tech: Johnson Controls

  A recent study carried out by Johnson Controls found that 75% of surveyed organizations across the U.S. plan to increase their investment in energy efficiency, renewable energy and smart building technology, a 16% increase over 2018. Johnson Controls? 2019 Global Energy Efficiency Indicator study surveyed...

Samsung to provide 5G, 4G network solutions to U.S. Cellular

Samsung will assist US Cellular in the development of its 5G network US Cellular has selected Samsung Electronics as its 5G and 4G LTE network solutions provider. US Cellular will purchase Samsung’s network solutions, including 5G New Radio (NR) technology, to contribute to the operator’s...

Ofcom tests 5G radiation at 16 UK sites, identifies no health risk

Those who oppose 5G networks cite radiation concerns In its latest round of spectrum testing, the U.K.'s Office of Communications, or Ofcom, measured electromagnetic field (EMF) emissions at 16 5G sites in 10 cities across the U.K., concluding that 5G networks do not pose a...

Federated Wireless loops Microsoft Azure, AWS into CBRS connectivity-as-a-service

Federated seeks to smooth the path to CBRS private networks Federated Wireless is taking aim at making it easy for enterprises to adopt private networks that leverage the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, by making its new CBRS-based end-to-end managed service available through both Amazon...

Corning exec on bringing the speed of mmWave indoors

According to Corning, only 10% of buildings in the U.S. currently utilize a dedicated indoor solution for 5G, and because 5G?s truly mind-boggling speeds rely on high-frequency millimeter-wave spectrum?which doesn?t penetrate well?indoor deployment continues to be a big problem for network growth. To address...

mCDNs on moving trains

Netskrt: '5G by itself won’t solve the problem' As streaming video increasingly becomes one of the primary functions of an average user’s device, the transportation sector, in particular, is struggling to provide the bandwidth necessary to keep up. The communications industry continues to be enamored...

Rakuten Mobile, TPG Telecom to carry out OpenRAN trial in Singapore

  Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile is collaborating with Singaporean carrier TPG Telecom on a 5G technology partnership program to trial OpenRAN solutions in Singapore, the former said in a release. Rakuten Mobile had launched what it claimed to be the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualized, cloud-native...

CommScope delivers open interfaces and virtualization for small cells

  CommScope?announced open interfaces, virtualized RAN functions, and new radio points for its?OneCell small cell?to provide an open approach for operators to deploy 5G networks in enterprises and venues, the company said in a release. The enhanced OneCell solution leverages the latest open RAN and management...

Strategy Analytics highly recognizes ZTE’s slicing practice in its freshly released white paper on 5G monetization with network slicing

  Strategy Analytics, a world-renowned market research and consulting company, recently released a white paper entitled “Driving 5G Monetization with Network Slicing: Potential Business Models". The report explains that for 5G networks to achieve commercial success, network slicing services are required as important enablers to...

5G, 0G, all these Gs? Gee-eze – the IoT pie is bigger than that, says LoRaWAN champ

An intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech - something about 5G and 0G, and all the other Gs – before the baritone...

Operators are best placed to serve Industry 4.0 with 5G slices, says Huawei

Huawei said today at a London launch event for new 5G gear that it would prefer to go via the operator community to serve the Industry 4.0 movement, using slices of their licensed public networks to create dedicated networks for industrial automation and intelligence. It...

Corning exec: ‘5G can’t stop at the door’

According to Corning, we can’t continue to close the door on 5G Because 5G’s mind-boggling speeds rely on high-frequency millimeter-wave spectrum—which doesn’t penetrate well—indoor deployment continues to be a big problem for network growth, and according to Corning, only 10% of buildings in the U.S....

Carrier aggregation es clave para coexistencia entre 4G y 5G: Ericsson

  Los operadores móviles han acelerado los despliegues de red 5G durante 2019, con una arquitectura non-standalone. Estos despliegues iniciales en regiones de América del Norte, Europa y Asia se han adelantado a las previsiones iniciales de la industria. Para conocer los motivos de esta...

Nokia, KDDI complete 5G standalone trial in Japan

  Nokia and Japanese carrier KDDI have completed a 5G core standalone (SA) network trial, Nokia said in a release. The 5G standalone trial, using Nokia’s 5G AirGile cloud-native core solution, was conducted entirely independently of previous generations’ mobile network architecture. The Finnish vendor said that the...

Carrier aggregation is key to 4G and 5G coexistence: Ericsson

  Mobile operators have accelerated 5G network deployments during 2019, with a non-standalone architecture. These initial deployments in regions of North America, Europe and Asia have anticipated the initial forecasts of the industry. To learn about the reasons for this anticipation and Ericsson's vision of...

Industrial Internet Consortium announces winners of smart buildings challenge

  The?Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)?has announced the winners of its?smart buildings challenge, which is aimed at helping digitalize the smart buildings industry. The winners of the challenge were announced at?Bosch Connected World 2020?in Berlin. ICC said that a jury selected the winners from a pool of...

Cost-effective 5G deployment calls for flexible planning tools

  5G is here, and it is making its debut in providing fixed wireless broadband or augmenting customer experiences at marquee destinations such as stadiums and red-carpet events like the Academy Awards. But beyond those high-profile locations and the much-hyped marketing launches, mobile network operators face...

Cradlepoint set to enable 5G for business, starting with Telstra

  Cradlepoint wants to "set the bar on what a 5G for business solution looks like," according to CMO Todd Krautkremer, and the company has scored Australia's Telstra as its launch partner for a new portfolio of 5G connectivity solutions aimed at the enterprise market. Customer...

Benetel CEO: Open RAN could pave the way for nontraditional vendors

Benetel sees open RAN as a driver behind the development of 5G Dublin-based wireless technology infrastructure provider Benetel has been heavily focused on contributing to an open Radio Access Network ecosystem that is based on General Purpose Processing Platforms (GPPP) and disaggregated software, an ecosystem...

Wilson Electronics receives pre-orders for its first 5G cellular amplifier

  Cellular signal booster company Wilson Electronics has already begun to receive pre-orders for the company?s first 5G cellular amplifier, the Pro 710i, the firm said in a release. Wilson Electronics said that its new single-band, commercial-grade amplifier will boost cellular signals on Band 71 (600...