U.S. company Johnson Controls, which focuses on in-building technologies and solutions, has expanded its leadership in Southeast Asia?with the aim of increasing the company's presence in the region's smart buildings market.
"Southeast Asia?region offers dynamic growth opportunities for Johnson Controls," said?Visal Leng, president,?Asia Pacific.?"To meet...
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Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies has decided to challenge a recent decision by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that further restricted the company’s current business in the U.S. by banning local rural carriers to use a government fund to purchase equipment from the Chinese...
GDI Integrated Facility Services announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Ainsworth ?have entered into an agreement to acquire ESC Automation along with its U.S. subsidiaries Delta Connects Inc. and New Patriot Energy, the former said in a statement.
ESC is a building system integrator in North...
Siemens has followed country-mate Bosch to apply for spectrum licences in the 3.7-3.8 GHz band in Germany. The firm will seek to manage its own LTE and 5G networks in at least six ‘digital’ factories, it is understood.
Klaus Helmrich, chief executive of the company’s...
In 2020, 5G will simply resemble Wi-Fi coverage
As 2019 comes to a close, Shrihari Pandit, Stealth Communications CEO, discussed with RCR Wireless News what to expect from 5G in 2020, as well as how the explosion of data usage and the emerging workforce will...
Will carriers be ousted, or forced to cede ground, in the enterprise market with the rise of private networking and the liberalisation of spectrum in the 5G era? Nokia thinks the existential threat to the operator community has been overplayed.
“By and large, almost exclusively,...
VoltServer specializes in "digital electricity"
U.S. firm VoltServer, the inventor of a new form of power called Digital Electricity, announced that it has raised a $7.4 million Series A, supported by Alphabet?s Sidewalk Labs.
The only new form of electricity since traditional alternating current (AC) and...
Facility will produce 5G equipment for LatAm market
Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson announced plans to invest 1 billion reais ($238.3 million) to install a new assembly line for 5G in Brazil, Reuters reported, citing a company executive.
According to the report, the future production line...
Mobilitie 5G network will support up to 20,000 users
U.S. company Mobilitie, a privately-held wireless infrastructure provider, announced that it will be bringing next-generation mobile connectivity to the students, staff and visitors of?Nova Southeastern University?(NSU)?in?Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
NSU selected the firm to create a campus-wide 5G...
The French government is not planning to exclude Chinese vendor Huawei from its 5G networks, Reuters reported, citing a high-ranking official.
“We do not target one equipment maker,” Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, told a French TV channel....
The number of cellular IoT connections will reach five billion by the end of 2025, from 1.3 billion by the end of 2019, according to Ericsson. Around a half will be NB-IoT and LTE-M connections, and around a quarter will be on LTE and...
FCC bars carriers which receive USF funding from buying ZTE, Huawei gear or services
The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously moved to block the use of Universal Service Fund monies to buy telecommunications equipment and services from companies that "pose a national security threat," and...
80% of Peruvian localities, most of which were rural, lacked internet coverage in 2016
Last week, an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Loon, which uses stratospheric, autonomous balloons to deliver mobile internet to remote regions, has signed a commercial deal to provide service to parts of the Amazon rainforest...
German regulators prepping to allocate private 5G spectrum
Finnish vendor Nokia said it expects to provide 5G networks for small and medium-sized German companies following the opening of the application procedure for local firms intending to use 5G frequencies on industrial campuses, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported.
Nokia highlighted...
Johnson Controls, a global provider of solutions for smart buildings, announced that it closed an agreement to purchase the?EasyIO Building and Energy Management System?(BEMS) product line, the U.S. company said in a statement.
Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, EasyIO has operations in Asia, Australia, Europe...
Innovations in mobile communications have transformed how people and enterprises buy, sell and deliver goods, as well as interact with one another. As a result, more than $3.9 trillion of the world’s gross domestic product in 2018 was attributed to the mobile industry.
In spite...
The new era of 5G networks dictates service providers (SPs) and network equipment providers (NEPs) what it takes to bring value to communication services not only via technology and operational innovations but also through an innovative business model that results in intelligent devices and...
Commercial 5G launch using low-band spectrum
While AT&T has had a 5G network for close to a year now, the service has only been made available via hot spots exclusively to business clients. However, next month, the carrier will officially launch its full next-gen network...
German industrial giant Bosch, an early champion of privately operated industrial 5G for manufacturing, has confirmed it has applied for localised spectrum licenses in Germany and will trial private 5G campus networks at at least two sites in the next months, and deploy full...
ABB launched its new IoT Dashboard to improve usability and reduce maintenance in smart buildings, the company said in a release.
The European tech firm highlighted that the new IoT Dashboard allows for stronger control, monitoring and automation of all building functions, from dimming and...
Trump meets with "Tim Apple" in Austin
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Apple's CEO Tim Cook to see if the company could get involved in the deployment of 5G infrastructure in the country.
“I asked Tim Cook to see if he could get Apple involved in...
As programmability expands from the core to the RAN, 2020 will be a tipping point
According to Neeraj Patel, senior VP and GM of Software & Services at Radisys, RAN is “the most complex piece in the telecom maze.”
The RAN, radio access network, provides a...
U.S. company CellAntenna Wireless, a specialist in distributed antenna system (DAS) solutions, recently announced the opening of its West Coast operations center in Silicon Valley.
The new operations center, located in Hayward, California is ideally located to support the exponential increase for Private LTE, CBRS,...
