It’s no secret that Mobile Operators are facing increased pressure as competition grows at the same time that data demands are going through the roof and margins are compressing. Residential and business customers have options, and operators are always exploring cost effective ways to...
Gogo tapped Airspan for air-to-ground 5G network build
With 5G set to quickly scale and RAN virtualization and openness gradually shifting vendor dynamics, Airspan sees its history of hardware and software development, as well as its track record of large-scale deployment with operators like Reliance...
According to?Himanshu Khurana, CTO of Honeywell Building Solutions, while the term ?smart building? might be used by some verticals and not others, various industries and environments, including hospitality, airports and hospitals are all showing increased interest in establishing smarter ecosystems.
?The stakeholders care about the...
SOLiD intros mmWave 5G repeater, testing O-RAN compliant RAN platform
Earlier this year SOLiD Technologies joined the O-RAN Alliance in an effort to help shape the open interfaces needed to shift network economics and foster innovation in the RAN vendor space. Last week during Mobile...
China’s three state telecoms announced Thursday the launch of 5G services in the country, international press reported.
Chen Zhaoxiong, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology, officially kicked off the launch with representatives from the three carriers at PT Expo China in Beijing.
China Mobile, China...
Nextivity unveiled its new Cel-Fi Quatra Red in-building public safetyEmergency Responder Radio Communication System (ERRCS) solution.
Nextivity said in a release that its new Cel-Fi Quatra Red provides public safety communications for small-to-medium businesses up to to enterprise-size buildings, and features the same architecture that...
More than 350 cellular sites in northern and southern California have been impacted by the widespread electrical grid shut-downs by utility PG&E, as well as wildfires burning across the state.
The FCC activated its disaster reporting program for 32 California counties across the state, from...
On December 20, 2017, at the 78th plenary meeting of the 3GPP in Lisbon, Portugal, the first 5G NR NSA standard was officially frozen. On June 13, 2018, at the 80th plenary meeting of the 3GPP in Santiago, the first 5G NR SA standard...
Report: Put small cells "where there is high traffic demand but low signal quality"
Small cell deployments have followed a few broad trends in the past few years. The first wave serve to fill in holes in network coverage; the next wave was used to...
Long term evolution (LTE) provides global mobility and a wide range of services that includes voice, data and video for subscribers and delivers new revenue streams and cost saving for operators. However, in order to get best performance and efficiency out of an LTE...
The Texas Wireless Summit theme is a “natural extension” from last year’s theme, which looked at AI and the mobile device
The 17th Texas Wireless Summit (TWS) will take place November 12, 2019 at UT Austin’s Engineering Education and Research Center. The summit, boasting the...
Cincinnati Bell announced the availability of a fiber-based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) solution to deliver in-building cellular coverage, the company said in a release.
The company highlighted that the Cincinnati Bell DAS solution is designed for organizations with large, multi-floor buildings and outdoor areas that...
Planned launch follows pre-commercial 5G availability
Japanese telecommunications company NTT DoCoMo plans to expand its 5G commercial services service to 45 prefectures across the country by the end of June 2020, the company’s President and CEO, Kazuhiro Yoshizawa, told a conference call with investors.
The executive...
WBA CEO: 'Wi-Fi 6 has the potential to unlock many possibilities for academia'
Huawei and the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) have announced a new Wi-Fi 6 pilot that the two entities are calling “groundbreaking.” The project, consisting of a series of Wi-Fi 6 verification tests...
Public safety agencies are increasingly relying on the use of cellular devices and mobile broadband to augment their land mobile radio voice networks. Carriers who have previously focused primarily on the consumer and enterprise market are giving this segment new attention, from AT&T's contract...
As “the big players,” like Apple and Samsung continue to get involved, uptick in Wi-Fi 6 deployment expected
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) Los Angeles last week, RCR Wireless News caught up with the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s recently appointed CEO, Tiago Rodrigues, to discuss the...
Johnson Controls and CBRE Group, a commercial real estate services and investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles, have developed an integrated digital solution for the Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) office in the SCB Building in Kowloon East, Hong Kong.
Led by the CBRE JCI Building...
ZTE reports net profits up more than 150% year-over-year
ZTE Corporation posted revenues of CNY 64.2 billion ($9.1 billion) in the first three quarters of the year, an increase of 9.3% compared to the year-ago period, the Chinese vendor said in a statement.
During the period,...
Software, enterprise show growth; CEO calls out 'challenges' in mobile and fixed access
Prior to reporting its third quarter earnings last week, Nokia had a market cap of a little more than $29 billion. After reporting its Q3 financials, including a reduction in forecasts for...
Combo of 5G and GPUs at the edge as enabler of consumer and enterprise XR use cases
Verizon is steadily activating mobile 5G using its millimeter wave spectrum with the goal of hitting 30 markets by the end of the year, and recently restarted its...
U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom has confirmed plans to release additional spectrum for the provision of 5G services in spring 2020.
In a statement, Ofcom said that the auction will include 80 megahertz in the 700 MHz band and 120 megahertz in the 3.6-3.8 GHz band...
The?Open Connectivity Foundation?(OCF), an internet of things standards body, announced that it will continue the work of the Fairhair Alliance, which was aimed at IoT for commercial buildings, under the OCF name.
This integration will advance interoperability and security within the automated building and lighting...
As open RAN moves toward tipping point, how will the vendor dynamics shake out?
LOS ANGELES--Major, multi-national operators, as well as numerous others in the telecoms business, have thrown their lots in with the open RAN movement. The idea is to use commoditized hardware to...
Nowadays, there is almost no coffee shop, restaurant, or public library that does not offer public Wi-Fi for its clients to check their emails, post on Instagram or browse for things on the Internet. While this is mostly perceived as good customer service, public...
