DALLAS — As we enter an era of on-demand TV anywhere, content creators and distributors are only one part of the equation. Without the wireless infrastructure to make that content available over mobile networks, and at a high-quality, a huge potential audience is unavailable.
That...
With this newly deployed sensor network, Netherlands Railways will get data on passenger flows, which can be used to improve traveler experience and optimize the stations? operations.
Passengers are no longer simply passing through railway stations; they work, hold meetings, shop and eat there. At...
Verizon Communications is betting on a robust 5G fixed wireless solution to deliver high-speed broadband to residential customers. The company has agreements with a number of U.S. cities under which the carrier has committed to deliver broadband to homes. The company was expected to...
Maintain market competitiveness as macro builds give way to DAS deployments
The next major hurdle for carriers is providing the LTE coverage customers expect everywhere, indoors and outdoors. As the macro layer reaches build-out, service providers are turning attention to in-building wireless deployments.
Fluctuations in capacity...
In a major expansion to its fiber network footprint, AT&T is planning to extend its GigaPower Internet service offering into parts of Southern Dallas. Once the area south of the Trinity River and Interstate 30 is hooked up to fiber, AT&T will have effectively doubled...
In a major expansion to its fiber network footprint, AT&T is planning to extend its GigaPower Internet service offering into parts of Southern Dallas. Once the area south of the Trinity River and Interstate 30 is hooked up to fiber, AT&T will have effectively doubled...
A conversation about Wi-Fi Calling with Mark McDiarmid, VP of Radio Network Engineering and Development, T-Mobile US
Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the report “Voice comes to the fore, again. VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling redefine voice.”
With over half of voice...
Wireless Infrastructure Association President and CEO discusses tower trends and emerging workforce skills gap
DALLAS – As evidenced by a rebranding effort emphasizing the infrastructure layer, Wireless Infrastructure Association President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein, who held the same role at the renamed PCIA, stressed the...
Executives share outlook for carrier spending, fiber and small cells
DALLAS – Top executives from American Tower, Crown Castle, SBA Communications, Vertical Bridge and InSite Wireless shared industry insights this week with WIA President Jonathan Adelstein and an attentive audience at the Wireless Infrastructure Show.
Carrier...
As Wi-Fi and LTE networks begin to converge with the use of LTE in unlicensed spectrum, there are a number of available options for integrating the two technologies. The most well known at this point are the LTE-U Forum's LTE-U (currently the focus of much...
T-Mobile commits to small cells as groundwork for 5G
Small cell deployments are proving to be more complex, costly and time consuming in the U.S. than they were in East Asia, but wireless carriers know they need to move forward and are slowly but surely...
New project aims to ease adoption of NFV
ZTE entered into a collaboration with China Mobile to promote a management and orchestration interoperability test across key industry vendors, with a goal of easing network functions virtualization adoption by verifying interoperability of China Mobile’s NFV standard...
T-Mobile customer base is ‘diverse, not ghetto;’ SVP calls out need to ‘industrialize small cells’
DALLAS — T-Mobile US is a very different company than it was back in 2011 on the heels of a failed deal with AT&T, so explained Dave Mayo, SVP of technology...
A conversation about Wi-Fi Calling with Christian Daigneault, CTO, Smartfren
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Smartfren is the first mobile operator in Indonesia to deploy LTE...
‘Highly flexible RAN design’ will be necessary for 5G
AUSTIN, Texas — Dave Wolter, assistant VP of radio technology at AT&T Labs, highlighted the widely varying requirements needed to realize the full promise of "5G" mobile networks in a presentation Monday, asking: “Can it do...
‘Highly flexible RAN design’ will be necessary for 5G
AUSTIN, Texas — Dave Wolter, assistant VP of radio technology at AT&T Labs, highlighted the widely varying requirements needed to realize the full promise of "5G" mobile networks in a presentation Monday, asking: “Can it do...
5G Symposium digs into RAN requirements and millimeter waves
AUSTIN, Texas — With four years to go until a target timeframe for commercialization, "5G" technology faces several key challenges ranging from highly flexible radio access networks to millimeter wave propagation, according to leaders from AT&T,...
5G Symposium digs into RAN requirements and millimeter waves
AUSTIN, Texas — With four years to go until a target timeframe for commercialization, "5G" technology faces several key challenges ranging from highly flexible radio access networks to millimeter wave propagation, according to leaders from AT&T,...
The official home of the president of India is set to deploy IBM’s smart city solutions in a move to become a smart township. Tech companies are set to pay growing attention to India’s booming smart city solutions market.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi,...
For now, while "5G" technology continues to take shape ahead of standardization, the Internet of Things is developing without the benefit of ultra-fast, incredibly low latency network access. But, to understand the potential set to exist in the near future, let's take a look at...
A conversation with Mark Grayson, Distinguished Engineer, Office of Mobility CTO, Cisco about expanding wi-fi to enterprise
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VoLTE and VoWi-Fi will...
Nokia details flexibility, scale 5G network architecture will enable
Next-generation networks will not be servercentric, as they will put the focus on data and content requirements. The "5G" network architecture will support easy scalability, have security and privacy built-in, enable energy-efficient operation and offer the...
Despite the fact that voice does not boast the same traffic growth as data and accounts for less than 10% of mobile, it still plays a crucial role in mobile operators’ networks. In this webinar we review trends in the adoption and technology developments...
Seven months into a global partnership, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said the networking company's partnership with Ericsson is off to a slower than expected start.
The going line from both companies has been that combined sales teams have more than 200 "customer engagements." Robbins built...
