The Sunday Brief: Lead balloon
Greetings from Nebraska and Missouri, where we finally cut the ribbon at the historic Fox Theater in Sedalia. We are pleased to be bringing...
How is generative AI relevant to telecom operators?
Discussion around generative AI has quickly become a mainstay in conference presentations and earnings calls. The predominant thinking is that if you’re an enterprise, including...
MachineQ expands BLE/LoRaWAN indoor IoT tracking portfolio, targets life sciences
MachineQ has launched a number of new active RFID asset tracking tags for indoor positioning, along with a new IoT occupancy monitoring solution. They...
All’s fair in 5G monetization (Reader Forum)
The 5G revolution has sparked a race among communication service providers (CSPs) to maximize return on their significant investments.
To date, the focus has largely...
Kagan: Updating 9-1-1 Emergency Services is a challenge and opportunity
When we were young, we were taught in case of emergency to call 9-1-1 or the Operator for help. That was back in the...
Private 5G – five tech drivers, five business drivers (part 1)
A panel discussion with Microsoft and Intel at Private Networks Forum in May yielded some helpful insights about the push-and-pull for enterprises to deploy...
Private networks Q&A: Verizon’s Andrea Caldini (Part 2)
Andrea Caldini is vice president of product engineering and development, global network and technology, at Verizon, and has been instrumental in the company's pursuit of...
Crown Castle anticipates lower activity in the tower business: CEO
Crown Castle said its customers are accelerating the selection and identification of new small cell locations in high-traffic locations
Crown Castle is seeing lower activity...
Ericsson, O2 Telefonica complete 5G Cloud RAN PoC in Germany
Ericsson said that the joint PoC deployment was carried out at O2 Telefónica's Wayra innovation hub in Munich
Ericsson and German telco O2 Telefónica completed...
Test and Measurement: Keysight adds a ‘truly software-defined’ handheld analyzer
Keysight Technologies has expanded its FieldFox line of handheld analyzers with a new model that has more than 20 options including vector network analyzer,...
Cellular IoT revenues jump 24% – to 2% of total cellular revenues (but boom-time...
Global revenues from cellular IoT networks increased 24 percent to reach €10.8 billion in 2022, calculates analyst firm Berg Insight. However they account for...
Liberty Global to increase ownership in Belgium’s Telenet
Liberty Global has been the controlling shareholder of Telenet since February 2007
U.S. company Liberty Global said it is in a position to bring its...
Verizon demos new mmWave point-to-multipoint use case
Verizon says the new network design is less expensive to build, quicker to deploy and addresses the 'unique complexities' of distributed end users
Verizon used...
Soracom intros satellite NB-IoT from Skylo into converged global IoT offer
KDDI-owned global virtual IoT network operator (MVNO) Soracom has announced a partnership with US-based cellular-IoT satellite operator Skylo Technologies. The deal sees Soracom further...
Kagan: Why Private Wireless is experiencing such rapid growth
Private Wireless is one of the healthiest and most rapidly growing sectors today. So, how quickly and how large will it ultimately grow? When...
Cellular vs. Wi-Fi—making the case for mobility
Cellular has inherent advantages over Wi-Fi, including ease of use, reliability and security; but Wi-Fi is still fundamental to enterprise wireless
Cellular vs Wi-Fi—a debate...
Siemens opens private 5G – and other industrial IoT – test lab for Industry...
As a sign of where industrial-grade 5G is really up to, the announcement from German firm Siemens that it has opened a mainly-5G test...
Private networks Q&A: Verizon’s Andrea Caldini
Andrea Caldini is vice president of product engineering and development, global network and technology, at Verizon, and has been instrumental in the company's pursuit of...
Telia increases 5G population coverage to 84% at end-Q2
In Sweden, Telia said that 73% of Swedes now have access to Telia’s 5G network
Nordic telecom operator Telia Company said it had achieved overall...
O-RAN to comprise 15-20% of global RAN by 2027: Dell’Oro
Dell'Oro said the O-RAN segment already comprises a mid-single digit share of the broader RAN market
Open RAN (O-RAN) revenues are forecasted to account for...
Four barriers to network slicing
Considerations include operational readiness, business case development and go-to-market strategy
A logical, virtual, end-to-end network slice that automatically comes into being to serve the exacting...
Japan’s NTT completes successful demo towards 6G
In future 6G wireless communications systems, ultra-high-speed wireless communications are expected to be achieved by utilizing the 300 GHz band, NTT said
Japanese company NTT...
‘Recovery in sight’ for global smartphone market, despite 11% decline: Canalys
The global smartphone market declined for the sixth consecutive quarter since 2022, according to the latest data from Canalys
According to the latest data from Canalys,...
Private 5G – gateway apps, supply taps, knowledge gaps (five enterprise memos)
A panel session at Private Networks Forum in May discussed what 5G delivers for enterprises now and what it promises to deliver in the...
How 5G SA can change the digital value chain in the CSPs’ favour (Reader...
5G+ and 5G Ultra are two of the names that Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have given their new 5G SA (Standalone) services. Having a...