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Test company Anritsu said recently that the first Non-Terrestrial Network protocol conformance tests for narrowband IoT were validated on its 5G NR Mobile Device Test Platform ME7834NR, in conjunction with testing of Sony Semiconductor Israel’s Altair device. Those tests have been submitted to the...

The city of Las Vegas has been granted permission from the Federal Communications Commission to install and test 25 cellular-vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) roadside units, in preparation to transition from testing DSRC technology for connected vehicles, to cellular. Currently, the city has several DSRC roadside units...

UL Ventures, the investment arm of testing and certification company UL, contributed to a $23 million Series B funding round for start-up Aurora Labs, which has developed an embedded software management platform for connected vehicles and IoT. "There is a growing need to continuously improve...

Private equity-backed data analytics-based roaming and network security company Mobileum has picked up network roaming test and fraud detection company Sigos. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sigo, which provides revenue assurance and fraud detection as well as active testing, says that it has...

Tektronix is navigating a number of changes, with the recent announcement of a new company president -- the second this year -- and the shifting of its video monitoring business into a co-ownership arrangement. Tami Newcombe, who has been commercial president of Tek since...

Test companies are spotlighting internet of things testing and 5G at next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with offerings that reflect the continued ramp-up of new technology and an increased focus on devices as 5G commercialization comes closer. Rohde & Schwarz said that it...

Last year was reflective of the ongoing consolidation in the network and device testing industry. Although there weren't necessarily blockbuster acquisitions on the order of NetScout's $2.6 billion Danaher communications acquisition in 2015, 2016 did host a series of smaller, ongoing test and measurement acquisitions that...

Consolidation continues to shape the test and measurement industry. Over the past three years, a number of major telecom test and measurement companies have acquired, sold, spun off or otherwise fundamentally changed their business operations. Since the last iteration of this list, for example, Keysight...

Danaher has completed the spin-off of its test and measurement group and other businesses into a separate company called Fortive. Fortive's first day of solo trading on the New York Stock Exchange was Tuesday, under the symbol FTV. Danaher sold its communications business to NetScout last...