BROWSING: MWC

Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona in February is the major venue and the key date for the telecoms industry. Yes, the cards have been dealt, but the show works as a useful barometer of its high mood. It kick-starts the season, effectively, after...

This year’s Hannover Messe trade fair, arguably the second biggest event for the telecoms market in Europe, has been postponed until July. Deutsche Messe, which runs the show, made the announcement today (March 4), to put the event back by two months on account of...

  In these early days of 5G, one of the biggest questions is when and how to take advantage of the newest generation of wireless technology, when LTE is still the backbone of current networks. Module vendor Telit is trying to make adoption easier by offering...

The Mobile Authentication Taskforce, comprised of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, unveiled ZenKey at MWC LA Heading into this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) Los Angeles, GSMA prioritized demonstrating its work with ZenKey, the Mobile Authentication Taskforce’s — comprised of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon...

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...

The craziness of the conference season, which has seen Enterprise IoT Insights cover both MWC 2019 and Hannover Messe 2019 in recent weeks, means content falls through the gaps. Sometimes, it is really good content, too. One of the better conversations from MWC 2019,...

Having effectvely reduced the discipline of network operations to an elaborate marketing exercise, to sell look-alike SIM cards and airtime bundles, it seems the new 5G era has telecoms operators sounding different, again. It seems like their personalities are coming through, at last. This...

Among telecoms operators grappling with the concept of private industrial networks, and ways to coexist with enterprises seeking control of their own LTE and 5G infrastructure, Telefónica cuts an assured figure. It has been developing its strategy around private networks for 18 months at...

  At Mobile World Congress, LTE for IoT chip leader Sequans introduced Monarch 2, which is the second generation of its world-leading LTE-M and NB-IoT chip platform, Monarch. Monarch 2 is built on three years of Sequans’ exclusive and field-proven experience with first-generation Monarch, which has...

Industrial companies will invest in their own private LTE and 5G networks because the business case for digital change is irresistible, and because they want control of their own infrastructure. This leaves operators, betting on new revenue from enabling industrial transformation, in the cold,...

  ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today hosted 5G Summit 2019 to show its commitment to embracing 5G Era, at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona on February 25, 2019. The...

Ericsson has warned Europe will fall further behind North America and Asia on LTE and 5G unless governments and regulators act to accelerate the release of new spectrum and licences.  The Swedish vendor, with an early-morning address at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, refused...

A cohort of MWC stalwarts led by Spanish operator Telefónica is preparing a 5G showcase for Barcelona next week that will make use of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) and edge technologies, and seek to establish the Catalan capital as a “reference 5G hub” in Europe....

Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, is coming soon. This is the largest international wireless trade show and MWC19 is expected to be full of big announcements from the global leaders in wireless. Let’s take a sneak peak, regarding what we can expect...

  Digital Transformation was the theme song of this year’s Mobile World Congress.  Good news: every telecom company now has a “Go Digital” strategy.  The challenge? Few have a real plan to make smart use of new digital strategies, and fewer still are reporting real...

VMware announces vCloud NFV 2.0 updates VMware is building upon its telco NFV platform with a host of features specifically targeted at communications service providers (CSPs). VMware rolled out its telco NFV platform, dubbed vCloud NFV 2.0, at Mobile World Congress (MWC) last year. It included...

IoT connectivity platform provider Actility has released a slimmed-down version of its ThingPark solution for enterprise customers. ThingPark is the most widely deployed LoRa platform among operators of public LoRA networks. Actility announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona it had signed its fiftieth...

The city of Bristol, in southwest England, has been named the smartest of smart cities by the GSMA at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona. The mobile trade organisation noted its “focused, collaborative, and future-thinking approach”, as well as its robust communications infrastructure, well-established...

Ericsson and China Mobile have signed a strategic framework agreement at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona to collaborate on new enterprise and industrial IoT (IIoT) systems and services. The pair said they will build an ‘Industry IoT Cooperation Center’, as a crossover between China...

  Unlimited data is back. Price wars are a constant threat to the bottom line, and customer loyalty is harder to earn. But a new report from Bain & Company and mobile edge computing company Vasona Networks finds that operators finally have an opportunity to...

Everybody's situation is different, and goals for MWC vary widely. This is my rough suggestions for people like me, who are senior executives attending MWC in a free-form individual manner. Obviously, for some execs, their conference plan is fully arranged for them. This is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC5oIS4dvm4 At the 2017 Mobile World Congress Americas, we talked with Durga Malladi, Senior Vice President at Qualcomm about the developments of mmWave and 5G NR technologies and how to overcome the challenges of rollout.

NFV continues to gain development and deployment momentum across the telecom space, with Oracle expecting big moves in 2017. On this week’s “NFV/SDN Reality Check” we speak with Chris King, senior director of CSP products at Oracle, to discuss news...

What impact did news from this year’s Mobile World Congress event have on the direction and pace of 5G technology and IoT deployment models? On this week’s “Carrier Wrap” we speak with Dan Hays from PwC’s Strategy& division to get his views...