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5G as the ‘nervous system’ for the industrial IoT BARCELONA–Qualcomm is a major force in not just the modems and other components that power smartphones but also in the processes that gives us standards like Wi-Fi, LTE and 5G NR. …

The Chinese vendor also unveiled 5G-based products during MWC 2019 BARCELONA- ZTE announced it is carrying out a demonstration of a 5G network services based on an end-to-end sub-6 GHz commercial system in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies. The Chinese vendor said …

UK based smart-city firm Telensa will run compute and analytics on its new streetlight solutions to insights from raw data in real time and reduce the need for cloud support. Telensa’s Multi-Sensor Pods will run on Qualcomm’s SDM845 processors, which …

The first wave of 5G handsets are here BARCELONA–Ahead of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, three major smartphone providers–Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei–all unveiled their first 5G capable smartphones. At its Unpacked events in San Francisco and London, Samsung showed off its …

Dave Wright, president of the CBRS Alliance, wants to be clear: the 3.5 GHz shared spectrum band should not be considered an IoT band. “It’s very much a multi-purpose band,” he says, really in response to persistent questioning about IoT …

AT&T and NAB against unlicensed use of 6 GHz; Qualcomm, Wi-Fi Alliance are for opening it up In October last year the U.S. Federal Communications Commission passed a notice of proposed rulemaking that considers opening up the 6 GHz band …

Airspan building in support for massive MIMO, vRAN Radio access network infrastructure vendor Airspan, perhaps best known for its work with Sprint on the Magic Box small cell, has tapped Qualcomm’s 10-nanometer FSM100xx 5G New Radio chipset for small cells …

We are only days away from the biggest telecom show, Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019. The industry announcements are slowly trickling in and will soon turn into a flood! I am trying to do what I always do at this …

Qualcomm X55 5G modem extends support to both millimeter wave and sub-6 GHz frequencies With Mobile World Congress Barcelona set to get underway next week, expect to see a number of 5G New Radio capable device launches to support early …

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 …

  The Japanese company aims to launch mobile services in Japan in October 2019 Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced plans to invest in U.S.-based virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) vendor Altiostar, as the former company is on track to launch …

WISPA vs. 5GAA Automotive manufacturers seem to prefer C-V2X rather than DSRC as the connectivity medium for vehicles in the push toward full-on autonomous driving. But the 5.9 GHz band is not without its defenders, particularly fixed wireless broadband providers …

  The trial includes a 5G smartphone form factor test device with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem Vodafone UK said it has begun lab tests of a 5G smartphone form factor test device with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G …

5Ge indicator rolling out with latest iOS update Some AT&T customers with Android handsets have begun seeing a “5Ge” indicator when connected to the operator’s LTE-Advanced network. Now, with its most recent operating system update, Apple users will begin seeing …

5G handsets, RF front-end business among expected Qualcomm growth drivers During a Q1 2019 earnings call this week, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf, speaking from the company’s offices in China, identified three 2019 priorities he expects to drive growth and earnings …

Lawyers for Qualcomm and the Federal Trade Commission, after weeks of arguments, have both rested their cases in a trial that could very well inform technological innovation, and America’s role in that innovation, for years to come. The key issue …

Analyzing the long term impacts of FTC’s activist litigation In all the chaos of allegations, counter allegations, scores of testimonies, rebuttals, cross-examinations, and others, I humbly request that Judge Koh and the FTC pause for a moment and ponder this …

AWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available to developers for the first time. It is the second time in a few months the …

The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. The launch “changes the IoT and edge computing landscape,” it …

The ongoing saga between FTC and Qualcomm It is unbelievable when one of the world’s richest companies complains that it is an undue burden to pay for the innovations that power its high margin products. But it sure looks like …

  The French telco used a mobile terminal powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 modem French telecom operator Bouygues Telecom made the first 5G call in the streets of Lyon in real conditions with a mobile terminal powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X50 …

Ford’s move could shift the conversation around the 5.9 GHz spectrum allocation Ford Motor Company has confirmed that it will use cellular vehicle-to-everything technology in all new U.S. models by 2022, in a break with automakers who favor the use …

Car companies Audi, Ducati, and Ford have joined with California chip maker Qualcomm to prove the “maturity and potential” of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology by showing their vehicles navigating a crossroads by themselves. The showcase at the 2019 Consumer Electronics …

AT&T has slipped out a minor announcement about LTE connectivity on latest-model Toyota and Lexus cars and trucks in the US, starting from the fall, just as the technology and automotive markets appeared in a newly climactic embrace ahead of …

In the grand tradition of kicking off a new year with predictions, a few recent analyst reports offer new forecasts for the test market in the upcoming years, from electromagnetic compatibility testing to the overall market. A December report predicts that …