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China Unicom is the latest operator to launch gigabit LTE Ericsson and its rival Nokia have been leading gigabit LTE trials and launches around the world with the latest activation with operator China Unicom. Highlighting potential use cases, China Unicom …

Module maker Telit is targeting IoT applications that leverage video and virtual reality with its latest release. The company said its new LM940 module will be the router and gateway industry’s first global full PCI Express mini card (mPCIe) module …

WiGig use cases include wireless docking and untethered VR The 802.11ad standard, also called WiGig due to its ability to deliver multi-gigabit throughput using unlicensed 60 GHz frequencies, has been something of a slow burn. But Mark Grodzinsky, senior director …

Verizon applied 4×4 MIMO to three-channel carrier aggregation for 12 LTE data streams As it continues to test License Assisted Access (LAA), Verizon today announced it passed the 1 Gbps mark in tests with Ericsson and Qualcomm, using the later’s …

LAA is key to delivering gigabit LTE As more and more global operators begin to test and deploy gigabit LTE network technologies, License Assisted Access (LAA), is seen as a key to creating the wider spectral channels needed to increase …

Scyfer has developed AI solutions for verticals including manufacturing, healthcare and finance U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies announced the acquisition of Dutch firm Scyfer, an affiliate of the University of Amsterdam focused on machine learning techniques. Scyfer has built artificial intelligence …

Proximus offers gigabit LTE coverage in parts of seven Belgian cities with plans for expansion With gigabit LTE service, also called 4.5G, available in parts of seven cities in Belgium, operator Proximus says “coverage is expected to increase significantly in …

How to ascertain leadership in 3GPP; quality vs. quantity of technical contributions Established in 1998, the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) united seven organizational partners into one group that works on telecommunications technological specifications that broadly cover radio access networks, …

After dominating the wireless industry’s news cycle for over a year, the FCC 600MHZ spectrum auction came to an end. Now the real work begins. The 976 U.S. stations that sold their spectrum rights to the FCC, which in turn …

Snapdragon X16 LTE modem powered mobile devices — including the Sony XZ Premium, the HTC U11, the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, and Motorola Z2 Force Edition — can maximize your connectivity It’s been an exciting few days in the …

Qualcomm has been promoting 5G New Radio as a way to accelerate the deployment of next-generation technologies, and now the chipmaker is at work on 5G NR small cells. Qualcomm Technologies will collaborate with Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), …

Gigabit LTE test used Qualcomm chipset, Sony Xperia device The list of two dozen-plus global operators testing gigabit LTE services has a new entrant in Russian carrier MegaFon, which said it achieved downlink throughput of 979 Mbps in a test …

The six devices that support gigabit LTE are built on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 platform and X16 modem More than two dozen carriers around the world, as well as all four major U.S. mobile carriers, are working to deploy gigabit LTE …

In partnership with Qualcomm, ZTE and China Mobile hit 700 Mbps downlink in gigabit LTE testing While 5G promises to ultimately deliver multi-gigabit-per-second mobile throughput speeds, carriers around the world are focused on providing gigabit-LTE speeds to users well before …

Four-channel carrier aggregation uses three channels of unlicensed spectrum Verizon Wireless is ready to start rolling out license-assisted access technology nationwide. Following a demonstration that delivered 953 megabits per second with commercial network equipment, the carrier’s VP of network support, …

Take a look at carrier trials that use LAA to push toward the theoretical limit of gigabit LTE As LTE networks continue to evolve toward 5G, the vital role of spectrum in improving end-user throughput is more apparent than ever. …

Verizon used four-channel carrier aggregation, including unlicensed spectrum, to approach theoretical limit of gigabit LTE Gigabit LTE is a hot topic, but, in live network deployments, peak speeds often top out in the 100 Mbps-range. But, based on the results …

Along with my colleague Alice Tornquist, I was on Capitol Hill in July speaking at an event sponsored by the Congressional Spectrum Caucus, a bipartisan group established in 2014 by Congressman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) to …

4×4 MIMO + carrier aggregation + 256 QAM = gigabit LTE In what Peter Carson, senior director of marketing, Qualcomm Technologies, dubbed an international “speed race” (pun intended?), all four major U.S. operators, as well as numerous international carriers, are …

A growing number of smart cities are currently under development in North America. City authorities in several cities across the U.S are taking steps in order to implement smart city schemes, mainly in the energy, traffic and transportation fields. Here, …

A growing number of smart cities are currently under development in North America. City authorities in several cities across the U.S are taking steps in order to implement smart city schemes, mainly in the energy, traffic and transportation fields. Here, …

Samsung said its newest LTE modem is capable of aggregating six component carriers, an industry first. The 3GPP currently defines carrier aggregation as a maximum of five component carriers, each having up to 20 megahertz of bandwidth. Samsung said its …

The Moto Z supports gigabit LTE service, which Verizon says will be launched ‘later this year’ Earlier this week Verizon announced preorder availability of the Moto Z2 Force Edition, a high-end smartphone, manufactured by Motorola, that boasts a range of …

Huawei is one of the driving forces behind narrowband IoT, but the company may also capture a piece of the market for LTE Category M1 solutions. Its newest internet of things module uses Sequans’ Monarch chipset, which supports both NB-IoT …

Qualcomm executives have repeatedly associated full realization of 5G–something pinned to the 2035 timeframe–as a $12 trillion global opportunity. But that comes with some qualifiers, perhaps chief among them the availability of new spectrum. Last week Dean Brenner, Qualcomm senior …