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Home broadband, Wi-Fi speed and reliability guarantees and speed testing/diagnostics were among the most popular services that providers plan to offer Omdia and Broadband Forum have published a new report that shows global broadband service providers are focused on introducing …

Federal E-Rate funds can be used to outfit school busses with Wi-Fi access points, the Federal Communications Commission has declared. The declaratory ruling was supported by the Commission’s three Democrats, and opposed by its two Republicans. Commissioners Brendan Carr and …

Editor’s note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with Snapdragon Summit.  HAWAII—With the launch of its ambitious Oryon CPU for PCs and plan to embed the 12-core powerhouse across its business segments, Qualcomm is changing. Whereas previous iterations …

Wi-Fi OpenRoaming allows for seamless Wi-Fi onboarding from location to location without the need for logins or passwords Systems integrator TecExpert Brasil has introduced OpenRoaming Wi-Fi hotspots at the Teatro Gazeta theater in São Paulo, announced the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA). OpenRoaming, developed by Cisco and now controlled …

Earlier this year, BAI Communications and its familiar wireless and infrastructure brands  including Mobilitie, ZenFi Networks, Transit Wireless and Signal Point Systems came together under the new Boldyn Networks brand. From the show floor at Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, …

In today’s fast-paced business world, connectivity is king. Enterprises, especially those with sprawling outdoor operations in agriculture, transportation, sporting venues, and campuses, depend on seamless communication. These businesses require expanded coverage, rock-solid reliability, scalability, and unwavering performance to support business-critical …

No two private networks are exactly alike, as each is configured to serve different network environments and industries. In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, businesses increasingly focus on modernizing their enterprise systems to do more for their business. This focus …

The edge has always existed, as any bull-headed IT wizard will tell you; but it has not always existed like this. The edge-cloud continuum is well travelled by enterprise IT technicians, taking powerful advantage of the economies of hyper-scale afforded …

Wireless communications have transformed nearly every application space, from smart home security and personal computing to mobile phones, audio, and video streaming, and factory-floor automation. Benefiting from decades of rapid innovation, almost every electronic product on the market today is …

Broadband and Wi-Fi have become synonymous when it comes to the in-home connectivity experience. However, consumers continue to struggle with Wi-Fi reliability and management, and communication service providers (CSPs) are still in need of better paths to broadband monetization. According …

Celona Marketing Director David Callisch goes through the idea that private cellular is a software and access play, and looks at the rise of cellular for use cases where Wi-Fi is not sufficient. He also highlights Celona’s expansion into the …

Comcast has debuted a new internet option for Wi-Fi with cellular back-up using Verizon’s mobile network, so that customers don’t have to lose their home Wi-Fi access in a service or power outage. For $7 a month for 36 months …

Cloud-based AIOps take Wi-Fi from a best-effort art to a highly reliable network science, which is essential for meeting the stringent service-level requirements of digital-age applications. Wireless networks have evolved into an indispensable part of daily life. Sophisticated enterprise use …

While private 5G is poised to deliver major benefits to enterprise users, there are a number of complexities to deploying 5G alongside existing connectivity mediums, including 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. In the context of private 5G for the shop floor …

The open and disaggregated movement, pioneered by OpenRAN, has become a well-known concept. It is driven by the principles of opening mobile networks to a broader range of suppliers and disaggregating software from hardware components in the network. These are …

The rising adoption of advanced multimode cellular (5G, 4G) and wireless (Wi-Fi 6/6E/7) delivers powerful benefits while also driving significant RF complexity in smart connected devices. 5G and Wi-Fi 7 integration has multiple challenges that need cutting-edge RF design, components …

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 integrate non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity as an option in its cloud-managed portfolio of wireless IoT standards, …

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 that to technologists is a false dichotomy, but to enterprise buyers can guide technology investment …

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 lab at its main research campus in the south of the southern city of Erlangen says …

A panel session at Private Networks Forum in May discussed what 5G delivers for enterprises now and what it promises to deliver in the future, with a keen eye on the applications that will swing the business case for them …

Public and private cellular, Wi-Fi and low-power sensors all have a role to play in enterprise wireless for Industry 4.0 The vision of Industry 4.0 sees businesses of all sizes and in all sectors harnessing wireless connectivity and other complementary …

In the third installment of a four-part podcast series presented in partnership with Nextivity, Chief Commercial Officer Stephen Kowal reiterates the importance of both cellular and Wi-Fi in enterprise connectivity. However, he points out that Wi-Fi does have limitations, and …

In a little over three years after the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made 1,200 megahertz of spectrum available in the 6 GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use, we are seeing significant momentum. Hundreds of Wi-Fi 6E devices have been certified, a full ecosystem …

FWA is emerging as a cost-efficient, agile broadband solution Despite its “fiber-first” approach to networks, Nokia knows that fiber won’t be the economical solution for every deployment, particularly in hard-to-reach or lower-density areas. Thanks to the additional capacity of 5G, …

Sooner or later, it all comes down to money – and there just aren’t that many clear-cut use cases to bankroll a private 5G deployment. That is the consensus. Yes, industrial AR for remote assistance, reliable mobility for AGVs and …