Category: Internet

December 20, 2023

Fixed Wireless Access services offered by telecom carriers are succeeding in winning customers away from cable and DSL service providers, according to new analysis from Ookla, but competition in the space is expected to ramp up in the coming year […]

December 19, 2023

Vodafone has equipped an Industry 4.0 demonstrator project at the University of Sheffield in the UK with a range of IoT technologies so manufacturers can understand how digital tech can support their net zero and energy efficiency objectives. Vodafone is […]

December 19, 2023

As conversations around global spectrum use for terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks coalesced at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Dubai, the future of wireless was top-of-mind. As work progresses on future 6G systems, a timeline is emerging for standardization and commercialization—and […]

December 18, 2023

Pairpoint, Vodafone’s ‘economy-of-things’ joint-venture (JV) business with Japanese trading and electric services company Sumitomo Corporation, has teamed up with professional services company Deloitte and IoT tracking firm Nexxiot to verify the provenance of IoT data in the international logistics market. […]

December 15, 2023

The Open RAN Alliance said that it has successfully concluded its fall 2023 plugfest. The event was co-hosted by 24 major operators, OTICs and independent institutions for testing, the organization said. It ran from September-November 2023 and was held in […]

December 13, 2023

China aims to start commercializing 6G technology by 2030 and expects that the standard-setting for the technology will be achieved around 2025, Chinese press reported, citing Wang Zhiqin, the head of China’s 6G promotion team and vice president of the […]

December 12, 2023

A 5G radio access network (RAN) technology developed by an Indian multi-institutional team has been licensed to local firm Tejas Networks, part of the Tata Group company, for a total of INR120 million ($1.44 million), local press reported. According to […]

December 12, 2023

The telecommunications industry is in a good track in order to deliver its really ambitious objective of reaching sustainability in the whole sector, according to Maria Lema, co-founder of Weaver Labs. During a presentation at the recent RCR Wireless News’ […]

December 11, 2023

Verizon Business and the Philadelphia Eagles announced the opening of two express shops at Lincoln Financial Field that use Verizon 5G. In a release, the U.S. carrier said the stores use Verizon’s network and AI-powered computer vision technology to provide […]

December 8, 2023

German operator 1&1 confirmed that Open RAN (O-RAN) is fully functional and available throughout the country on its 5G network. The German carrier said that the O-RAN deployment is being supported by vendors Rakuten Symphony and Mavenir. In a joint […]

December 8, 2023

Finnish vendor Nokia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) telco du announced the conclusion of what it claimed to be UAE’s first 5G-Advanced 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) trial over a commercial network. The partners said that this recent trial showcased the […]

December 7, 2023

In both the contexts of driving global demand for energy and facilitating the reduction of consumption and attendant greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector has a very important role to play. In an introductory presentation […]

December 6, 2023

Spanish telecom operator Masmovil is currently offering 5G service in 2,217 towns and cities in 52 provinces across Spain for the customers of its Yoigo brand, the carrier said in a release. According to the operator, 77% of the Spanish’s […]

December 5, 2023

Taiwanese telco Chunghwa Telecom reached an agreement to use Singapore operator Singtel’s cloud platform, Paragon, to deliver integrated services combining 5G network slicing with cloud applications. In a release, Singtel said that the two companies are joining together to promote […]

December 4, 2023

5G subscriptions in India are expected to reach 130 million by the end of 2023 and are forecast to grow to 860 million by 2029, according to the latest edition of the Ericsson Mobility report. Ericsson noted that 5G subscriptions […]

December 1, 2023

At CES 2024 there will be plenty on hot new wireless technologies including private wireless, 5G-A, fixed wireless access (FWA) and 5G home internet. We have watched the growth and transformation of the wireless industry worldwide for decades. First, it […]

November 30, 2023

The total number of cellular IoT connections will reach around three billion at the end of 2023, reckons Ericsson, with most, and the increasing majority, connected on so-called ‘broadband’ cellular IoT technologies LTE (4G) and 5G. The arrival of reduced-capability […]

November 29, 2023

According to IDC Research, 3.8 billion Wi-Fi devices are forecast to ship in 2023 alone, and of those, 473 million are expected to be Wi-Fi 6E devices. The firm further expects more than 18% of all Wi-Fi 6 device shipments […]

November 28, 2023

There was lots of other good stuff during the Devil’s Advocate session earlier this month at Industrial 5G Forum. Notably, a couple of questions came up on regional spectrum policy, and the importance of so-called ‘vertical’ spectrum which is owned […]

November 27, 2023

Mobile data traffic in Europe is forecast to almost triple over the next five years, chiefly boosted by 4G migration in Central and Eastern Europe and increasing improvements in 5G coverage and capacity, according to new research by the GSMA. […]