
Wireless Logic buys cellular IoT roaming provider Arkessa
Private equity group ECI Partners has sold IoT roaming provider Arkessa to IoT and SIM management company Wireless Logic for an undisclosed fee. The UK-based venture firm said it had …

Hyundai buys robot maker Boston Dynamics from Softbank for $1.1 bn
Hyundai Motor Group has agreed a $1.1 billion deal with Softbank to acquire an 80 percent stake in US-based robotics company Boston Dynamics. Japan-based telecoms group Softbank will retain a …

The planet needs tech but the tech needs fixing – new ‘global action plan’ to solve IoT
The world urgently needs new digital tech, but the new digital tech urgently needs attention. So said the World Economic Forum this week, as it corralled together various private enterprises, …

Private wireless podcast – 2020, the year everything changed (episode #3)
RCR Wireless News · Private wireless podcast – 2020, the year everything changed (episode #3) 2020; what a year! As society has sought new ways to work amid the fallout …

Deutsche Telekom annexes public network in Bonn to “milestone” 5G hospital
Deutsche Telekom has deployed a 5G ‘campus’ network in the 3.6 GHz spectrum band for University Hospital Bonn (UKB). The setup uses the German carrier’s public cellular network, optimised with …

KORE Wireless on 2021: Better services, smarter connectivity, deeper intelligence
The past year has most of us yearning for a more ‘normal’ year ahead. Fortunately, the future is bright in the IoT marketplace. Consider this: IoT Analytics predicted in 2018 …

Industry to drive URLLC-era 5G market to $23bn by 2030 – with boom for operators
It is a little early, some way ahead of the standardisation schedule, but the first (?) market-sizing forecast is in for Release-17 era ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), pegged as the …

Fashion brand Desigual deploys blockchain solution to keep tabs on supply chain
Spanish clothing brand Desigual has deployed a blockchain solution to improve transparency and resiliency in its supply chain, the company has announced. It is working with Finboot, also headquartered in …

LoRa Alliance, Semtech in talks with Amazon to switch Sidewalk over to LoRaWAN
The LoRa Alliance, the technical and marketing group promoting the LoRaWAN protocol for wide-area network (WAN) communications, is looking at ways to tweak the LoRaWAN specification for Amazon, so the …

Doctor, doctor; what’s up with my IoT? “Well, it’s here and it works, and it saves us bother”
Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report on the state of digital change in the healthcare sector (see image below). The report – Challenges with Digital Change in …