Las Vegas inks smart city deal with NTT Group
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Las Vegas said that it aims to deploy smart city solutions under this agreement by mid-2019 The state of Nevada, city of Las Vegas and Japan’s NTT Group …
Cellular IoT to hit 4.1bn connections by 2024, slower CAGR of 27% – latest Ericsson stats
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe number of cellular IoT connections, comprising NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies, will reach 4.1 billion in 2024. As reference, the new forecast reckons the number of cellular IoT connections, mostly …
BSNL commissions Nokia to rollout smart lighting and telecoms poles across India
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia has been selected by Indian operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to supply, deploy, and manage its new ‘smart telecom poles’ in India, which will support 4G, 5G and …
Why AI is the only way for telcos to create order and opportunity in the 5G era
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThere is massive disruption in the telecoms space, driven in the main part by the shift from proprietary hardware to commoditised hardware, and by the virtualisation of network functions in …
Nokia gets Brazilian private LTE/5G gig to power smart grid, meters, vehicles
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNokia has been selected by Brazilian elelctricity distributor Elektro to deploy a private LTE network to power its smart grid, smart meters, and electric vehicles in the municipality of Atibaia, …
The hard ROI of smart street-lighting – seven ways for cities to make their money back
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOnly one smart city use case stands up to close scrutiny: smart street lighting. The business case for parking and garbage, the other functions in the holy trinity of smart …
Small cities can be smart, too, says Signify, as it lights up 5G poles with American Tower
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCivic operational intelligence is not the preserve of the world’s mega-cities, said Dutch lighting company Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, as it continued deployment of 5G street-lighting poles with American Tower …
Five reasons to bet (now) on a fourth industrial revolution
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail“The kaleidoscope has been shaken; the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for the political age, almost two decades ago. But as an analogy for ground-shaking change, …
The DT dozen: A look at Deutsche Telekom’s “multifaceted” smart city strategy in Poland
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailTwo hours from Warsaw, the town of Kazimierz Dolny has hardly changed since the Renaissance, when it thrived as centre for the grain trade. T-Mobile Poland has just announced plans …
Cisco re-org seeks to turn ideas into products, and drive IoT and 5G gains
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCisco has reorganised its innovation team as a function of its engineering department, rather than its strategy unit, to drive commercial results from its more pioneering work around technologies like …
