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FCC gives the land to cultivate innovation

On July 14, the FCC allocated significant new radio spectrum to help usher in the next generation of wireless technology — known as 5G — in the United States. This move opens up several bands (a total of nearly 11 gigahertz) above 24 GHz...

Connecting the dots: Smart city data integration challenges

In the expanding universe of the Internet of Things (or “IoT”), transportation and “smart city” projects are at once among the most complex, and also the most advanced, types of IoT platforms currently in deployment. While their development is relatively far along, these types...

Densification in millimeter wave bands

A conversation about millimeter wave densification with Alpaslan Demir, Principal Engineer, InterDigital The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and the full report “Massively densified networks. Why we need them and how we can build them.” In millimeter wave deployments, densification is not...

White House announces wireless research funding, corporate partnerships

17 companies set to partner with the U.S. government for R&D The Obama administration announced new funding and private-sector partnerships for wireless research to build on the Federal Communication Commission's approval of high-band spectrum for the development of "5G" services. The $400 million initiative will be...

IoT to account for nearly half of IT budgets by 2020

Nearly half of IT budgets will be dedicated to IoT development and implementation by 2020 as IoT services adoption continues to grow. IT budgets are in for a significant transformation as Internet of Things (IoT) services become a top priority for businesses. By 2020, IoT should...

Feature Report: Smartening up the City – New technologies promise a breakthrough for efforts to improve urban living

As the world becomes more and more urban, mayors and municipalities are striving to make their cities smarter. In theory at least, information and communications technologies can keep traffic moving, detect and prevent crime, monitor the condition of roads, lighting, parks and other urban...

Feature Report: Smartening up the City – New technologies promise a breakthrough for efforts to improve urban living

As the world becomes more and more urban, mayors and municipalities are striving to make their cities smarter. In theory at least, information and communications technologies can keep traffic moving, detect and prevent crime, monitor the condition of roads, lighting, parks and other urban...

5G standards work enables global scale

Industry leaders discuss the importance of involvement in 5G standards process There’s a lot of industry excitement around 5G and associated use cases, but, as it stands, there’s still a lot of work to be done in locking down the definitions and features of an...

5G, IoT standardization creates value across telecom ecosystem (sponsored content)

Learn about InterDigital’s support of 5G and the Internet of Things, as well as the company’s role in the standards-setting process Discourse in the telecommunications industry is currently focused on next-generation 5G mobile networks, which, through dramatic increases in throughput coupled with decreases in latency,...

LTE-Unlicensed and Wi-Fi: moving beyond coexistence

Unlicensed spectrum is hugely valuable, and mobile operators are increasingly eager to leverage that spectrum. They started with Wi-Fi offload, and are now moving to LTE-Unlicensed and new ways to integrate Wi-Fi in their networks (carrier Wi-Fi, LWA). The Senza Fili report, “LTE unlicensed and...

Reader Forum: Video – finding a better way to connect demand and network resources

InterDigital looks at different protocols that can help smooth the delivery of video traffic In my previous article we looked at the limitations of the traditional method of video delivery over the Web and particularly as it relates to mobile video. The primary issue was...

5G, IoT standardization creates value across telecom ecosystem (sponsored content)

Learn about InterDigital’s support of 5G and the Internet of Things, as well as the company’s role in the standards-setting process Discourse in the telecommunications industry is currently focused on next-generation 5G mobile networks, which, through dramatic increases in throughput coupled with decreases in latency,...

Reader Forum: Video – the traditional delivery model is tapped out

InterDigital claims a new model is needed to handle growing video traffic Video has crushed the Internet. In 2014, video represented 64% of all consumer Internet traffic, and that will grow to between 80% and 90% by 2019. The pain is especially severe in mobile...

Predictions for 2016: LTE-A, LTE-U, 5G and IoT

As RCR Wireless News prepared for its 2016 Analyst Predictions Day, the editorial team met with analyst Roger Entner of Recon Analytics and Chris Pearson of 4G Americas to hear their forecasts for the year ahead. The conversation was part of RCR Wireless News'...

Information centric networking (ICN): key to 5G, QoE

As demand for video and next-generation services increases, content needs to live one hop from the end user Global telecommunications networks are fundamentally changing to keep up with consumer demand for mobile data. Information centric networking or ICN, which envisions bringing content servers closer to...

Wi-Fi plays a starring role at Small Cells Americas

DALLAS – Small Cells Americas, a 9-year-old event that takes place each fall in Dallas, highlighted a carrier Wi-Fi track on its agenda for the first time last year. This year, Wi-Fi was a dominant theme throughout the event as LTE-Unlicensed, voice over Wi-Fi...

The role of NFV and SDN in 5G

InterDigital digs into the role of NFV and SDN in 5G plans Virtualization technologies using software-defined networking and network functions virtualization are expected to play a significant role in the development of next-generation mobile technology standards expected to rollout under the "5G" banner. Some of...

EMEA: Intelligent transport programs from InterDigital

Recently I had an opportunity to speak with InterDigital about oneTransport, which has emerged from Innovate UK’s integrated transport initiative and is the concept for an open market place to access transport data and transport analytics in order to develop intelligent transport solutions. The program...

EMEA: The path to 5G with InterDigital

RCR Wireless News recently had the opportunity to discuss the transition from LTE to "5G" with Chris Cave, director of research and development for InterDigital. We discussed four topics: spectrum; ongoing LTE evolution; network infrastructure differences between LTE and 5G; and shared our thoughts on 5G...

Reader Forum: Dissecting the 5G RAN where flexibility and fine integration will be king

In this third of our “5G is coming!” series of articles, we look at the radio access network and its transformation projected in the “5G” era. As outlined in our first article, 5G is about supporting the Internet of everything and has therefore the...

Reader Forum: 5G is coming – don’t be distracted by new 4-letter acronyms

The bigger 5G bang will be in the network In the first of our series of articles, “5G is coming: Wireless telecoms is dead, long live wireless IT,” we identified flexibility and simplification as two of the key cornerstones upon which future “5G” systems will...

Reader Forum: 5G is coming! Wireless telecom is dead, long live wireless IT

While presenting on the topic of “5G” recently, I was asked: “Why are we making everything so complicated?” In that moment, as I surveyed the audience of principally telecom industry types – of which I proudly count myself as a member for the last...

Editorial Webinar: Strategies for effective Wi-Fi offloading

Agile operators no longer view Wi-Fi as competition; instead they look at unlicensed spectrum as a tool that can be used to help build a truly heterogeneous network offering users a truly homogenous experience. This webinar will look at carrier-grade Wi-Fi and at ways that...

Wi-Fi offload: Carriers turn to untrusted networks

U.S. mobile operators have had something of a love-hate relationship with Wi-Fi in recent years. AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile US were all owners of public Wi-Fi hot spots at one time, but today only AT&T operates a significant Wi-Fi network. Sprint sold its Wi-Fi...