BROWSING: LTE

AT&T announced late Friday that Chris Sambar, who has headed up the carrier's team responsible for constructing and managing a nationwide public safety network for the First Responders Network Authority, will be moving into an executive network position for the company as a whole. Sambar...

Samsung Networks opened its 5G Innovation Zone this year Samsung Networks may not be the most well-known business within the South Korean conglomerate’s entire organization, but it has been going strong for about 40 years, beginning in the Korean market before expanding. RCR Wireless News...

Amid growing 5G deployment, LTE growth remains strong According to 5G Americas, global LTE subscriptions are nearing 5 billion worldwide, and there have been a quarter billion new LTE connections added around the world in the second quarter of 2019. The data, gathered by Ovum, shows...

4G and 5G will coexist for much longer than previous generations of mobile broadband PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island—For Peter Linder, Ericsson’s vice president of marketing and communications in North America, the most important thing for policy makers and businesses to understand about the next generation of...

  Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! T-Mobile US talks...

Is 5G a "battery vampire," as some have claimed, or is it actually more power efficient than LTE? It's a bit of a mixed bag, according to Signals Research Group. The testing company recently took to the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota with a 5G-equipped Samsung...

  German telco Deutsche Telekom announced that its 5G network is already operational in the cities of Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Darmstadt, and Munich. 5G services in these five cities is being currently offered via 129 5G antennas. Deutsche Telekom also said that it is gradually expanding...

Sprint is supporting tests of LTE connectivity at 1.9 GHz and 2.5 GHz via a solar-powered, drone-based high-altitude platform system (HAPS) in Hawaii, partnering with fellow SoftBank company HAPS Mobile. HAPS Mobile is a joint venture formed in late 2017 by Sprint parent company SoftBank...

Deutsche Telekom and Ericsson have announced a strategic partnership to jointly serve industrial enterprise customers with campus networks. The German carrier said that the new solution will support diverse use cases on manufacturing shop floors, or at logistic centers, airports and harbors.  A campus network is a mobile network for...

While U.S. operators and regulators have focused on millimeter wave for 5G services, Europe is deploying using mid-band spectrum. Operators around the continent have activated commercial 5G for consumer services. And, on the industrial front, there's significant momentum around private networks, particularly in Germany. Here...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! 600 MHz auction...

With the evolution of telecommunications networks and introduction of 5G technologies industry stakeholders, governments and partners must to work together to address the challenges with securing these modern telecommunications networks through risk-based approaches to cyber security. The white paper discusses some of the fundamental...

As the LPWA technology market continues to evolve, it is faced with fierce competition from Sigfox, LoRa, NB-IOT, LTE-M, and other LPWA technologies. This competition has also fueled significant market hype. LPWA network technologies will certainly be integral to enable digital transformation across various...

Peninsula Light Company (PenLight) has appointed US carrier Verizon to upgrade its power distribution system in Washington State with an LTE-based system, comprising smart electricity meters and a data analytics platform. Verizon will replace end-of-life meters with cellular IoT meters in 33,000 homes and businesses....

ROKiT hopes to provide "affordable and life changing service to millions of people" ROKiT, a self-labeled humanity first telecom company, has completed its first test of the company's wide-area Wi-Fi XL system in New Dehli. The test, which the company said was successful, is part of its multi-billion dollar investment into installing Wi-Fi across India, Asia and Africa.    “Testing...

Deutsche Telekom is offering industrialists so-called ‘campus networks’, which offer a kind of proto-slicing as a pre-cursor to slicing-proper with 5G networks. But its recent work in the Port of Hamburg with Nokia experimented with network-slicing proper, specifically for environmental monitoring, traffic control, and maintenance...

Nokia CEO: Strong 4G essential to delivering high performance in 5G Finnish telecom network infrastructure vendor Nokia reported a stronger-than-expected second quarter with a 7% rise in revenue from the previous year, boosted by revenue in North America and end-to-end 5G demand. Despite earlier predictions of a flat market, the company now...

  The In-building Public Safety Communications market has been a hot topic of conversation in the United States, and has evolved to become a global topic with the advancement of legislation to require the technology in buildings. There has also been a push to improve standards...

Small cell construction a priority for Crown Castle Network infrastructure provider Crown Castle released its second quarter results at the end of last week. After a strong quarter, the company, which leases out more than 40,000 cell towers and other network infrastructure to carriers like...

   ‘5G will be truly transformative,’ Cradlepoint SVP says As 5G networks pop up around the globe, the early focus is on delivering an enhanced mobile broadband experience to consumers. But, as coverage scales and the technology matures, 5G is widely viewed as a key enabler...

  Cradlepoint highlights enterprise private network use cases The notion of an enterprise private network, whether it’s LTE or 5G deployed in unlicensed, licensed or shared spectrum, is a hot topic at the moment. Carriers and vendors see a major opportunity to work with enterprise stakeholders...

  The Beatles may have given us the best advice to bringing more mid-band spectrum to deploy 5G services in their chart-topping song, “We Can Work It Out.” With enhanced focus on deploying next-generation technologies as soon as possible, it is absolutely critical for policymakers...

  ZTE considers that the co-evolution of 4G and 5G networks is a key issue as these two technologies will be sharing many resources and will be offering each other a strong support in the next decade. This is why, ZTE believe that it is essential...

Every enterprise mobility infrastructure investment made today will be expected to migrate to 5G. Infrastructure with a future-ready posture will minimize the surprises in that LTE to 5G transition. Corning’s Future-Ready Mobility white paper shares best practices in developing a mobility infrastructure plan that includes...