More industrial Wi-Fi 6, fewer IoT platforms, new mMTC entrants – it ain’t gonna happen
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailABI Research has poured water on the idea Wi-Fi 6 will gain mass adoption in the IoT space in the near-term. It has also said a few dominant chipset vendors …
NGMN and 5G-ACIA to unite operators and industrialists around 5G
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) are looking to drive cooperation between operators and industries to capitalize on opportunities …
What is mMTC in 5G NR, and how does it impact NB-IoT and LTE-M
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe cellular IoT ecosystem, the cellular community would have us believe, is growing fast. The GSMA counted 89 NB-IoT networks and 34 LTE-M launches as of October 2019, with several …
Orange on URLLC (and private 5G): “The economics favour public networks”
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNote, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled “Orange on LPWA: ‘If there’s no improvement in the radio, we’ll keep the same system’.” Click here to go to …
Why 5G is a slow-burning enterprise saga – and Verizon’s criticism of 5G marketing doesn’t go far enough
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail“The potential for 5G is awesome,” Verizon chief tech officer Kyle Malady wrote in an open letter this week, in protest at the early marketing of rather middle-of-the-road ‘5G’ services …
Ericsson ‘fingerprints’ radio network to enhance NB-IoT, LTE-M positioning
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSwedish vendor Ericsson is looking at ways to employ artificial intelligence to enable advanced “fingerprinting” of mobile radio networks to enhance the positioning resolution of LTE-M and NB-IoT devices. The …
The URLLC debate (pt5): Will enterprise 5G use cases scale? (Once more; is 5G just a proving ground for 6G?)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThroughout the ‘ask-the-experts’ session at URLLC 2018 in London earlier this month, serialised here across a number of posts, the conversation circled back time and again to 5G use cases. …
The URLLC debate (pt3): How will 5G slices be provisioned? (Will operators retain control?)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNetwork slicing, allowing for multiple network layers on top of a single shared infrastructure, is arguably the most significant capability of incoming 5G technologies. It brings brand new business opportunities …
