BROWSING: Qualcomm

Test equipment company PCTel saw its revenues drop 16% year-over-year, but overall profits were  up compared to the same period in 2019, the company reported this week. Total company revenues for the second quarter were $19.8 million, compared to nearly $23.4 million during the same...

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Xiaoxia Zhang, Qualcomm (Ep. 18) Just as LAA made it possible for many operators to provide gigabit-class LTE, NR-U is poised to open the unlicensed 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands to mobile services in both...

On this episode of Well, technically... the tech podcast where women do the explaining, Qualcomm's CIO Mary Gendron explores three different definitions of digital transformation, how Qualcomm is tackling the "new normal" and what it was like being a woman following in her father's engineering footsteps.

660 5G designs announced or in development Following the Wednesday announcement of its third quarter earnings and detailing a multi-year agreement with Huawei, Qualcomm stock jumped more than 12% at its height. The San Diego-based company turned in revenue above the midpoint of prior guidance...

  Qualcomm Technologies and the San Diego Regional Proving Grounds (SDRPG) announced the launch of a new C-V2X direct communication program for California. SDRPG and Qualcomm Technologies designed the program to facilitate use case research and testing for vehicle communications in realistic operating conditions. The public...

  It seems like yesterday that I first wrote about the five wireless inventions that defined 5G NR. At the time, 5G was not yet deployed. Today, however, we are in the midst of rapidly expanding 5G’s global footprint. To date, over 70 mobile operators...

  India’s Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani confirmed that the conglomerate’s mobile Jio Platforms engineers designed and developed a "complete 5G system" from scratch. The executive said that Jio Platforms’ 5G kit will be ready for trials as soon as spectrum is available, with field deployments...

Claro using Ericsson's Dynamic Spectrum Sharing technology Brazilian mobile operator Claro, owned by Mexican telecommunications group America Movil, announced it will start offering 5G services in limited areas in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on July 14. In Sao Paulo, 5G services will be available...

The Snapdragon 865+ boasts a 10% increase in both clock speed and graphic rendering Qualcomm released an updated to its Snapdragon 865 SoC, the Snapdragon 865+. While the Snapdragon 865 is already powering a number of well-received Android smartphone devices this year, including the Galaxy...

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! FirstNet opt-ins begin...

Ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could delay work on Rel. 17 The first version of the 5G New Radio specifications focused on delivering enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) which operators around the world have run with, building out non-standalone networks using a variety of spectrum types, including millimeter...

A growing number of wireless companies are showing how they are still on target with their rollout and continual advancement of 5G wireless services. Let’s take a look at some of these leading companies in the 5G race and what we can expect moving...

Vodafone U.K. switched-on what it claimed was the first live standalone (SA) 5G deployment in the country, with a new network built for Coventry University, the operator said in a release. Vodafone noted it would be used to show the “true benefits of 5G” covering...

Qualcomm is working with Maryland-based systems integrator Infinite Computer Solutions to offer a ‘plug-and-play’ smart cities package on a subscription. The pair claim to have compiled an “end-to-end” IoT solution for sundry players in the smart cities space, including government, healthcare, construction, entertainment, transportation, manufacturing,...

Qualcomm: '5G NR-U represents a brand-new field of spectrum' 5G NR in unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) is being finalized for inclusion in 3GPP Release 16, which, though delayed, is now expected to be ratified next month due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Qualcomm, NR-U is “an...

Qualcomm has announced a new top-end robotics platform featuring 5G connectivity and AI processing for high-compute, low-power robots and drones. The RB5 platform, based on the previous RB3 unit, comprises a set of hardware, software, and development tools for building robots and drones for customers...

It has been almost a decade since Qualcomm Technologies embarked on the journey to realizing its vision for high-performance cellular networking in unlicensed spectrum. Now, just two years since the launch of 5G NR Release 15, 3GPP is set to complete Release 16 in...

The new 6 GHz spectrum opportunity more than doubles the airspace available for Wi-Fi and that is just the beginning. Technology implementation of Wi-Fi 6 in the 6 GHz band (dubbed Wi-Fi 6E) across mobile and networking products are of critical importance to transition...

Canada and the U.K. have changed their minds. They now want to cancel their Huawei agreement to upgrade their 5G wireless networks. As a wireless analyst I closely follow all the players and have for more than 30 years. Over the last decade, Huawei...

Wi-Fi 6E will deliver 1020 MHz of additional spectrum Wi-Fi 6E is still awaiting regulatory approval in Europe and some other regions around the world; however, in the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission voted to open up the 6 GHz spectrum for unlicensed Wi-Fi use...

The long-term growth trajectories, to 2025 and beyond, for all telecommunications, including mobile and 5G, are significantly elevated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the looming climate change crisis, that will also make us stop traveling around so much in motorized transport. Since...

Qualcomm has launched a certification programme for combining augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) devices and Snapdragon-based 5G smartphones. The programme will approve tethered AR and VR devices for use by enterprises, as well as consumers, within 12 months, it said. At the same...

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Ignacio Contreras, Qualcomm (Ep. 8) On the latest episode of Will 5G Change the World?, Qualcomm Senior Director of 5G Marketing Ignacio Contreras discusses near-term consumer adoption of 5G handsets and looks at operator deployment roadmaps. Contreras...

  The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced plans to restrict Chinese vendor Huawei’s ability to use U.S. chipmaking equipment and software to design and manufacture its semiconductors abroad. In a statement, BIS said that the move "cuts off...