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Cisco announced the appointment of Miyuki Suzuki as president for Asia Pacific & Japan. Previously, Suzuki served as president of Cisco Japan. Her new responsibilities include regional revenue growth across 18 markets. She will report to Chris Dedicoat, executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. Suzuki assumes the leadership from Irving Tan, who […]
AT&T is delivering LTE-M connectivity to CallPass Tech, which provides location services to car dealers to track or find financed or leased vehicles. Financial companies and car dealers can now use CallPass Tech’s iGotcha GPS Platform on the AT&T LTE-M network to track, find and manage financed or leased vehicles on the road and in […]
Palau Telecoms will be extending and augmenting a contract with SES Networks for satellite broadband connectivity. Since 2014, Palau Telecoms has been using SES’ medium earth orbit (MEO) connectivity. The contract extension runs until 2020 and increases the amount of medium earth orbit (MEO) connectivity by 150%. “Since we first initiated service with SES Networks, […]
PTScientists, a privately-held venture based in Berlin, Germany is aiming for a historic lunar landing next year. The plan calls for delivering two rovers, or up to 100 kg of payload, to the lunar surface using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission will be to approach and study NASA’s […]
Sprint is deploying Massive MIMO antennas as it prepares for a 5G rollout in the first half of 2019. Sprint expects to deploy thousands of Massive MIMO radios in 2018 and 2019, significantly increasing network capacity for millions of customers across the country. Specifically, Sprint will deploy 64T64R (64 transmit, 64 receive) Massive MIMO radios […]
Vodafone and China Mobile agreed to resell each other’s IoT services. Under the agreement, each company will share new IoT project opportunities. Vodafone customers will be given access to China Mobile IoT SIMS for deployments in China, and China Mobile customers wanting to offer IoT-enabled products outside of China will use Vodafone’s Global IoT SIM […]
At Mobile World Congress 2018, Huawei is showcasing the first FDD full-band 4×4 MIMO antenna – a designed developed for TIM, the Italian mobile operator. The antenna uses Huawei’s patented AirType Dipole and AirMax Feeding Network technologies to support 4×4 MIMO on all of TIM’s sub-3 GHz frequency bands in a single sector and a […]
Ericsson is supplying its radio access platforms for T-Mobile’s 5G rollout in U.S. cities using 600 MHz and 28 and 39 millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum. Financial terms were not disclosed. Specifically, T-Mobile is building out 5G in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas this year utilizing Ericson’s 5G New Radio (NR) radios and baseband. Fredrik […]
At this week’s Mobile World Congress, 6WIND is demonstrating high-performance vRouter use cases for white box networking with partners Advantech and Cloudify. The demo infrastructure includes: vRouter: 6WIND Turbo Router and Turbo IPsec are routing and IPsec VPN software network appliances to be deployed in bare metal environments or as Virtual Machines (VMs) on COTS […]
To date, 23 mobile operators have commercially launched 41 Mobile IoT networks worldwide across both NB-IoT and LTE-M, according to the GSMA. The GSMA’s Mobile IoT Innovators Community has grown to include 34 IoT Labs and an expanding community of over 800 organisations. According to GSMA Intelligence forecasts, by 2025 there will be 3.1 billion […]
Mist, a start-up based in Cupertino, California. raised $46 million in an unsubscribed C round of funding for its self-learning wireless networks powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Mist says its wireless platform, which is designed specifically for the Smart Device era, makes Wi-Fi predictable, reliable and measurable by providing visibility into the user experience and […]
At Mobile World Congress, China Mobile signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement with Ericsson to develop Internet of Things (IoT) opportunities in industry and enterprises. The partnership will build on Ericsson’s Device Connection Platform IoT (DCP-IoT) Connectivity Management platform, as part of the IoT Accelerator Platform, to help China Mobile expand IoT business worldwide, and […]
Qualcomm confirmed that it will begin sampling its Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform Series in the first half of this year. The chipset promises features and performance previously only available in the premium Snapdragon 800 Mobile Platform Series. These capabilities include on-device AI supported by the Qualcomm Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine, and improvements to camera, device […]
