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News & Views Most Popular Apple's 5G Modem Pegged For a 2022 Introduction By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/14/2019 Apple is reportedly planning to release a 5G modem as early as 2022, possibly joining Samsung and Huawei in that select group and align with Apple's push to become a vertically integrated company. Post a Comment Why Many Operators Just Can't Quit 2G By Robert Clark, 10/14/2019 Like old-fashioned rock and roll, 2G just refuses to die. Post a Comment AT&T to Begin Standalone 5G Rollout Next Year By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/9/2019 AT&T plans to deploy standalone 5G in 2020, which will boost enterprise applications for 5G. Post a Comment Advertisement Eurobites: Telia & Nokia Launch 5G FWA in Finland By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/9/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nuage Networks finds SD-WAN love in Bahrain; Vodafone closes stores, but not in the UK; MegaFon sets up e-commerce JV with Alibaba and friends. Post a Comment Finnish Startup Goes Underground to Measure Soil Conditions By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/9/2019 Finnish agricultural IoT startup Soil Scout works with DT on underground sensors, grabs an undisclosed round of funding. Post a Comment 5G Will Save Semiconductor Industry, IHS Predicts By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/8/2019 The global semiconductor industry is nearing the trough of a massive decline due to oversupply issues, but according to a new report from IHS Markit \| Technology, 5G will help rectify the situation. Post a Comment Ossia Readies Wireless Power for IoT Asset Tracking at Walmart By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/4/2019 Ossia is working to commercialize its Forever Tracker with T-Mobile and Xirgo. Post a Comment Advertisement US Cellular Plots 600MHz 5G in Iowa & Wisconson in Early 2020 By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/4/2019 The fifth-largest mobile carrier in the US will be one of the first in the country with lowband 5G. Post a Comment Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom & Audi Seek Vorsprung Durch 5G By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/3/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: BT lands Spanish government deal; Ericsson completes on Kathrein; Sparkle boosts its presence in Milan; French facial recognition. Post a Comment Six Months of 5G: What We've Learned From South Korea By Robert Clark, 10/2/2019 What has gone well and what has gone badly for South Korea's early 5G movers? Post a Comment Meet ZenKey: Telcos' Doomed Single Sign-On Service By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/2/2019 ZenKey is the new 'single sign-on' service from the nation's four big wireless network operators. If history is any indication, it won't last long. Post a Comment Podcast: Where 5G May Be in 5 Years By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/1/2019 Ovum Chief Analyst Ed Barton talks to Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre about the services and opportunities 5G unlocks for consumers – and what new capabilities are just around the corner. Post a Comment Amazon: From the Sensor to the Sidewalk By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 9/30/2019 Amazon readies its low-power protocol Sidewalk for long-term IoT and smart home projects. Post a Comment Verizon Brings 5G to Parts of NYC By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 9/26/2019 The mobile carrier also launches 5G in Boise City, Idaho, and Panama City, Fla. Post a Comment Huawei's 5G Licensing Offer Is Pitched at US Companies, Says Founder By Robert Clark, 9/26/2019 The Chinese vendor would prefer a US company to buy its technology, says Ren Zhengfei, but has so far not had a US response. Post a Comment Amazon Intros 'Sidewalk' Protocol for Low-Power IoT Networks By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 9/26/2019 Amazon is building a wireless dog tracker as a reference implementation of the protocol. Post a Comment As 3G Shutdown Looms, AT&T's Cricket Will Require VoLTE Phones By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/25/2019 AT&T's Cricket Wireless prepaid brand is soon going to prevent customers from activating older phones that don't support VoLTE technology. The move is part of AT&T's efforts to shut down its 3G network. Post a Comment Orange Spain Demands 5G Progress Ahead of 2020 Launch By Iain Morris, International Editor, 9/25/2019 The Spanish mobile operator says there are plenty of solid reasons for not joining Vodafone in this year's 5G market. Post a Comment Apple's First 5G iPhone Will Be a Hot Seller – Analyst Report By Sue Marek, Special Contributor, 9/24/2019 The analysts at Wall Street research firm Jefferies predict that Apple will sell 208 million 5G iPhones during fiscal 2021, not the 190 million that others have predicted. Post a Comment The Telecoms.com Podcast: Automotive, Edge & Huawei Smartphones By Light Reading, 9/24/2019 Paul Myles, editor of TU-Automotive, joins the pod this week to talk connected cars, edge computing and de-Googled Huawei smartphones. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Eurobites: Telia & Nokia Launch 5G FWA in Finland By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/9/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Nuage Networks finds SD-WAN love in Bahrain; Vodafone closes stores, but not in the UK; MegaFon sets up e-commerce JV with Alibaba and friends. Post a Comment AT&T to Begin Standalone 5G Rollout Next Year By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 10/9/2019 AT&T plans to deploy standalone 5G in 2020, which will boost enterprise applications for 5G. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Sequans' IoT Chips Approved for Use by 3 Largest Japanese Mobile Operators 6 hours and 29 minutes ago NTT DoCoMo Validates Altair's NB-IoT/Cat-M Chipset Monday, October 7, 2019 Gartner: 5G Phone Market Share to Grow From 10% in 2020 to 56% by 2023 Thursday, September 26, 2019 Samsung's Galaxy Fold to Be Available Sept. 27 Via Best Buy, AT&T Monday, September 23, 2019 Sonim to Take Financial Hit Because of Delays in Carriers' Phone Rollouts Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Qualcomm Pushes 5G Into Wider Range of Snapdragon Devices Friday, September 6, 2019 Spectrum Mobile Touts 'Value' With New Samsung, LG Smartphone Additions Wednesday, August 28, 2019 T-Mobile Opens New Lab for Device Testing, Including for 5G Tuesday, August 20, 2019 CTIA Launches Certification Program for Phone Refurbishment, Repair Thursday, August 8, 2019 US Extradites Man Who Bribed AT&T Insiders to Help Unlock Phones Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Sprint to Sell a 5G Phone From OnePlus, but Details Scarce Tuesday, August 6, 2019 Gartner: 5G Smartphone Vendors to Sell 15M Units in 2019 Thursday, August 1, 2019 Verizon Modestly Misses With Revenues of $32.1B for Q2 19 Thursday, August 1, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now CISO No Longer the Last Word on Security – Radware Larry Loeb, Author, 10/14/2019 The rise of DevSecOps may be the reason that 70% of respondents to Radware's ... 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MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... 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