Skylo Technologies has announced its partnership with O² Telefónica. Together, the companies will enable businesses to roam ‘seamlessly and transparently’ between terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTN) on IoT devices. (more…)
September 28, 2023
Posted by: Magda Dabrowska
ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) has announced establishment of its software development group, called OpenSlice. With this group, ETSI positions itself as a focal point for development and experimentation with network slicing. OpenSlice is creating an open-source, service-based operations support system (OSS) to deliver network slice as a service (NSaaS) in alignment with specifications from standards development organisations, including 3GPP, TM Forum, and GSMA. (more…)
July 28, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Ubiik, an AMI and end-to-end LTE solution provider, has announced the launch of freeRAN, a LTE-M base station. With a base station operating in the US 915MHz license-exempt band (also known as ISM band 902-928MHz), this new product release will empower businesses to achieve levels of connectivity without the existing cost barrier of securing spectrum. (more…)
June 10, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
San Diego, United States – Airgain, Inc., a provider of wireless connectivity solutions, creating and delivering products that include embedded components, external antennas, and integrated systems across the globe, has announced the release of its outdoor 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) reference design that has been tested and validated with Airgain’s RF testing and validation equipment. (more…)
January 10, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Enea announced the creation of the industry’s virtualised data schema giving mobile operators the ability to map 4G and 5G data models into a single customisable view from the 5G Core to the edge. (more…)
July 7, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Qualcomm Technologies has announced the Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System, its fourth-generation 5G modem-to-antenna solution. Snapdragon X65 is designed to support the fastest 5G speeds currently available with fibre like wireless performance and to make optimise spectrum use for network flexibility, capacity and coverage. (more…)
February 10, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Sequans Communications S.A. announced that its second-generation LTE Cat 1 chip platform, Calliope 2, will soon be sampling. Calliope 2 is designed for the cost-effective support of IoT applications that require VoLTE and a data rate higher than 100 kilobits per second that cannot be supported by LTE-M or NB-IoT technologies. (more…)
January 8, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched, Jeremy Cowan editorial director of IoT Now, turned to industry watchers for their views on the decision and what lies ahead for NB-IoT. (more…)
May 11, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
The Global Certification Forum (GCF) has announced that u-blox is the company to certify a product under its new IoT chipset certification scheme (started in January this year). This latest GCF programme is designed for chipsets covering NB-IoT and LTE-M and facilitates the easy integration of embedded chipsets into modules and devices. The u-blox UBX-R5 Cat-M1 chipset is the first product to achieve certification under the new scheme. (more…)
March 2, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Nokia has won a tender to test and deliver the world’s first standalone (SA) 5G system for automated rail operation in Hamburg, Germany. The project is part of Deutsche Bahn’s highly automated S-Bahn operation project. (more…)
December 12, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello