Category: Wireless

January 8, 2024

Wi-Fi Alliance is kicking off 2024 with a shiny new certification program for Wi-Fi 7, signaling that the newest generation of Wi-Fi is ready for mass adoption. As is typical in Wi-Fi generations, there is already a leading vanguard of […]

January 8, 2024

As 5G continues to be rolled out, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) organization is hard at work in developing standards for 5G Advanced and is beginning to talk about what may be included in the first release of 6G. […]

January 5, 2024

Traditional broadband is being threatened by new competitors and changing technology. It’s out with the old, and in with the new. This is both a real challenge and a new growth opportunity. FWA and satellite technologies are impacting the marketplace. […]

January 3, 2024

On Tuesday evening, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with 21 Starlink satellites in tow. Those satellites included the first six Starlink satellites with direct-to-cellular capabilities, essentially acting as cell towers in space and […]

December 22, 2023

SpaceX has been granted special temporary authority by the Federal Communications Commission for field testing of direct-to-cellular communications via its Starlink second generation satellites. The company said that it would be testing up to five devices at different power levels […]

December 21, 2023

There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which calculates a quarter (700; 24 percent) are based on 5G, with close to half of these […]

December 21, 2023

Colombian operators Claro, WOM, Tigo and Movistar have all secured 5G licenses in a spectrum auction carried out by Colombia’s ICT Ministry MinTIC. The country’s communications ministry said the auction had raised more than 1.5 billion pesos ($380 million). The […]

December 20, 2023

5G gained about 537 million connections around the world during the third quarter of 2023, according to 5G Americas, based on data from Omdia. That brings the global total to about 1.6 billion 5G connections, up 71% from the same […]

December 19, 2023

As conversations around global spectrum use for terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks coalesced at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Dubai, the future of wireless was top-of-mind. As work progresses on future 6G systems, a timeline is emerging for standardization and commercialization—and […]

December 8, 2023

“Our target as an industry, as a society, is very clear,” Ericsson Head of Product Line 5G Sibel Tombaz said during a talk on 5G sustainability at the recent Telco Sustainability Forum (available on demand here). “We need to leave […]

December 7, 2023

Competition among wireless carriers has driven down per-minute use charges by 6 percent on average, with some carriers slashing prices by more than a third, according to a new study by Paul Kagan Associates Inc., Carmel, Calif. A closer look […]

December 7, 2023

Ericsson released yesterday the November 2023 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, which confirms that enhanced mobile broadband, fixed wireless access, gaming and AR/VR/-based services as the most common early consumer use cases for 5G. The report highlights that 5G […]

December 6, 2023

The 3GPP organizational partners ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA and TTC said the body would begin planning for 6G specifications. In a statement, the standards body noted that work is underway for Release-18 and it will soon begin development […]

December 6, 2023

T-Mobile US is touting its tests of millimeter-wave spectrum in its 5G Standalone production network, saying that it has been able to hit download speeds of 4.3 Gbps. Those downlink speeds were achieved with aggregation of eight channels of mmWave […]

December 1, 2023

BT has started to roll-out its global network-as-a-service (NaaS) offer in carrier neutral metro-edge cloud facilities (CNFs) around the world. The service, offered as Global Fabric, was announced in October; the UK-based telecoms group has since expanded a deal with […]

December 1, 2023

A new Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) report reveals that Wi-Fi 6, 6E and 7 will be among the top technology priorities for network operators, ISPs, device and chipset vendors, enterprises and others in 2024, beating out other contenders including CBRS, […]

November 30, 2023

The total number of cellular IoT connections will reach around three billion at the end of 2023, reckons Ericsson, with most, and the increasing majority, connected on so-called ‘broadband’ cellular IoT technologies LTE (4G) and 5G. The arrival of reduced-capability […]

November 29, 2023

Private 5G networks are billed as a sort of silver bullet for business problems in a wide range of vertical markets. That said, adoption has been slower than expected, there’s huge regional variations largely based on spectrum availability, and there […]

November 20, 2023

Per a Global market Insight report, market size for 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) is set to be valued at more than $25 billion in 2022-2023 and is poised to depict a 30% CAGR through 2023-2032, on account of the […]

November 17, 2023

Wi-Fi 6, or IEEE 802.11ax, was certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance in the fall of 2019, and unlike past upgrades, this generation highlighted efficiency by introducing multi-user concepts, rather than focusing solely on faster speeds and bigger channels. Then, the […]