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SK Telecom top winner at Global Telecoms Awards in London, UK
South Korean network operator SK Telecom’s early success in 5G helped it win three awards at the Global Telecoms Awards (GLOTEL Awards), held on November 7 in London, UK. SK Telecom received awards in the categories of ‘5G Implementation Excellence,’ ‘Best Operator,’ and ‘BSS/OSS Transformation Excellence.’ SK Telecom was also highly commended in the consumer IoT… Read more
NYC will build Power over Ethernet-based IoT system to track traffic & reboot as needed
New York City [1] officials will put Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) switches at 10,000 intersections in order to remotely repair dysfunctional stoplights. City traffic engineers are working with vendor Transition Networks (Minneapolis, MN) to build PoE systems in which a single cable can power a number of device such as VoIP phones, IP cameras and wireless access… Read more
China to launch 5G mobile networks on Friday with a huge government backed push
China’s three major wireless carriers— China Mobile, China Unicom , and China Telecom —will begin selling 5G services to consumers on Friday, November 1st in 50 major cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, said Chen Zhaoxiong, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Thursday October 31st at a Beijing conference. That will allow those with… Read more
Zayo’s largest capacity wavelengths deal likely for cloud data center interconnection (DCI)
Zayo Group Holdings announced it has signed a deal for the largest amount of capacity sold on any fiber route in the company’s history. The deal with the unnamed customer will provide approximately 5 terabits of capacity that can be used to connect mega scale data centers. While Zayo didn’t disclose the customer, large hyperscale cloud… Read more
AT&T $3B+ Earnings Miss; Truce with Elliott Management; HBO Max Announcement
Overview: AT&T earned $3.7 billion on $44.6 billion in revenue for the July-September 2019 (3Q19) period, when Wall Street had expected about $6.8 billion in adjusted profit, $5.3 billion in net earnings and $45 billion in sales. The company added 255,000 wireless customers and now has more than 79 million total phone customers. AT&T suffered… Read more
Newsweek: We’re Surrounded by Billions of Internet-connected (IoT) Devices. Can We Trust Them?
by Adam Piore In 2009, just as consumers had begun to buy wifi-enabled thermostats and front-door cams and other early devices that now make up the “Internet of Things,” computer scientist Ang Cui had gotten the idea to scan the Web for “trivially vulnerable” embedded devices. By trivial, he meant those devices that still carried… Read more
T-Mobile US to cover 200M in U.S. using 600MHz spectrum; OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren smartphone exclusive deal
T-Mobile US plans to cover 200 million people with its 5G network by the end of this year, using 600 MHz spectrum. The “Un-carrier” said it has been working towards the launch of 5G using 600 MHz for the past two years, and will be deploying 5G-ready equipment for both indoors and outdoors. To date,… Read more
Spain has almost 10M FTTH lines installed; Global FTTH market to grow to $16.8 billion at 15% CAGR
Spain is likely to have 10 million FTTH lines by the end of the year. A total of 112,000 fiber to the home (FTTH) lines were added in Spain in August to increase the number of active connections in the country to 9.6 million, according to the latest monthly update from regulator CNMC. Fiber lines… Read more
Preview of WRC‑19: Enabling Global Radiocommunications via Radio Frequency Spectrum and Satellite Orbit Resources
By Mario Maniewicz, Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau The ITU’s upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC‑19) will play a key role in shaping the technical and regulatory framework for the provision of radiocommunication services in all countries, in space, air, at sea and on land. It will help accelerate progress towards meeting the Sustainable… Read more
Gartner: 5G IoT endpoints to triple between 2020 and 2021; Surveillance cameras to be largest market over next 3 years
Executive Summary: After 3GPP release 16 has been completed and included in IMT 2020 RIT/SRIT, 5G networks will offer ultra-reliable, ultra-low-latency and high-bandwidth capabilities. That will open up new enterprise market opportunities for communications service providers/wireless network operators. Therefore, understanding the future market is key to an effective strategy. Gartner Inc. says that IoT use… Read more