ISART 2015: Google, spectrum sharing and 3.5 GHz

BOULDER, Colo. – Spectrum sharing were the buzzwords of the week as a bevy of federal agencies came together at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to discuss the topic with industry and academia. Google was one of the companies on-hand that shared how...

Is LTE Going to Impact Free WiFi?

Developments in LTE are also going to have a significant impact on the unlicensed spectrum, which is currently used by billions of people through their WiFi modems and WiFi services in cities, cafes, airports and other venues.

The Need for Speed

Human beings have always depended on light. The sun’s rays provide energy. For millennia fires have kept us warm at night and predators at bay. We learned to communicate over large distances using fire signals and then by building light houses. Gradually we...

Nvidia To Wind Down LTE Modem Business

Four years after announcing its intentions to “engage the smartphone revolution,” chipmaker Nvidia said it plans to wind down and possibly sell its LTE modem operations. The company acquired the LTE modem-maker Icera in 2011. Nvidia said it will wind down...

Madden: How the enterprise will buy DAS

When I talk with people about DAS and small cells, I hear the same old story: DAS is too expensive. DAS is dead. Let’s check that old 8-track tape that people are playing, because it’s getting out of date. First of all, let’s look at the breakdown of...

Will cell towers soon become obsolete?

Advances in wireless technology could see cell towers become a thing of the past, according to telecommunications experts. “There’s no reason why your cellphone isn’t the cell tower of the future,” Steve Papa, founder of Parallel Wireless, told...

2G to 5G: Wireless Becomes the Fourth Utility

While the world is just getting used to 4G, the next generation of 5G technology is right around the corner. Talk of 5G has begun to ramp up over the last six months and major wireless carriers are beginning to issue significant global announcements about their plans...

Small cells: 4 reasons the outlook is changing

Small cells have been “set to take off” for several years, but many projects and deployments remain grounded. Now as carriers start to explore voice over Wi-Fi, some are wondering if small cells will ever come into their own. Key decision-makers within carrier and...

This is the fastest cell phone network ever

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Nokia Networks has developed an unthinkably fast 5G cellular technology, 10 times faster than Google Fiber and 40 times faster than 4G. The company says the network can deliver peak speeds of 10 Gigabits per second, fast enough to download...

EE WiFi Calling: Hands-on and first impressions

To demonstrate the power of WiFi Calling, EE held a launch event in the basement of the Imperial War Museum’s Churchill War Rooms, of all places. While we were hoping for cigars and brandy what we got instead was a Samsung Galaxy S6, plus several pounds of metal...