Tag: 5G & NB-IoT
Broadband fling! Rebel Scottish village builds Gigabit network
(UPDATED 27 March)
Balquhidder, a remote rural Scottish community, is building its own 1Gbps broadband network, after a decade of unsuccessfully trying to get...
Group protects rainforest with recycled phones, machine learning
Rainforest Connection, a San Francisco-based non-profit organisation, is using recycled phones and Google’s open source machine learning framework, TensorFlow, to protect the rainforest.
The group...
Retail IoT: AI firm trials autonomous smartphone checkouts
American artificial intelligence (AI) firm AVA Retail has successfully completed the first trial of its autonomous checkout system.
The SmoothShop system allows customers to scan...
Bristol shows off world’s first 5G urban network
Researchers at the University of Bristol have demonstrated what they claim is the world’s first end-to-end 5G urban network.
The university’s Smart Internet Lab has...
How to secure 5G to prevent IoT disasters: expert panel
Kate O'Flaherty speaks to a panel of experts who warn that we are in the uncharted territory of network slicing and mass service takedowns....
Dublin City University, Talent Garden team up for IoT campus
NEWSBYTE: Dublin City University (DCU) and co-working and learning space provider Talent Garden are to launch a new hub for digital innovation this autumn,...
Sensor City awarded £3.5m to explore 5G community Wi-Fi
Liverpool's Sensor City has been awarded £3.5 million in government funding to explore the potential applications of 5G community Wi-Fi in health and social care.
The...
Interview: Digital transformation impossible without IoT says Vodafone IoT chief
Communications giant Vodafone says that two-thirds of users believe that digital transformation is impossible without the Internet of Things (IoT).
Eighty-one percent of adopters think...
Ericsson helps expand LTE and IoT in Saudi Arabia
NEWSBYTE: Saudi telco looks to Ericsson to assist LTE network expansion in the kingdom.
Saudi Telecom has inked a deal with Ericsson to help in...
Vodafone, Audi to put 4G on Moon, proving man walked there
Vodafone, Audi, and Nokia have teamed up to bring mobile communications to the Moon’s surface – 50 years after astronauts first walked on it.
A...
Deutsche Telekom announces flat-rate pricing for NB-IoT
Telco partners with 1NCE to reduce network services costs.
Deutsche Telekom has teamed up with Cologne-based narrowband IoT carrier 1NCE to offer customers a flat-rate...
Nokia and Japan’s Marubeni partner for IoT enterprise services
Nokia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japanese multinational Marubeni Corporation to develop, test, and deliver Internet of Things services to its...