‘These aren’t empty calorie additions’, says Stankey of AT&T’s wireless customer adds AT&T continued to emphasize its steady, 5G- and fiber-led strategy in its first quarter 2024 results, which beat Wall Street expectations on customer numbers and held the line on revenues. (More details here.) “We started the year with a solid first quarter, as […] The post Key takeaways from AT&T’s Q1 2024 appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more

‘Convenience is the clear advantage’ U.S. consumers are primed to accept Fixed Wireless Access service as a primary connectivity option, and those who have it don’t intent to switch any time soon, according to a new report from Ericsson’s Consumer Lab. Of U.S. households which adopted FWA service in the past year, 5G FWA has […] The post Ericsson: US consumers are ‘primed’ for FWA and prefer 5G over 4G appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more

A group of firms will use SONIC Labs’ outdoor testing site in London to explore the potential of O-RAN in a real-world environment U.K. digital accelerator Digital Catapult has announced that SONIC Labs, an initiative aiming to advance Open RAN (O-RAN) technology, will welcome a new group of international companies to its program. These companies […] The post Digital Catapult welcomes new vendors to test O-RAN in the UK appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more

Local telco KT Corp. took part in the UAM deomonstration in South Korea Korean Air, in collaboration with Korea Telecom (KT), Hyundai Motor Company, Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) and Hyundai Engineering & Construction said it has successfully completed what it claims is world’s first comprehensive urban air mobility (UAM) operations demonstration. The Korean airline […] The post Korean Air claims first comprehensive UAM operations demo appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more

Actility-owned IoT asset tracking provider Abeeway is using the Monarch 2 GM02S module from Sequans for cellular IoT connectivity in the new version of its Abeeway Compact Tracker, according to the French IoT chipmaker. The Abeeway product uses the Monarch 2 GM02S for LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity; it also offers GPS positioning, Wi-Fi ‘sniffer’ positioning, […] The post Abeeway takes Sequans NB-IoT/LTE-M module for new industrial IoT tracker appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more

Swiss IoT module maker u-blox has secured “significant project wins” in the robotic lawnmower market, which it expects to generate more than $100 million of sales revenue “over time”, starting from 2024, it said. The firm has supplied GNSS modules to lawnmower makers in the US market, notably. It said the introduction of real-time kinematic […] The post Swiss IoT firm u-blox eyes $100m GNSS sales to robot lawnmower makers appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more

Dell Technologies has expanded its edge partner ecosystem with Hyundai AutoEver, a factory IT/OT integration tool from car maker Hyundai, and Intel’s OpenVINO developer toolbox, commonly used for edge AI applications. The latter is now part of its NativeEdge Blueprint catalogue of edge design models for factory-floor digital solutions. At the same time, Dell has […] The post Dell integrates Hyundai, Intel into NativeEdge platform to spur AI in Industry 4.0 appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more

There will be 108 million IoT connections on private LTE (4G) and 5G networks in the manufacturing sector in 2030, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Manufacturing will be the biggest market for private 5G-IoT, it said. In second, the transportation industry will have 71 million IoT connections on private LTE and 5G […] The post Private cellular IoT to reach 108m factory connections by 2030 appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more

Satellite direct-to-cellular service provider Lynk announced today that it has signed a five-year contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to enable U.S federal agencies to purchase its services for unmodified smartphones over the next five years. Lynk explained in a release that the U.S. government, including the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of […] The post Lynk lands US government contract for sat-to-cell service appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more

5G, fiber continue to drive the telco’s results in Q1 AT&T beat expectations on its customer growth, with revenues off just slightly from the same period last year as CEO John Stankey continued to emphasize the telco’s focus on consistent, profitable growth driven by 5G and fiber. Consolidated company revenues were $30 billion for the […] The post ‘We’re growing the right way’: AT&T’s Q1 delivers solid mobile, fiber numbers appeared first on RCR Wireless News ..read more