AT&T to acquire Straight Path for $1.6 billion
After the 5G, 24 GHz and 39 GHz bands
AT&T has announced a plan to spend $1.6 billion to Straight Path Communications in an all-stock deal aimed at bulking up the carrier’s portfolio of millimeter wave spectrum. As you can imagine, you will need these bands for the 5G millimeter waves.
Woman gets top job at Intel
Strategist extraordinaire
Chip behemoth Intel said it had appointed Aicha S. Evans as its chief strategy officer.
Qualcomm brings 4G to feature phones
Spicing up the lower end
In a bid to improve its bottom line, Qualcomm has developed 4G modems for lower end smartphones and feature phones.
Formula 1 champion talks about Qualcomm tech
How Qualcomm wireless helped him win
At the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Qualcomm took us by surprise inviting us to a Mercedes AMG Petronas / Qualcomm Formula One F1 event where none other than Nico Rosberg, the actual Formula 1 champion, took the stage to talk about how Qualcomm technologies helped him win the championship. We have the full discussion on video, below.
Nokia expects 4G to pick up this year
Rumours of its demise exagerated
Former maker of rubber wear Nokia claims that demand for higher speed 4G network equipment is starting to recover this year.
Verizon claims it will offer 5G this year
Jumping the gun
Verizon Communications claims it will be offering its high-speed wireless 5G network to certain customers in 11 U.S. cities in the first half of 2017.
5G gets its logo
The spec still has to be locked down
3GPP, 3rd Generation Partnership Project, has launched the 3GPP official 5G logo and said that it should have the spec sorted out by 2018.
Never mind 5G, researchers have found something much faster
10 times faster than 5G
Japanese boffins have developed a terahertz (THz) transmitter capable of transmitting digital data at a rate 10 times or more faster than that offered by the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G).
5G will be a worldwide game changer
Qualcomm issues a report on the coming mobile technology
The maker of chips, Qualcomm, has issued a new report which identifies 5G as a significant technology worldwide game changer.
Intel is covering up Qualcomm’s success
Literally uses a curtain
Last week at CES 2017 we noticed that Intel felt so unsecure about itself that it used a big curtain to hide the Qualcomm logo from the booth next door. This really happened and we were lucky to document it.