AT&T opens up on 5G trial this summer; warns on pre-standard fragmentation

Number two US operator AT&T offered up a little more detail on its 5G trial plans during this morning’s keynote session at the Brooklyn 5G Summit, as well as its hopes for commercial performance of the next-generation technology. In February, the company followed rival Verizon by announcing plans to work with Ericsson and Intel on …

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Sprint gets in on 5G with two COPA America stadium trials planned

Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure revealed this week that the carrier will leverage the COPA America soccer tournament in June to demonstrate 5G capabilities with the help of Nokia and Ericsson, and it looks like those demos could be conducted in Philadelphia and Santa Clara, Calif. However, Sprint did not confirm those are the locations. A …

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Graduate Fellowships Now Available to Ph.D Students

Graduate Fellowships for Incoming Ph.D Students Available at NYU WIRELESS NYU WIRELESS is pleased to offer Graduate Fellowships to qualified incoming Ph.D students interested in wireless communications, computing and medicine. To apply, please visit the NYU-Tandon graduate admissions webpage for electrical and computer engineering or the Courant Institute Computer Science graduate admissions program.   Tandon …

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NXP Smarter World Tour Truck with Ted Rappaport: Brooklyn 5G Summit

Attendees of the 2016 Brooklyn 5G Summit, and even passers-by on the NYU Tandon campus in Brooklyn, NY got a chance to walk through one of the coolest rolling exhibits of high-tech anyone has ever seen. Dr. Ted Rappaport, founding director of NYU Wireless, walks us along the cutting edge of IoT… as far as …

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National Instruments unveils mmWave SDR to speed 5G research

National Instruments (NI) took the wraps off what it describes as the world’s first software defined radio (SDR) for millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The new transceiver system includes a full transceiver that can transmit and/or receive wide-bandwidth signals at 2 GHz real-time bandwidth, covering spectrum in the E-Band – 71-76 GHz. NI notes that engineers …

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Spectrum Speculation – Telecom News

Although spring officially started at the end of March, the telecommunications industry was showing signs of growth all month long across all geographic regions, business areas, and technological sectors. All this increased content delivery is putting ever-increasing pressure on bandwidth. A newly released J.D. Power wireless network quality report revealed that more customers are using 4G …

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Verizon’s Shammo: 5G pilot in 2017 is all about fixed wireless, not mobility

Verizon CFO Fran Shammo reiterated the company’s commitment to being the first in the U.S. to roll out 5G wireless technology and made it clear that its initial pilot starting in 2017 is all about fixed wireless – not mobility. “Currently, we’re testing 5G technologies this year and we aim to have an initial fixed …

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