October 2019 - Real Wireless

5G: behind the hype

by Simon Fletcher | Oct 28, 2019 | Featured 5G, Real Wireless blog

It’s like waiting for the other shoe to drop isn’t it? We hit peak hype curve for a new access technology and then the doubters start to make their voices heard. In the last few weeks there has been a generous scattering of reports and commentary throwing dark and...

The Potential Impact of Switching off 2G in the UK

by John Okas | Oct 17, 2019 | Real Wireless news

While the UK has started the deployment of 5G networks, the older 2G networks will inevitably face switch off (or sunset) at some point. This is despite being relied on by the elderly, users in rural locations and numerous machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, such...

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C-RAN – all still up in the air?

by Simon Fletcher | Aug 27, 2020

C-RAN seems to have been a long time coming. I first started exploring the potential of C-RAN back in 2007. Since then there’s been a great deal of industry talk and thousands of pages of standards describing dozens of C-RAN architectures. And I’m still waiting. Cloud...

Can Satcoms at sea improve operations on land?

by Mike Walsh | Aug 27, 2020

We write a lot about the needs of industry and how LTE, Wi-Fi, DAS and 5G, incorporated into a private network, could improve logistics and security and underpin just-in-time operations for airports, sea-ports, factories, stadiums, malls or local government. But what...

Connected vehicles: The long and winding road

The automotive industry’s goal was for every new vehicle to be connected by 2022. Now, less than 18 months out, things are more or less on track. But on track for what? M2M vehicle connectivity is already widely available. This enables a vehicle to be connected to an...

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