August 2020 - Real Wireless

C-RAN – all still up in the air?

by Simon Fletcher | Aug 27, 2020 | 5G, Draft blogs, Real Wireless blog, Towerco, Use case, Wireless Industry use case

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 | 5G, Commercial property, Featured 5G, Real Wireless blog, Transport, Wireless Industry use case

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

by John Okas | Aug 11, 2020 | Real Wireless blog, Transport

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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26 GHz – A radical approach to licensing in higher frequencies to increase spectrum efficiency

by Dr Abhaya Sumanasena | Feb 19, 2021

A new study carried out by Real Wireless on behalf of the UK Spectrum Policy Forum (UK SPF) proposes a radical approach to licensing the 26 GHz band. The report proposes a hybrid licensing approach i.e. exclusive access to MNOs with some flexibility to share in the...

Press release: New approach to spectrum licensing in the 26 GHz band

by News | Jan 28, 2021

Real Wireless report for the UK Spectrum Policy Forum on a new approach to spectrum licensing in the 26 GHz band A new licensing model for the 26 GHz band to drive innovation and support digital transformation of industry. The UK’s Spectrum Policy Forum (SPF) today...

Predicting 2021 Trends: Connectivity Insight from Real Wireless

Every year, we see new opportunities and challenges for the wireless industry, and 2020 was certainly no exception to that. With the year that no-one saw coming firmly behind us, it's time to look forward once again. On 21 January, we held our second free-to-attend...

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