John Okas, Author at Real Wireless

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...

LTE – (L)ife in (T)he old dog y(E)t

by John Okas | Jul 3, 2020 | 5G, Real Wireless blog, Use case

LTE rollout is by no means over – and yet the push to bring 5G to countries as diverse as South Korea and South Africa is very much under way. The reality of 5G deployment is different between these countries, but is the focus on 5G missing the point? With global...

A problem shared…

by John Okas | Feb 7, 2020 | 5G, Real Wireless blog

Much has been made of a recent wobble in the progress of the UK’s shared rural network (SRN) initiative, with the Financial Times reporting that BT wants the rural network-sharing deal currently being negotiated with its rivals to reflect the larger investment made...

What sunsetting 2G means for consumers

by John Okas | Dec 5, 2019 | Real Wireless blog

While the rollout of 5G networks regularly hogs the headlines, indications that in the UK 2G networks will face switch off sooner rather than later have failed to achieve the same level of attention – at least in consumer media – despite the significant applications...

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...