Simon Fletcher, Author at Real Wireless

RAN World: a vertical view

by Simon Fletcher | Nov 15, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

The RAN World event, held in Rome in early October, highlighted a number of important themes and ideas over its two days, but some in particular stood out – most notably, I felt, virtualisation, verticals, exclusive ownership of spectrum, and operator-led strategies....

Network slicing: research and reality

by Simon Fletcher | Nov 8, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

First the good news. Network slicing remains a topic that is undoubtedly engaging both operators and verticals. This year’s Network Slicing World Summit – the second – which took place in Berlin in late October, was collocated with the Broadband World Forum 2018,...

An autumn of 5G, RAN and small cells

by Simon Fletcher | Nov 28, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

It’s not unusual to observe that in the period after the summer break conference activity significantly increases, but this autumn in particular has been more than usually eventful. Along with our ongoing consultancy and advisory work, Real Wireless has had a presence...

Reliability & latency (URLLC) – Are the verticals convinced?

by Simon Fletcher | Oct 3, 2018 | 5G, Real Wireless blog

The 2018 Ultra Reliability and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) in 5G conference has only just ended but the organisers are already looking to the future of an event that is enormously important to verticals. Of course, as I am on the UK5G advisory group, I might be...

The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR): second impressions

by Simon Fletcher | Aug 16, 2018 | Real Wireless blog

Share Our first blog on the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport’s Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR) made some general points on its admirable aims of full fibre connectivity and high-quality (mainly 5G) mobile connectivity where people live,...

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UK and South Korean businesses to pilot 5G technology on Seoul subways

by Nicola | May 8, 2019

A new UK / South Korea 5G competition has been launched by Digital Minister Margot James to help prepare the UK for a future 5G rollout. Businesses are now being encouraged to apply for a unique opportunity to trial new content and services on South Korea’s transport...

Can 5G keep its promise?

by Simon Fletcher | Jun 5, 2019

This year’s World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF) in Japan considered the outer reaches of the possible as it sought to chart a 10-year roadmap beyond 5G. However, its sister event the 5G Huddle tackled issues far closer to home and questioned whether the platforms...

Trains, ports and 5G automobiles

The buzz around 5G continued at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) with clear indication that what was once an evolution, has now become a race. As much as the industry claims to be tired of hearing about 5G, we were genuinely inspired by the innovation being...

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