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Wireless coverage in Ireland: the cost of connectivity
ComReg, the statutory body responsible for the regulation of Ireland’s electronic communications and postal sectors, has been very busy of late. It is, clearly, concerned with many important issues but meeting future mobile connectivity needs and extending mobile...
RAN World: a vertical view
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
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
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?
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...
5G Market Drivers – the push and pull
5G is on the horizon but the drivers to deploy it are still far from clear across the operator community. There is no single compelling motivation that applies to the majority of operators. The rise in mobile data consumption could be addressed, for some years to come...
Connected Commercial Property
Real Wireless COO Oliver Bosshard considers some of the options open to today's commercial property owners. Most modern building owners know that mobile coverage is now a selling point: not just broadband but reliable, good quality wireless. But bringing together...
The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR): second impressions
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,...
The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR): first impressions
The UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has published the Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR)– all 90 pages of it. Real Wireless CEO Mark Keenan reports back on his holiday reading. So was it worth the wait? On balance, we believe so....
