Use case Archives - Real Wireless

Making the case for 26 GHz

by Dr Abhaya Sumanasena | Oct 29, 2020 | 5G, Use case

As some of you know, Real Wireless has had some excellent news in the past few days. The UK’s Spectrum Policy Forum (SPF) has awarded its 26 GHz study contract to the Real Wireless team. This is an enormous vote of confidence in our abilities, in particular because it...

Hard Times, Smart Investments

by Simon Fletcher | Oct 29, 2020 | 5G, Towerco, Use case

The ongoing pandemic has been just one of the drivers for smarter, safer and more digitally integrated cities. But smart cities, like bricks and mortar cities, need foundations and investment. The enabling environment for smart city development is offered by...

Smart Cities Change Lives

by Simon Fletcher | Oct 29, 2020 | 5G, Towerco, Transport, Use case

It’s becoming a bit of a cliché to suggest that Covid-19 has created inflection points that will change behaviours forever. Nevertheless, right now the collection and analysis of huge volumes of data are accepted as key to bringing the spread of the virus under...

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...

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...

Regulation: progressive or obstructive?

by Simon Fletcher | Jun 30, 2020 | 5G, Featured 5G, Real Wireless blog, Use case

Regulation of telecommunications is not, as some operators may feel, a chance to hold back progress. At least it shouldn’t be. Then again, there have been many examples that, if they became the norm, would genuinely give telecommunications regulation a bad name....