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Fixed wireless broadband’s revival
Fixed wireless broadband services have been available for a number of years but until recently the service was primarily found in rural areas where cable or wireline broadband is lacking. But now fixed wireless service is seeing a resurgence in many markets—both urban...
Embedding telecoms into post-pandemic healthcare
The telecommunications market has been inward-looking for most of its history, focusing on the technology transitions and what it allows people and businesses to do. Now it’s beginning to shift that emphasis to the industries that telecoms serve and how it needs to...
Making 5G voice pay
Hello? Is it 5G you’re looking for? With all the excitement about how 5G will enable us to download movies in seconds, or drive innovation in IoT, or take autonomous vehicles into the mainstream, it’s easy to forget that sometimes—just sometimes—people might actually...
6 areas where technology can make our world safer
The irony with technology is that while many people have valid concerns about how technological development puts our privacy at risk, technology can also make our world safer. This is, of course, a broad statement. But there are six key areas, in particular, where...
Can the sports and entertainment industries adapt to a low-touch world using technology?
As it becomes clear that COVID-19 will make it difficult – if not impossible – for regular sporting and entertainment activities to resume in the near future, can technology help us navigate these new challenges? We take a look at some of the emerging tech that...
5G opens up a superhighway to drive digital innovation in pro sports
As the final seconds ticked off the clock, Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry heaved a pointless Hail Mary shot at the basket. Sumit Arora, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment’s (MLSE) Senior Director of Strategy and Analytics, Digital Labs, was in the stands...
Podcast episode 32 – 5G Security: The digital ‘Beware of Dog’ sign
Varonis’ Field CTO and hacker Brian Vecci spent his life breaking into computers. With the roll-out of 5G, the number of break-in opportunities is set to soar. And if you think the biggest security risk is the Post-It Note password, you’d be wrong. Below is a...
CBRS PALs: Everybody wins
The Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) auction for Priority Access Licenses (PALs) in the 3.5 GHz spectrum that the FCC closed in August 2020 was no ordinary auction for mid-spectrum. The license holders have to share the spectrum with incumbent users and also...
The many flavors of artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence has become a nearly ubiquitous term nowadays. A Deloitte survey revealed that most companies – a staggering 90 percent of those approached by the research and consultancy firm – consider cognitive technologies to be of crucial strategic...