Thursday, December 14, 2017

Season's greetings from Real Wireless

Friday, December 08, 2017

5G hype mist starts to clear

The mist starts to clear

2017 has felt like something of a turning point for the connectivity industries. As the hype mists start to clear, the opportunities and challenges associated with 5G have begun to reveal themselves, and what looked like another step on the endless road of wireless iterations starts to shape up into something much more interesting. Read more >>

URLL – a long time coming?

You wouldn’t expect a conference focussing on ultra-reliable, low-latency techniques, technologies and requirements to be anything other than highly technical.

Nevertheless, Real Wireless CTO Simon Fletcher came away from URLL 2017 with even more questions than he went in with – and the big ones were not technical. Read more>>

Smart stadiums, better ROI

The Connected Stadiums conference in Amsterdam was a great opportunity to meet up with global venue owners and find out how they’re evolving their offer to their customers.

Real Wireless COO Oliver Bosshard finds a vertical with connectivity front of mind. Read more>>

Densification – Is Europe lagging

In Europe it is both expensive and time-consuming to deploy small cells in most environments where capacity problems exist. So rather than embark on this tortuous journey with potentially minimal returns then why not just either sweat your existing assets or go for the bigger prize, another macrocell?

Real Wireless CEO Mark Keenan considers the scale of the densification challenges in Europe. Read more>>

Real Wireless experts will be attending, presenting and speaking at a range of events across Europe in the New Year. To see the full list go to our website and if you want to arrange to meet at any of these events, please get in touch.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Commercial, cost-effective and connected

Landlords, operators and the Digital Economy Bill

The new Digital Economy Bill may help operators in the short term, but will it adversely affect their relationship with property developers? In our latest expert insight piece, Elaine French considers how these issues might be addressed >>

Fixed wireless access & the joy of cranes

with John Okas & Oliver Bosshard

Fixed wireless access (FWA) continues to make inroads into markets big and small – as it has done for many years. Maybe that is why recent announcements of fixed point-to-multipoint (PMP) high-capacity mmWave 5G trials and the deployment of pioneering national wireless-to the-x (WTTx) rural broadband networks took our FWA experts on a trip down memory lane – some a bit further down than others.

Before we follow them, we should point out that the members of the Real Wireless team are as generous in their view of FWA as the next person – assuming that next person is a highly trained, engineering-savvy telecoms consultant who has worked in wireless telecoms at many levels. Read more>>

California dreaming?

Looked like a shoo-in, didn’t it? For some time now, CTIA and a clutch of US carriers have been laying the foundations for Senate Bill 649; legislation aimed at giving wireless companies similar deployment rights to public utilities. It required US cities to approve permits for equipment that will be deployed 'in the public right-of-way or a commercial or industrial zone and complies with all federal, state and local safety regulations'.

Well, in California SB 649 was opposed by some 300 cities, dozens of counties and more than 100 local organizations. Predictably, California Governor Jerry Brown hammered the final nail into the coffin a week or so back, when he vetoed SB 649 into oblivion. Read more>>

Connected Stadium Summit

In November, both our CEO Mark Keenan and COO Oliver Bosshard will be attending and presenting at the Connected Stadium Summit in Amsterdam.

We'll be sharing our experience of ensuring reliable wireless coverage for iconic sports venues and how we continue to deliver reliable communications for venue and stadium owners as choices and technology evolve. Find out more >>

Find out more

Real Wireless experts will be attending, presenting and speaking at a range of events across Europe this autumn. To see the full list go to our website and if you want to arrange to meet at any of these events, please get in touch.

Meet Real Wireless at these events

Thursday, September 07, 2017

5G architecture, spectrum costs & network slicing

5G evolution continues

Real Wireless is delighted to be a one of 14 key mobile network players from six European countries involved in 5G MoNArch (5G Mobile Network Architecture) .

Nokia formally launched the 5G MoNArch research project in July, which is supported and financed as part of Phase II of the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP), under the auspices of the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Find out more >>

Modelling the cost of spectrum

Regulators and operators know that spectrum for mobile communications is an extremely valuable asset.

In this exclusive case study, Oliver Bosshard provides an insight into how our modelling tools helped one regulator realistically calculate the cost of implementing its densification targets. Download it now >>

Network slicing is here

Thirty years ago neither the economic implications of network slicing nor the concept itself would have been conceived of, let alone be seriously considered as viable in the delivery of mobile services.

Dr Kostas Konstantinou considers the many reasons why network slicing is essential to the 5G future >>