News tagged: Jeremy Cowan

08 September, 2020

Transforma Insights creates advisory board to exchange industry views

Transforma Insights, advisors on the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and Digital Transformation, has announced the formation of an Advisory Board, drawing on a range of voices from across the technology sector.

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11 May, 2020

Killed off by NTT DoCoMo: NB-IoT still kicking globally, but for how long?

Japan’s telco, NTT DoCoMo, shut down its NarrowBand-IoT (NB-IoT) network on March 31^st. Coming barely a year after NTT’s services were launched, Jeremy Cowan editorial director of VanillaPlus turned to industry watchers for their views on the decision and what lies ahead for NB-IoT. (more…)

27 April, 2020

Rays of sun are brightening the tech sector’s gloom

A WEEK IN TELCO IT – The news hasn’t improved much lately, and it’s tough to digest a diet of disaster in the media, says Jeremy Cowan. We have to hold our hands up here for sharing tough news in www.TheEE.io , www.IoT-Now.com , and www.VanillaPlus.com ). So, don’t think I’m in denial when I try to lift the spirits a little by sharing some positive news crossing my desk this week. First, however, let’s set the context. (more…)

13 January, 2020

FutureNet World 2020: Network automation and AI are core to the industry’s growth in a 5G era

FutureNet World (www.futurenetworld.net) returns for the 2^nd edition in London on March 24-25th. The event brings together a global audience of senior telco executives, says Giles Cummings, founder & CEO of FutureNet World, to discuss the strategic and commercial considerations and decisions that CSPs are making today and the implications for the network. (more…)

16 October, 2019

Huawei ships more than 400,000 5G active antenna units and advises carriers on how to make 5G a success

During a keynote speech delivered today at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2019, Ryan Ding, Huawei executive director of the board and president of Carrier BG, noted that among consumers, households, and vertical industries, there is a real and urgent demand for 5G. (more…)

05 September, 2019

Global IoT: Everyone’s talking about it. So why isn’t it happening?

“The MNOs have got a real problem when it comes to IoT. One problem is the race to zero on pricing for roaming.” As Jeremy Cowan says, the little bit of Yorkshire blood in me respects the directness of Eseye’s  CEO. As they say, Nick Earle calls a spade a spade. (more…)

23 August, 2019

Danes won’t sell Greenland to Trump but will they buy Huawei’s No-Spy deal?

A WEEK IN TELCO IT: While Huawei is concentrating so much of its effort on launching its own operating system, the HongmengOS, (known in English as the HarmonyOS) it may come as a surprise that its new country manager in Denmark is offering a “No Spy” agreement to the government in Copenhagen. (more…)

24 June, 2019

5G investment focus in UK turns to manufacturing and industry, and telcos start to play in AI sandpit

WEEK IN TELCO IT – You may have heard the UK Government is investing £40 million (€44.7 million) in 5G (5^th generation wireless communications) testbed and trial projects. These are specifically looking at 5G applications in manufacturing.

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21 December, 2018

What to expect in 2019: Clue – If it’s not about 5G it’s barely being mentioned

Spoiler Alert: If you’re hoping to get through the Festive Period without any mention of 5G, look away now. And, says Jeremy Cowan, if you thought 2018 was full of 5G hype you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. We haven’t even got to #MWC19 in Barcelona yet!
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07 December, 2018

Ericsson apologises for telco service failures, identifies expired software certificate as main issue

Ericsson has issued a statement apologising to its customers and customers’ customers for causing a lengthy loss of all mobile data and some voice services yesterday. As we reported, a failure in Ericsson software deployed by O2 UK and SoftBank in Japan led to a day-long service outage on Thursday, December 6th.
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