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Samsung returned to in-person unpacked this month after more than two years.

RCR Wireless News, December 22, 2022 In the ongoing Qualcomm vs.

Marvell Technologies held its yearly industry analyst day on Dec 6th, 2022, at its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

RCR Wireless News, December 15, 2022 If you are still wondering about a holiday gift for your loved one, I have a perfect idea—Samsung Galaxy Watch5 Pro.

Taiwanese tech giant MediaTek held its yearly executive summit last week in California.

RCR Wireless News, November 18, 2022 ‘Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 Perfect fusion between the small size of a flip phone and… advanced functions’ My wife Ashwini and I have been using and testing Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 for over a month.

Fierce Wireless News, November 09, 2022 When the legal struggle between long-term allies Qualcomm and Arm became public, everybody thought it was an innocuous case that would quickly settle.

Forbes News, October 31, 2022 Unless you were hiding in a cave the last couple of years, you’ve probably noticed how traditional norms in advertising, marketing and content creation are being challenged and transformed by neo creators.

RCR Wireless News, October 31, 2022 I have been using Galaxy Fold 4 for the last six weeks and can confidently say that this is the best productivity device for people on the move.

RCR Wireless News, October 25, 2022 When you think of enterprise Wi-Fi, what comes to mind is an office with many laptops, smartphones, and other devices all seamlessly connecting over wireless.

Fierce Wireless News, September 20, 2022 It is no secret that whenever Apple introduces a new feature in Phones, it becomes the industry norm, be it removing the audio jack, non-removable batteries, or anything else.

Fierce Wireless News, August 15, 2022 Is Apple modem delayed because of Qualcomm patents?

RCR Wireless News, July 28, 2022 Samsung Networks held its mid-year analyst day last week, giving an update on their progress on the vRAN/Open RAN front, Dish deployment, and the opportunities they see in the Private Networks space.

Fierce Wireless News, March 23, 2022 Samsung Networks’ news cycle started weeks before the much-awaited Mobile World Congress 2022, making its mark in Europe.

RCR Wireless News, March 17, 2022 During Samsung’s announcement of Galaxy S22 phones, I tweeted that it’s all about the camera.

Forbes News, March 3, 2022 Cloud and 5G are the biggest trends in the tech industry today.

RCR Wireless News, February 28, 2022 After being badly battered by the global pandemic, Mobile World Congress (MWC)—the mobile industry’s biggest show, is back to its old glory.

RCR Wireless News, February 25, 2022 A single cellular site has never been this noteworthy and a milestone across multiple dimensions.

RCR Wireless News, February 24, 2022 The talk of the outsized role of cloud players in Open RAN is as old as talk of Open RAN itself.

RCR Wireless News, February 22, 2022 If you think the successive generations of Wi-Fi are coming far more quickly than before, you are not wrong.

RCR Wireless, February 11, 2022 When the Super Bowl fever is gripping the country, and everybody is looking forward to the first major public sports event coming out of the Omicron wave, the timing couldn’t have been better for Verizon to showcase its pre…

RCR Wireless News, February 10, 2022 It is no easy task picking the right laptop from a plethora of options that consumers and enterprises have today.

RCR Wireless News, December 17, 2021 Telecom operators have been building cellular networks for more than four decades.

RCR Wireless News, December 16, 2021 As an eventful 2021, which witnessed 5G becoming mainstream despite all the challenges, comes to a close, the analyst part of my mind is reviewing and examining major disruptions in the cellular market brought by 5G.

RCR Wireless News, November 3, 2021 Qualcomm insists on calling its product offering a “Modem-RF System” highlighting the importance of RF in achieving excellent smartphone performance, as well as the tight integration between modem and RF subsystems that…

RCR Wireless News, October 18, 2021 How do you confirm your gut feelings and logical reasoning?

RCR Wireless News, August 30, 2021 Ever since the cloud-native virtual RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN architectures have started gaining popularity, one key question both proponents and adversaries have been asking is “What about security?”

RCR Wireless News, August 23, 2021 While the media is abuzz with the news of Samsung Foldable smartphones, being a network engineer at heart, I am more excited about Verizon and Samsung’s recent announcement about the successful completion of 5G virtual R…

RCR Wireless News, August 10, 2021 Marvell is a recognized leader in the data center chipsets market.

5G Americas News, 12th July 2021 The twin events of 3GPP RAN Plenary #92e and Rel. 18 workshops are starting to shape the future of 5G.

Forbes News, July 6, 2021 Undoubtedly, our future is being driven by technology.

RCR Wireless News, JUNE 28, 2021 The floodgate of Mobile World Congress 2021 announcements has opened!

RCR Wireless News, MAY 21, 2021 On the inauguration day of China Tech day, Qualcomm announced the first 5G – NR IoT modem Qualcomm 315.

RCR Wireless News, April 29, 2021 Open RAN and virtual RAN have gotten so much media attention lately that some even call it just “hype.”

RCR Wireless News, April 6, 2021 Right after the last Nvidia quarterly earnings release, Jim Cramer, host of CNBC Mad Money spoke to Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia regarding the deal with Arm.

RCR Wireless News, March 23, 2021 It is election time at the 3GPP, and last week was the ballot for the chairmanship of the prestigious RAN Technical Specification Group (TSG).

Forbes News, January 22, 2021 5G is the hottest trend now, so much so that even the Covid-19 pandemic, which has badly ravaged the global economy, could not stop its meteoritic rise.

RCR Wireless News, January 21, 2021 Defying all the naysayers, when ultimately mmWave bands were proven to be well suited for 5G networks, the biggest question on everybody’s mind was, whether they are cost-effective for building large scale networks.

RCR Wireless News, January 19, 2021 As a keen industry observer, I have seen with awe, the attention patents (aka IPR- Intellectual Property Rights) have recently gotten.

Prakash Sangam, December 20th, 2020 Defining the future of 5G, Rel. 16, has become a significant step expanding the reach of 5G and opening new markets and business opportunities for the cellular ecosystem.

RCR Wireless News, December 14, 2020 The tech industry has seen a blistering pace of innovation and market dominance.

GSA News, November 12, 2020 Cybercrime cost an estimated $6 Trillion[1] a year to the global economy.

RCR Wireless News, October 29, 2020 After pointlessly fighting tooth and nail for almost two years, FTC will now be forced to end the case, after the latest setback at The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit).

RCR WIreless News, October 5, 2020 Many 5G operators are quickly realizing that Integrated Access Backhauls (IABs) are an ideal solution to expand 5G coverage.

RCR WIreless News, September 28, 2020 Right before the passing of the deadline, as expected, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took another swing at Qualcomm by filing a request to reconsider the recent appellate court decision.

RCR Wireless News, September 21, 2020 It is bliss, as an engineer, to witness a whopping 2Gpbs speed on a live commercial network, using an off the shelf device.

RCR Wireless News, September 10, 2020 Every time I see the frontline users chugging along those thick, heavy, oversized rugged phones, I feel there should be a way to make them sleek, and stylish like consumer phones, without compromising on the functiona…

RCR Wireless News, August 18, 2020 The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Ninth Circuit) gave a landmark decision in favor of Qualcomm, on Aug 11th 2020, in the long running antitrust case brought about by FTC.

RCR Wireless News, July 27, 2020 One of the exciting features the recently finalized 3GPP Rel. 16 brings to 5G is the support for Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB).

RCR Wireless News, July 8, 2020 The virtualization of cellular networks has been ongoing for some time.