Smart home market to rise to USD 155 bln by 2023 – study

The worldwide smart home market rose 16 percent year on year to USD 84 billion in 2017 and is set to continue climbing to nearly USD 96 billion in 2018,

Telia Lithuania introduces IPTV over LTE

Operator Telia Lithuania plans to start the broadcast of IPTV content over its LTE network. The new technology will replace DVB-T services. The operator plans to stop using DVB-T services

Telia says Volvo Construction Equipment becomes first company to join its 5G partnership

Telia said that Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) has become the first company to join its 5G partnership programme for Swedish firms that want to explore new developments and test business

Kar-Tel deploys NB-IoT network in Kostanay

Mobile operator Kar-Tel, trading under the Beeline Kazakhstan brand, has deployed a NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) network in the city of Kostanay. It is carrying out a project in cooperation with

Korea Telecom picks Gemalto to deliver connectivity for connected cars

Korea Telecom (KT) selected Gemalto’s On-Demand Connectivity (ODC) platform and embedded SIM (eSIM) to deliver out-of-box connectivity to its Industrial IoT customers. This will enable the largest South Korean telecommunications

Digicel to roll out LTE services in Trinidad & Tobago

Digicel is preparing to activate LTE services in Trinidad & Tobago’s after upgrading systems throughout the twin-island nation, reports local daily Trinidad Guardian. The operator has already updated equipment in

Samsung, KDDI demo 5G network on high-speed train

Samsung Electronics, in partnership with Japanese operator KDDI, has demonstrated a 5G network on a high-speed train traveling over 100 km per hour, Yonhap news agency reports. Samsung and KDDI

Telefonica unlikely to launch 5G services before 2020

Telefonica Spain is unlikely to announce the commercial launch of 5G services prior to 2020 since any equipment used would have to be changed and the operator would be unable

Kerlink, eleven-x launch pilot applications on Canadian LoRaWAN network

Kerlink, a specialist and maker of products dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and eleven-x, operator of Canada’s first and only public coast-to-coast low-power IoT network, announced eleven-x launched

Belarus plans to start pilot 5G areas in 2019

Pilot areas for a 5G network will start in Belarus in 2019, reports Providers.by citing Dmitriy Shedko, the deputy ICT minister. Shedko said that the pilot projects have already been